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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seen It All: The Autobiography
    The usual Jeezy tropes of hustling and encouraging others to also hustle haven't gone anywhere — the rote "Been Getting Money (featuring Akon)" could be plopped on any Jeezy album and no one would notice--but there's a heap of real-life wisdom here, too.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Barragán
    Barragán is not an album determined to grab you in one listen; it's a "grower," as they say, but once it grows, it's apparent there's no shortage of baroque delights to discover on this veteran band's ninth album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mean Love
    Mean Love, Sinkane's third full-length and second release on DFA Records, manages to create a sense of romanticism without ever being overtly emotional, with straightforward lyrics that somehow remain affecting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    10 Summers
    While 10 Summers delivers everything we'd expect from DJ Mustard, it definitely doesn't challenge his artistic growth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Swimmin' Time
    Swimmin' Time is every bit as good as its predecessor. Indeed, it offers several songs that leave much of what they've previously recorded in the dust.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    After the End
    Though their unwavering embrace of pop on this record might seem antagonistic in and of itself, they still manage to sound convincingly earnest and (for the first time) fun.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Neuroplasticity
    Neuroplasticity is a full-on rock record, though, as much as it's just a transition for Spx into something that takes a variety of musical turns.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Junto
    Junto is yet another solid album of party anthems to--as promised in "Unicorn"--"get your body jumpin'" this Summer.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lost in Alphaville
    Sharp laments the weakening of expression though technology, which is fitting, as this applies to the album. Where there were once fireworks, the Rentals still deliver a bit of a lazer show.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Green Language
    There are great tracks on Green Language, but a lack of consistency stops it from being a great album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pale Communion
    The tracks run long (nothing below four-and-a-half minutes), and the highlights come for those with patience (the album peaks, like Heritage did, in the latter half); Pale Communion is a grower.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Angels & Devils
    Angels & Devils dwarfs its acclaimed predecessor, as it does almost everything else released in the electronic music genre this year.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Annabel Dream Reader
    Annabel Dream Reader feels like the soundtrack to a Tarantino film.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brill Bruisers
    On Brill Bruisers, the band's glory days have returned.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Impressions
    On Impressions, Music Go Music have created a recreation of a bygone era with none of its character.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bahamas Is Afie
    Bahamas Is Afie contains some of Jurvanen's best work to date, standing up there next to 2012's Barchords high benchmark "Lost In The Light."
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The No-Hit Wonder
    Craig Finn, Jason Isbell, Tim Easton and Caitlin Rose all show up to play, reminding us both that Branan can stand beside the best in the business, and that the best in the business want to stand beside him.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maximum Overload
    In the end, the album loses steam throughout, something that is only accentuated by all the potential bonus tracks.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Rat
    Two years of touring has allowed DZ Deathrays to realize their capabilities as songwriters and with Black Rat, it's clear they've got their sights set on bigger and stranger things.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Golden Echo
    On her sophomore effort, The Golden Echo, Kimbra hasn't reined in her sonic exploration (where else would you find ex-Silverchair singer Daniel Johns and bassist Thundercat as primary contributors on the same album?), yet there's a more cohesive feel to the project.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Foundations of Burden
    An effort that is even more emotionally ambitious an undertaking, and all the more wounding for its beauty.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blacc Hollywood
    Blacc Hollywood, an LP titled like it might bring some overarching theme, is the audio equivalent of the Transformers quadrilogy: a series of in-your-face, mass-appeal blockbusters that lure crowds and teach them nothing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    V
    JJ's sound may be nothing special anymore, but their songs and vibe still stand up.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)
    The resulting poignancy of his honest songwriting is an amazing accomplishment.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hyperdub 10.1
    Hyperdub's decision to keep the material on Hyperdub 10.1 fresh and topical may take away from the commemorative feel of the comp, but the pure excitement the label's latest incites deserves nothing less than celebration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Directors of Photography
    On their return, they sound wiser and refreshed.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Get Hurt
    The band has framed Get Hurt as a shift in its Springsteen-meets-Replacements sound, but they're overselling things a tad: only a couple of songs, like the title track, truly feel all that different from their last couple of records.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Country Funk II: 1967-1974
    The overall vibe of the collection is likely to put a smile on your face (hell, even Townes sounds a mite less melancholy, thanks to the spirited accompaniment), making it a perfect fit for your next beer 'n bourbon patio party.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In the Wild
    The charm of the disconnected, breezy path that starts the album--seeming interludes punctuated by the odd story of a more solid, structured track--quickly wears thin when you realize said path meanders, the tracks mostly underdeveloped, only occasionally rolling into a bigger sound with tangible depth.
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