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For 5,096 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Vol.II
Lowest review score: 10 California Son
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,315 out of 5096
  2. Mixed: 753 out of 5096
  3. Negative: 28 out of 5096
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If I Should Go Before You
    Clearly he is awash with new inspiration, and has absorbed it successfully, because it's hard to recall an artist in recent memory who has revamped their sound so boldly and successfully as City and Colour has on If I Should Go Before You.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rose Mountain
    Rose Mountain could be the album that finally brings these hardworking punkers to a wider audience after nearly a decade of existence, and it would be well deserved.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Embers of Time
    The first two-thirds of this album are nearly flawless.... There are a couple of stumbles down the backstretch, though.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Issa Album
    The constant vitriol is made scarier by his choice to rap in a stuporous, incantatory monotone. The music here--forbidding snares, honking staccato keyboards--is same-y but effective.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium
    Cellar Door seems to have given the Underachievers space to breathe, think and spit the transcendental lyricism that set them apart in the first place.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome To: Our House
    Joe, Joell, Crooked I and Royce trade quality rhymes over a varied catalogue of original productions that allow the four-piece ample room to spit their different brands of venom.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    CHAMPION
    Grandiose in its bite, depth and soul, Champion lives up to its name.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
    A dose of psychedelic pop, captivating hooks, and guitar trembles enhance the listening experience. Exploring the themes of new opportunities, growth, disconnection and hope, listeners can feel frontman Jack Steadman's raw emotions.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    808s & Dark Grapes, Vol. 3
    Bringing a higher degree of polish to the table than past bedroom recordings, the duo also show off an impressive palette of sounds on their dozen beats.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lord Steppington
    Not only is Steppington the first must-own rap record of 2014, but it represents freedom for its makers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Best of Luck Club
    The Best of Luck Club may lack some of the whimsy that got her noticed, but with this more mature turn, Lahey has expressed some lyrical depth that wasn't quite there the first time around.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ranaldo/Jarmusch/Urselli/Pándi
    Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/ Marc Urselli/ Balázs Pándi is an egoless collection of ideas from four musicians who sound like they've been working together for an eternity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    P.T.S.D.: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    Seamlessly weaving complexity into internal rhymes in verses and the overall thematic premise, PTSD excels at both micro and macro levels.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colourgrade
    This is Colourgrade's magic ⎯ it captures the quiet humdrum of life at its most unreal, blearing domestic love and childrearing and sleep and exhaustion into something suddenly, amazingly unfamiliar.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ego Death
    Ego Death frees the Internet from Odd Future connotations and R&B norms; it's their best work yet.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exile in the Outer Ring
    Her ability to turn raw emotion into compelling and riveting music carries Exile in the Outer Ring, and the result is some of the best material we've heard from her yet.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Based on a T.R.U. Story
    2 Chainz's debut album is a triumph on so many levels.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Know It All
    Know-It-All is clearly the end result of Cara's vision by way of major label collaboration. So while it's a tad formulaic, it's terrifically executed and solidly produced.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impermanence
    The results show the oft-dramatic vocalist crafting some of his most meditative and emotional songs to date, as the high drama is cleverly delivered through pained phrasings and gently cinematic instrumentation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Temple Beautiful
    Temple Beautiful is the sound of a mature rock'n'roller continuing to reach for new heights.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Got a Love
    On We Got Love, his sophomore LP, the Irish knobturner has managed to produce a coherent album brimming with ideas, styles and guest musicians.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Say Yes to Love
    The sonic clarity is improved somewhat, but it's still messy as hell, meaning that Say Yes to Love sounds more like another demo than a proper album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    + -
    Give this one time, and it reveals itself.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wait to Pleasure
    Wait to Pleasure is a marked improvement on their debut that demonstrates No Joy's capacity as sonic adventurists capitalizing on the advantages of a studio environment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hypnophobia
    Hypnophobia is a beautiful, and sometimes tragic, look into the mind of a talented and tortured artist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bright Side of Down
    Bright Side of Down is everything a folk recording should be, with thoughtful lyrics nestled into well-crafted songs and simple arrangements that put the song first.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Radio Silence
    Radio Silence is a jazzy, soulful call to action, a think-piece and a middle-finger to the trolls who claim he fell off; you can still find his name "in the middle of equality."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power Chords
    Yet despite sounding like an album that could have just as easily come out in 2009 as 2019, it's a testament to the timelessness of Power Chords' sound rather than an indication of its tedium.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    8AM
    After an extended break, Teengirl Fantasy return wiser and sounding somehow more like themselves.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Deserters
    It's apparent that Zeffira possesses a terrific balance of style and substance on The Deserters.
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