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For 1,116 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: 100 We Will Always Love You
Lowest review score: 40 Weezer (Teal Album)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,069 out of 1116
  2. Mixed: 47 out of 1116
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1116
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Bastards
    While many, such as the swirling pop of “Blue Moon,” and the melodic ballad “I Call It Art,” don’t fit the general tone of the average Kills album, none of the songs sound like filler. Each of these Bastards earns its spot on the album as a fine representation of the eclectic influences of the band.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rollins in Holland [The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings]
    Savor this one.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What to Look for in Summer [Live]
    Murdoch and company have done a great job in creating a live album that includes a little bit of something for everyone. What to Look for in Summer does a fairly good job of capturing the magnetic energy of a Belle and Sebastian show and since we have been starved for live music this year, this is a welcome release to help tide us over.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    We Will Always Love You
    We Will Always Love You, their third album, is just their latest achievement in flawlessness, a record that continues the sound that is undeniably The Avalanches.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Think of Spring
    This gentle, lilting album is a totally relaxing listen, somehow devoid of the deep sensual bluesy moods that Holiday can evoke but instead invoking a flowing, other-worldly (to use his term) romanticism.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luca
    With Luca, Maas has managed to stay in that happy medium where it’s different without being too different. There is enough of what fans of The Black Angels want to still be familiar but different enough to be something completely his own. Maas’ first foray into solo territory is definitely a success.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Odin's Raven Magic
    Managing to get any kind of new music during the pandemic has been rewarding and die-hard Sigur Rós fans that have waited 18 years to finally hear Odin’s Raven Magic, will no doubt find something to chew on. For most casual listeners however, this project, while undeniably beautiful remains messy and unfocused.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wreckless Abandon
    Campbell chose to embrace his personal sound, owning it, and refining it. It’s not an easy task but Campbell and the Dirty Knobs take it seriously.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live in Maui
    Live in Maui is an average show, with below-average sound, which has taken on a higher standard coming so close to Hendrix’s untimely death and the hippie nonsense surrounding it. However, Live in Maui is still an interesting listen for long-time fans and completists just not a place new listeners should start. In truth, any Hendrix concert is worth hearing, but this one doesn’t contend with many other fantastic releases already out there.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cyr
    Corgan’s attempt at making a contemporary album was mostly successful, though, with the band delivering hook-laden music that is full of great pop moments with enough experimentalism and gritty moments to keep it interesting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pine Needle Fire
    He has a catalog of consistently strong albums and Pine Needle Fire is the latest to join this esteemed list.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    K.G.
    Along with K.G.’s quality and the return to a more classic King Gizzard sound, help K.G. stand out as more than just another entry into a dense discography.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return to Greendale
    The lighthearted moments here offset the pedantry even if they also muffle a more provocative impact (as did the strident tone of 2006’s Living With War, including “Let’s Impeach The President”). Neil is preaching to the converted here and this offering isn’t likely to convince the skeptical.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trip
    As with all great musicians, Wagner embodies each track on TRIP the way he would any other album, and in the end provides another strong entry in Lambchop’s ever-growing discography.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Makarrata Project
    While The Makarrata Project is, overall, more of an exercise in maintaining rather than innovating, it is nevertheless a work replete with the customary philosophical and musical intelligence the Oils have displayed throughout their history.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power Up
    While the rest of the Power Up is still the same medicine, it remains a grade of B or better. No ballads and no “rock” titled songs on these 12 shakers. Call it now –Power Up is the strongest AC/DC lp since 1990’s The Razors Edge: Well done boys.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Starting Over
    Unlike the 2017 pair of albums which were rather short, Stapleton delivers a generous heaping of 14 songs here. He has nothing left to prove, but somehow, he just gets incrementally better as he takes more control and confidence in his own songwriting.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pylon Box [Box Set]
    All of this adds up to mana from heaven for Pylon fans.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fly Moon Die Soon
    The funky hip-hop moments sit beside some truly gorgeous passages, especially Kuroda’s flugelhorn on the Hancock piece.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sleepless Night [EP]
    Altogether, as with most of YLT’s covers over the years, Sleepless Night is a stellar selection of songs completed by a very talented trio. If it sounds like the group could record most of these covers in their sleep, that only shows how well the band has honed their tribute skills.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Existential Reckoning
    Existential Reckoning is a gem of a record that reasserts Puscifer’s place not just in pop culture but in the whole Keenan milieu. As their first album in five years, it’s a stunning return for a band that now feels on pace to shine as brightly as its founder and leader. Whether an old fan or new, Puscifer delivers dose after dose of electro-rock madness that all adds up to the best album of the band’s career.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
    The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo is the most accessible Mr. Bungle album, if it’s possible for thrash metal to be accessible. ... Fans looking for the outlandishness of Disco Volante may be disappointed, but anyone looking for angry, nonsensical mosh music will find everything they need.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    songs and instrumentals
    In itself songs is a soft companion to Big Thief’s two albums from 2019 and an album that effortlessly captures the aimless desperation of quarantine. It’s not so much that this work pales in comparison to the work with her band, even considering their outsized reputation; it’s more that Lenker achieves something completely different on her solo albums. songs like abysskiss provides insight and context to the broad beauty of Big Thief, and when being herself, Lenker proves successful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    There is little memorable about the songwriting of III; the lyrics are minimal and mostly abstract, but doesn’t really hurt the music. This isn’t an album for introspection or for contemplation of the songs’ meanings; it’s an album to crank up loud, bang some heads, and cause speeding tickets.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Letter to You
    Springsteen gives us the E Street Band at its rawest. The songs deal with loss and perseverance, but the arrangements make them sound like anthems.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)
    Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Rendition Was in) is a heartwarming posthumous release by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings that adds some heat to a series of familiar tunes that simultaneously pays tributes to Jones’ influences while honoring her legacy as the Godmother of a neo-soul movement that made stars out of the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Ray.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Waiting Out the Storm
    With his rock solid, half Crazy Horse-half Heartbreakers sounding band, the Extraterrestrials, Ivey not only expands his sound from last year’s The Dream and the Dreamer, but he brings a passionate sense of urgency too.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wildflowers & All The Rest
    Its very existence provides valuable insight into the creative process. In the end, that’s the most enduring of all possible additions to Petty’s legacy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long in the Tooth
    With the hip afro-funk of Long in the Tooth, The Budos Band continues to pump out infectious horn drenched jams.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The New OK
    Ghosts of Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett float among the slinky groove that could set out on the tide forever as it gorgeously gets the head bobbing and hips swaying around the only non-political track. Those lyrics are the exception though as the upbeat post-punk of “The Perilous Night” bubbles and bounces while sarcastically saying Amen to fascism on the rise, cars cutting down protesters and Red Square shining in the White House; it is a dance party at the end of the world with splashes of the Talking Heads mixed in.
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