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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The High Country
    An immaculately told doomed love story with such an evocative quality that you can almost smell the rain on the logs, The High Country is an album in which to immerse yourself.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nature Experiments
    The Big Sleep have presented a collection of often excellent songs of real substance, making for an album that warrants, for the most part, unmitigated attention; preferably through some decent speakers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sun Midnight Sun
    Overall this disc is a well-made breeze of strong songs and great playing, but the moments of fence-sitting hold it back.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Era
    With a bit more definition, a bit more purpose and just a bit more consistency you wonder if it could have been great.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Return
    Overall The Return is a vital addition to both the budding career of Kamaal Williams, and to modern jazz as a whole.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    hej!
    It is a hodgepodge of tracks, seemingly made with little thought to how they will all sound in sequence, and because of this it doesn’t have much more consistency than an eclectic music collection on shuffle. Which is a shame, because there are good ideas here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ur Fun
    UR Fun is one of those albums which will delight their fans, and probably not make too much of an impression outside the fanbase. What this album shows is that Barnes and his band are still capable of providing a soundtrack to the best party you’ll never be invited to.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Babes Never Die
    This album sounds brighter than its predecessor, more refined, sharply focused and coherent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Romance
    There’s much to enjoy on True Romance, although it’s probably best sampled in small doses as it doesn’t hang together that successfully over the course of an album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Machetes
    They've come a million miles from their earlier recordings.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Algiers
    Endlessly listenable and beautifully performed, Algiers is another fine entry into this dependably excellent band's catalogue.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cellar Door
    Throughout the Boys do their best to beckon in some Mediterranean temperatures, and because of their easy going nature and reluctance to force things, they comfortably succeed, creating some blissful but effortlessly funky music for sultry summer listening.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blood Pressures
    It's an album that deserves the limelight, regardless of how it got there.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Move in Spectrums
    Move In Spectrums is a very good record but it’s not a great one. The reason for this is quite simple: the album is lacking the one absolute killer track that would elevate the album to a higher status.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Do It Again
    Do It Again isn’t as downright amazing as it could have been, but there are far more pros than cons.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Neon
    The album may not carry the sort of dance-fused electro-pop magnificence they’ve made before, but moving away from the more ‘expected’ type of pop song you think of when Erasure crops up in conversation seems to have worked wonders.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slime & Reason
    This being Roots Manuva there's a lyrical gem in pretty much each song - and this being Roots Manuva, a lot of them are intensely personal observations.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seer
    All in all, Seer is an amazing addition to the impeccable Thrill Jockey canon, even if Alexander Tucker still sits atop his glittering throne at the apex of Thrill Jockey’s recorded output, unchallenged by great but not life-changing records like this.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fate & Alcohol
    Ten tracks which are probably the distillation of what Japandroids are all about. It’s a noisy yet tuneful swansong, full of fierce guitar chords, pummelling drums and songs about seedy downtown bars and hard-partying women.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everyday Robots
    It’ll take some time to get to grips with, and requires input--this isn’t a passive album--but you reap what you sow, and if you take enough time with Everyday Robots, you’ll be rewarded with a dazzling LP that’ll lodge itself in your mind from now until your last breath.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lustre
    Despite its promising start, the album sags in the middle with Harcourt indulging, not for the first time, his love of Tom Waits.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven Is Whenever
    Their loud, rough and tumble early efforts on Almost Killed Me and Separation Sunday have combined nicely here with a sense of southern rock and pop rock from the past few albums to produce another gem for an amazingly consistent band with plenty of room left to grow.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unearth
    the samples-led, organic electronica here may produce intriguing textures--and Phillips' background as a soundtrack composer is never in doubt--but it is hard work to find anything approaching coherence here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ilp.
    Where an artist as eclectic and unpredictable as this might go next is anybody’s guess, but on the basis of this quietly spectacular album, it’s likely that listeners will be more than happy to follow him into the unknown.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In Mind
    nge. Lesser bands may have gone off the rails, but Courtney and company have responded by making the best album of their career to date.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ceremonials
    It's bigger, brighter and braver than what went before, and should elevate Florence even higher, with her Machine shoulder to shoulder.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transit Transit
    Transit Transit is a very idea-focused album, with each track a structure whose foundation lies in a very specific sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sea of Memories
    It's an accomplished release which, while throwing the occasional nod to other artists of the same genre (M83, Saint Etienne), nonetheless maintains a sense of uniqueness and identity that remains prevalent throughout its duration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leaving Meaning.
    Gira’s ability to look at the world and show us how terrifying it is continues to reap rewards. It might not throughout be what we’ve come to expect from Swans, but it is decidedly relevant.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Morning Jacket
    It seems to capture their essence better than its predecessors. Whilst the effect is rather eclectic, covering several of their bases, and with its existence being a little surprising after recent years’ events that pointed to their departure as a collective, it’s a welcome return.
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