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For 12,715 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: 10,452 out of 12715
  2. Mixed: 1,949 out of 12715
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12715
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hello Everything
    The sheer size of Hello Everything's scope dictates it's a bit of a sprawling beast, more a collection of moments than a cohesive record. Nonetheless, it's a consistently enthralling listen.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Black Rainbows
    While Black Rainbows may represent more of a flickering flame than a raging inferno, it at least yields some evidence that Anderson's once-fiery persona has not been completely extinguished.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    SPARK
    Whitney’s music is starting to sound better than it is. A little more songwriting, and a bit more leeway for that old, bracing strangeness, would go a long way.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 53 Critic Score
    Myself in the Way
    Love’s rapture is on full display on the lyrics sheet, but throughout Myself in the Way, the chemistry feels lab-sterilized.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Portamento
    In the place of anthems, though, are carefully constructed gems making up a sequencing run so solid it takes a few listens to pick out the exact drop-off point.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Autumn Was A Lark
    Swallowed whole, Autumn Was a Lark can seem sonically disjointed, but it's also an apt representation of Portastatic's ever-roaming muse.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Take My Breath Away
    One gets the sense, however, that in acknowledging where his inspirations came from and figuring out where his compositions will go on Take My Breath Away, he's misplaced the present tense and the once-present tension.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Starting from Nowhere
    This is ultimately mediocre music that sometimes recalls the sound and feeling of excellent music, and the only thing that Heidecker brings to the table is a smirking irony that is not particularly appealing when separated from hilarious comedy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Work
    The record is expertly mixed and produced: It brims with fully realized moments, like a synth bit on “Anxious” that conjures the exact feeling of seeing an ex like someone else’s post on Instagram; the portamentos on “Slow Burn” should come with a vertigo warning. But the album’s mood is just sour.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Dross Glop
    It's a thrilling look inside his brain, a microcosmic version of this peep under the hood that Battles have allowed with Dross Glop, showing off the constituent parts that now make their machine a smooth, assured, and always giddily exciting ride.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    The Saga Continues
    The Saga Continues is full of competent if forgettable rapping straight out of the Wu-Tang manuscripts, and each Wu rapper does a serviceable job mustering up shades of their primes, in function. The verses don’t do what they used to, but at a distance they move in the same ways.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    City Of Refuge
    City of Refuge seems more like a collection of ideas for three or four different albums than one complete work.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 51 Critic Score
    Hot Hot Heat
    Rarely does a band bid you farewell and admit it overstayed its welcome in the same breath.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 44 Critic Score
    Thunderheist
    While this sort of proactive fandom hardly qualifies as bad art, you'd have to get pretty smashed to ignore the album's missing spirit and just dance, which, sadly, may be the point here.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Ultraista
    The group's clearly more concerned with making great sounds and creating a distinctive vibe than they are with making lasting statements.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Lil B.I.G. Pac [Mixtape]
    It's punchier; the themes are weightier; the emotional range is more dynamic. And it finds Kodak Black sounding like nobody but himself.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 53 Critic Score
    Brain Thrust Mastery
    As far as mainstream pop-rock records go, Brain Thrust Mastery occasionally gets the job done.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 51 Critic Score
    Permalight
    Unfortunately, and perhaps predictably, their new drive can be awkward. Even more unfortunately, it's most notable on what should be their catchiest songs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Big Dream
    The main weakness is the same one found on Crazy Clown Time: the songs. As songs, they don’t do much or say much.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard
    Naturally, the double-album's peaks occur when both members' ideas intersect.... With these moments, Hella back up their ambition with impressive amounts of ingenuity and elbow grease, creating a White Album for disgruntled Gen Xers still finding solace in shoeboxes full of NES cartridges.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where Were You When It Happened?
    Just as you'd have to be made of stone not to enjoy at least some part of a Monotonix gig, anyone who likes garage rock would have to be an obstinate stickler for originality not to enjoy the best parts--that is, the majority--of Where Were You When It Happened?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    In the Cool of the Day
    Religious music was never a hot button issue, and at no point does this, Moore's latest, feel like anything other than an honest expression of love.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Nina Kraviz Presents Masseduction Rewired
    Masseduction Rewired is by no means indispensable, but as a distraction it has the frustrating charm of a good crossword puzzle.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU
    It settles for being a mildly adventurous AAA rap album made by two friends searching for fun in heartbreak.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Deadbeat
    Most of these songs aren’t offensive on their own. .... The cumulative effect, though, is exhausting, a daisy-chain of shaky half-measures that doesn’t even feel particularly committed to being depressing.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Future
    If this attempted reconciliation produces moments of both elation and frustration, well, the band's erratic track record gives us no real reason to expect otherwise.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 47 Critic Score
    On The Outside
    Like every jerk who reads an Orwell or Rand novel and walks around a few days with a chip on his/her shoulder, Starsailor play the self-righteous yet simplistic social critic.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Yucca
    It's softer feel also illustrates the dynamic range Cohen has as a songwriter on his first solo outing, one that isn't especially revelatory or inventive, but does offer a solid starting point for the second chapter of his career.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    INSANO
    He’s never sounded more checked out. Even Cudi doesn’t seem to believe his own hype anymore. To its credit, INSANO is trying to do something different—that different thing, however, is just having DJ Drama provide thin narrative window dressing to a spate of uninspired Kid Cudi songs.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Velocity of Sound
    On an album that feels about six minutes long (it's actually just under 29), a couple highlights aren't enough to make it a keeper. But you can't necessarily count the band's new younger focus as a flaw; Velocity of Sound showcases a tight, concentrated power-pop sound that the band seemed to have lost on their last couple outings.
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