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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Outside Closer
    Outside Closer weaves an oddly distinctive set of roundelays between the Air-like poppiness and cheery melancholia of the negatives and the Massive Attack jams with The Clash in Reykjavik melancholia of winter 72, concluding with two of the most depressing songs I’ve ever heard.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    This will surely be counted as one of the most remarkable, individual, and adorable albums of the year.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Emoh
    Those in search of classic Barlow would do far better to dig out their battered old copies of Bakesale.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    This is the best album of the year so far.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    Stunningly good.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Before The Dawn Heals Us
    Like 2003’s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, Before the Dawn is commendable for its almost obsessive attention to detail that has produced a collection of gorgeously layered and dense songs without ever sounding laboured.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Sold Gold
    Granted, this is no masterpiece, but it’s quite good and very often it is even compelling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    MM..Food
    Contains some of his most memorable moments to date.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Want Two
    A bold, brave, and beautiful record.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Futureheads
    The reason The Futureheads is so good is because, quite simply, the music is simply stunning.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From A Basement On The Hill
    The good news is that there is no real filler on the album, but this uniformity of quality equates to an album where every song is good, but where few are really great.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where The Humans Eat
    [Your] chances of finding a more assured and promising debut this year are pretty slim.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lost Riots
    From the outset, it is clear that this album is a triumph.... An album of great beauty, potential and emotional involvement.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    Unconventional harmonies and slurred vocals are an acquired taste, and some of the more out-there lyrical moments might bemuse you first time round, but give it a chance.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Funeral
    Not only are the songs uniformly excellent, they also show a mastery of the art of controlled dynamics, of tension and release, that most young bands ignore to pursue the catharsis of sustained intensity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medulla
    Bits of Medulla sound similar to Vespertine, but there’s a marked distinction in the means of delivery and enough change to keep things interesting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Venomous Villain [VV:2]
    The tracks highlighting Vik are showstoppers as usual, and his dominate wordplay only reiterates why others should drop the mic when any of DOOM’s personas enter the booth.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kiss & Tell
    Although Kiss and Tell doesn’t quite match the dizzy heights of its major influences, it is without a doubt Sahara Hotnights’ finest album to date.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
    In Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, M83 have created an ethereal electronic masterpiece, and one which, thankfully, doesn't sound like a relic from the Warp Records back catalogue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blueberry Boat
    There’s just so much going on throughout that you can’t stop listening.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Heat
    The Heat doesn’t offer a dramatic change from its predecessor stylistically.... What it does have is more energy, better material and more focus.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Concretes
    Definitely mysterious, but the songs on this record are obvious when it comes to the Concretes’ influences.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In A Safe Place
    This Icelandic association seems to have triggered a benign crisis in Jimmy Lavalle's composition gland and stimulated his transformation from a major key minor artist to a minor key major artist in the course of this one volume.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ta Det Lugnt
    Ta Det Lugnt is that rare joy, a work of art that both demands and rewards your attention.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse
    Sonic Nurse could be the best guitar rock album since, well, Murray St.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Uh Huh Her
    Both pared down and unengaging at the same time, this appears to be a dead end.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Louden Up Now
    They write some good tunes, and they have some appropriately strident abuse for lyrics. But there’s not enough for an album.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modern Apprentice
    It’s unfortunate that the familiar sound of some of these tracks, the nagging suspicion that you heard this once before, is always hiding in the background, because there’s worthy enough material here.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Achilles Heel
    Although it’s good stuff, there are few innovations here, and while the simplicity is welcome, you may not always notice that there’s an album playing.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vehicles & Animals
    In their insistence on trying to mix quirky, quiet electronica with beer-swilling pop, without the two informing each other, Athlete too often fall into a formulaic and predictable model.
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