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For 3,271 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Ys
Lowest review score: 0 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,655 out of 3271
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3271
  3. Negative: 35 out of 3271
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
    The disappointments of Walking Cloud are really quite perplexing, given Mono's limited but impressive history and the promise of their collaboration with Albini. Still, if it fails to live up to the heights of One Step More and their debut Under the Pipal Tree, it has its share of moments.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Early Times
    This is not a diamond in the rough as much as it is a piece of carbon that might, with extreme pressure and effort, turn into something someday.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Motion To Rejoin
    At other times the songs--while still enjoyable in a nebulous “go to the light” kind-of-way--simply lose all pretense to distinction, bleeding together in a tonal wash of echoed vocals, tremolo guitar and gooey organ.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Valley Tangents
    The reality is that Valley Tangents just sort of floats by as background music even whilst actively listening.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kiss Each Other Clean
    Credit to Beam, of course, for challenging himself rather than continuing to remake The Creek Drank the Cradle over and over again, but Kiss Each Other Clean is unlikely to count among his best work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    13
    “13.6” is where the album takes a noticeable turn and Supersilent finally finds its way.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Warning
    The slower songs on The Warning have a kind of raggedy, pioneering charm.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bricolage
    The band clearly understands what their strengths are, and the decision to continuously return to them, keeping the songs simple, short, and straightforward, staves off boredom while covering very little territory.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Body Of Song
    [Mould's trademark] coupling of aggression and tuneful economy is one of the chief attributes sometimes compromised on Body of Song.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Now Is The Time!
    Songs like "Walky Talky" and "Bye-Bye-Bye" reference the band's Devo inspiration a bit too explicitly, but overall Polysics show themselves to have for the most part outgrown their influences.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glimmer
    But largely, Jacaszek's wedding of disparate styles pays off in Glimmer's evocation of certain moods and expert shifts from mode to mode.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Atlantic Ocean
    The Atlantic Ocean is impressive, at times even masterful, yet falters in reminding us more of what it lacks than of what it possesses.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Plague of Knowing
    Though this release is bloated and sometimes inconsistent, Horseback remains a distinctive, at times even bewitching band.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Underachievers Please Try Harder
    Nothing exciting ever happens, no new spins on the old-fashioned pop idiom or particularly colorful lyrical images, and the record's overarching lack of adventuresome spirit detracts from the grace of its individual songs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Rip Tide
    It's the same songwriter we've seen in snapshots from various foreign lands, this time in front of buildings that may as well be down the road: same Seine-side accordion we heard on The Flying Club Cup, same mournfully stately horns he picked up in the Balkans for Gulag Orkestar.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Derdang Derdang
    These first five songs are like a good singles collection, every one of them free-standing and complete, none of them particularly relating to the others. The rest of the album is slighter and less compelling.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Country Funk: 1969-1975
    Country Funk frontloads these generic examples, and leaves the rest of the compilation up to artists who managed to eke meaning out of the stylistic changes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sleep on the Wing
    Sleep on the Wing is quite pleasant, but so soothing and gentle that it’s hard to focus on.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Lunar
    Without hearing it in alongside the images that accompany it, it’s hard to pass judgment on Cave and Ellis’s music.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I
    I is the result, four long, loosely-related tracks that bump and groove and thrum and throb, often hypnotically, sometimes with a lively intensity. As an idea of musical process reimagined, I is always interesting. But as music, it’s uneven.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Diver
    Even if The Diver is too lacking in originality for many, it does what it says on the tin, with verve, energy and a keen sense of what went before.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alopecia
    The lyrical approach has so far kept me from really warming to it, but the words are ugly and weird in an interesting way, which makes me think that maybe eventually a light will come on and it will become one of my favorites.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lism
    On an emotional level, LISm is hard to get at.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Odd Blood
    It’s entirely possible that the skillfully-made Odd Blood will find an entirely new bunch of listeners. Many of the old ones, like this writer, will probably just find themselves frustrated.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Matricidal Sons Of Bitches
    Matricidal Sons of Bitches frequently dazzles, but there are more than few moments of frustration along the way.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Main Shitstain
    I'm not particularly enthralled by that idea; rock minimalism often is rather aesthetically empty. While faulting the band for taking that route doesn't feel right, it does make the album a rather uneven, if still interesting, affair.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Animalore
    When Animalore clicks, it does it well, but there are too many stretches on here where the band’s restraint feels like they’re playing it safe.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nightlife
    Other Animals was a masterpiece, Nightlife is merely pretty good.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultravisitor
    A difficult, flawed record that’s predictably too long, making the highs all the more rewarding.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wander/Wonder
    Naive and wide-eyed, Wander / Wonder tries so damned hard to feel real, to make big dreams and grandiose plans feel distantly (but not quite) attainable.
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