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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sour
    By the end of the album, Rodrigo has established her voice and showed listeners that she's not afraid to be vulnerable. SOUR is a strong debut that vividly illustrates the beautiful chaos of being inside a teenage girl's brain.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frontera
    It is a well-conceived and delivered piece of work, but perhaps unavoidably one that feels the absence of its staged elements.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Super What?
    Say What? is hardly DOOM's definitive work, but it gives us one last snapshot of a solitary mind that spurted in wonderfully volatile ways.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wink
    Totally original, completely unselfconscious and wonderfully catchy, WINK is one of those rare albums that you can throw on anytime and let it guide you on the journey it has laid out before you.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Off-Season
    The Off-Season — an earnest return to blood, sweat and ink — doesn't need much more to hit like swish.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vital
    Through loud and quiet dynamics, and incorporating minimalism, Big Brave's Vital is one of the most impactful records in the band's catalogue.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Afrique Victime
    He and his band are making truly tremendous guitar rock in a manner that is peerless in this era, and from anywhere on the globe.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bring Backs
    Alfa Mist weaves masterfully from threads of nostalgia, but Bring Backs, when you unravel it, is more of an ode to faith and resilience than a mournful remark on what is gone.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memoryland
    Memoryland is arguably at its strongest when its homages and nods are less vigorous.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Anything Can't Happen
    Paas has said that her music explores themes of non-romantic love, and while her operatic delivery tends to highlight emotion over enunciation, Anything Can't Happen is peppered with these moments of startling melancholy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black to the Future
    The music is raw, melodic and explosive, and captures the inner reflection one must undertake to properly envision the future.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slime Language 2
    The finely curated production on Slime Language 2 provides a perfect snapshot of the evolution of Atlanta's sound.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shirushi
    Eleki and psych rock appear to not be enough for the seven-piece's voracious and diverse musical appetites, and Shirushi offers many directions from which the band could reasonably choose.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daddy's Home
    While Daddy's Home may not be her best record, it's a bold and rewarding one.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Van Weezer
    For the most part, this is just the same old Weezer with added two-hand tapping. That's a good thing, since the half-hearted metal schtick is mostly just an excuse for frontman Rivers Cuomo and his bandmates to crank their amps and play the power pop they do best. It's a less radical experiment than this year's all-acoustic, orchestra-assisted OK Human.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seek Shelter
    The former enfant terribles seem to have arrived at their final destination and sound more assured than ever before with Seek Shelter — a stunning achievement that will restore even the most lapsed practitioner's faith in rock music.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    KHALED KHALED
    Commerce is pulling more gears than art here. Simply skip the lows and ride the highs. Because when Khaled does hit, it can still be fun as hell, like gorging on popcorn and 'splosions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fellowship
    The emotions that are being expressed feel lived-in and deeply personal while remaining open to listener interpretations.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bright Green Field
    They embrace vulnerability, taking time to address modern issues (read: symptoms of capitalism), while also imbuing a real sense of fun, artistic merit and instrumental democracy in the record's 11 tracks.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rare, Forever
    Rare, Forever feels less like an album and more like a series of single, punctuated thoughts; or one man's long meditation. It's a little jumpy, and pulses with frenetic energy. He oscillates between dancefloor bangers ("Dumbo") and languid transitions ("Allchea Vella Amor").
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fortitude
    Fortitude is an album that takes a few listens to fully wrap one's head around, and there's no denying just how much there is to be heard in these 11 versatile tracks. If there was any doubt still about Gojira's potential, Fortitude proves unequivocally that the band are MVPs of modern metal.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Second Line
    Richard remains a testament to boundary-pushing, genre bending and expectation-shattering art, though Second Line's tempered grandiosity ultimately leaves her ambition underserved.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Michigan Boy Boat [Mixtape]
    The mixtape format may excuse the lack of sonic cohesion for the project, but it does not explain the faltering artistic direction that is more than likely to leave Yachty's fans disoriented and disenchanted.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Standard Definition
    A set of tapes wound with energy, suffusing the record's calculated structure with flashes of organic movement.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If I Could Make It Go Quiet
    if i could make it go quiet is a testament to girl in red's rapid growth as an artist. In addition to a sophisticated examination of anger and suffering, her voice has grown richer and deeper while her sound has evolved to blend punk nostalgia into her youthful ennui.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Million Masks of God
    The Million Masks of God goes for an emotional gut-punch, but it's a bit light on impact. Much of the power of this music comes from the mind when it ought to come from the soul.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never the Right Time
    Never the Right Time is excitingly different, if inconsistent. The well-known pillars of Stott's sound still underpin much of what happens across the album's nine tracks, yet the way those pillars are occasionally arranged have made way for new kinds of space.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Softer Focus
    With Toral's help, rousay has presented a musical vision that is newly inviting while retaining all of the elements that have made her music so special
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweep It Into Space
    While long-gone are the sonic textures of the band's early years — replaced here with some novel and resourceful instrumentation — the group's second (and now longest) run has been unbelievably solid and unimpeachable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    McCartney III Imagined
    McCartney III is more than your average covers album — each collaborator stretches the skeletons of McCartney's songs into something new, making the album an unconventional collection of tracks that bypass the rules of genre and sonic cohesion. Few will enjoy every track on this album, but it's the versatility and diversity throughout these tracks that truly make McCartney III Imagined the record that it is.
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