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For 1,700 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% 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 Yellow & Green
Lowest review score: 20 What The...
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,201 out of 1700
  2. Mixed: 488 out of 1700
  3. Negative: 11 out of 1700
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fortitude
    This is an important album, not only because it extends Gojira’s palette and cements their place as one of metal’s most skilled and uncompromising bands. They’re also one of the most inspiring as they call for strength, for action and above all for fortitude.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Band of Joy
    An album of blues covers that's beautifully mellow and endearingly warm. [25 Sep 2010, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bad Magic
    Bad Magic is proof that Motorhead remain the greatest rock'n'roll band on God's scorched Earth. [29 Aug 2015, p.50]
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      • Posted Aug 27, 2015
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breakin' Outta Hell
    It finds them rocking even harder than usual. [1 Oct 2016, p.51]
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      • Posted Oct 12, 2016
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    For Those That Wish to Exist
    Through all this existential and unremitting bleakness, the music is vital and vibrant, using a broader palette and brighter colours than they’ve ever used before.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everest
    Everest remains Halestorm, yes, but in dazzlingly diverting ways that are gonna take you time and several plays to appreciate properly.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Slang
    American Slang stands on its own two feet with eyes fixed on new horizons, its chief architect focused less on history, more on his story, as he tries to make sense of new realities after his world has been turned upside down. [12 Jun 2010, p.50]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death Hilarious
    There are certainly moments here where what Pigs… provide is primarily big, dumb fun. But Death Hilarious also finds them thoroughly exploring their sonic and emotional range, the result an album which digs its hooks in deeper than ever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Precious Art
    This is the release that finally sees the band hit their songwriting stride. [1 Jul 2017, p.53]
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      • Posted Jul 5, 2017
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SAVED!
    As ever, SAVED! is a genuinely haunting record from an artist whose emotional articulacy is unlike any other. Creatively, it is an inspired idea, carried off by a unique talent.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    After the Party
    [An] excitable, artistically emphatic album. [28 Jan 2017, p.51]
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      • Posted Feb 1, 2017
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Football (LP3)
    American Football have matured, but what remains unchanged is their ability to gently tug the heartstrings. [23 Mar 2019, p.55]
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      • Posted Mar 21, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Book of Souls
    The Book Of Souls is an album of extraordinary vision. [5 Sep 2015, p.50]
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      • Posted Sep 2, 2015
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Serpent's Teeth
    It's a great thrash record, not the jokey novelty of the genre's boom, as stainless, hard-edged. aggressive metal album that would be just as deadly were it from 2011, or 1986. [24 Sep 2011, p.51]
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      • Posted Nov 1, 2011
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beloved
    IKTPQ have avoided the cliches that could've crippled their return. Instead, they've proved metalcore is still worth getting excited about. [1 Feb 2014, p.53]
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      • Posted Mar 11, 2014
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Wait Up
    [A] shattering farewell LP. [10 May 2014, p.53]
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      • Posted Jun 12, 2014
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Hands
    The only thing you can be sure of with Two Hands is to expect the unexpected. [11 Apr 2015, p.53]
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      • Posted Apr 13, 2015
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kentucky
    As a whole, this is BSC's dirtiest, heaviest outing yet. [27 Mar 2016, p.51]
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      • Posted Mar 30, 2016
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wake in Fright
    A constantly-evolving monster of a record. [21 Jan 2017, p.52]
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      • Posted Jan 25, 2017
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Incessant
    The Incessant is an enraged punk album with the occasional sombre stupor slinked within. [18 Feb 2017, p.54]
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      • Posted Feb 22, 2017
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Admission
    There are numerous peaks on what might be Torche's finest album since 2008's Meanderthal. [20 Jul 2019, p.58]
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      • Posted Jul 17, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Loneliness
    Wild Loneliness is the fourth and best album Superchunk have recorded since returning to active service in 2010, and even stacks up next to classics from earlier in their career such as Here’s Where The Strings Come In or No Pocky For Kitty.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evergreen
    As usual, PVRIS demonstrates the value of existing in the spaces between genres, and that moments of combination and contrast are often the most exciting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
    The Texans still sound like a band capable of stealing hearts forever. [1 Feb 2020, p.55]
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      • Posted Feb 4, 2020
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You're Nothing
    Album number two towers over its predecessor.... There's beauty within these snapshots of frenzy where there was once just void. [16 Feb 2013, p.52]
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      • Posted Mar 6, 2013
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jasta
    The frontman himself proves he can actually sing in places but there's also a full quota of lung-bursting, chest-beating hardcore to remind us who this is and prevent things from ever straying too far afield. [23 Jul 2011, p.51]
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      • Posted Aug 2, 2011
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Risk Behaviour
    If you’re looking for a short, fun thrill from a gang of likeable oiks with all the grace of a one-legged camel, talk to The Chats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
    Ultimately, this album is a promise that as brilliantly beguiling as Chelsea Wolfe has always been, her big picture is still coming into focus.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spiral in a Straight Line
    There are a couple of marvellous moments – namely the shapeshifting Mezzanine and the agonising regret of Finalist – but often Spiral In A Straight Line settles into itself too much.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
    While bleakness is certainly prominent throughout, this album has many different shades and it is these contrasts that make it so vital. It's an album that bursts with ambition, and that Bring Me The Horizon pull it off so powerfully further confirms their greatness. [25 Sep 2010, p.50]
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