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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Negro Swan
    Slippery and cryptic, Negro Swan blurs boundaries between the finished and the unfinished; between focused deliberation and thrown-together spontaneity; between fly-on-the-wall conversations and self-contained songs; between indie experimentalism and overground pop; between insider and outsider, black and white, straight and gay, trans and cis; between taxing depletion and invigorating replenishment.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All Time Present
    Despite the occasional nod to rock formalism, All Time Present achieves a scope only hinted at on Forsyth’s previous full-lengths.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Don't Forget Me
    Don’t Forget Me is, in many ways, its inverse: It inhabits parties and frantic nights out, yet the tracks carry the steady, guitar-backed propulsion of a road movie. Rogers, at last, sounds sure of her destination.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Common Sense
    What it reveals is someone of talent, ambition, and enough wit and self-awareness to keep that ambition grounded in reality. It’s an excellent debut from an artist on the cusp.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Cuz I Love You
    Despite her obvious skill and charisma, some of the album’s 11 songs are burdened with overwrought production, awkward turns of phrase, and ham-handed rapping.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1966
    1966 is one more piece to a puzzle that will never be complete--which is of course how Dalton herself would have had it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ghosts Of The Great Highway
    For the first time, Kozelek has put out an album whose meticulous sequencing yields more than just a random scattershot collection of great songs, but rather a complete cohesive musical statement.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dark Days/Light Years
    The results are as free-wheeling and inspired as the group has sounded in years-- Super-er and Furrier.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Varmints
    She wears her obvious theoretical grounding lightly and never lets it obstruct her ecstatic quest for new ideas and deranged stimuli. And Varmints is a knockout, the kind that makes you see cartoon stars.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Daylight Daylight
    So much of Daylight Daylight feels this way: majestic enough to fill a theater but contained and domestic.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    A deliriously ambitious record packed with neo-psych lullabies and swooning choruses.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    From the Ages
    Earthless are incredibly indulgent, sometimes to a fault, but they’re much too excitable to be called selfish or masturbatory. The dudes are once again just riffing here. It’s a trip worth taking, at least a few times.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    All Things Being Equal
    It’s both solipsistic and psychedelic, urging listeners to travel into their own depths and welcome the joy and despair they might find there.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goats Head Soup [Deluxe Edition]
    If these Goats Heads Soup rarities betray the album’s indecisive, scatterbrained origins, the reissue’s third disc—an oft-bootlegged but greatly enhanced recording of a Brussels show from October ’73—finds the Stones still very much at the top of their game as a live act. ... Ultimately, Goats Head Soup remains fascinating for how it makes the Stones seem a little less mythical and a lot more real.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Half God
    Wiki has always wielded his considerable talent to paint cityscapes with words, but with Elsesser’s production, they become transportive.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Burnover
    Not every great album hits on the first listen, but Freeman’s second record, Burnover, somehow feels like it’s always existed.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    SABLE, fABLE
    For all the sonic risks and boundary-pushing distortions of previous records, SABLE, fABLE is the more daring album in Bon Iver’s catalog.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tarot Sport
    "Street Horrrsing" was a great record, but Tarot Sport is a cut above. Perhaps surprisingly, it's also a welcoming album--and one of the best of this already fruitful year.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Coriky
    As ever, MacKaye shrewdly distills macro calamities to personal, almost prosaic vignettes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Vince Staples
    Vince Staples has movement but lacks velocity, which casts his words in the most intimate light imaginable. ... Even if you’re looking for the booming pastel energy of Kenny’s recent collaboration with TiaCorine or the breathless vibes of his work on Vince’s FM!, Vince Staples still has plenty to recommend. The sonic palette is grayscale without being boring, stoic without missing bounce.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon Grey Midnight Green
    The result is at once all-encompassing and strikingly intimate.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15: Travelin' Thru
    Comparing the Scruggs cuts and the funky, swampy Cash covers with the austere John Wesley Harding outtakes that begin Travelin’ Thru is illuminating.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Entomology
    Disbanded in their prime before they grew stale or flat, they still feel pregnant with promise, tantalizingly unfinished; like an actor cut down in youth, they've remained an irresistible lure to the imagination of pop romantics ever since.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MAYHEM
    MAYHEM may have played better if its tracklist were whittled down from 14 to, say, 10. Still, it is among Gaga’s strongest ever full-length statements.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Our Love
    Our Love is a very assured record, from its unconventional, austere arrangements to its unrelenting focus and thematic consistency.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Currents
    Nearly every proper song on Currents is a revelatory statement of Parker’s range and increasing expertise as a producer, arranger, songwriter, and vocalist while maintaining the essence of Tame Impala.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Dream All Over
    Dream All Over recalls the most crucial lesson of all underground rock music: become your own sound, and create a universe for it to exist in.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Pussycat
    And yet, as loaded as the subject matter is, it does amazingly little to diminish Hatfield’s bright spirit. Even on this, her angriest record by a landslide, the singer retains the intrinsic tunefulness that’s marked every record she’s made since she was a teenager.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Underneath
    Code Orange’s second album for Roadrunner, the exhausting and uneven Underneath, lands like a glib attempt to do just that while forsaking the idiosyncrasies that made them interesting.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Motherhood
    A shoegaze album with a rare scope and an even rarer sense of fun and imagination.
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