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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sum/One
    On SUM/ONE, DeGraw avoids the trappings many first-time solo artists fall to, leaving the listener with a collection of songs that manages to exude its own indispensable personality while staying true to Gang Gang Dance's wild and wooly origin story.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Life [Mixtape]
    Excluding its minor gaffes, More Life cements a place for genres long-overlooked by mainstream media; dancehall, grime, Afrobeat, house, trap and, of course, rap, and takes Toronto on a world tour to celebrate life--More life.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Hits
    Tomorrow's Hits sees the band honing the sound of last year's New Moon into a tight collection of pop-minded rock songs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Destroyer
    The fifth Black Mountain album is their most driving album yet, literally. It was edited on the road, directly influenced by the feeling of being behind the wheel. Of the 22 tracks recorded, the eight that made it are as propulsive as you can get, hard-edged cerebral space trucking.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Walk Through Exits Only
    The end result is even more unhinged than expected, taking the underground approach of his many side-projects over the years, adding Pantera grooves and staying miles away from anything approaching Down in sound.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Handwritten
    Handwritten may not break any new ground for the band, but it's easily their strongest release yet.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lightning Dreamers
    Lightning Dreamers is refreshing for how it demonstrates the veteran cornetist's clear and realized vision. At 58 years old, Mazurek has helped usher jazz into the new millennium by surrounding himself with genre-defying musicians, transporting the arithmetic sound of Chicago through a warped space-time continuum.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost in the Country
    As Benton shifts his focus from big rock choruses to a grounding, direct connectivity, Lost in the Country cements Trace Mountains' evolution into a type of modern Americana.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Send A Prayer My Way
    TORRES and Baker don't fully escape the influence of their strong indie milieus, but that's part of what makes Send a Prayer My Way so special: it feels a little folky, a little Americana, and a lot country.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tired of Tomorrow
    Tired of Tomorrow is both warm and cold, complex and straight to the point.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Healing Is a Miracle
    Like all of Barwick's work, Healing Is a Miracle is an exercise in meditation and tracing the natural flow of emotion within. Barwick masterfully creates a temporary escape from reality which relaxes tensions that slowly surrender and dissolve into its harmless components.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Basking in the Glow
    Basking in the Glow is an album for fans of the courteous yet invigorating style of emo that Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Eat World made popular. Oso Oso's latest is a brisk invitation to savour the small stuff, to embrace insecurities, and to hang on to those head-rushing moments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's No Leaving Now
    There's No Leaving Now is another sweetly concise collection of ten songs by the eloquent Swede, whose nationality remains brilliantly masked by a Midwestern twang.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Woman
    A fascinating, affecting statement from a musician firmly in control of her artistry.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good Luck
    Embracing her past while looking forward, on GOOD LUCK, FRIDAY makes her own.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Supernatural Love
    An aural delight that deserves multiple spins.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dimensional People
    A dizzying array of sounds and vocals that probably would have come off as a sonic mess if not for Mouse on Mars' crystalline vision.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Images du Futur
    Images maintains an aura of continually mounting tension that keeps you anxiously captivated throughout its ten nervously haunting tracks.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take All My Loves: Nine Shakespeare Sonnets
    This recording is a great addition to his musical catalogue, and a fine way to fall in love with Shakespeare all over again, to boot.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Hot Moon
    They might be picking at low-hanging fruit, but by tapping into the aesthetic vocabularies of higher king loners like Dinosaur Jr., Pity Sex have created a document that's a better reminder of how timeless incompatibility is than a hard sell on a specific lifestyle.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurt & the Merciless
    Hurt & the Merciless is another strong outing for one of the most unique rock bands around, full of the groove, soul and big shiny instrumentation that defines the Heavy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LAGEOS
    Overall, LAGEOS is an engaging listen that just might surprise you in the places it goes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dub Egg
    Dub Egg is an album for guitar heads.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silencio
    Sadier's glorious voice could easily cover-up a multitude of sins, but it doesn't have to on Silencio because this is a great collection of songs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Too
    In shedding the shackles of expectation, FIDLAR finally found their soul.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Legendary Christmas
    Overall though, it's a solid effort in a genre that's hard to nail. Worth repeating all season!
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What the Dead Men Say
    With Bent firmly fitting in his place as the band's drummer, the chemistry between the band members is better than ever. What the Dead Men Say is the second of two great albums, and confirms that The Sin and the Sentence wasn't a fluke.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slime Season 3 [Mixtape]
    Every song justifies its spot: the Allen Ritter-produced "Drippin'" serves as a standout, exhibiting a staccato delivery and manic yelling, both of which are new to his already vast sonic vocabulary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Down in Heaven
    A well-rounded and buoyant album, Down in Heaven is Twin Peaks' most mature work to date and a satisfying listen, even if it lacks some of the urgency that made their past work so thrilling.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her Loss
    While Her Loss houses no immediate street bangers or Billboard hits, it's the sum of it all that makes it Drake's best record this decade. From the comical fake promos during its rollout to the memorable one-liners and aggressive diss verses or the TikTok memes it will generate for months to come, Her Loss has a lot of meat on its bones.
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