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For 12,769 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: 10,501 out of 12769
  2. Mixed: 1,954 out of 12769
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12769
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Allah-Las
    Allah-Las are ultimately preoccupied with sound above all else. So long as there are 12-string guitars, four-piece drumkits, and lots and lots of reverb, the rest of the world can go away.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Lines: 2012 Mix/Master
    Frankly [add-ons would] just be a distraction from the underlying theme that becomes clear once you get absorbed into the music, which is that Blue Lines is still Blue Lines, and most of the world is still trying to catch up to it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Instrumental Tourist
    It's an enjoyable detour, one that affirms how well these producers have honed their approaches to sound.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    From the Vaults, Vol. 1
    The dozen takes are every bit as crafted as those on Kylesa's increasingly excellent five studio albums, with tones both enormous and exploratory and vocals both large and enthusiastic.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Field Music Play...
    There is dark humor and interesting angles--even joy--to be found in basic realities and mundane commitments.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Wild Water Kingdom [Mixtape]
    Though he's still not the best rapper (his refusal to abide by traditional rhyme schemes will be frustrating to purists) he's made great strides here and is helped along by a NYC underground producer showcase.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Dagdrom
    The key to Dagdrøm's daunting mystique: You're never really sure if what you're hearing is the calm before the storm or the storm before the calm.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Into the Future
    Sloppiness has crept into their once-perfect attack, and there is a certain any-era-of-modern-rock, unstuck-in-time vibe to the production choices and songwriting.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    True [EP]
    True, a thematically consistent whole, sounds like the product of a lovingly forged artistic bond.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reservation [Mixtape]
    On Reservation, Angel Haze shows herself to be the rare rapper who has copped a great deal of contemporary popular hip-hop and R&B and come out the other side as purely herself.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Wretched Virile Lore
    Like Hardcore, A Wrenched Virile Lore features 10 tracks, though it only references eight of the originals. However, even the mixes that draw from the same songs are different enough in approach and sequenced in such a way that the reappearances feel like purposeful reprises.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold [Boxset]
    Unlike the meticulously pleasant Songs for Christmas, which more or less sounds exactly like what a casual fan (or detractor) might expect a Sufjan Stevens Christmas box set to sound like, the music inside Silver & Gold can be as downright strange as its accompanying accessories.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Rare Chandeliers [Mixtape]
    The Alchemist's beats on Rare Chandeliers are perfectly good, but they do little to amplify Bronson's character.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Unapologetic
    The measurable failure is the album's music. On a track-by-track basis, the songs make for dull labor, not worth our time and not befitting Rihanna's talent.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
    There's a sense of discovery to Quarter Turns Over a Living Line, with Andrews and Halstead unveiling the slow evolution of their sound over its 40-minute runtime.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Reloaded
    If you simply want a rap album that will inspire all-caps quote sprees on Twitter or hourlong Gchat exchanges with your fellow microphone fiends, it really doesn't get any better than Reloaded.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aimlessness
    Times changed; Dntel, less so. Aimlessness, his third album of new material, arrives without context, scene, or convenient narrative.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    No Love Deep Web
    For the second time in one year, both on a large label and on their own, they've released a record ruthless and rewarding enough to animate that image.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Feed Me Diamonds
    Feed Me Diamonds is best, though, when it gets emotionally heady.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Movement
    Appropriately named, Movement feels like a progression and challenge from one of the year's most exciting new voices, producers, and composers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    We Don't Even Live Here
    The problem is that the strangely smug We Don't Even Live Here feels more like P.O.S. preaching to the converted than attempting to make a believer out of anyone, lacking any palpable resistance necessary to justify the constant underdog pose.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ghost [EP]
    Ghost demonstrates well enough Ferreira's versatility, certainly her stylishness, but even more than those, it shows her empathy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Odds
    The Odds is, in every way, the product of scaling down operations rather than of giving up or throwing the fans a nostalgia trip. It's fair to say that the Evens have set their target low and close; you could also call that intimacy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pale Fire
    Pale Fire doesn't command your attention so much as wait patiently until it drifts into your view and then goes away.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Sequitur
    Right now Sequitur feels like a step forward for a genre that could happily stay the same forever.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Nebula Dance
    For all of the stylistic hopscotch being played, the individual songs on Nebula Dance cohere into an impressively solid whole.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    A List of the Burning Mountains
    As big and bold as it can sound, there's little here that's especially flashy or blatantly attention-seeking.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    King Animal
    The group's first album since 1996 just sounds like the one they would've churned out in 1998.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
    Few can match their feel for arrangement or sense of structure.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    An Omen EP
    The tracks themselves are, per Reznor and Ross's pedigrees, immaculately pieced together, richly detailed and suitably moody. Maandig, however, continues to stick out of this mix.... She still hits all the right notes, but brings a generic prettiness to her delivery that doesn't gel with the moody futurism going on around her.
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