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For 6,229 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: 4,728 out of 6229
  2. Mixed: 1,459 out of 6229
  3. Negative: 42 out of 6229
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Swim
    For a dance music album, Swim sounds not only refreshingly organic, but also remarkably downbeat. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is the way that Caribou have succeeded in marrying up these two things and still managed to make an album that is infused with a rhythm, a groove and a watery loveliness all of its own.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grinderman
    This being Cave, classy lyrical dexterity is never far away. But here the fire and brimstone preacher is a little less po-faced than much of his back catalogue, allowing humour (still black as coal) to gain the upper hand.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hopelessness
    It’s a strange album that is melodically approachable, but lyrically draining.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
    It feels like the deepest and most soulful album she has made.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chatma
    Chatma never feels like any kind of compromise, and the presence of Tinariwen singer Wonou Walet Sidati adds a new dimension to the music, one that sometimes threatens to overpower Ousmane Ag Mossa’s less imposing vocal presence.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blackbirds
    With Blackbirds poignantly beautiful in many places, it may just be the one to do so.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luck and Strange
    Luck and Strange is an elusive album, gradually revealing its secrets with repeated listens.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clockdust
    Everything seems to hang together in its own peculiar way, to deliver an overall experience that’s unfailingly interesting, although perhaps ultimately lacking the truly special, standout ingredients needed to elevate Webb’s solo work to the kind of rarefied levels he helped Talk Talk achieve.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Expert in a Dying Field
    Expert In A Dying Field is the sound of a band going from strength to strength.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Lies
    A signature sound is all well and good, but in the future the duo would benefit from indulging their inventive side more.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Noise
    This is a special album, make no doubt about it, casting its spell as it makes both a moving memorial and an example of raw talent. If techno with a soul is what you're after, then look no further than this.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    Their first album was one of the strongest debuts in recent memory and this is an equally impressive follow-up.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    SVIIB
    If this is to be the band’s swansong, they’ve left behind something timeless and quite beautiful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Visiter
    This is an album that definitely deserves your interest, one of the best that New Weird America has thrown across the Atlantic in a long, long time.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miri
    Whilst Miri may not have the insistence and urgency of its most recent predecessors, it has a consistently high standard of musicianship and a depth, maturity, subtlety and insight that rewards repeated listening. It is a beautiful collection of music rooted in place, culture, history and ideas.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Bath Full of Ecstasy
    A Bath Full Of Ecstasy might be a somewhat eccentric name, but it ultimately does sum the album up rather well (assuming it means the abstract emotion rather than literal pills stacked up in a bathtub): a lush, adventurous experience, immersive and refreshing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Came from Love
    It is a cohesive musical statement in spite of its length. His first-hand experiences mean Okumu’s sonorous tones carry powerful messages, in what is one of his finest musical achievements to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    God's Favorite Customer
    God’s Favorite Customer is the next chapter to Honeybear: the story of the hedonistic shroom-addled Hollywood waster who fell in love and started to grow up, even if the occasional pelvic thrust, sardonically raised eyebrow or over-dramatic fall to the floor wouldn’t go amiss.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For the First Time
    Black Country, New Road are no gods, but this inventive and likeable album should earn them a million or so disciples.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We're New Here
    So from no albums in 13 years to two high quality long players in the space of six months - the star of Gil Scott-Heron is very much in the ascendency again, his influence on today's culture thrown into ever greater relevance by one of its finest new producers. It's that rare thing--a properly fine remix album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Boy Named If
    None of this will come as any surprise to seasoned Costello watchers – indeed, it could be argued he’s been on a creative purple patch since 2018’s Look Now. For those who thought that age may have dimmed the fire that’s always been Costello’s trademark, A Boy Named If is proof positive that the opposite is true.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nikki Nack
    At times, there seems to be almost too much to process in Nikki Nack, and it’s true that this is certainly an album that repays multiple listens and complete immersion. That immersion will pay dividends, for Merrill Garbus has produced yet another deftly thrilling listen.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Songs of Praise
    Songs Of Praise distils the best features of classic British alternative music into a vital band passionate to enervate, communicate and entertain.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wall of Eyes
    It may only be eight tracks long, but each song contains so much invention and ideas that repeated listens bring their own rewards. As the seemingly interminable wait for a new Radiohead album goes on, The Smile are making music that, at times, is equally extraordinary.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soused
    There are numerous highlights to be found across these songs but Herod 2014 and Fetish stand out in particular.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Age Of
    Daniel Lopatin’s eighth album as Oneohtrix Point Never finds him splitting the difference between the synth-based abstraction of his previous albums and a more visceral, abrasive style. While neither of these are bad templates to work from per se, the result is an album that doesn’t know what it wants to be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
    It has a daft title, and a few daft songs with hammy lyrics. It has variety, diversity and its heart on its sleeve. It has pretence, artifice and ambition. It has, basically, everything.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forevher
    Forevher is the sound of a woman happy, in love, and going from strength to strength as a songwriter.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Long Goodbye
    The Long Goodbye is a fiery yet thoughtful and nuanced record, with artistry and political consciousness on a level above most British rap.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Futurology
    Every track is quite full of life and holds no lack of energy that characterizes good, classic British rock ‘n’ roll.
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