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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unseen
    All things considered, Unseen feels like a missed opportunity for The Handsome Family. It’s by no means a bad album and one established fans will undoubtedly enjoy, but essentially the band are on auto-pilot when it would have been great to hear them go up a gear.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    Although the songs on – never really rise above a mild trot, there’s still some musical variety.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Obscurities
    Whilst Obscurities has its moments, it mostly only offers tiny hints of Merritt's real genius.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Face of Mount Molehill
    Cowley has crafted a coherent, carefully planned suite of music here with a strong conceptual framework and a remarkably consistent sound.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kids in L.A.
    Kids In LA lays its cards on the table and, whilst at times too polished for its own good, it boasts enough songs to justify a few spins at least.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Candid
    This is a pleasant diversion for Whitney fans waiting for a follow-up to Forever Turned Around, and if it has the side-effect of directing people to the hitherto undiscovered treats of the likes of The Roches, Jurado and Moondog, then so much the better.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jungle Revolution
    Although there are plenty of adrenaline-infusing moments on Jungle Revolution, Congo Natty fails to keep up the momentum throughout
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    We the Generation
    There is nothing especially wrong with it, but it hits the middle ground all too easily, sounding like Home minus the guns-out anthems and the hands reaching for the sky.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reflection
    It’s maybe not something to play every day, but an ideal companion piece for when you’re feeling more contemplative than usual.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Sellout
    While there is plenty of soul in the sound, there is a lack of body in both delivery and melody.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    National Ransom
    Perhaps National Ransom is less a randomly selected almanac, and more a series of vignettes that could potentially have relevance to any particular time and space. Costello is, inventively, trying to make musical antiquarianism a radical pursuit.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Trouble with Fever
    Branch’s lyrical savvy and clear communication keep it well clear of the mundane, though you get the recurring impression that she is capable of taking a few more risks.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better Living
    As opening statements go, Better Living is comprehensive and, as a hardcore punk album, it is extremely successful.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Await Barbarians
    It may not be an album you’ll come back to again and again, but it shows off a refreshingly different side to Alexis Taylor.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ruff
    RUFF will win no prizes for compositional elegance, but it’s never boring.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Money and Celebrity
    While it contains a few filler songs, this is a fun album to listen to, bursting with irrepressible energy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blood Like Lemonade
    It's not an album that will change your life, but its airy grooves make for perfectly pleasant listening for under an hour. And sometimes, that's all you need.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Electronic Projects for Musicians
    There are admittedly a few throwaway one minute efforts dotted around the tracklist such as the piano and melodica-tinkle-tinged Thank You Very Much and The Oasis, but luckily the highlights far outweigh them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
    As a stand-alone piece, it is unremarkable, and even A Violent Sky--the beautiful and wistful closing track--can’t redeem it entirely.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Higher Truth
    Higher Truth may not quite reach the heights of his best work, but it ensures that Scream was no more than a blip in his solid back catalogue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Invisible Forces
    Invisible Forces is a deliberately minimal affair, as even formal notation is eschewed in favour of an intuitive musical journey, and if this makes the album repetitive it will surely still be put on repeat by fans of this sort of thing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Double Cup
    DJ Rashad indulges in his own tastes and viewpoints, ultimately creating an album’s worth of songs that are exciting on their own but exhausting and at times dull when listened to from start to finish.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trouble
    It hangs together well and the songs are decently written. But most listeners need something more, an undeniable quality that is completely unique to a band. A Unique Selling Point, if you will. Hospitality have not found theirs yet.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Love You, It's Cool
    Overall, I Love You, It's Cool is a solid, but unspectacular, return from Bear In Heaven.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wildewoman
    It’s pleasant enough, but there are not enough killer tunes to make this a standout.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Asiatisch
    There is still much to admire and enjoy, not least Al Qadiri’s pursuit of an individual, politicised, socially-conscious path that never lacks ambition or self-confidence.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Is Acting
    It could never be accused of lacking honesty, commitment or power--some achievement given the songs were not all for her--but at times you long for Sia just to take a step back, to bring a little bit of that Zero 7 calm back into the equation.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing to Do
    It's not a bad first album; it's just not a great one, either.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Great Divide
    Angst-rock is promised, but power-pop is ultimately delivered.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Endless River
    In the passing of time they’ve aged a bit, and though they can still intermittently move us with their thoughts, it is difficult to see anywhere they could go from here musically. It is the right time to go.
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