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For 6,302 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Lowest review score: 0 Maroon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,469 out of 6302
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6302
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6302
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Does This Look Infected?
    Trouble is, as grown up and grouchy as Sum 41 may have become (on record, if not in Strokes-mocking video), they sure aint no Fugazi.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live!
    Simplicity obviously works to their advantage. True, with all unnecessary distractions gone you're painfully aware of Wareham's stretching for the high notes, but from the leathery creak of 'Bewitched', to the arch pop of 'Moon Palace' via the rollicking fuzz of '23 Minutes In Brussels' it hardly seems to matter
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Muzikizum
    X-Press 2 are like a dancefloor Oasis; great at pleasing the crowds, less good at innovation, and fatally weakened by their reverence for washed-up old rockers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I'm in Your Mind Fuzz
    They’re too wilfully mad to emulate Tame Impala’s success, but if you’re after a freaking out, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s outrageous noise deserves attention.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Woman on the Internet
    These clear, plucky songs may not be terribly adventurous for the most part, but they do feel like the ambitious work of an artist broadening their scope.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jade Bird
    ‘Jade Bird’ has the edge of an assured debut album and is a startling introduction to a British talent who looks set to take the States by storm.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Side Of Time
    This long-awaited debut album proper from the preacher-chic-touting fivesome is an intoxicating mix of apocalyptic riffs, sob-worthy singalongs and brooding blues.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    B-Sides & Rarities
    Even their B-sides are full of dark magic. [2 Apr 2005, p.50]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MTMTMK
    MTMTMK is all about neon-soaked city raving, and the result is a stiffer, uglier and over-Westernised sound, too reliant on soulless computerisation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five Spanish Songs [EP]
    Bejar has a wondrous lyrical facility that it’d be a shame for him to forsake--but he’s also possessed of a beguiling, breezy touch that acts as a musical lingua franca here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pe'ahi
    If Pe’ahi is a tribute to Sune’s father, it’s a warts-and-all portrayal of a turbulent relationship, but one delivered with a tenderness and intensity that propels the very concept of the retro garage duo into a fresh sonic stratosphere. Drop in, it’s an exhilarating descent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Before We Forgot How to Dream
    Less teenage kicks, more teenage contemplation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs for the General Public
    The ideas in ‘Songs For The General Public’ are rich, creative and often funny, but its musical staying power is lacking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back Of My Mind
    ‘Back of My Mind’ is a dazzling debut from an artist who’s so in command of her own sound that it’s almost jarring when “Exhausted’ includes a shout-out to producer Darkchild.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smalhans
    Each of these six songs is named after a traditional Norwegian dish, and together they cook up a satisfying if unadventurous snack.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Way and Color
    Armed with a wide array of instrumentation, it’s an ambitious attempt at an extravagant pop record and, at their best, the band show a deft touch for layered orchestration.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plastic Hearts
    Plastic Hearts finds the pop-star-turned-rock-star going hell for leather – and when Miley Cyrus is at full throttle, it’s an absolute blast. Life has imitated art, and she’s become her very own Ashley O.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tongue N' Cheek
    The beats on Tongue N’ Cheek are still raw, clamorous and unpredictable, but in a springy, primary-coloured way.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Recover [EP]
    Chvrches are effortless and close to svblime.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blood
    Sadly, the promise of desert-rock heaviness is, if anything, underplayed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Present Past [EP]
    Perhaps the highest compliment you could pay this EP is that if you didn't know who it was and had no preconceived notions about what it should--or shouldn't--sound like, you'd think you had stumbled across something very special indeed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Into the Blue
    For the most part, however, while never less than beautifully realised, there’s a sense that the record has more dramatic and intense potential that’s left frustratingly untapped.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreamer+
    Patchiness is the main shortcoming of ‘Dreamer+’, interrupting the immersion that Lindgård commands so carefully in tracks like ‘Dreamer’ and ‘Sleepwalker’s Pendulum’. Nevertheless, the record proves Lindgård is a force to be reckoned with on all fronts – as a producer, songwriter and vocalist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mountain
    Angry blues stomps such as ‘Early In The Morning’ are the aural equivalent of Wild Turkey for breakfast, while ‘Out At Sea’ combines the grit and growl of the Bastards’ beginnings with a layering of sounds that’s wider, more expansive and ultimately more interesting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Personality
    Personality, his third album, conforms to type, while confounding expectation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Moon Spell
    Black Moon Spell is scuzzy, wired and bulging with Marc Bolan vocals, riffs Jimmy Page forgot to stick on any Zeppelin album and a bunch of outrageously catchy choruses. Big fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mosquito
    A confusing, intriguing record, then. Not their strongest, but there's a transition underway.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bought to Rot
    While Bought to Rot might not possess the focused tenacity of Against Me!’s latest record, ‘Shape Shift With Me’, it’s a varied, meandering album that roams freely across multiple genres.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    OFF!
    It's a bolshie, unapologetic barrage of electroshock rock'n'roll that's as snarlingly pissed off as it is inanely entertaining.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Whole Lotta Red
    Initially, you might be disappointed to have waited two years for what at first sounds like an underworked collection of throwaways. In places, though, the record rewards repeat listens. ... But there’s no getting away from the fact that at 24 tracks long, there’s not a lot of variety on ‘Whole Lotta Red’, and the biggest take away here is perhaps that perennial rap fan favourite: less is most definitely more.
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