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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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unexpected Victory
    Unexpected Victory's sound is too lousy--and its stakes too low--to ever possibly live up to his past glories.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 61
    So while Pinch might not have moved on from dubstep completely, he's definitely moved somewhere, and it sounds like an exciting place to be.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Rich Forever
    It's a record that uses nastiness to cement the character "Rick Ross" as three-dimensional, and uses a barrage of bangers to cement the rapper Rick Ross as an undeniable force.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    No One Can Ever Know
    Frigid, militant, and rhythmic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Tramp
    Matters of mistrust, isolation, and uncomfortable togetherness dominate Tramp, rolling through every track like a sick, creeping fog.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Tamer Animals
    Even if the emotional intent often feels recycled from other records, Tamer Animals is a record that takes you places.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Old Ideas
    The songs are decent, the singing is stunning.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    It's the Arps [EP]
    The clean lines and easy momentum of It's the Arps are really refreshing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Vantaa
    This music is as simultaneously functional and pleasurable as Luomo's more active house tracks, only it's for an opposite function--and a more sedate set of pleasure centers.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Black Cocaine [EP]
    Black Cocaine comes across as not particularly different than, say, recent records from Saigon or Uncle Murda or M.O.P.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    I Love You
    On his best effort yet, I Love You, Urick's dub obsessions have moved to the front of the room.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Rad Times Xpress IV
    Rad Times Xpress IV illuminates how well that music lends itself to more experimental renderings while the songs seemingly engineered to hold onto RTX's denim'n'leather constituency yield surprises.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    La Grande
    One wouldn't expect Gibson's latest to bowl over any audiophile chasing the wow!-factor, but for the patient, contemplative listener, La Grande-- much like the campfire depicted on its cover-- is a record worth warming to.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Making Mirrors
    Gotye's exemplary pop sense may be the big revelation of Making Mirrors, yet it's his arty restlessness that will continue to keep him interesting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Wilson Semiconductors [EP]
    There are plenty of impulses worthy of exploration, but too often they end up tarnished by a listless desire to meander without direction, making Wilson Semiconductors feel more like a stopgap than a valuable addition to Hagerty's canon.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Hospitality
    The not-new songs here don't sound reworked so much as run through some kind of cartoony scrubbing contraption, Wonka Wash-style, emerging stunningly clean out the other end, the curvy surfaces all gleaming in the sun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Be Strong
    The guys' commitment to music-as-fun and big, croon-y hooks (Goddard's velvet vocals sound as good as ever here) keeps it enjoyable throughout.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Strange Weekend
    Porcelain Raft borrows liberally from both the shoegaze and dream-pop playbooks, and so we get layers of sonic gauze shot through with delicately strummed acoustic guitar patterns and Remiddi's reedy, rather androgynous voice.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Born to Die
    For all of its coos about love and devotion, it's the album equivalent of a faked orgasm-- a collection of torch songs with no fire.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Habits & Contradictions
    He's probably not going to be a break-out star, but it's hard to imagine that there will be many more original or satisfying rap long-players this year.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    U&I
    Strangely, pairing with just Mt. Sims on U&I appears to have resulted in less-focused output, with the duo gradually circling a grimy musical plughole, only managing to pull themselves out via less cluttered material in the back half of the record.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    America Give Up
    America Give Up is inconsistent and derivative yet promising, and not nearly as impressive as some early adopters would have people believe.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Vodka & Ayahuasca
    That atmosphere helps hold up Vodka & Ayahuasca's sense of anarchic, altered-state unease when the lyrics don't quite cut it, though the tolerable-at-worst punchlines and metaphors are easier to stomach the less dead-serious you take them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    MU.ZZ.LE
    MU.ZZ.LE might be a transitional point on Gonjasufi's path and it shows just one face of an eclectic, multifaceted performer. But it's also that rare album that feels meditative and cathartic all at once.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Back on Time
    It's a kitchen sink-like flood of sound, always on the verge of resembling a gigantic curveball being forced down your throat, but with Vibert pulling back from the humor brink at all the right moments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clear Heart Full Eyes
    Clear Heart is just good enough to keep us listening.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 39 Critic Score
    Resolution
    Lamb of God's general lack of adventurousness makes them mostly indistinguishable from their heroes and, budget excepted, the bulk of their contemporaries.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Lion's Roar
    For the sisters' part, their voices are steadier now, and richer.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 44 Critic Score
    The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
    The songs are fine but largely feckless, and what could be an animating contrast between glum lyrics and upbeat music is too often hobbled by clunkers both generic ("I am lost in my mind when you go to sleep") and specific (something about tarot cards).
    • 83 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Attack On Memory
    As an accidental concept album affirming the enduring power and purity of early emo (as defined by Dischord, Deep Elm, and especially Jade Tree), Attack on Memory feels above all necessary, a corrective for indie rock making allowances for everything except music that actually rocks.
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