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For 12,726 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: 10,462 out of 12726
  2. Mixed: 1,950 out of 12726
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12726
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go
    A challenging debut that sidesteps inflated expectations by staying close to the group's established sound while still demonstrating a flexibility conducive to future musical development.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Humming By The Flowered Vine
    Like its predecessors, it's full of sweetly sung melodies and deceptively simple arrangements of originals and lovingly chosen covers.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Doomsdayer's Holiday
    On Doomsdayer's Holiday, the haze is even thicker, and the album represents a sort of endpoint to their journey: taking place in utter blackness, it is their most alluring and impenetrable trip yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Time to Go Home
    Time to Go Home is a beautifully composed record about confronting your fuck-ups, but it’s also a record about feeling numb to them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Together We're Heavy
    The band's sound benefits greatly from DeLaughter's realization that not every instrument always needs to be playing at once.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Country Funk II: 1967-1974
    Vol. 2 proves there’s more than enough country funk out there to fill a good Vol. 3.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Back Home
    Back Home provides heart-rending moments alongside its punk grit, expanding on Big Joanie’s sound without loosening their bite.
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    • 76 Critic Score
    Live In Chicago
    On these eight Apples originals and one Beach Boys cover, Schneider and the band sound like they're having a blast, and the energy is instantly detectable.... Live in Chicago has the charm of a well-recorded audience bootleg sanctioned by the group on one of their best nights.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Universes
    Throughout it all, his arrangements burst with a vitality that belies their modest construction. The sounds may be humble, not that much more hi-fi than his early demos, but their vision of funk as lifeblood is never anything less than radiant.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Positive Force
    If there's anything wrong with Positive Force, it's that it's better suited as background music than bearing up to intense listening; while the guitar lines on most of the songs here are deliciously difficult to whistle, they're all essentially fairly similar.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Afterlife
    There’s something in the way the Comet Is Coming skewers the typical jazz trio that stands apart from his other projects. Its surface speaks to the cosmic sounds of Sun Ra, but there’s something raw and earthy at the core.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Cyrk
    More than just chart her progression as a singer and songwriter, CYRK also sees Le Bon and her four-piece band developing into a crack psych-rock outfit that consistently leads the songs into unexpected places.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Volume Two
    What makes the album so distinctive isn't just the sound of her voice, the quality of her songwriting, or even the resourcefulness of his arrangements, but their joint insistence that these old sounds have as much to say nowadays as they ever did.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Real Hair [EP]
    Real Hair keeps its runtimes tight and its choruses front-and-center, pulling in some of Major Arcana's looser ends without sacrificing its fall-apart charms.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Loud
    More than a stocking stuffer but less than an idol, Rihanna has grown into one of the most reliable pop stars we've got.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Our Two Skins
    Payten’s writing is strong enough that she pulls off worthwhile takes on familiar themes. ... Her lyrics only falter when Payten sounds aware of her audience, becoming self-consciously clever.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Imidiwan: Companions
    There is a unique magic to the sounds of the Sahara. Imidiwan captures that magic with skillful grace.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Comfort To Me
    Comfort to Me transports us to a familiar, paradoxical world: uncertain, harsh, and magnetic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Uniform Distortion
    Uniform Distortion abounds with displays of James’ fiery fretwork, but he rarely wields his other signature weapon--that angelic croon that trembles with vulnerability yet can soar high enough to rattle satellites. In the fleeting moments when it does surface, the effect is doubly stunning.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    City Lake [Reissue]
    City Lake is a glimpse at the raw materials before all the splinters have been sanded down--and it is all the more exciting for them.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Obituary
    In 2017, the challenge for a veteran metal act is to not relentlessly innovate, but to mine any small new parts of their sound. Kreator and Immolation have proved successful in this regard already, and Obituary, while sticking closer to their roots, have also proven their vitality here.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Causers of This
    Bundick embraces a cleaner and mellower sound that's more indebted to hip-hop. He wears his inspirations proudly, and throughout there's a clear nod to producers like J Dilla and Flying Lotus.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    No Color
    Lyrically, No Color is a step in a new direction for Dodos -- for mostly better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    KIRK
    KIRK is DaBaby in his sweet spot: alone and rapping with the untamed aggression of a tasmanian devil, on a beat that could destroy a 2001 Toyota Corolla from the inside out if played too loud. Change is overrated.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    C'est La Vie
    Though nothing else on the album quite sounds like that first single (or hits the same giddiness), the Simon similarity runs deep. Houck’s narrator is often sly, wry, and conversational.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Stranger Than Fiction
    The record's uncompromising hard luck street narratives are dispensed with a preternaturally sharp eye for detail that dabs Gates’ economic writing with a shock of much-needed color.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    A Softer Focus
    Nothing is off limits, yet everything works within the context of the album, as rousay unearths modes of expression that make it hard to remember a time when ambient music sounded any differently. Through it all, rousay somehow makes this progression feel completely natural.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    ()
    A decent follow-up from a band who has already proven themselves capable of much, much more.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Kidsticks
    On Kidsticks, she no longer sounds like she has anything left to prove, which is precisely what's allowed her to make the riskiest album of her career. And she sounds like she's had the time of her life making it, too.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Bride
    Luckily, by the time we get to lead single “Sunday Love” The Bride has hit its stride, the track’s shuffling drum loop and plucked strings transporting listeners directly into the mania of the Bride’s pure heartbreak. From there, what began as a slightly unbalanced collection begins to take shape.
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