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For 6,231 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: 4,729 out of 6231
  2. Mixed: 1,460 out of 6231
  3. Negative: 42 out of 6231
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vs. Children
    His craft here does have more to do with storytelling than it does with music making, but these haunting, desolate narratives are very much complemented by the lo-fi, repetitive, yet meditative backing tracks, which are ultimately presented like the lost soundtrack to a movie.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great White Sea Eagle
    By the time we reach final track A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing it’s noticeable how familiar the songs already seem to feel, a special quality that confirms the album to be significantly greater than the sum of its individual parts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    Of all of the guest-heavy Gorillaz albums, this is by some margin the leanest, meanest and grooviest set of the lot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crosseyed Heart
    It has a satisfyingly gritty texture, more stripped back than a Stones album, and reveals a surprising amount of vulnerable feeling underneath the gunslinger swagger.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    This is a band working at the very top of their game, and this album is a beautiful, brilliant beast.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Gangster
    Despite the intro being borrowed from the trailer to American Gangster it essentially reclaims the genre Shawn Carter helped to pioneer from the studio gangstas and plastic pimps that hip-pop is swamped with.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where Wilderness Grows
    It’s the sound of a band who have slowly taken the time to consider how their evolution should develop, and this deliberation has borne fruit. Wildness may well have grown, but for Gengahr, something rather more long-lasting may have also taken root.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In a Dim Light
    In A Dim Light is a wonderfully challenging, disorientating and immersive work.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sholi
    More than half of this album is mind-blowing, so it would be nice to leave Sholi with a brain buzzing with that same intrigue, confusion and happiness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wake Up!
    The songs in this collection serve for a timely reminder that hope and consciousness through music still contains some currency - with the added bonus that it's also a fine piece of work in its own right.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apocalypse
    Callahan is never anything less than consistent, however, and Apocalypse has an identity of its own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star-Crossed
    It’s not quite her Blood On The Tracks, but it’s a record that’s similarly compelling to listen to.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sleep Mountain
    Sleep Mountain, the second long-player from The Kissaway Trail, finds the Danish quintet embracing the more sweeping aspects of rock 'n' roll emotional grandeur. And, in large part, they succeed marvellously.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In My World
    It’s stupid fun, but In My World is also a surprisingly intelligent release with quite a few surprises.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They Want My Soul
    Altogether a belter of an album, then, as their reputation for consistency prevails once more.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Main Thing
    The Main Thing offers no grand statements, no needless experimentalism, no left-turns or tacky rebranding. It’s just Real Estate, doing their thing, and doing it better than anybody can do it, no matter how hard they try.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isla
    This is red wine music, no doubt about it, but red wine music for the discerning indie intelligentsia, perfect for a long night where the only ambition you've got left is to sink so far into the floor cushions that you'll never get up again.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Defenestration of St. Martin
    A moody yet romantic triumph, The Defenestration Of Saint Martin is far better than anyone could hope to expect from a long-dormant Britpop survivor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lease Of Life
    Lease Of Life succeeds in being every bit as bold and accomplished as its much touted predecessor.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Night, Still Light
    You can slice up its track-by-track constitution--a gently sung, interesting turn of phrase here, an evocative chord progression here--but it is a beautiful, haunting creature as a whole, and a poignant testament to the power of simplicity.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tell Tales
    The Cornshed Sisters display moments of Joni Mitchell's exquisite songcraft, the choral elegance of The Roches and witty buffoonery of John Grant amalgamating Tell Tales into its own refreshing niche in the ever-expanding folk cartel.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There Is a Way
    This is a fun indie pop record that will not change anyone's lives but will get you bouncing off walls very easily.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Di Da Di
    It’s a record that you have to take in as one complete whole. You’ll enjoy individual slices, but won’t be truly fulfilled unless you take a deep dive straight in and luxuriate in all its sonic weirdness and insane brilliance.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    Happily The Early Years’ renaissance has been well worth the wait, their second coming blossoming through music that frequently dazzles.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tones Of Town
    They're bright, breezy, accomplished and catchy, indie-pop at its best.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Pilgrim's Tale
    A Pilgrim’s Tale admirably tells of a fascinatingly swashbuckling adventure into history, but in shining a light on the fate of this people it contextualises how so often that history is authored by the victors.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stay Positive
    If you know what's good for you, however, you'll drink the whole album in, because intelligently constructed and musically thrilling records like this are a rare, rare find.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plumb
    Their end product is one of the freshest and most exciting guitar records since... well, since Field Music (Measure).
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ventura
    Every track is dripping with smooth chords, funk-influenced rhythms and a retro quality to the production, and is all the better for it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Step 2: A Different Kind of Human
    It is pop music for the future – unpredictable, forceful, winsome and primal in equal measure. As long as Aurora is allowed to keep her eyes wide open, the sky really is the limit for this powerful creative force.
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