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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Underneath
    For the most part, Code Orange leans upon evocative writing that pairs heaviness to thoughtful lyricism. While there are a handful of phrases that feel sloppy or obvious (“The digital knife's edge that cuts us all” on In Fear, or Cold.Metal.Place’s “The fire burns down our 3D world”), Code Orange’s self-seriousness almost entirely works because of how badass they are.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halo
    Halo is just as effective when taken purely as an aural experience; just like the symbolic spirit she invokes, her challenging and throbbing entanglements are impossible to turn away from.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Head Cage
    Across Head Cage’s 12 tracks (yes, 12, not 25), Pig Destroyer focus not on being the fastest, loudest, craziest band on Earth, but on simply doing it better. They still do all of the aforementioned better than anyone else (Dark Train, Trap Door Man), but more often than not, they take that intensity and lock it into steadier groves, shifting moods and hookier riffs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Know What Love Isn't
    While Lekman certainly knows how to use a sample, it is his songwriting talent, his storytelling ability, and above all his remarkable emotional honesty that make I Know What Love Isn't the finest achievement of his career.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mauve
    With strong, fully realized statements such as Mauve, Ringo Deathstarr are making a strong case for being one of the most vital bands in shoegaze today.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cobra Juicy
    Much of Cobra Juicy finds itself operating more on the sensitive side of their distinct weirdness, with the album sporting some of the bands gentlest, breeziest, and most romantic sounding tracks yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take Care
    Either way you bend it, his confessional accounts on how men view the female gender is all too relatable under any context.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unseen In Between
    The Unseen in Between should be the album where he steps out from the shadow of his contemporaries and establishes him as one of the most reliable singer-songwriters of his generation. His heart is in tune with that of a wanderer but his songwriting is firmly in place, ready to come out of obscurity.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Along with a numble of likeminded producers to help fulfill her vision, Parks comes across as an open book, delivering a lushly atmospheric portrayal of a woman who takes pleasure in living in the moment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ambivalence Avenue
    On this fine album, Wilkinson seems intent on capturing this precious, ambivalent space.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Infinite Granite
    It’s the sound of a band transforming into something subtle but beautiful—the same way trees do when their foliage fades from green to orange.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fasciinatiion
    All told, The Faint, once again, have written a succesful album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fortuna
    It’s difficult to avoid making repeated comparisons to Antipodes, but despite the differences in the sounds between the two LPs, the quality and strength of them is the same.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    After Robots
    Whereas I don’t necessarily believe it a step above the Mystery EP, still ably showcases the talents of BLK JKS, their world-influenced musical hybrid a unique presence in an industry dangerously close to being oversaturated with no longer distinctive hipsters spouting tra la la’s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I've Seen All I Need to See
    The Body's latest exercise in amplified bleakness, a blend of muck and misery whose existence almost requires a term stronger than “doom” to succinctly and conveniently explain it. To call The Body’s music “doom” is tantamount to calling the rapture an unexplained and coincidental spike in lengthy vacations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Thyself
    Magazine manage to retrace where they left off, rediscover their intricacies and do an excellent job at defining themselves for, what one can only hope will be, new generations of listeners.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vile Child
    Vile Child is a debut LP that is rife with a resounding honesty and an airtight dexterity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parastrophics
    In an age of musical ephemerality and impermanence (especially in the electronica/dance arena) it's good to know that sometimes innovation and inspiration can go hand in hand with experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Obrigado Saudade
    A welcome addition to the avant-garde canon, an album that demonstrates the continuing development and growth of Mice Parade and Pierce.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Golden Record
    Overall, I can honestly say that I enjoyed Little Scream and I'm interested to see what she'll do next.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Romanticize
    I Romanticize bobs around with a collage of springy trinkets that both confound and fascinate, though never without trying to make sense of his eccentric impulses.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
    It might not be new and it might not follow the current trends, but this is a rare document of heartbreak and hope with the power to move you to tears and make you smile, sometimes at the same time. It deserves any accolades it will receive and many, many more.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    While there are moments that feel less remarkable (the insignificant Hasdallen Lights or the groovy but repetitive Asteroid Blues), Heavens to a Tortured Mind succeeds when it’s mostly focused on creating a sensual yet serious mood throughout.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suddenly
    Snaith's gradual evolution is more than evident in Suddenly, a reflective and also outgoing mood piece that shares insight into what he's learned in the six years he's been away since 2014's Our Love.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crush on Me
    She’s made an album for embracing yourself, your past and whatever lies ahead, and having fun while doing so. Her music doesn’t sound like the future. Even better, it sounds like the present.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vee Vee [Remastered]
    There's a clear warmth and passion in this remaster; if you've yet to let this album grow to be a part of your life, get this.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earthly Delights
    Earthly Delights shows that they have yet to exhaust their uncanny vision.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Not Your Man
    Throughout, I’m Not Your Man is a meandering undercurrent of predatory slyness, advancing with a slack but completely controlled swagger.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Public Storage
    Three tracks and two genre-shifts in, it’s a wonder how well the pieces fit together. Vu’s voice is a connecting thread, a honeyed contralto as distorted and disconnected as her affect, doubled onto itself and pulsing with uncertainty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    It’s all tons of fun, and is almost guaranteed to cheer you up with its overwhelming chirpiness.
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