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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bubblegum
    Bubblegum is unlikely to see Clinic rocket to mainstream notoriety all of a sudden, but they'll continue to be one of indie's best known secrets.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghostory
    Ghostory, rather than resting on the laurels of the band's successful sound up to this point, adds a harder edge to the rhythm and consciously moves on a step.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time
    Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time is a rich and literate album, which inspires conversation and debate.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Embrace
    Sleepy Sun have managed to come up with an album that is beautifully entrancing, and doesn't encourage the listener to go to sleep before the mid point.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Now
    What Now is sometimes not an easy listen, but it’s certainly a thrilling and restless journey. Looking at how Howard has evolved from her early days with Alabama Shakes, a more appropriate title for this collection could have been What Next – as whatever does come next is likely to be intriguing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Infinite Moment
    A thoroughly engaging addition to Willner’s already enviable discography.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Covers
    The adoption of low energy, skeletal electronic instrumentation serves to shine a light on her often brittle and vocoder cloaked vocals. A sensation of emotional fatigue circles above proceedings, as the music elicits the haunting effect that this ongoing lack of human intimacy is having on all of our psyches.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost Domain
    Lost Domain acts as both a lovely tribute to Wheeler’s father, and further confirmation of his talent as a songwriter.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Traumazine
    Traumazine is a success in its own right, solidifying her position amongst rap’s big stars of the 2020s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Americana
    Americana is consistently melodic and witty, even if its mellowness sometimes verges on the sedate so that you fancy a burst of garage-guitar power chords from “baby brother” Dave to fire things up a bit. It’s an impressive comeback.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Muchacho
    Houck’s sixth full-length album takes the mournful country-rock seemingly perfected on Here’s To Taking Things Easy and runs with it, creating his most realised record yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
    In a decade dominated by rappers who obsess about their cars, clothes and women, it's nice to be reminded that MCA, Mike D and Ad-Rock are still out there, keeping it fun despite all the haters.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shrink Dust
    It takes you on something of a journey, veering from country to garage rock to something almost literally out-of-this-world.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nootropics
    If you're willing to put the effort in, then you will be rewarded with an achingly beautiful and immersive album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ...And Then We Saw Land
    The result is a real evolution for Tunng, producing their most consistent and fully rounded album yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alegrias
    Since Gelb started working mainly as a solo artist, these collaborations have arguably been his strongest, most convincing works. His collaborators have provided challenging but appropriate accompaniments for his florid musings.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evening of New York Songs and Stories [Live]
    Cafe Carlyle is the perfect venue for Vega, a small, bohemian and glamorous venue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and this fitting tribute to New York praising its riches, uncovering its faults and exploring its tragedy is as beguiling and incredible as Vega herself.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are brave to make something so gentle, natural and unguarded. They’ve managed to strive for an ideal informed by a real sense of pragmatism, and in the process, they’ve made one of the warmest, good-hearted records of the year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    E-MO-TION
    Emotion succeeds on its own terms, arguably remaining truer to the spirit of the era, not to mention Jepsen’s stated aim of taking the time to craft an album rather than rushing to cash in on a YouTube sensation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Prism
    Prism gives The Orb a youthful complexion, its heady brew of musical ambience, songwriting substance and sample-based humour bringing a hefty dose of positivity. Strongly recommended.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    A fun, varied and defiantly old-school record which is pure Coldcut.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scatterbrain
    Rarely straying into alien territory, the Dunedin quintet remains as restless and decorous as ever on Scatterbrain, proving that even the unsteadiest of minds can achieve greatness again and again.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daphne & Celeste Save the World
    Musically, Tundra’s invention is everywhere. Paint Can employs ultra high-speed chord changes and sudden tempo lurches, Golden Doldrum is an inside-out and back to front bit of burbling robot pop, and recent single Alarms is O Superman turned banger, with rhythms crossing rhythms.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life After Defo
    Life After Defo is both complex and accessible, intricate and immediate.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music from Republik der Wölfe
    The music and the narrative are excellently executed by four top-rate professionals who’ve got your respect (and attention) by earning it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Voice of Ages
    If its purpose is to celebrate the traditional Irish music that The Chieftains have played for half a century, note their influence and even open them up to new audiences, it does exactly that.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Noise
    As an example of Boris at their best, it’s hard to top, but this is an album that finds the band in particularly rude health. Noise never sounded so good.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Ghosts Go Ghost
    With My Ghosts Go Ghost they show real creative verve and re-affirm their position within the scene.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Art Angels
    Boucher’s pleasingly scattergun approach means that it doesn’t hold together as a fully coherent album. Yet after a couple of plays, the weird and wonderful world of Grimes soon starts to seep into you, and soon you won’t be able to imagine an ‘albums of the year’ article without this being on it--no matter what the sleeve looks like.
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