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For 6,298 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: 4,465 out of 6298
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6298
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6298
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man Alive
    That's what they do with pop--layer incongruous harmonies and bastardised riffs to make us look at it anew. If that sounds like too much effort, then Man... isn't for you. If however, the thought of it as a brilliantly unsolvable puzzle appeals, then bow at the feet of pop's new Picassos.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Weather, Isn't It?
    Strange Weather, Isn't It? returns as a more disciplined, ziggurat kind of groove odyssey, where the modular sounds are rhombus and the emotional undercurrents darker and more demure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hawk
    What is unfortunate is that she allows Lanegan to utterly dominate their duets.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tomorrow Morning
    The tender optimism of tracks like "The Morning" and the gorgeous, harpsichord-led symphony "Oh So Lovely" are wonderfully uplifting, but there's still room for some snarky self-deprecation on "Baby Loves Me" too.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Memphis
    Memphis sextet Magic Kids started out in the midst of the city's celebrated garage-punk scene, but you'd hardly know it on the basis of this airheaded and obsessively nice-ified debut album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rivers
    A fine evolution.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Past Time
    Sure, there's the odd thoughtful spot of violin, like on "Give Me Shapes," but the record's relentless rawness eventually bleeds into a murky burble.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surfing the Void
    With Simon Taylor-Davies' walloping guitar scree lancing through it, it also sounds distinctly like the work of four individuals who have transcended the genre-meld they spearheaded when new rave broke in 2007 and become a great British band.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    All Delighted People EP
    The title track is 11 minutes of painfully celestial balladeering self-indulgence, a mess of standard-Sufjan jittering flutes mixed with the most offensive noise from his best-avoided early electronic period.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black City
    It's sonically peculiar, coolly melodic, relentlessly detailed and, frequently, exhilarating.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Final Frontier
    Now they've reinforced their position as the credible elder statesmen of metal, with a tightly focused, self-referential effort.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alive As You Are
    This is an album to be held close to your heart and revered as psych-pop scripture.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Modern Rituals
    Like their forebears, these LA beardies get the plaudits for taking raw, honest emotions and richly infusing them into every moment of their music.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kaleide
    Retaining your sprightly playfulness while making a mature comeback isn't easy, but Sky Larkin straddle the two with ease.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Church with No Magic
    They may be Pivot no more, but they're turning heads – and for all the right reasons.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Transit Transit
    This expansion of sound is also put together with the kind of meticulousness that makes Transit Transit doubly compelling.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Where the Messengers Meet
    Although still fans of start-stop measures and tempo changes, this time around songs are given some welcome room to breathe and the quartet focus on grand, pastoral soundscapes, which loosely recall the likes of Pink Floyd.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    King of the Beach
    One knock-on effect of going professional is that you can now hear the music clearly and properly, and it turns out that Mr. Williams isn't exactly a Mozart in the songwriting stakes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Suburbs
    The Suburbs isn't anything as simple as back to basics--they're a much more accomplished, musically interesting band now.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3
    This album of instrumental sketches is surprisingly bullish, its snotty distorted synths and chiptune funk melodies aligning El-P unexpectedly with the output of young UK producers Joker and Rustie.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazy for You
    It's weirdly powerful stuff this, couch-rock, heartbreak coated in cereal. And with this limelight-stealing album Best Coast are providing an amazing advert for dropping out, having mad crushes and doing very little other than getting high.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mines
    Each track on their fourth boasting a captivating blend of experimentalism and depth.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sun Comes Up Again
    If Burrows gifted Razorlight two of their biggest hits (in "America" and "Before I Fall To Pieces"), what his former band gave him in return was the platform to bring something far more interesting into the light of day. Welcome the new dawn.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MAYA
    It's not the world-claiming masterpiece it could have been. But as an evolutionary step from world-party-queen towards a more complex beast, it's intriguing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Serotonin
    While it's a wiser and more weathered quintet that greets us in 2010, the Londoners return not bruised or broken but infinitely more polished and positively bursting with ideas, passion and optimism.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flaws
    They've proved themselves to be a band who defy convention with an album stuffed full of subtle invention and an emotional intensity that you really wouldn't expect from a band still too young to grow a beard between them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flesh Tone
    Kelis. Genius. Pop auteur. Credible diva. Welcome back.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aphrodite
    Aphrodite is her most unified work in ages.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
    What's finally made it is an expansive, guest-packed 57 minutes that recall the Southern hip-hop bounce of 2003's 'Speakerboxxx', but with an added twist of maturity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acolyte
    While there are a couple of tracks here that are close to filler, Delphic have proved that they are adept at This Kind Of Thing, which is cause for celebration alone.
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