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For 6,299 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: 4,466 out of 6299
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6299
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6299
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Always [EP]
    The decision you have to make with Summer Camp is this: do you want dance music that'll stop your feet moving by throwing some thought-provoking lyrics in your direction? Or dance music that'll make you wanna, you know, dance?
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material
    This rag-tag collection, dating from between 1999 and 2010, sets out his stall as an outsider savant in an Ariel Pink vein.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life is Good
    Nas doing exactly what he does best.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wild Peace
    What the south London quintet have made is an album full of delicious dream-pop.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yellow & Green
    Their third album totaling 75 minutes and spread, slightly unnecessarily, over two CDs, it reaches unexpected new heights in the pantheon of 'metal bands who mellowed out'.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good Morning to the Night
    The results range from danceable ('Phoenix', 'Sad') to unnerving ('Telegraph To The Afterlife', 'Sixty') and give off an atmosphere of ghostly melancholy that subtly subverts Elton's reputation as a cosy British institution.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Oshin
    DIIV need you, and you sure as hell need DIIV.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Swing Lo Magellan
    After exploring some most unlikely corners, Swing Lo Magellan is arguably its best at its simplest.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Skelethon
    Named after a fabulist, yes, but still not quite fabulous.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holograms
    They may be revisiting the fossilised concept of boredom, but they're bringing an original perspective.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confess
    At its core this is brilliantly slick, dapper rock-pop.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unsound
    Shellac's Bob Weston throws disorientating tape-loop curveballs throughout, further disturbing Burma's thrilling clatter, which shames bands half their age.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Is Your Love Big Enough?
    There are enough dreamlike melodies to sustain your attention rather than zoning out completely, but in reality it's all just very comfortable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Microscope
    In parts Riz's flow is slightly awkward, but his rhymes are tight and full of razor-sharp quips, and the production is slick and energetic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Minimal Wave Tapes, Vol. 2
    A wonky, Teutonic thing full of outré drama and should-be pop classics.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modeselektor Proudly Presents Modeselektion, Vol. 2
    Modeselektor bridge the gap between manual-memorising electronics and brick-subtle, MDMA-peppered bouncy abandon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tapes
    Yes, this is a mixtape of other people's tunes, like you've made in your bedroom dozens of times before. But it isn't nostalgia, it's very 2012.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Boulder
    It navigates a contemporary confluence of influences with such wit, intelligence and passion that (certainly if you like Joy O or Zomby) you will just simply love it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rispah
    Adventurous, forward-looking and luxurious, all at the same time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Wounded Birds
    Their eagerness to look into music's past only serves to make them sound timeless.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Write Me Back
    When it works, it works.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Living Things
    It's largely the usual semi-hilarious histrionica to which we've become accustomed
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Synthetica
    On their fifth album there's a newfound clarity in the production that provides an added dimension to their tunes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Overexposed
    'Sad' is an Adele-apeing weepie, 'Payphone' has a guest rap from Wiz Khalifa, and both 'Lucky Strike' and 'Fortune Teller' feature cod-dubstep breakdowns.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
    It all adds up to a deeply deranged and intermittently great listen, and serves as a decent stopgap 'til the band's next album proper.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here We Are
    The result is an album as art smart as Franz, as disco droll as Hot Chip, as pose pop as The Naked And Famous and as catchy and cool as the Two Door lot on the other lot's Indian cycling holiday.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Digital Native
    Not a bad choice for zoned-out afterhours sessions or long lost summer afternoons, but it's just too indifferent to recommend with any real conviction.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burning Feeling
    Despite being a good 30 years out of time, it's absolutely brilliant.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ask the Dust
    This is ambitious electronic music rewarding persistence.
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