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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Island Universe
    Island Universe is a reassuringly confident and energetic album, and suggests a band with enough promise to make even stronger bodies of work in the future.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Happiness Waltz
    The Happiness Waltz may not be the most exciting record you’ll hear this year, but it does exactly what it says on the tin.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Chromatisms
    Hobba’s songwriting is simply not up to par: melody, lyric, and arrangement come off like caricatures of their desired styles; it seems often that in an attempt to replicate the feel of a classic rock song, all of the fun is lost.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Colored Emotions
    The band crafts incredibly tight arrangements of complex, space-age country rock songs that require patience, vision, and time to create. Often, this approach is impressive. And, frankly, it is not always successful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All Hail Bright Futures
    Admittedly there’s no new ground being discovered here in a wider sense (fans of Foals and Battles will be particularly unsurprised) but this sheer enthusiasm that runs throughout the album is really pretty infectious.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ensemble Pearl
    There’s a definite ambiguity in these songs that means that it is possible to find both the beauty and the beast depending upon how they are approached.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strike Gently
    While many of those who fell in love with The Virgins the first time around may be put off by the absence of addictive indie-disco hits, Strike Gently is a quite remarkable, and effortlessly crafted, reinvention.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Chronicles of Marnia
    At just over half an hour, it’s a short, sharp shock to the system which contains some of Stern’s best songs to date.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    JT has again done a fine job here. The 20/20 Experience shows the pop album isn’t dead.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Specter at the Feast
    They have made a patchy record that’s very much intended for loyal followers who have completely bought into their long established aesthetic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Water on Mars
    Water On Mars is a very impressive rock LP that easily takes Polizze and Purling Hiss to another level and bears comparison to the best of the nation’s numerous indie rock luminaries.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    If You Leave
    Heavy it most certainly is, but Daughter succeed simply by creating phenomenally beautiful music and heart-rending songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wondrous Bughouse
    The density of its production and the slipperiness of its song structures ensures that this album isn’t for everyone. But for those with a high tolerance for psychedelic whimsy and the time to invest in repeated listens, Wondrous Bughouse offers ample pleasures.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
    As a stand-alone piece, it is unremarkable, and even A Violent Sky--the beautiful and wistful closing track--can’t redeem it entirely.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Birthdays
    An often spectacular document of pain, no doubt, but it remains a record to admire rather than invest in, turning you away with its bleakness when it promises comfort
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pearl Mystic
    It’s to their huge credit that they have made such an assured and immersive album on their own terms.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Big Other
    Ultimately, Fiction have all the ingredients to work, but they don’t click together as much as they should on The Big Other.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Miami
    Miami frustrates and falls well short in terms of capturing hearts as readily as it will minds.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Invisible Way
    There’s a majestic soulfulness here too that makes The Invisible Way one of their strongest, most coherent works.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bloodsports
    Much of it feels like pastiche, albeit of an often very entertaining sort.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life After Defo
    Life After Defo is both complex and accessible, intricate and immediate.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tooth & Nail
    It features some undeniably strong songs but is lacking a vitality which would make it a convincing listen. Nonetheless, it’s fascinating in its own way.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Now I Am Winter
    Sometimes the sound can appear overly clean, but on the whole Arnalds makes intelligent, informed decisions on the musical options available to him.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Next Day
    The release of The Next Day would have been one of the biggest stories of the year no matter what its quality--the fact that it also happens to be one of the best records of Bowie’s career to date just makes the comeback that much more triumphant.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mala
    While the highs aren’t quite as high and the lows are quite a bit lower than they have been previously in his career, Mala might just be the grown-up album Devendra Banhart has been waiting a decade to make.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Isles
    While the album is described as a myriad of styles, there’s nothing to really demonstrate this: only the reggae and reggae-related genres are consistently and tiresomely reflected.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Exile
    Exile is found wanting when they try too much to be the stadium band rather than allowing the drama to play out.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bushcraft
    The riffs are crushing rather than classic, and Andrew Drury’s vocals are full of conviction and spirit but perhaps a little one-dimensional. But for anyone with their toe already dipped in the metal bath, and in danger of selling their soul to the preeners and posers, Baptists might just be their saviour.
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