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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    II follows its predecessor’s footsteps to the T, acting less as an evolution and more as a sharp, acute continuation of what made that album such a force to be reckoned with.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Several Shades of Why
    Several Shades of Why is plaintive and embryonic to the point of breaking down barriers, musically and personally. It's as if the meat has been torn off the bone leaving us with the carcass. And as carcasses go, this one is mighty pretty.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seeds
    Not only is Seeds the most direct and optimistic album, but in some ways, it's their poppiest.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here's To Taking It Easy
    Try it out, it's definitely worth it, just not anything you'll be rushing to your guitar to emulate. Or maybe it is, if you're in to taking it easy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ibeyi
    With such masterful creativity and an ability to connect with listeners emotionally, no matter what language they are singing in, Ibeyi may have already released the debut album of the year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Friend And Foe
    It’s grandly impressive and points to potentially greater things in the future.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hey Clockface
    For most of this album, Costello switches between percussive anxiety and odd ditties with ease.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodbye Terrible Youth
    It does breeze on by without any major impact, but there’s a select number of pleasantly bittersweet cuts that are sure to liven up your afternoon commute for weeks on end.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On! Air! Library!
    They honestly sound like no other known band.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kill My Blues
    It's not much different to a Sleater-Kinney record in second gear, which still means there are flashes of brilliance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dissolution Wave
    Dissolution Wave is a phenomenal record with a broader appeal than you’d expect. If you like your shoegaze heavy or your metal atmospheric, you’ll love it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tremors
    As a first attempt, Tremors is stirring, maybe, but not earth moving, unfortunately.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bish Bosch
    Bish Bosch is a wilder, more scattered (and scatty, in the case of Epizootics!, ten minutes of sax-driven jazz which could almost be seen as accessible, if it wasn't so dark and threatening) work than its immediate predecessors.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Treefight for Sunlight
    It has all the joyousness, all the Pet Sounds hallmarks, and yes, all the bloody echo chamber of the best of the genre.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ambivalence Avenue
    On this fine album, Wilkinson seems intent on capturing this precious, ambivalent space.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Thread That Keeps Us
    There’s more of an improvisational focus to a lot of Thread, where they take on themes such as immigration policy and ecological concerns with their usual storytelling flair. It does have a familiar, intuitive touch; this is Calexico, after all. But the duo never does things with little effort or care.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Terrestrials
    What Terrestrials does reveal about Sunn O))) is their amiability, their unique potential to bring the concept of Sunn O))), if not its distinct sound, to an album that really isn’t quite their own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Momofuku
    Momofuku has glorious fragments and plenty of passion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Write In
    They write songs that make you feel good, and sound good, whenever they come on, and they do it in such a way that you truly feel like you’re listening to them for the first time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Omen EP
    This EP is not a singles-ready collection, nor should it be. Instead, the atmospheric songs do their part to transport the listener to another mood or mindset.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ritual Union
    Ritual Union is catchy and well-produced, but it certainly doesn't demand any more than a handful of listens.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bem-Vinda Vontade
    Rather than the nostalgic, distant wistfulness of last year’s work, Bem-vinda is much more open, and while there are complex rhythms and arrangements in abundance, none of this gets in the way of some eminently hummable tunes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
    It has all their trademarks--simultaneously elaborate and raw, idiosyncratically punk-rock, dedicated to chronicling the unrelenting ugliness of western society--but this time little of it sticks.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard Hearted Woman
    Varied yet elegantly stitched together, Hard Hearted Woman shows the many sides of Cogan, whose story is as resilient as the subjects she depicts.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Under Great White Northern Lights [Live]
    Ultimately, like many live albums before them and certainly after them, it's just okay. It succeeds in capturing a performance that is an apt representation of the band and is largely an aural pleasure, yet you never really shake the fruitless nature of the album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multi-Love
    Multi-Love demonstrates that the band isn’t beholden to a singular, lo-fi aesthetic. And for now, that’s more than enough.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Next Thing
    There are additions to her guitar-pop foundation here, but they’re mostly limited to the occasional keyboard line or an anomaly like the dreamy synth outro of Outside with the Cuties. Met on its own terms, however, it’s a record that plays entirely to Kline’s strengths and confirms her as a worthy successor to the legacy of indie modesty.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Light Information
    There’s a deferential tone to Light Information that suggests he’s never really going to change his signature shtick, and even if we always know what to expect, it always feels like a warm return home from an always generous friend.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Peace
    Strange Peace is about finding even a semblance of mental calm when everything seems awry, and hard to think of many other modern hardcore bands who could accomplish this with such genuine physicality.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Terms of Surrender
    On an album where Taylor nakedly reveals his most pressing moments of despair, it’s only in the album's handful of brighter moments that you wish for maybe just another small taste of the darkness. Taylor manages to flip his career-long look for the silver lining by acknowledging the pull of the worldly can only be put in a tidy little box for so long.
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