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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    And Never Ending Nights
    Never Ending Nights contains just enough detail to save it from pastiche and in doing so offers a glimpse into Willner's influences.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Crossover Ministry
    Like their first two records (2013’s Worse Than Dead and the following year’s The Tyranny Of Will), the band’s latest effort doubles as a vehicle for violent, nihilistic escapism. And it’s a compact one at that, clocking in at 18 tracks in 30 minutes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Omnium Gatherum
    Omnium Gatherum proves King Gizzard still have a whole lot of it left in the tank.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Imitations
    Imitations may not alter Lanegan’s roundabout arc as a musical itinerant, but it’s a steady reminder of the breadth of his scope and the depth of his roots, not to mention his stature as one of the most potent voices of his generation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow
    It is a painfully raw, emotionally generous, politically charged, intensely intelligent, sometimes unlistenable album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Tribute to 2
    If Eternally Even was James’ aggrieved effort to engage directly with a world in unrest, Tribute To 2 is an attempt to offer succor. It’s a little glimpse of the past James hopes will soothe and reassure us.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Thrill of It All
    The Thrill of It All even features a few songs that leave heartbreak in the rear-view mirror. They aren’t all successful, but they’re interesting experiments for someone whose bread and butter is romantic dissatisfaction.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    A Thousand Shark's Teeth
    Frustratingly, what should be the album's best song isn't on the album.... A creative chameleon with endless wells of technical skill, Worden stuffs Shark's Teeth with studied know-how.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Women
    Awkward, youthful moments exist, but Women tire of them almost before you do. What's left are the best of post-punk ingredients: curiosity, noise, and sly artifice.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    God Is Good
    In general, the album is sequenced awkwardly. The first two tracks have vocals and are around 19 and seven minutes long, respectively.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Night Gallery
    There are bum notes, and rhythms that wander. But Eternal Tapestry and Sun Araw mesh well. When they hit a groove, they're a match made in a UV lamp-lit and sage-scented stoner-rock heaven.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Bastards
    Bastards does little to counteract the sensation that latter-day Björk records are more fulfilling to read about than listen to.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Good Nature
    Good Nature is SoCal to the core, a warm embrace of the area’s soft-focus spirituality and the optimism of young, beautiful creatives without much to worry about.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Always Ascending
    The return of synths and disco-ish atmospherics serves, unsurprisingly, to obscure the fact that a nontrivial reinvention still eludes them. But to their credit, Franz Ferdinand are persistently resourceful, and in their theatrical suave and helter-skelter choruses there lingers an obvious knack for starting fires armed only with indie-pop panache.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    All That Emotion
    Though Emotion is refined, it also isn’t different from Dessner’s other production work—it’s still musically reticent, covered in fog. Its clarity originates in Georgas’ ability to process what she’s feeling, and spending 40 minutes in her head as she figures things out doesn’t feel suffocating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Infinite
    There are no moments in the same area code of The Infamous or Hell on Earth. But Infinite is a decent stab at giving one of the greatest rap duos of all time one last trip around the block.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    The Flower Lane
    The relatively sumptuous presentation of The Flower Lane successfully separates it from the rest of Ducktails' discography. Unfortunately, a familiar emptiness remains.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Ciara
    Ciara feels slightly (though only slightly) weaker when she swims against the current of her own charm and tries for “raw.”
    • 72 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Forever
    On Forever, Holograms take lofty themes and personal trials and make them a communal experience.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Transverse
    Like all great live albums (Live at the Apollo, Double Live, After Dark), it will make you eternally thankful that someone had the foresight to hit the record button.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Return The Gift
    Bottom line is that if you've got the old albums and you want to experience Gang of Four again, better to shell out for the actual show than for the disc that approximates it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Free Reign
    As Free Reign shows, when Clinic take their time, they can build up a bewitching groove.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Womb
    Purity Ring, by placing the mature perspective of an adult woman in the throat of an adolescent girl, confer upon children a maturity and sophistication that most don’t possess, and shouldn’t have to. Still, WOMB is some of Purity Ring’s strongest work, a confident and singular statement from a band often imitated over the past decade.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Era
    Era showcases all the work Disappears have done cutting and splicing and regathering their sound together to regain their identity. It’s still lurking in the shadows, but finally, it's there.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    All in Good Time
    The key to Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s most successful music is balance, and while the band struggles to recapture some of their old magic, Huntley finds that same sweet spot in his lovingly unromantic storytelling.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Among the Leaves
    You get the impression he isn't really trying that hard, that bettering his bests isn't a notion that interests him, 20 years after the release of Red House Painters' debut album. He's the kind of talented songwriter that can mostly pull that off; though for a record so spare and simple, Among the Leaves comes off as strangely confrontational.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    All Worlds
    Summer is a season of extremes—exhilaration and malaise, heat that can feel more oppressive than the cold—and All Worlds is best when it leans into them.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Supermigration
    At times the duo are guilty of excessive portentousness, but there are just as many moments where their grandiose ambitions are convincingly realised.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    King of the Beach
    It's major-key and resplendently colored, owing as much to Orange County skate-punk as it does to the Beach Boys.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Dynamite Steps
    Dulli's only got a set number of tricks up his sleeve, and Dynamite Steps deploys them all: the vocal soaring above the maelstrom of guitars (a trick he perfected back on the Whigs' 1965), the off-key croon that other singers might AutoTune, the delicate piano contrasting the gutter guitars, the sordid come-ons masking dark existential doubts, the sudden groove as if someone stepped on the gas.
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