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For 3,270 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: 2,654 out of 3270
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3270
  3. Negative: 35 out of 3270
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    You're Dead!
    It’s heavy in concept but sprightly and reverential in its execution, its hallucinatory breadth reminiscent of the outre jazz of Sun Ra and the wily funk of Parliament, of mid-’70s Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Best Day
    He navigates through colorized thickets of tone on the long songs with the knowing confidence of a veteran wilderness guide.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plowing Into the Field of Love
    Iceage cleans up its sound, slows down the tempos and adds instruments like strings and piano on this third full length, but none of this takes the rawness out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heartleap
    A delicate, quietly ruminative collection of songs that she herself arranged and recorded on computer. It sounds, one supposes, exactly as Bunyan intended.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rips
    Guitar solos are fiery but brief and tethered to the main melodic ideas. Everything has been brightened, amplified and streamlined for immediate appreciation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cool Choices
    The emotions channeled here are wrenching, but they’re also honest, and this album’s victories feel earned.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Moon Spell
    This album is louder, catchier and more memorable [than King Tuff]. It doesn’t break rules or upend conventions, but it fills its songs with more oomph and pressure than ever.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weirdon
    Purling Hiss’s rough but accessible rock, made with craftsmanship and taste, does a difficult thing. It pleases old indie-heads just as easily as it can draw in the new kids.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Punish, Honey
    The results are truly thrilling, mechanized dance for a post-industrial age.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In a Dream
    In A Dream ain’t no slouch, but is better piece-by-piece than a continuous flow.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Carnival of Souls
    Carnival is far more subdued than Shanghai, simmering with supernatural menace, but never quite breaking into frenzy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Terrestrials
    These two groups disappear into each other as naturally as vapor disappears into the air, and the general atmosphere favors an industrial interpretation rather than a drone or doom-metal one.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Commune
    Goat are a bit too tight and knowing to be transcendental or truly trippy, for now at least, although the Afro-beat leanings that crop up all over Commune point at avenues rich in potential out-of-body experiences.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eyehategod
    It contains everything that makes Eyehategod the unique proposition that they are. It’s an Eyehategod album in excelsis, if you like.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wooden Head
    You could hardly spend a pleasanter half an hour than drifting to these slackly tuneful, drivingly rock rhythmed, 1960s-esque songs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tied to a Star
    It’s a calm, beautiful oasis in Mascis’ coruscating career path, prettier even, because of the carnage before and after.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From Scotland with Love
    This album is more grounded in sounds recognizably made by physical instruments. It’s also, in places, openly archaic in its devices and treatments.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Manipulator
    Everything is sharp and lucid and full of impact.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angels & Devils
    The Bug can still shock, and with so many highlights here, it’s hard to complain.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Shall Die Here
    They’ve created one of the most haunting and terrifying metal albums since the legendary Khanate broke up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paperback Ghosts
    More even-tempered than almost any of their previous efforts, it’s their most consistent full-length since Realistes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wildest Dreams
    Most of what’s here isn’t memorable, but there is a steady flow of moments so ersatz that it is oddly listenable.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Wild
    This is a hard record to get a hold on, but its vapors make you dizzy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cold World
    This is no victory lap around the baptismal fount, but rather a document of spiritual struggle and hard-won artistry.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shattered
    With Shattered, he isn’t just showing today’s garage-rock young guns he’s still got it. He’s showing them how it’s done.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lese Majesty
    The aesthetic is head-scratching; ideas are stunted and unreadable as themes unless you look at the music as an arc. But the duo is clever enough to generate an initial sonic mystique that makes you long to figure out exactly what you’re listening to. And that’s the mark of a lasting record.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    End Times Undone
    End Times Undone is another exceptional album from an artist who doesn’t seem to make any other kind.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Future's Void
    Past Life Martyred Saints was a ferociously personal record in a way that people responded to, but The Future’s Void is just as intense, even though it takes on almost entirely new subject matter and methods.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dereconstructed
    Dereconstructed poses a challenge and stands defiant, and it works surprisingly well as the unexpected convergence of a number of long-running cultural traditions.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For The Recently Found Innocent
    Presley works quickly--he says he went into the studio with more than 100 possible songs--and without much intermediation between idea and finished piece. This process seems to allow him to absorb many different influences (1960s psych, freak folk, children’s stories, his life), filter them through some subconscious prism, splitting them out as almost but not quite recognizable rainbow colors
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