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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Paradigmes
    Paradigmes is an album that, whilst recalling a concession of progenitors, has no modern-day comparison.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Post Tropical
    The musical evolution McMorrow has shown on this record will hopefully expand his audience across genres.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Total Life Forever
    In broadening their horizons they've not sacrificed quality, every note and sound is perfectly executed. Foals have made impressive strides forward, and you'd be mad not to follow them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impermanence
    Impermanence might have started out as a personal project, and it is an economical record consisting of six minimalist tracks, but self and city both run through it, giving a great sense of scale and scope.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metronomy Forever
    This is peak Metronomy, Mount and his charges at the top of the game as they move with pop music’s ever-evolving sound.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hunting My Dress
    It's far more fun, however, to sit back and appreciate the album as the dawning of a new, unique voice which, through its influences (both obvious and not-so), is blending styles and carving a niche in to the increasingly crowded canon of independent and original female artists.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Holding Hands With Jamie
    Girl Band possess enormous potential and big, big things look to be lying just around the corner for the Dubliners. Whilst this often only remains as potential for this first step, Holding Hands With Jamie is a refreshing change and welcome one-fingered salute to the mundane and safe rock music of today.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Raskit
    As well as this angrier, more focused lyrical approach, some of the arrangements on Raskit are pleasingly minimal.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Diptych
    No longer clogged with the skyrocketing phosphorescent noise of yore, Growing’s agile and insular sound has permeated into a fugitive multidimensional fog, more muted than clamorous and constantly adrift on the faintest of prayers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Big Picture
    We may not know the full detail behind each song but simply being drawn into her world and sharing in the healing process ensures Big Picture provides a cathartic experience that few other albums will match this year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
    Its inviting atmosphere, the beautiful playing and gorgeous harmonies make for an approachable, if not wholly accessible, record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sound the Alarm
    Overall, Sound The Alarm is an experiment that sometimes wildly succeeds, sometimes pleases, sometimes bores, and sometimes crashes and burns.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Until the Colours Run
    This is a gloriously atmospheric second album from a band who will surely soon be as lauded and acclaimed as their better-known labelmates.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil You Know
    This is punk music delivered with a righteous feminine fury.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Love Invention
    The Love Invention wades into territory more mainstream than even Supernature, slotting merrily between Murphy’s recent output and Kylie Minogue‘s return to her Disco best, and succeeds very well in creating stylish, louche, mature bops. In so doing, it unquestionably establishes Alison Goldfrapp as a solo force.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Boy King
    After the crossroads moment that was Present Tense, Boy King is undoubtedly a powerful statement of intent from a talented, ambitious group of musicians clearly keen to explore new and bold territory. Yet by making this call, they have also sacrificed some of the crucial nuances that made Wild Beasts stand out from their peers in the first place.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kollaps Tradixionales
    Kollaps Tradixionales is an outstanding album that competes with anything the band has done previously under its various monikers. It's early in the year to be predicting albums of 2010, but this will surely be up there.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nothing Important
    He’s crafted something braver, harder, and worth a spin. White paintings be damned.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nature
    It’s been seven years in coming, but Nature has most definitely been worth the wait.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hey U x
    It’s an album that’s full of poise and confidence, which bodes well for her future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suicide Songs
    While the pudding is occasionally over-egged, in general this is a work of great individuality and poise that should increase MONEY’s currency as one of the best young British bands to emerge in recent years.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heartbreaking Bravery
    Minor rants notwithstanding, Heartbreaking Bravery is a decent album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Change Becomes Us
    In parts, it’s just as absorbing as anything they’ve released.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    'Em Are I
    'Em Are I is an abandoned puppy of an album that you can't help but take to heart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dry Food
    Dry Food approaches the subject from a different angle to the tried-and-killed solo artist template of acoustic guitar plus deserted cabin with nothing but a glove puppet for company.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Storm Queen
    It’s probably not the sort of album to cosy up with – there’s so much emotion pouring out of Cummings’ vocals that it may all become a bit much for some listeners. Yet it’s astonishing that this is just her second album – there’s more poise and talent on display on Storm Queen than in artists with twice her career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Made In The Dark
    Whilst this isn't the album many may have expected, it should match their hopes in a different and, ultimately, fulfilling way.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Frank
    Frank is a superb debut album that announces Amy Winehouse as a major young talent. With hardly any weak tracks on here, it's frightening to think what she could produce in the years to come.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vermont
    This is an antidote to both Plessow and Worgull’s respective day jobs and the way they craft their soundscapes is admirable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Welfare Jazz
    The sound on Welfare Jazz may be more of the same glam-phetamine trash disko bomp that made the first record so distinctive – a ramshackle wad of low-end guitars that spit and burn like chip pan fires and boisterous oft intoxicated vocals with a surplus of undulating sax – but there’s something else that’s been added to their arsenal, something that was hiding in plain sight all along. The protagonist of these songs may not be all that apologetic as he pontificates of his transgressions, but he is at least man enough to put his grubby hands up and forewarn friends and lovers that he’s a little damaged. It’s a good start.
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