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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Will Be Reborn
    It may be an album that’s been borne out of darkness, but as another Canadian wordsmith once sang, there’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. There are plenty of cracks here – the joyous bounce of Sometimes, or the calm optimism of the title track – to show that Wainwright herself may have been reborn from the personal trauma of the last few years.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Beautiful Revolution, Vol. 2
    Common raps with the calm contentment of a man who’s reached his destination, and it certainly sounds satisfying.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dissolve
    Those who have managed to adjust to the attention deficit techniques of FlyLo or Prefuse 73 should have little problem in embracing Lynn's new approach, particularly as it appears to have resulted in one of the best albums of the year so far.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music for People in Trouble
    Music For People In Trouble will perhaps be a surprise for those who came to Sundfør via her last album, but they won’t be disappointed. This is an album full of hidden depths, stark emotion, and most importantly, absolutely beautiful songs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Getting Into Knives
    With Getting Into Knives, The Mountain Goats provide us with a smorgasbord of robbed emotions and new, neon-backdropped friends – and we need it more now than ever.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pleasure
    It's one of the finer conversions of 2011, managing the delicate task of crafting a record that sounds both incomprehensibly universal, deeply personal, and, yes, endlessly listenable.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fever Dreams
    This is an album that demands to be properly listened to though, not reduced to background music – properly immerse yourself in Villagers’ Fever Dreams and it’s an experience you won’t want to wake up from.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Complete Me
    Complete Me is a clever, well crafted and painstakingly produced pop concoction that was well worth the numerous delays.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swords
    Morrissey's non-album material has traditionally been impeccable, but Swords is not complete in terms of extra material from the past decade. Nevertheless, taken only as a somehwat arbitrary collection of songs, Swords still excels.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glass Boys
    As usual there’s a lot of depth here and over time, more and more will be revealed. Glass Boys might not be as expansive as its predecessor, but it is no less impressive.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Y Dydd Olaf
    Despite the heavy topics, Gwenno brings a lightness of touch to everything on the album--her vocals are both light and breezy, and sometimes sound full of wonder, as if she can’t wait to explore this weird dysoptian future that she’s singing about.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Argument
    The Argument is a highly laudable effort--literary heads will enjoy its attempt at condensing the complexities of the epic poem, while many will take pleasure in the story Man’s downfall sounding so varied and tuneful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    re:member
    A winning combination of intricate, impeccable craftmanship and human warmth, Re:member is a record that further enhances Arnalds’ reputation as a truly modern composer, capable of scaling heights few of his contemporaries can match.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Okovi
    Sometimes it sounds bleak, sometimes it sounds glorious, but it’s in embracing the full gamut of life experience, as Zola Jesus does here that nothing becomes everything. The shackles might still be on, but this is the sound of an artist reveling in freedom.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now Or Whenever
    Now Or Whenever doesn’t feel like natural progression when held up against Moth Boys and earlier debut Enjoy It While It Lasts from 2012, but its ability to have you singing along in very little time at all is an impressive quality.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Acetate
    Black Acetate is in equal measures, serious and mocking, threatening and comforting, ambient and rowdy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kelly Lee Owens
    It’s credit to her that within the congested realm of electronic music her record stands proudly distinct, as it is both danceable and meditative music with genuine heart. And with that Kelly Lee Owens has made a more than promising debut.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PRE PLEASURE
    Jacklin has an uncanny knack for documenting her generation’s anxieties and issues, and wrapping them up in songs you’ll be humming for weeks. She is quite the talent, and going by Pre Pleasure, she’ll be around for quite some time to come.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King's Disease III
    Nas is not a perfect rapper in 2022 but the chemistry on King’s Disease III works well enough to paper over the shortcomings, leaving a focused, well-executed release.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fundamental
    Fundamental is the thinking person's electropop album of 2006 so far.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halcyon Digest
    Halcyon Digest is a triumph of multilayered nuance, and repeated listens reveal its genius buried just beyond the obvious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eve
    Eve is yet another record from Angelique Kidjo that reaffirms her position as one of the most significant Africans performing today, and is the sound of her reaching out and celebrating the strong spirit and power of African women that she embodies.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Better Dreaming
    Better Dreaming feels not so much like a reset, but as if they’ve rediscovered what made them such an exciting prospect in the first place. It’s resulted in the best Tune-Yards album for some time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ambivalence Avenue
    For his sense of structure and emotional give and take is acute, so that we move from loud to quiet, from slow to quite fast, from acoustic to electronic, with an ease that makes perfect sense.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eno Axis
    Nothing is overstated or overplayed and individual parts are delivered with a care and delicacy which sustains a sense of empathy and warmth. The arrangements are deft and adventurous, but never at the expense of a sense of space and a grounded quality in the music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TFCF
    TFCF might well be an Angus Andrew solo album under the Liars banner, but what he’s achieved here fits within the his band’s remit for consistently morphing and confounding expectation. More importantly, it’s heartening to see an album as intriguing as this emerge from such a traumatic time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Street Worms
    Street Worms is a fine example of how to subvert expectations, and it’s a fine example of how to do ‘punk’ in 2018.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vessels
    Whilst it might not reinvent the wheel, Vessels is a rewarding slice of indie rock with a pleasing amount of dark psycadelic twist.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baby 81
    Given it's gestation, it's fairly amazing that Baby 81 wasn't stillborn. To find it's kicking with such vigor is little short of remarkable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything in Between
    By the time the vocal duet and droning guitars of Chem Trails come around, you'll realise that this is the sound of a band who are going from strength to strength.
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