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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vexovoid
    Portal are a band that never break character and Vexovoid is their fourth full-length release (along with two demos and two EPs), continuing their well-established theme of creating deep feelings of dread, alienation and confusion in the listener, all through exquisitely made and intelligently deployed aural assaults.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Clash the Truth
    Beach Fossils have found a balance that's better than anyone could have hoped for.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Marriage of True Minds
    The outwardly fun melodies and rhythms are what define the album.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No World
    No World is a heady mix of opaque beats and Romy Madley Croft guitar lines that reverberate throughout the band's 41-minutes of modest club bangers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jamie Lidell
    Jamie Lidell is a stunningly entertaining album and an exemplary ode to the good ol' days.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Nothing
    Amidst a sonic atmosphere of clenched-fist roughness, one can find stark beauty and honest emotional value in the lyrics of lead singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Off/On
    Off/On is an all-around more palatable effort would be overselling the band's sophomore release, but once the listener ventures into mid-album territory, it's easy to point out Forma's mounting melodic maturity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ex Tropical
    Much of it is too unremarkable for it to be anything but a decent starting point for Quarrell to build upon.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Love Lost
    Budden's raw energy and experience enriche otherwise throwaway pop, even when saccharine hooks (Kirko Bangz) and amphibian croaks (Lil Wayne) threaten to cheapen it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Homosapien
    While the tension between live and synthetic elements is interesting to listen to, Homosapien lacks the kind of grand creative spark that's often born from this.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oh, Mayhem!
    While it might be just another Bettie Serveert record, it's also another solid addition to their already impressive discography.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Long Way to Fall
    It's really Schnauss's choice of drum sounds and patterns that prevent A Long Way to Fall from sounding like a toothless ambient piece.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Us Alone
    In creating a warm, intimate sound emphasizing piano and organ over acoustic guitar for the first time, Hayden sounds content even when talking about mortality.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wraetlic
    Wraetlic is a dark record, delicately assembled to provide the listener with an experience in humanistic truth, a subject in which Smoke has succeeded quite well in outlining.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    M B V
    Twenty-two years later, My Bloody Valentine is still the band everyone's talking about, and although it may not necessarily build on Loveless, there's no audible reason m b v shouldn't be spoken of in the same hushed, venerating tones.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    La Costa Perdida
    Sadly, today there's nothing to distinguish Lowery and co. from scores of other unfocused bands trying to combine too many disparate elements.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Will Not Harm You
    Afrobeat, techno, Latin rhythms, jazz and electronica fly by thick and fast on We Will Not Harm You in a dizzying display that's both comfortingly familiar and wildly futuristic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lovesick Blues
    With Big Star now put to rest following the passing of Alex Chilton, Stamey is the rightful person to fill his shoes. Lovesick Blues offers more than enough proof that he's fully prepared to do just that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Berberian Sound Studio
    Berberian Sound Studio is far from an essential album, but it's definitely a welcome surprise addition for fans of Broadcast, the movie itself or fans of Italian horror soundtrack artists such as Goblin.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Endeavour
    Forever Endeavour is indeed a humble record, but as with its touchstones, the album's power lies in its simplicity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conduit
    It ends with a breakdown and is littered with weighty riffs. However, these aren't forced or the focus of the band's sound, instead complementing the incredibly polished rock.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    News from Nowhere
    On News from Nowhere, Darkstar have completed their transformation from playing in an overexposed genre to being in an irresolute one.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We the Common
    This is Nguyen's strongest work yet, with the aforementioned songwriting taking a leap forward, while gradually perfecting her melting pot sound of country, folk and pop.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Electric
    Unlike most of his peers, Thompson is defying the march of time, continuing to write and perform at an exceptional level. Electric easily deserves a place alongside his best solo releases.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goldenheart
    Goldenheart functions as a hypnotic aural distraction, but little more.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Somewhere Else
    A deceptively lush record full of moments of striking beauty.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    General Dome
    The pair are making strummable instruments sound new again, and it sounds like redemption. Proceed frantically and without caution.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My God Is Blue
    There's a subtle audaciousness to My God is Blue that pulls the listener in; it's almost like Sébastien Tellier is channelling a gloomy saviour.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Candela
    Though things work best when Pierce allows enough space amidst the music for the actual songs to flourish, even the jostling of the overcrowded bits is wonderful and energetic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of View
    Whether you came of age in the '90s or were just born then, the History of Apple Pie have what you need.
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