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For 6,244 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Prioritise Pleasure
Lowest review score: 0 Fortune
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,741 out of 6244
  2. Mixed: 1,461 out of 6244
  3. Negative: 42 out of 6244
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Castle Park
    Coxon’s voice is a bit of an acquired taste – when he takes the lead on a Blur track it’s a welcome diversion, but over the course of a full album it can become a bit grating. However the songs are strong enough to overcome this for the most part: it may have taken the best part of 15 years to see the light of day, but Castle Park has been worth waiting for.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    in grief or in hope
    This is by no means an easy listen, but it is one of the strangest and most honest helping hands you’re likely to encounter.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
    By moving away from the revenge songs of her earlier years and musically dissecting a relationship, she’s produced a break-up album to stand alongside Lorde‘s Melodrama and Swift’s own Red. Where she goes from here is an exciting prospect.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aurora
    This is an enjoyable addition to the lengthiest of rock canons – respectful of its past yet mindful of its future.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tell Me It's A Dream
    An album that marks out Rosa Walton as a name to be reckoned with, and if Let’s Eat Grandma’s hiatus lasts longer than expected, we’ll still have a steady supply of glorious alt-pop songs for some time to come.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Built You A Tower
    Gibbard’s emotional travails over the past few years certainly seem to have reinvigorated the band. In fact, it’s produced what may be the band’s best album since Plans. A much welcome return to form.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    BITCH
    There are occasional glimpses of what made Lizzo so great just a few years ago, but Bitch continually falls flat.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Philadelphia's been good to me
    It’s simply another reliably reassuring chapter in Kurt Vile’s career.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter
    It’s Album of the Year, just 19 years too late.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Boys Of Dungeon Lane
    By the time you get to the lushly orchestrated ballad Momma Gets By which closes the album, you’ll want to go straight back to the start to experience it again.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Inferno
    It’s an incredible journey – one of their most evocative, ambitious and rewarding yet.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Morpho
    An enchanting album whose colours are as bright and as striking as the butterfly after which it is named. It is a deeply affecting and ultimately uplifting piece of work.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    388
    It’s one of the most immediate and accessible albums The Coral have released to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nine Inch Noize
    When it works, it really works. .... The main issue is summed up neatly on one of the album’s weaker tracks, Copy Of A, and its line “everything I say has come before”: this collaboration might add a bit of spit and shine to songs that in their original forms have been deliberately coated in filth, but there’s nothing new here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Stories
    American Stories certainly sees Rostam coming out of his comfort zone and the safety of the studio to produce a work that is both personal and political. If it sometimes feels a bit too light, there’s no denying the craftsmanship on display.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Loud Bloom
    Diva Cruz, the Colombian percussionist and MC, brings a carnival atmosphere that is hard to resist. It’s in these collaborative works that Dreijer really strikes gold on Loud Bloom, the mix of influences and sounds giving a global feel and celebratory energy to the early parts of the album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Musick
    Their transformation into a Eurodisco powerhouse may come as a shock, and at times it’s like being repeatedly punched in the face by The Village People and Simon Cowell, but beneath the surface lies an album rich in ideas and social commentary.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    American Football (LP4)
    This might well be American Football’s finest moment to date. It’s certainly not an easy listen; at times it’s harrowing, emotionally ambiguous and petulant. But sometimes you need to reach hell in order to create something truly significant.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Afterparty
    As the last dance at The Afterparty it’s a pretty effective one. If this is to be Lykke Li’s final album, she’s going out on her own terms – a masterful, if rather short, distillation of late night sadness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Look For Your Mind!
    At their best, they’re untouchably brilliant but on this outing they haven’t quite been able to maintain the elevated standard established early on over the course of the full album. Still, for fans of melodically charged guitar-pop there’s much to enjoy here.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remember The Humans
    There may not be a track that grabs you by the scruff of the neck like 7/4 (Shoreline), but Remember The Humans reminds us that on the rare occasions that Broken Social Scene release a record, it remains a moment to be treasured.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Train On The Island
    Venus In The Zinnia is an engaging duet with Welsh musician and kindred spirit H. Hawkline. A lot of the other songs may be less immediate but still have their strengths.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sweat
    There are flashes of those ’90s rave glory days, but at its core this is a record built for a very different kind of dancefloor. More than anything, it’s a celebration of resilience, and the sound of Mel C continuing to carve out her own identity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Times Of Dragons
    It’s certainly not a record to dip in and out of – this is, without a doubt, an album to listen to in the dark with your finest pair of headphones – but those who devote the time to it will be richly rewarded.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Your Favorite Toy
    There’s some filler – If You Only Knew and Window come across as a bit anonymous compared to the more ferocious tracks such as the title track or the almost feral-sounding Spit Shine. Yet, for the most part, Your Favorite Toy sounds like a band with a renewed sense of purpose, and one that is ready to use the pain of the last few years as an inspiration.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    FENIAN
    A record which is dense, musically adventurous and arguably one of the more important albums to be released this year. It’s also a record that proves that there’s more to the trio than tabloid outrage and overblown headlines.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romanticize The Dive
    Throughout, there are salient reminders that Metric, despite never quite breaking big commercially, are experts in writing a memorable tune.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Superbloom
    The strutting No Consequences and the triumphant closing number of Mon Amour end the album on a high, and surely ensure Superbloom’s status as one of the albums of the year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life Slime
    It’s the sort of album that can provide a soothing balm to a bruised soul – by the time the theatrical, fuzz-drenched melodies of Werewolf Ending bring Life Slime to a close, you may well be converted to the healing properties of goo and gunge yourself.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cruel World
    It succeeds by flirting with polished pop sheen while also remaining grounded in bedroom pop roots. It may be a cruel world, but Humberstone’s songs make living in it far more enjoyable.
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