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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Gary Go
    Polished to the point of being nausea-inducing, this album has been packaged to a precise remit: robotic, stadium-rock-lite that follows the tried and tested formula of acoustic quiet bit, drums come in, second verse, chorus, repeat to fade so strictly that you’ll feel like banging your head against a brick wall and/or adding your own beat-box percussion.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Temporary Pleasure
    It’s trashy yet too self-conscious for its own good, it’s lovingly crafted yet ultimately hollow, it’s dance music which veers from so catchy you can’t help yourself to chin-stroking music to nod at and appreciate.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Time To Die
    The band seems to have decided musical chops and precision production are more important than ideas, turning Time to Die into a startlingly streamlined affair that passes without leaving much of a mark.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Resistance
    They are capable of making albums that are big, over the top and fun. The Resistance is over the top, but comes off as boisterous and overblown.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Keep An Eye On The Sky
    In summation, though, there is not much you could ask for in a Big Star box set that is not included here.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ashes Grammar
    Even if Ashes Grammar drifts quite nicely as a whole--best listened to it with eyes closed in a meditative position--it seems most appropriate for the short attention span generation.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Two Dancers
    Only one year later and we have Two Dancers an album so laden with lush densities and provocative melodies that you would be forgiven for thinking this album had taken ten years to make.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Popular Songs
    As it stands, Yo La Tengo has created a solid gold collection of nine tracks.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Signal Morning
    As the pieces continue to invert themselves halfway through their running time, the album begins to resemble a child’s ambitious science experiment gone haywire. For this, Signal Morning shines.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Blueprint 3
    The real inexcusable thing about The Blueprint 3 is how boring and sterile it all sounds.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Goes Wrong
    This is fun music that is all at once euphonic, brash, unsophisticated in its simplicity--but powerful for that same reason.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get Color
    Get Color goes by fast and leaves the listener satisfied but begging for more wonderful, eardrum punishing noise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mister Pop
    How these twee-approved embellishments help the record are hard to prove, seeing as none of them give it the edge it sorely needs. Yet, in the least, the gentle sighs render Mister Pop as intermittently pretty as it is prosaic, and point toward a new, if unstable, direction for the band.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
    I love it the same way I love looking at signatures in my yearbooks: as distant reminders of past friends and better times. Sure, this album is awesome, but the fact remains that this is a continuation of an old idea in lieu of a new one.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Snake
    To put it simply, it’s a near perfect conclusion to one of the finest records I’ve heard this year.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humbug
    Turner’s defense mechanisms are as honed and as vicious as his rather formidable bullshit detector has proven to be in albums past, and whatever Humbug lacks in middle fingers, or even thematic continuity, it makes up for with sinister gazes and scathing ambiguities.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
    It bears to be dissected because it is pretty much all over the place, even if what they wanted to achieve could be stored inside a magical pot of gold.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Black River Killer [EP]
    The EP works much better as a B-side companion to Furr, because neither the energy nor the ratio of good songs to so-so songs is high enough for the record to stand on its own.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memoirs At The End Of The World
    Memoirs at the End of the World, as ambitious as it seems, never seems to overstate it’s welcome.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Watch Me Fall
    He has found his musical voice on Watch Me Fall, and while it may not be the best album of 2009, but it’s certainly one of the most enjoyable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Old, Familiar Friend
    Not only does the music feel like filler and lacking in substance but the album itself feels like it’s only purpose is to merely keep music ticking over until something worthwhile comes along.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome Joy
    It closes with the sigh of "Bramble," another one of the band’s well-crafted whispers that seems more like a lo-fi sketch than a fully realized song. In isolated moments like this Welcome Joy shines as a companion piece equal to their first release, "Invitation Songs."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King Of Jeans
    King Of Jeans burns with enough vitriol and frustration that the music escalates the album’s importance. And, at times, they do grant second-party attention.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luminous Night
    Sequenced beautifully to balance lyrical narratives with haunting instrumentals, it’s another Six Organs of Admittance album...but so much more.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wind's Poem
    It’s hard to find fault with the record since anything you think might be lacking, melodic interest, harmonic development, rhythmic drive, etc, was certainly left out deliberately.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Solo Electric Bass 1 [Live]
    It may be a bit dull and overlong (a three to five song EP of this would have sufficed), but he doesn’t care. It’s his music and he’ll do what he damn well pleases with it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    The power of this album comes from the mystifyingly cohesive blend of piano ballads, orchestral choirs, heavy metal, and completely danceable electronic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Post-Nothing
    Regardless of classification, Japandroids have created something pure, something without pretense and without any concern for how smart or cool they will sound.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    See Mystery Lights
    YACHT’s music is as simple and enjoyable as their philosophy. You won’t end up ruminating on it all night, but you are very likely to enjoy it while it’s on.
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