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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Outside Closer
    They've created a world of tender reflection encompassing engaging melodic cycles, pastoral textures, glitchy interjections, acoustic decoration, melancholic strings, loose, jazz tinged drums, lonely horns, yearning guitar laments and delicate vocals: All melded into ebbs and flows that form a coherent universe through songs which all have their own defining characteristics.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TA
    By applying themselves to proper songs with words and everything like Mogwai did last year they've demonstrated why they still belong in the upper echelon of Outpoppers That Matter.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electric Circus
    This is a brilliant, visionary album and needs rewarding with units - MTV won't have the scoobiest what to do, radio programmers will freak, and hip-hop will, once again, move forward.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    The most worth-the-wait long-awaited album in the world... ever? Could be...
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ether Teeth
    The sound is small scale, but the bewildering range of styles shows he thinks big -­ listen with your brain plugged in.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Search Of... [First Version]
    Having created the noise to which great hip and ace hop is made, they are now infusing the genre with new blood, vibe, and funk. The future just happened. [Review of UK version]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
    It’s like this: ‘Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers’ sounds like every record ever made, somewhere along the line.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chosen Lords
    No-one makes gizmos and machines prong like fruity tuning forks as well as this man, nor do they construct such vivid atmospherics with such cunning simplicity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Derdang Derdang
    This is probably the most exciting record that Domino will release in 2006, eleven songs of hillbilly hoe-down, gothic atmospherics, scuzzy rock & roll, acerbic post punk noise, and dark sexuality.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bem-Vinda Vontade
    This is a standout record even by his high standards.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    This is woeful, otherworldly - and wonderful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Milk Of Human Kindness
    It displays the kind of emotion and movement that Four Tet, Boom Bip and Stereolab would all appreciate.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music Of The Spheres
    The production is perfect - not too cluttered, lush, beats melting beautifully into the now-understated guitar - and his vocals are warm and unpresuming.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happy New Year
    What "Happy New Year" really represents is Oneida's finest, most complete record to date, and as such it's the perfect starting point for anyone who's as yet unfamiliar with their rather daunting back catalog.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs For The Deaf
    'Songs For The Deaf' is a triumph, a record forged with fire and sweat in the pits of Valhalla... It is the very essence of Rock.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Libertines
    This is a fragile, beautiful music, it all nearly falls apart and then flops back together.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Us
    A beautiful ramble of a record.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fall Heads Roll
    'Fall Heads Roll' as a whole might not quite scale the heights of 'The Real New Fall LP', but there's no doubt that elements of it are up there with it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nightlife
    'Nightlife' is a record that demands to be heard, for not only is it Erase Errata's best album yet, but also one of the finest to emerge from the leftfield this year.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Being Ridden
    Cex played with Mogwai last year, and the experience seems to have had a profound effect on him. The best moments of the late nineties Scottish post-rock explosion seem apparent here, and there are even hints at prime Arab Strap, which is of course quite brilliant.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has Been
    'Has Been' is just about as far as you could possibly get from your regular solo offering and as such arrives as one of the year's most strangely captivating albums.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yes New York
    Probably the best post-punk album you'll buy all year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impeach My Bush
    On 'Impeach My Bush', Peaches has significantly upped her game with a greater leap from 'Fatherfucker' than there was between that album and debut 'The Teaches Of Peaches'.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yanqui U.X.O.
    Yes, of course it's a touch on the pretentious-sounding side, and it's also one of the most remorselessly miserable records of the decade so far, but none of this should discourage you from embracing it wholly.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs For Silverman
    Not only is Folds singing better than ever, and not only is his song-writing oozing confidence - but the musician in him is also at the peak of his powers; the piano playing is just mesmerising.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lantern
    This is music that never quite settles; it's in perpetual motion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jacket Full Of Danger
    Come and pay homage to the new Lounge Lizard King.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yes, I'm A Witch
    The only disappointment is it's all probably way too leftfield for generic consumption, meaning most people won't actually get to hear it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pig Lib
    A return to form: no tongue-in-cheek pop motifs, but a welcome re-embracing of the mid-American rock that always informed Pavement's more enlightening, abstruse moments.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Iowa
    'Iowa' is a fantastic metal record, ferocious and inventive, but their rage is that of psychotic adolescents rather than reasoning adults. You'll love it!
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