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For 12,707 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: 10,444 out of 12707
  2. Mixed: 1,949 out of 12707
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12707
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Deep Time
    There's power in pauses, silence, and empty space, these songs affirm, and small doesn't have to mean slight.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Swing Lo Magellan
    The band's least ornate batch of songs to date builds upon Longstreth's most direct and identifiable lyrics ever. Which means that Dirty Projectors have upped their emotional and structural accessibility all at once.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Confess
    Whether it's the lush power-balladry of "Beg For the Night" and "Be Mine Tonight" or throttle-pushing rockers like "You Call Me On", Confess is defined by its melodic and emotional immediacy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    CVI
    This is a solid debut album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Modeselektor Proudly Presents Modeselektion, Vol. 2
    The inner-space exploration is enjoyable to a point, but it comes with an underlying claustrophobia and, at times, a weariness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Longtime Companion
    The record's easygoing pace, sturdy songwriting, and sunbaked production make it the third solid effort from the Sunsets.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Tapes
    [This collection] is too varied to be streamlined into a single influence-- but at least it transcends the nostalgic idea with which it starts, making the idea of the band taking these ideas and running with them a pleasingly feasible one.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 2
    [Self Made 2] exists to force-feed Hot 97 playlists.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Write Me Back
    Kelly seems to have breezed through the writing and recording process here, and there's a fine line between breezy and half-assed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Mostly No
    As far as bringing the goods on a sophomore release goes, well, the answer is mostly yeah.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    51
    Effortlessly fun.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Split Cranium
    It's as much heady, restive psychedelia as it is a punk rager.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 51 Critic Score
    Standing at the Sky's Edge
    Sky's Edge has some of the old Hawley magic in the form of "The Wood Collier's Grave"... But for the most part, it's an unwelcome return to a less distinguished period in Hawley's career, back before he knew how to make more beguiling music than this.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    The Tarnished Gold
    The Tarnished Gold is an impressively vital showing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Under the Pale Moon
    It's a document of what he needed to get out in that moment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Versions
    The coherence is most evident in the atmosphere Daniell and McCombs create.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Silfra
    Together, they have managed to build a livelier, more bustling version of Hauschka's winsome snowglobe universe.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ruler of the Night
    Fewer generalities and a more interesting narrative would have gone a long way: For all the sharp, intriguing musical experimentation, the lyrics are too easy to forget.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    POP ETC
    Is the band's self-titled album under the new moniker a brave change-up? Sure. Is it any good? Not even a little.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Valley Tangents
    An album that gleans from prog, noise, baroque, hip-hop and more at will.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Beak 2
    BEAK>> retains the same eerie, claustrophobic atmosphere as its predecessor.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    L'Enfant Sauvage
    Gojira's best work to date.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Class Clown Spots a UFO
    Class Clown's odd-angled pop and jittery arena rock keeps the weirdness on par with its predecessor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Trouble
    TEED's approach to dance-pop, much like Goddard's main act, sounds especially everyguy. The project's live show provides plenty of evidence that the stuff pleases crowds, but you get the feeling that he's doing this for himself more than anyone else.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Oshin
    A compelling debut.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Spirits
    The time-slowing, pulse-quelling Spirits is a good place to get some thinking done.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Night
    [The album has] overproduced but underwritten pieces that seek to create atmosphere but mostly leave empty spaces that the Hundred in the Hands aren't sure how to fill.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Wild Peace
    It starts to distinguish itself from its long-established template when the band gets less edgy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse
    It's one thing to be heavy, and it's another thing to be hooky, but Slaughterhouse is the rare garage-rock album to do both so well simultaneously.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Worship
    While A Place to Bury Strangers take the brave step of allowing the distortion to dissipate, the unfettered view isn't always flattering: Ackermann's lyrics can sound like they were torn out of a bored, trench-coated high-school kid's notebook, with the cyber-punk fantasia of "Mind Control" and I-want-to-die miserablism.
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