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For 3,287 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: 2,670 out of 3287
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3287
  3. Negative: 36 out of 3287
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Place
    With his piano, classical flourishes and superbly layered production a la E.L.O., it’s out of sync but, when it works, wonderfully so. Whether Lytle’s vocals work for you or not will probably be the main deciding factor as to whether the band itself works for you. Oftentimes he smooths out the edges, but his singing can come across as whiny.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Same Room
    It’s a richly rewarding album that offers a valuable snapshot of an evolving artist.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Borders
    The simplistic, drone like beats of Borders numb the mind while freeing the body, so that each track is danceable and sedating. Furthermore, the brooding, deep tone of the beats, paired with an added static charge, are sonically rich and beautiful and draw the ear in.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unfold
    What makes the piece, and much of the album, so interesting is how the players just hold things in particular spaces of tension and release. It’s not done at the expense of those imperceptible transformations that characterize the band’s work overall; it’s more like a different, less certain but possibly more engaging way of realizing them.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FLOTUS
    Sweeping, quietly incredible FLOTUS.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    English Tapas
    It returns to the sly humor, the hypnotic barking aggression, the occasional whiffs of wistful tune-ish-ness slipped in between robotic beats of Divide and Exit and maybe does it one better.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Infinite Worlds
    Rather than just a haphazard collection, the eight cathartic pieces that make up Infinite Worlds work as a genuinely affecting singular statement--its idiosyncrasies stitched together by a strong lyrical narrative, improbably forming a cohesive whole.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elwan
    Higher-end production values and a handful of famous rock guests have little impact upon their fundamental sound, which is a swirl of unfurling guitar lines, massed voices, and clip-clopping percussion. Elwan is not a soundtrack for defeat, but perseverance.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pure, Beyond Reproach
    On earlier albums, Egyptrixx proved the possibilities, but Pure, Beyond Reproach doesn’t live up to its predecessors.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Notes of Blue
    Farrar, with his ever-changing band, has been doing this decades, but it seems like by looking back further, he’s found a way to energize himself going forward.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Graveyard Whistling
    It’s not a bad album, not by a long stretch, but it feels like Miller & company are treading water, revisiting things that worked before.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Intoxicated Women
    With Intoxicated Women we don’t get starlets and a known bad boy tussling in the spotlight. We get Harvey and his cast of players dusting off old scripts of prior perversions, delivering them to a world that fancies itself jaded, but is just as confused as ever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Between
    The familiarity of their sound and the ordinariness of their suburban laments do not breed contempt. They know how it is, and so do we, and we’re all in it together for as long as the record lasts. The Feelies may tell small tales and play like they’re living in them, but it all rings true.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memories Are Now
    Memories Are Now is a composed but not utterly controlled place, and within that tension, Hoop’s music and message, together, find their highest vibrancy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Occult Architecture, Vol. 1
    Most times, Moon Duo seems to distill whole rock songs into a single measure, refracted into a million repetitions as through a funhouse mirror.“Creepin’” vamps a blues rock riff into oblivion, transforming heat and friction and diesel dust into something otherworldly. Only “White Rose” is given the room to stretch its limbs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jessica Rabbit
    Their latest is just as bright, bold, and bludgeoning as their past work but adds complexity and depth to their sound.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pink Sunset for No One
    Where on earlier albums, you could sense her thinking about what to do with the sounds she could make, now she seems more fully in control of her set of instruments. Process has slipped into the background, as she gains fluency in an invented language.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tourist in This Town
    Tourist in This Town is sharply written, revealing a mordant, humorous understanding of Crutchfield herself and the people around her. There’s a vulnerability in these tunes that lives alongside the cleverness, so that we feel her angst, even as we appreciate her cleverness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Shadow in Time
    Like The Disintegration Loops, A Shadow in Time is not sentimental--it just is. Basinski’s music exists to make us feel, but won’t take the easy route in doing so.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hey Mr Ferryman
    With Hey Mr. Ferryman, Eitzel again distills a brutal, nonsensical world into beauty. It’s a feat worth observing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    False Readings On
    If False Readings On proves anything, it’s that Matthew Cooper has again shown just how good he is at making music that’s too engrossing to be just ambient, too pretty to be just noise, too eventful to be just drone (as worthy as those all are as forms) and too individual to be the work of anyone else.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not Even Happiness
    Not Even Happiness is a work of intimate loveliness, surely one of the most flat-out beautiful songwriter albums of a year that is just getting going.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    50
    Chapman may be tying off a loose end by making this record, but he doesn’t sound like he thinks he’s at the end of the road yet.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Graveyard of Good Times
    If you flipped over Car Seat Headrest or just harbor a fondness for melodic hiss and fuzz, you’ll like this.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Fucked a Flame Into Being
    He sings in a voice that makes everything sound like an indecent proposal (and honestly, some of it is). A younger, less whispery Leonard Cohen with a slightly wider range might be the best point of reference.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Action Time Vision: A Story of Independent U.K. Punk 1976-1979 [Box Set]
    This is wonderful stuff, both as pure entertainment and a document of a vanished era.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nine Suns, One Morning
    The music’s references doesn’t sound particularly new, but Batoh sounds newly energized and fully in command of his new band.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shape Shift with Me
    Whether she’s howling about airport security machines, falling in and out of love or lust with someone or turning a jaundiced eye on the past, these are as solid, anthemic and moving a set of songs as any Against Me! have put out.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What's Your Sign
    By the time “Civil Weather” floats to a halt, it’s hard not to want more from Oneida and Rhys Chatham, either separately or, on the basis of this LP, together.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Post Plague
    The result is a fascinating, successful hybrid.
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