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For 2,825 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Strawberry Jam
Lowest review score: 0 Scream
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,983 out of 2825
  2. Mixed: 765 out of 2825
  3. Negative: 77 out of 2825
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wall of Eyes
    While Wall of Eyes captures the trio at their most musically freewheeling, it also loses the ordered potency of A Light for Attracting Attention. Yorke himself has also reverted to themes of self-identity more cryptically, making less of an impact compared to his sardonic candor identifying with the everyday anxieties of living in the outside world's structured chaos. Still, it's clear that The Smile operates on their own accord.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soused
    Soused, with its impenetrable construct and heavy ambition, delivers on many fronts, most notable of which is in its thoughtfully composed immensity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Age Of
    Age Of is an excellent and frequently rewarding album; where one might expect a musical cul-de-sac, there is a 180-degree turn that somehow always feels appropriate, a testament to two years of songcraft that have clearly paid dividends.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
    It's far-reaching in scope but it's also conceptually uniform, a beautiful mess of an album from a band who is inching their way towards the imperial phase of their career.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Farm to Table
    Strange provides the blueprint for his many talents on the album—proving his taste knows no bounds—pursuing a scrappy, meandering course that can sometimes lead to rocky, albeit thrilling, dead ends.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abysskiss
    What's most impressive is how Lenker stands apart from both modern singer-songwriter tropes and the cult psych-folk canon, creating a haunting mood that touches upon both sides with her own unique touch.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    R Is For Rocket
    Rocket shows far more sophisticated rhythmic interplay than some of their shoegaze-leaning contemporaries on this debut.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forevher
    The only real issue that Shura faces on forevher is that the record can be too much of a good thing. The psychedelic grooves that back the project can almost be suffocating, not allowing melodies or choruses to flourish on tracks that feel like a huge hook could bring them to perfection.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loom
    Loom seems to touch upon many periods within the extensive annals of indie pop, but Fear of Men put their own stamp with smart, modish pop tunes that intend to make sorrow, in the face of uncertainty, sound invigorating.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What a Time to Be Alive
    Superchunk do come back full circle with a timeless, uniform body of work, though it also takes them back a few years after their late-career breakthroughs Majesty Shredding and I Hate Music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 2
    Overall, this album contains some of the most original and hypnotically brilliant rock music ever recorded.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mr Twin Sister
    It’s an evocative listen, though they can’t quite break the compulsion to play around with passing fads.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live Forever
    Despite Live Forever not being perfect, Bartees Strange swings for the fences on every song here. It’s exciting just to watch it unfold in front of your eyes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lianne La Havas
    Delicate and lovely new project, one that chronicles a relationship blooming and decaying in equal time.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Circumambulation
    Circumambulation practically evades any trace of sheen that was found on their two previous efforts. The differences are minimal but not predictable, lying somewhere between sludgy stoner metal and expansive, yet acute rhythmic precision; it’s their ability to never stand on solid ground that elevates their caliginous mid-tempo tunes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Of The Earth
    Of This Earth, like most Shabaka Hutchings albums, dating back to Sons of Kemet, requires full immersion. On his third LP, the jazz polymath takes you on a musical journey that requires both stillness and stimulation.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes
    All told, For Clouds and Tornadoes is a quality release from a musician that's not afraid to explore outside the usual methods to create extraordinary music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Island
    If you listen to it twenty times, you still find something new.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Buds
    With Buds, Ovlov prove once again, and perhaps more effectively than ever, that the alchemy of passion and songcraft is undeniable no matter where your devotion resides.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Florine [EP]
    Barwick’s angelic voice channels whale song, her textless mantras capture a serene ambience, and her ear for arrangement are far beyond her years. Most impressive, though, is Barwick's relentless inventiveness: Florine is unlike anything you will hear this year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soft Landing
    Perri needs to lean into the experimental nature of his work—take more risks, and avoid being so laid back that his ghostly melodies have all the impact of a polite, good-natured apparition.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    23
    It’s mostly a collection of decent tunes, polished to a blinding sheen.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Collapsed in Sunbeams
    The hazy production in Sunbeams does, to an extent, water down some of Parks' poetic musings and reduce them to pleasant background music. Even if there are hardly any low points here, the forceful sentiments of past songs like Angel's Song and Romantic Garbage are sorely absent—both of which are just mellow as this project but more musically rewarding.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Black Up
    This is hip-hop that doesn't attack; it drifts. Black Up is full of ghostly howls and weird barely-there percussion, devoid of anything like a single.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Window
    Through no fault of their own, some their more twangy performances don't sound too distinguishable from like-minded acts Wednesday and Big Thief. Bad timing, perhaps. But these quibbles don't detract from Ratboys' refined ebullience, glistening with an authenticity that sounds even better when you add the Chris Walla effect of making music sound irresistibly bittersweet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    B'lieve I'm Goin' Down
    B’lieve i’m goin down is further evidence of Vile’s conclusive authenticity, and his position as one of songwriting’s most understated commodities.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Whole Love
    Once Wilco blazon forth their centerpiece, the remainder of The Whole Love takes a more familiar form that embraces self-assurance, even if those lopsided moments sum the overall experience.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ice Cream Spiritual
    This is the band’s second album after their somewhat missed "Kamehamena," and their pounce only proves to reinstill the style of the album’s predecessor.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At the Party with My Brown Friends
    It's one of those rare, almost perfect follow-up, albums from a promising artist unafraid of taking her music to even more thrilling places without sacrificing what made it so compelling to begin with.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Phonetics On And On
    In refining their approach, Horsegirl stumbles onto a new set of influences that takes away from their true identity. Nevertheless, there are flashes of brilliance -- Frontrunner, accented with a lovely twang, details a story of romantic yearning that hits deeper as it progresses.
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