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For 6,228 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: 4,727 out of 6228
  2. Mixed: 1,459 out of 6228
  3. Negative: 42 out of 6228
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Object
    The lack of drums on large chunks of An Object initially gives the feeling that the album is lacking an anchor, but when the band explore the shimmering noise cosmos of closing track Commerce, Comment, Commence they sound expansive and exquisite, something that their more forthright punk approach can’t hope to achieve.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Small Murmuration
    While it’s a hard sell to recommend something like this in the middle of summer, those brave enough to embrace the darkness will find much to enjoy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drenge
    The album becomes more expansive in scope the further through you listen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This
    The album’s sense of propulsion is so strong even the weaker tracks don’t drag at all.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Versions
    These versions serve to highlight what we already knew, that Zola Jesus is a phenomenal talent. To have these songs reworked and in some cases made even more powerful than the original counterparts is testament to the skills and attention to detail of all those involved.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warp & Weft
    This is possibly her most satisfying album to date; it is, at times, quite spellbinding.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Absolute Zero
    The band’s ability to contrast their often dark lyrics with upbeat melodies ensures that there is much more to the record than first meets the eye and, while Little Green Cars may not be the finished article just yet, Absolute Zero proves they undoubtedly have bags of potential.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flourish // Perish
    It’s certainly a very different sort of album from Native Speaker, with far more emphasis on glitchy beats and ambient electronica than on their previous record, but after a few listens you can’t help but be impressed by the evolution on display.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Moon Tides
    It politely demands your attention; it wants to transport you elsewhere, to a place in which to daydream and reflect. Hindman and Versprille were absolutely right to go it alone; they’ve made a beautiful album.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Loud City Song
    It’s certainly Holter’s most accomplished and imaginative album--indeed, there hasn’t been an album this packed with ideas since tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l a couple of years ago.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perpetual Surrender
    This is a glacially beautiful album that you’ll do well to spend a lot of time with.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crimes of Passion
    Crimes Of Passion finds Crocodiles in scintillating form and is full of the kind of carefree rock that should make them more popular than they are.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skyer
    With Skyer, the Swedish trio have created their own dreamlike gossamer world where the exaltation to “take me to the clouds above” is almost realised.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 1
    Whether the second volume expands on this achievement is unlikely, but Thile now must be considered--along with Bela Fleck--as one of the contemporary masters of the mandolin, exercising his powers across multiple genres.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nepenthe
    While it may be a tremendously personal album for Barwick, you can get lost in Nepenthe for not only its sheer beauty, but for its ability to evoke visual cues and tell stories with its music.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Big TV
    It may not have the instant appeal of To Lose A Life, but the combination of the running narrative and a host of memorable hooks make it their most consistent record to date.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yes, It's True
    For their entire career, The Polyphonic Spree have succeeded not necessarily when they’ve sounded big, but when they’ve been the leader of the pack of the weird. Many of the tracks on Yes, It’s True suggest that the band is thankfully moving back in that direction.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paracosm
    Overall, Paracosm is an impressive return from an artist who is still learning his trade.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Civil Wars
    The lasting sense left is of an unexplored potential which, if this is it for The Civil Wars, could be in its own messy way an appropriate swansong.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tides End
    The problem with Tides End as a whole is that it all sounds a bit like a blander, toned-down version of every electro-rock album released in the late Noughties, and unfortunately for Minks, five years isn’t long enough for people to get nostalgic about a certain sound.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Personal Appeal
    Overall, however, when listening to Personal Appeal--a tremendously satisfying listen nonetheless--you wonder what a Moore record might sound like if he took some time to plan or tweak his musical ideas.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Blind Hole
    Although the majority of the songs only hang around for a minute, Dead In The Dirt are quite adept at changing tack mid song, no matter how ridiculous it might be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bloodlines
    It requires a few listens to grasp but after that it’s pretty rewarding.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Swisher
    There is a sense that perhaps Swisher is Blondes pushing their oblique take on dance culture by way of rhythmic experimentation as far as it can go, but there’s no doubt that where they have taken it is to an entirely new and sublime level.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Journey
    Amazingly, 14 years since their last studio album, the clock has been turned back and Big Country have produced an album on a par with some of their earlier work, probably surpassing 1988’s Peace In Our Time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hobo Rocket
    The prolificacy is undoubted, and at times the quality is unequivocally intriguing. But with the tendency to occasionally experiment and deviate, consistency is not forthcoming; that said, when Pond hit the right notes they soar.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sleep of Reason
    Raffertie’s talent as a producer has never been in question. Sleep Of Reason has been a long time coming, but these 13 pieces of fractured soul represent a supreme triumph.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Samaris
    As two stuck-together EPs, then, perhaps the set might be taken better as a promising if flawed articulation of a vision yet to fully flower.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where the Heaven Are We
    While Where The Heaven Are We isn’t a perfect debut album, it’s a solid effort, and there’s enough talent on display to hint at even better things to come.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lenses
    Ultimately, Lenses is a masterly album and Soft Metals’ brand of inventive, ghostly electro is a welcome break from the flood of brainless EDM that’s cluttering up airwaves and dancefloors everywhere at the moment.
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