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For 12,720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 53% 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 Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition]
Lowest review score: 0 nyc ghosts & flowers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10,456 out of 12720
  2. Mixed: 1,950 out of 12720
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12720
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Pawn Shoppe Heart
    With huge, ballooning vocals and a shit-kicking rhythm section, the record consistently threatens to pop its own feeble seams; by carefully shuffling away from their past outings, The Von Bondies have produced a booming sonic statement that's far more glam than garage, and a lot less "Detroit" than we've been trained to expect.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    More Issues Than Vogue
    On More Issues Than Vogue, Michelle's third album, the performer and musician delivers her most affecting, skillful, and innovative record yet.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    LiE [Live]
    The individual performances are gut-punching in their potency. ... But the discrete presentation of the songs sucks them dry, with the abrupt fade-outs robbing the album of any in-the-room ambience and natural momentum.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Legacy of Rentals
    The writing remains the main attraction in Finn’s work, and both as a storyteller and a rock songwriter, he has never sounded more in control.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
    All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone is the musical equivalent of a late Woody Allen film (possibly a good or bad thing, depending on your temperament): The action unfolds predictably, but the dramatic effect can also be increased by your fondness for and familiarity with the idiom.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Give the People What They Want
    Give the People What They Want is a pretty short 10 songs, though its breezy half-hour leaves plenty that sticks and plenty more worth revisiting when it doesn't.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Kings Ballad
    Kings Ballad still doesn't meet all the expectations Muldrow may have initially inspired, but it's a positive, measured sign that there's more to come.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Final Days
    Final Days’ exhilarating, cathedral-toppling spectacle could prove to be the career game-changer that ensures his band remains a cult no more.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Live in San Francisco
    Here Segall and his band perform the songs pretty much as written, only louder. It isn't Segall's best record, but it's worthwhile if only in that it documents the whole crew playing together at the peak of their ability.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    A Different Forest
    Several tracks (“Curious,” “Ghosts”) rely on the tug of well-worn harmonic shapes and the weaving of legato lines to entrance rather than ideate, persuade, or startle. The standouts have more substance, musically and visually.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Triple Seven
    Wishy’s most cohesive moments come from their knack for memorable, solid melodies.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Fall Heads Roll
    A grab-bag of a Fall album with brilliant highs and scattered lows.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    DS2
    Future was always straightforward, never ashamed to confess his depression or infatuation, but the narratives never felt so focused, nuanced, or vulnerable than here.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    With Trampled By Turtles
    With Trampled by Turtles—a raw snapshot of perfectly articulated hurt, and the first steps of navigating it for the rest of one’s life—is one of the most compelling records of Sparhawk’s career.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    The Angels Of Light Sing 'Other People'
    Gira's songs have many one-of-a-kind nuances that tether the album even when it ventures.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Small Town Heroes
    With Small Town Heroes, Segarra proves herself one of the most compelling stylists in a folk revival full of suspicious acts either too beholden to tradition or too uncritical to make much of it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Animated Violence Mild
    If previous Blanck Mass albums were each a step out from the shadow of Fuck Buttons, Animated Violence Mild shows that he’s outgrown the comparison altogether.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Exai
    Some of its songs deserve to be cut into halves, while others should have been chopped wholesale. With those snips, Exai would be a really good Autechre album that summarizes the various successes of their career in an hour or so. As is, it's as much a frustrating obstacle course as it is a grueling marathon.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Magic Numbers
    The songwriting falls a couple of times too many into timid generalities about love and loss; the melodies, though lovely, are sometimes interchangeable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Infiniheart
    That's ultimately the sticking point with Infiniheart: VanGaalen's songs tend toward folly, yet it's impossible to discount his commitment to the material.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Ole! Tarantula
    Olé! Tarantula isn't his best solo record, but it's in the top tier, and after all these years that's certainly something.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Regifted Light
    Regifted Light doesn't seem built to shock or cajole, but to connect with all sorts of people, and to last.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Libraries
    Libraries nods more to Burt Bacharach, and the record can sag occasionally under the drowsy weight of his influence.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Quakers
    Quakers is kind of a mess, and odds are that a not-insignificant number of people are going to find the beats more consistently entertaining than the verses... But ambitious messes are the best kind, and riding out the less-interesting moments is worth it in the long run.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Triple Beams
    The guitars are buzzy and loud, the rhythms are quick, the drums crash, the lyrics are densely packed into a short span of time, and Boyer spits them out with punk rock confidence
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soma
    Soma sits still, paralyzed by the weight of a sound that’s too big for this promising band to manage, at least for now.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Poor David's Almanack
    He manages to convey the same exuberance and spirit in his own music that he hears in his favorite old tunes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Three/Three
    Three/Three is stacked with features from Detroit area MCs (Danny Brown, Clear Soul Forces) and heavy-hitting veterans (MF DOOM, Ghostface Killah), but only a handful of his guests truly rise to the occasion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Victory Lap
    The hour-long album honors all the work he’s put in and looks back at all he’s achieved, but it also looks forward to all he has yet to build and all those he can still inspire.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Goat Girl
    At 19 tracks in length, their debut appears daunting but proves to be light and accessible, with plenty of offbeat wit and many an unexpected twist down gothic country roads.
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