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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Axis Of Evol
    Axis of Evol may not be a great album. It remains prey to some of McBean’s obnoxious corner-cutting. But it is his most resolute outing to date, certainly the first record he’s made that can be heard front-to-back, repeatedly, without losing most of its shine.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Hello Young Lovers
    It’s frustrating to hear them in this context – sounding jaded and uninspired, a slump they haven’t been in since the late ‘80s.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dead Drunk
    Dead Drunk on the whole could be taken as noise music, noise music with none of the brutality and half the imagination.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Etiquette
    How you’ll come down on Etiquette depends, I suppose, on how interested you are in the tales of sad-sack twentysomethings.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Exchange Session Vol. 1
    The record doesn’t sound much like a free improv session, but it retains the crucial dynamic of starting from zero and seeing where it goes, and there’s enough going on here to make me curious where they’ll go next.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Witch
    There's something really interesting about the way these two conflicting styles fit together here, a groove for headbangers with flowers in their hair.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Last Romance
    Malcolm Middleton’s electric and bass guitars have never sounded so big, and they’re better that way.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    It's as if More and Black set out to purposely compose a more "mature" album. By slowing things down they're able to accommodate R&B outings, spoken word stories and artsy offerings, but to be honest, it's not all that much fun.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Destroyer's Rubies
    It's tempting to spend hours excavating metaphors and translating references on a record this complex and interesting, but Destroyer's Rubies also works well as pop.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Six Demon Bag
    Each moment of each song is completely unpredictable, to the point where even after multiple listens some of these transitions still seem to come out of nowhere.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From The Urb'N'Jungle
    This compilation goes for breadth where Konono’s Congotronics went for depth.
    • 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.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound
    One of the most important anthologies to come along in quite a while.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    Though these may succeed as pop songs, Belle & Sebastian ultimately subvert their appeal by contradicting precious, self-effacing sentiments with brash music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    Comfort Of Strangers is the best thing Orton has recorded since her debut.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Security Screenings
    There's no arguing that it's pretty entertaining.... But there's the nagging sense that it's all sound and fury.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lantern
    Particularly in the lugubrious opening half of the disc, Clogs tends to repeat things simply for the sake of repeating them without really building towards anything.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Donuts
    A schizophrenic palate of honeyed soul, downbeat electrix, timeless hip hop and bare-knuckle beats, these 31 tracks (spread over 44 minutes) are packed with triple the hooks – and suffer from attention deficit disorder (to the listener’s benefit).
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Below The Branches
    A record that spits in the eye of assertions that they don’t make records like they used to.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Run The Road Volume 2
    To be sure, grime is a hybrid genre, but Run the Road 2 often shows how the balance can be weighed too heavily towards American rap idioms.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Brave And The Bold
    The experiment does at times rush off the tracks into the bushes, where either the spastic tempos prove too much for Oldham's cool croon, or the meat-and-potatoes song structures reject Tortoise's occasional proclivity toward overseasoning.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    For Screening Purposes Only
    It's a fairly fun album, albeit not one that sticks with you.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Standing In The Way Of Control
    The group [is] at it's best when it stays close to it's R & B foundation. Standing in the Way of Control expands the Gossip's pallette, but the keepers here hug tight to the rump.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Indian Tower
    Pearls and Brass have your ultimate Friday afternoon "just got paid today" soundtrack right here. Turn it up loud and enjoy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Electric President
    A pretty percolating electro-pop record that embraces sweetness and strangeness in equal measure.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kings & Queens
    More like faithful reiterations of soul cliches than anything fresh or interesting, nearly every track will remind you of someone else.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Detrola
    Defever can still write great, melancholic pop songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
    The Line may be as polarizing as ever, but fuck me, can it play a righteous drinking song.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Father Divine
    Father Divine ranks among the best of Ladd’s efforts, and is easily one of his most adventurous.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
    Cheers to the second installment of this beautiful friendship.
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