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For 448 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 The Seer
Lowest review score: 10 >Album Title Goes Here<
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 330 out of 448
  2. Mixed: 109 out of 448
  3. Negative: 9 out of 448
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Burning Feeling
    Ticks all the boxes you'd expect of retro-futurist cosmic disco – chugging italo basslines, chunky synths, ridiculous arpeggios, crashing guitars straight outta Miami Vice – but it's the way they're put together that elevates it into more interesting and original territorry.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    1991 [EP]
    Banks continues to get away with her obnoxiousness--and while the quality of the music remains disproportionate to the hype, it does make her bratty rejection of the rap establishment feel that much more thrilling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bravest Man in the Universe
    While the lyrical content can be a little prescriptive in places, all of Womack's contributions are frank, honest and humble
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pluto
    On Pluto, Future does his best to build a coherent album around these hits. He succeeds; the problem is that it's too coherent.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Minimal Wave Tapes, Vol. 2
    As far as historic compilations go, this is an undeniable belter, successfully capturing music with a very particular energy worth celebrating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rinse Presents: Brackles
    It's Kemp's uncompromising beat patterns and bouncing, funk-infused basslines that ultimately deserve the spotlight here.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Our Heads
    In Our Heads seems acutely lacking in personality, meaning or the ability to evoke, in your head, anything other than a vague urge to dance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exercises [EP]
    The result leaves the listener with less of a sense of control and more of an experience controlled by someone who knows exactly what they are doing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    R.A.P. Music
    It's an ear-catching work, more immediate than anything Killer Mike has done since his brief commercial moment of glory in 2003.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Machines That Make Civilization Fun
    It stands out as one of the year's most demanding, lasting listens.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music For the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs
    It's not without faults, but overall it's a undoubtedly a very welcome gift.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    WIXIW
    By taking electronic to mean, largely, removed introspection, WIXIX might be the one example of a guitar band who, by fully embracing electronica, have regressed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    With this record Laurel Halo has created a strong work that, while being notable and challenging for its unusual, compact combination of pop, ambience and musique concrète, is also immersive and enjoyable for this exact reason.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Words & Music by Saint Etienne
    Words and Music by St Etienne really brings it on itself, and the result is totally vapid.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Valtari
    There's nothing here resembling stadium polish: if anything, the lush arrangements often yield subtly fascinating results.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cancer4Cure
    The music is certainly some of El's most engaging yet, and should possess real lasting power.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One
    While Barrow and Salisbury have painted a forbidding picture of the overall future, their own futures as producers with an ever-expanding, consistent repertoire looks assured.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Epoch
    I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as the best dubstep album released this year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Different Ship
    An unobtrusively profound statement, cradled in soft-focus melancholy, it's a willowy but towering expression of disassociation, and deeply moving.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ufabulum
    This is Squarepusher with the best equipment money can buy, pumping his tracks mercilessly until they're all surface and no substance.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black is Beautiful
    The result is a collection of intriguing, often beautiful miniatures--gems to be cherished and enjoyed, sonic curiosities that reward repeated listening.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Light Asylum
    Almost overwhelming in places, and certainly distinct, Light Asylum is, quite simply, a brilliant album from musicians who deserve immense respect.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reform Club
    Reform Club's prime influences may be rooted in techno's past but what it lacks in formal innovation it more than makes up for with a rich and profound personal expression that will keep you company long after the rest of the world has shut down for the night.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Biokinetics [Reissue]
    Combined with Köner's solo work, Biokinetics is a pivotal moment in electronic music and a decisive moment in one of the most important and brilliant oeuvres in contemporary music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Galaxy Garden
    Galaxy Garden is ambitious, which is to be lauded, and Cutler also has a reassuringly realistic outlook when saying that he is still "chipping away at a big idea".
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Master of My Make-Believe
    Underpinning the shots White fires at the world has always been a deep-seated melancholy that she brings out effectively here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil, Pt. 3
    The Block Brochure is a daunting proposition and quite simply a difficult amount of music to process. This is unfortunate, though, given the sheer number and variety of gems strewn throughout.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil, Pt. 2
    The Block Brochure is a daunting proposition and quite simply a difficult amount of music to process. This is unfortunate, though, given the sheer number and variety of gems strewn throughout.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil, Pt. 1
    The Block Brochure is a daunting proposition and quite simply a difficult amount of music to process. This is unfortunate, though, given the sheer number and variety of gems strewn throughout.
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