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For 6,308 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 1.5 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: 4,475 out of 6308
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6308
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6308
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MTV Unplugged [Live at Hull City Hall]
    We could all do with an absence of cynicism – and the presence of some comfort, hope and optimism – right now, and this 10-song collection certainly delivers on that front. Recorded back in September, the modest and warm performance sees Liam let down his trademark bravado, laying bare the bruised sincerity at the core of his unifying back-catalogue.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wolf's Law
    The prime intention of Wolf's Law is to overwhelm with bluster, muscle and noise, to orchestrate us clean out of our boots.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Laced
    Noise music has been content to let its harsh aesthetics do the talking alone for too long; with Laced, Whitehurst has challenged that paradigm.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everybody Looking
    The tunes he’s releasing are fresh and exciting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born In The Echoes
    Born In The Echoes is a bold reinvention of the Chemical Brothers’ sound, pushing the late-period renaissance that 'Further' heralded to somewhere dark and twisted.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    At its most euphoric, 'In Case We Die' is reminiscent of the cast of South Park forming a Polyphonic Spree tribute band after an all-night feast of sugarcubes and E numbers. [13 Aug 2005, p.58]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Outer Peace
    The record’s constant dive through history often comes at the cost of consistency and a solid sonic identity, though, for the most part feeling more like a scrapbook of ideas in transition than the work of such an established act.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atum
    As albums go, ‘ATUM’ is an ambitious body of work and does ask a lot of its audience. But there’s also plenty on here to please any diehard Pumpkins fan.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    [It] takes some persistance. [18 Mar 2006, p.35]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gentle Grip
    It gives an alternative to Lipa’s super-polished pop take on the shimmying sounds of the ‘70s, feeling delightfully handmade as it struts through 12 sublime tracks that transport you out of the four walls of your home and into a world much sparklier, sweatier and fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Give Me the Future
    The result is the most expansive, yet cohesive record Bastille have put their name to. In fact, they may have created a perfect soundtrack to life after lockdown.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trans-Continental Hustle
    Musically, it's really just more of the boozy, ribald, shoutalong same, but tellingly the best moments are when Hutz reins in his mentalist troubadour shtick.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Decemberunderground
    With a comeback pitched between the indulgent love-metal of HiM and the pubescent pop-punk of Fall Out Boy, AFI's hiatus looks increasingly less like laziness and more like a marketing masterstroke.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She Wolf
    We’re pleased to report that her third English-sung studio effort is as nutty as ever; combining Neptunes-esque beats with flamenco, post-punk riffs, synths, Arabian strings, gongs and disco.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Pony
    Massive in pretension, slightly too long and gothic, but when all the pieces fit, you can't deny its unstoppable power.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Electric Family
    So swathed in electronic trickery, space-age swoops and super-produced vocals is My Electric Family, though, that it ends up a little soulless; individually the tracks have a removed piquancy, but an hour’s solid exposure leaves you yearning for a crackle, some fuzz, or any human intervention.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blakroc
    The album feels genuinely organic, a common ground of moods rather than a forced fusion.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Better Day
    A stonking collection of slick honky-tonk pop, the belting Stadium Nashville of 'Together You And I' shows Taylor Swift a thing or three, while 'Shine Like The Sun' and 'The Sacrifice' are pure Mumfords meets Miley Cyrus.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FIDLAR
    Without [Kate Nash collaboration Awkward], Fidlar is still an electrifying, intensely fun album. But with it, it would have been perfect.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    It’s a David Byrne album. Which is to say: it’s melodic, goofy and very quirky.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let The Dominoes Fall
    They appear to be sincere in their sloganeering so you’ve got to admire them, but, really, the message of a song like ‘New Orleans’ gets seriously undermined by the shiny Busted balloon it’s caught inside.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Night On My Side
    This clash of sweetness and discordance can be irritating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monaco
    A truly lovely thing to behold; a pretence-free, summery shimmy through pop's enchanted garden, with tear-tugging Bacharachy bits and choruses of angels and everything.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wanna Buy a Monkey?
    If the DJ's art is to unite unlikely musical party guests, The Automator is a fine and generous host.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get Ready
    They may have been apart for eight years, but less than a minute into opening track, 'Crystal', they've slotted back into their own idiosyncratic groove and the years are pouring off them.... Being in New Order never sounded like half as much fun as it does here.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    If 'The Green Album' was the charming bouquet to apologise for not calling for five years, 'Maladroit' is the rigorous porking in the back of a second-hand Fiesta we've been gagging for since 1996. It's almost as if Rivers cares about music again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fast Future Present
    While Mandarin certainly rock, they do so at a pedestrian amble. [11 Sep 2004, p.53]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    '64 - '95
    LJ retain their title as the world's premier inner-space invaders. [29 Jan 2005, p.58]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Resilience
    [He] flips his hip-hop, rave and reggae on their head, using them to produce cute, beautiful tracks rather than ear-shattering junglist uproar. [20 Aug 2005, p.58]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Killswitch Engage [2009]
    Their future as a metal act with their fingers on the button seems assured.
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