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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Purge
    On Purge, it feels like the band has finally found a sense of catharsis. In the end, this record does exactly what it says it will; it offers listeners a chance to dwell and stew on the darkness in their lives before inviting them to release those feelings; while the relief might be temporary, sometimes that's all you need.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Prelude To Ecstasy
    The extravagant and sensual Prelude to Ecstasy is their wine-stained toast to finding beauty in decadence, its cup runneth over with promise.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Songs for Robots
    These rapid shifts and experimental flourishes can make for a jarring listen, but they also keep Love Songs For Robots unpredictable and exciting.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Manor
    Midnight Manor is a chooglin' good time. The album holds true to that classic Nude Party sound; there's a direct sense of growth in its tone, without losing that flavor of personality that makes the Nude Party the characters that they are.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse
    The results surge with the crackling, raw power of their notorious live performances.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gave in Rest
    Gave In Rest isn't just Sarah Davachi's celebration of ritual, it's a temple to her entire practice.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Texas Moon [EP]
    Every track on Texas Moon is a moment of catharsis, delivered with as much swagger as spirituality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Are You Alone?
    On Are You Alone?, Majical Cloudz are at the height of their powers, opening themselves up fully and inviting the listener in. They sound obsessed, and "okay" be damned--it feels just right
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bestial Burden
    Bestial Burden is immensely captivating and exquisitely structured, another unique offering from an unparalleled artist.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quadra
    You can't exactly say Sepultura are back. They never went anywhere in the first place. But they've (rather amazingly) broken new ground on Quadra. Make sure to check it out.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ty Segall (2017)
    Ty Segall is a mixture of boisterous and blissful, and certainly is a great place to start if you're looking to introduce someone to Segall's ever-fattening discography.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    caroline 2
    The result is a sound that is assured and ebullient, lively as a coiled spring releasing its kinetic energy until it's exhausted.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loved
    This record is not a reimagining of the band or a fresh start. Loved is an exercise in moulding what KEN Mode has always been good at into a perfect soundtrack for these times of great political uncertainty.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wildcard
    Wildcard represents courage, strength and vulnerability as Miranda tells her story. The album is a timeless snapshot that measures a moment in this superstar's life.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Afternooners
    While previous instalments Muscle Up and School Daze were comprised of early, experimental college compositions, Afternooners is more focused and assured.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Petals for Armor
    Petals for Armor is a musically strong, emotionally vulnerable album that finds her standing confidently as an artist in her own right.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Raspberry
    There’s a delicacy to the way Kirby’s voice interplays with these vulnerable arrangements, especially on guitar ballads like the earnest “Party of the Century” (which Kirby co-wrote over FaceTime with ANTI- labelmate Christian Lee Hutson).
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chastity Belt
    They haven't abandoned their political senses, no, but they have moved into a new gentler phase. The elements that stay the same are their intentionality, their honesty and their vulnerability.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tourist in This Town
    She's turned that feeling into an album as glittery as it is gut-wrenching, making Tourist in This Town a point on the musical map that's well worth a long, enriching stay.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wait For Love
    Wait for Love shows that Pianos Become the Teeth have a firm grip on a sound and identity that's beautiful, poignant and wholly their own, and it shows that they can keep maturing without having to constantly recreate themselves.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Triplicate
    Triplicate proves that his ability to interpret the Great American Songbook is equally worthy of recognition.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patience (After Sebald)
    This record collects the works of Austrian composer Franz Schubert and morphs them into a gloomy meditation on the sure, comforting absurdity of existence.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weather Diaries
    If any shoegazers are primed and ready to make the most of this second chance, it's Ride.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drifters/Love Is the Devil
    This minimal format emphasizes Hungtai's talent for setting a skin-crawling mood.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glass Boys
    An impassioned record that feels like their most raw, personal work to date.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Civil Wars
    It's unfortunate, really, since without any of that baggage [professional separation], The Civil Wars stands as a powerful and haunting collection that exemplifies Nashville's current fixation with slickly updating traditional themes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl With Fish
    Intensely frantic and intimately vulnerable, Girl with Fish proves that sometimes letting things run off the rails pays off, so long as you have hands to grasp onto.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loma
    Loma is also the product of atypical conditions, written and recorded as the marriage of two of its members was dissolving. The trio seem to have leaned in to that situation: Loma captures the intimacy of such heightened circumstance with layered, compelling nuance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Will Not Die
    The level of craft involved — songwriting, musicality, performative sense — belies his relative anonymity within the greater music continuum. You Will Not Die is both an affirmation and a promise.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LEGACY! LEGACY!
    LEGACY! LEGACY! is a complex and near-flawless reworking of genre--"I am not your typical girl," as Woods notes on "Betty"--as the singer-songwriter evolves her art, thought and reason for being.
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