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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A U R O R A
    At its best, A U R O R A is an exhilarating work, propulsive and contemplative, able to allow for moments of searing volume and elegant beauty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Are We There
    The first four songs on Are We There don’t work as well as the later ones. Ultimately this doesn’t hurt, because the later ones are among her very best.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everybody Down
    Tempest delivers her labyrinthine tales with forensic detail offered gracefully like Saul Williams, Roots Manuva, Asian Dub Foundation and Tricky / Martina Topley-Bird on Pre-Millennium Tension (think “Bad Dream”).
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunbathing Animal
    Musically, Sunbathing Animal is much the same as, but slightly more feral than, Light Up Gold, its two-stepping vamps harder and jitterier, its strangled guitar licks more aggressively atonal.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To Be Kind
    Three full studio albums into their reinvigorated latest phase, and Swans’ ability to surprise remains as potent as ever To Be Kind might just be the most startling and uncompromising of the trio, although these qualities take time to unveil themselves.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Piedmont Apocrypha
    Whether or not this incarnation of Horseback is apocryphal--remember, Miller says he won’t have this form forever--it’s quite possibly the closest Miller’s come to seamlessly blending roots music and metal. Even if he doesn’t think there’s a line to cross.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultima II Massage
    Another subtle evolution of Fec’s homogenous sound palette, Ultima II Massage is a reason to keep you coming back 11 years into his career to witness him experiment with his inimitable aesthetic.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Asiatisch
    Asiatisch is impersonal and airtight. Musically, the album is fascinating, diverse and expertly produced. But a chance was perhaps missed to deliver something with more to say.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get Back
    The best and most consistent Pink Mountaintops album to date, Get Back mines a deep vein of nostalgia via song references, memory-scape imagery, and musical touchstones in kraut rock, post-punk and new wave.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chills on Glass
    Dead Rider has created a vivid, weird, deeply compelling world on this album, but the band isn’t going to come to you; you have to get on its level.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ryonen
    The energy ebbs and flows between these two poles, so that intellectual inquiry becomes a gateway towards straight-on freakery, and wild intuitive leaps make sense of complex formulae.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So It Goes
    The real masterstroke of So It Goes is that it’s not: This is one for the here and now, as contemporary as New York hip-hop gets.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Way and Color
    Though this is an enjoyable listen and a vast improvement on their debut, the promise of where they could end up is its biggest appeal. Stay tuned.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Teeth Dreams
    It doesn’t help that the production is full of weird echoes and indistinctness.... And yet, there are some genuinely good songs here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boy
    Throughout Boy, the action recedes into a murky distance from which disembodied details reach out like the tiny malevolent creatures that hide under the staircase in your nightmares.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Estara
    Estara is not as musically challenging, hooky or advanced as some albums by similar artists.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dissed and Dismissed
    The songs are abbreviated, but nonetheless complete, coherent and fully-fleshed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mess
    They’re still nodding to early Pop synthesizer proponents (The Human League, Fad Gadget, A Broken Frame era Depeche Mode), and now mixing in a beefed-up, contemporary EDM blast with the je ne sais quoi that the group infuses into everything it touches.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Two
    If the quartet’s debut challenged the assumptions of what kind of music this group of musicians might make, this album shows off their own assurances: not a retread of what’s come before, but a solid follow-up to it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Do To the Beast
    If you’re a fan of the Whigs, Do to the Beast will push all the right buttons and even add a few new ones for you to think about.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pattern Is Movement
    Re-invented and fully assured, Pattern is Movement is a band that can do what it wants. One can’t argue with Pattern is Movement’s results.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Under Color of Official Right
    Protomartyr has raised the bar high enough for any bands to follow, so high that most won’t even know it’s there.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond Ugly
    Though perhaps not as unique or groundbreaking as Ugly Side of Love, Beyond Ugly is still a pretty fabulous record by a band mostly alone in a top-shelf niche.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Motion: Connected Works
    Motion uses some new approaches, but ultimately it fits in just fine as another solid entry in a rich and rewarding body of work.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You
    The vocals alone would be a lullaby, but in this broken orchestra, they’re insomnia. Yet spending time with this record allows the burs to break off. If you give in to its strange terms, You is soothing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Daughter of Everything
    Daughters of Everything is a fine, fun rock ‘n’ roll record that struggles with a gimmick it didn’t really need.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans are still thinking the same off-kilter, rhythmically intricate thoughts, but filtering them through a whole different music making process. Either way, it’s impressive and quite lovely. Nicely done.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Light Divide
    All told, Light Divide is a pretty thing, transporting and enveloping and full of glowing tones. Yet even as you’re listening to it, it slips away, and when you’re done, it’s like you’ve been asleep.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Signals
    You can’t hear Signals without hearing modern London.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eagulls
    The Eagulls’ album does a fantastic job of funneling the band’s energy. That’s the good part. But as for the subtleties--the way that players interact, the fit between chug and melody, the depth that emerges with occasional negative space--you won’t find any of that here.
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