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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Was The Night
    There’s a certain history-capturing aspiration here, as if the album's purpose wasn’t just for charity, to move records, or for Dessner to get together with his pals to compile an album but to provide a musical time capsule that in 20 years could allow younger generations to get into indie rock from the early 21st century. If that was how compilation albums were solely judged, Dark Was the Night would be the gold standard.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fear Fun
    Whereas Helplessness lived up to its title through a narrator that found inspiration in leaving childish things behind, Misty treads the same notions of spirituality in a decidedly earthier manner.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Generals
    Generals might sound like a spoonful of sugar, but it gives you a lot of medicine to get down.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Yellow & Blue
    Their sound doesn’t deconstruct or reconstruct anything; it just kicks some tail.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jewellery
    Anyone who has found beauty in a chipped tooth or a grazed knee will find much to love here. Jewellery certainly doesn’t suffer from a paucity of ideas, and the lyrical subjects are more than a match for the band’s heterogeneous musical leanings.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Megafaun
    It's apparent they're looking to construct a big tent for everyone to fit in, and unsurprisingly they're succeeding wildly.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slowdive
    With such a hooky, immediate, and yet complex record, let’s hope it’s not the final fade out.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
    His self-producing the album allows for complete creative control and its pure sense of cohesion as one track flows seamlessly into the next.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Developments
    It's evidence of a powerful songwriter honing his artistry.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put Your Back N 2 It
    Put Your Back N 2 It is a deeply affecting album, but also a plainspoken one.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skeletal Lamping
    "Epic” is the only way to describe the balance of Skeletal Lamping--Barnes isn’t afraid to throw everything on tape.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Noise
    It is not at all clear where you are heading when you board, and it becomes less and less important as the journey progresses, beauty on all sides, comfortably lost in the violet noise (more appropriate than black) suffusing everything at hand.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    With News & Tributes, the band has matured to where the songs are initially gratifying but also grant further rewards with subsequent scrutiny.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Microcastle
    Continuing the convention-defying structure that Deerhunter pioneered with "Cryptograms," Microcastle starts slow and spirals into something much larger.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He Gets Me High
    Even at its most elemental moments He Gets Me High sounds a lot more expansive than their debut. It might not be essential listening, but it certainly can be taking as foreshadowing of what a high-budgeted Dum Dum Girls might sound like.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occasion for Song
    The Ohio-based band led by singer/songwriter Jerry DeCicca bears its share of melancholy and then some on their fifth album, but so do a million and one other indie bands, and none of them come anywere close to evoking the same sort of sad-sack super session [like one with Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, Stuart Staples from Tindersticks, and Mickey Newbury].
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cansei De Ser Sexy
    Cansei de Ser Sexy works not because of its ability to break new musical ground but because of its ability to borrow from other influences and use them in new ways to avoid sounding totally contrived.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pale Young Gentlemen
    There's a refreshingly human scale to everything on Pale Young Gentlemen--the songs are so strong that the crack of a snare drum and the bowing of a cello, simple gestures as they are, can achieve the band's grand theatrical ambitions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Supreme Balloon
    This application of the synthesizer’s capabilities across styles and time periods allows Matmos to explore their music through a more purely compositional aesthetic -- and, with any luck, they’ll be remembered for this just as much as for their experimental leanings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Capacity
    It shows a quick growth in confidence from the last record to this one, mostly leaving behind the moments that feel too quiet, too intimate to always connect to from the last record. Capacity is another strong record, and a brave step forward for Big Thief.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family Perfume, Vol. 2
    If Family Perfume Vol. 1 can be seen as a progression where Presley is settling into his skin, Family Perfume Vol. 2 is a cathartic catalogue of letters never sent, the consequences of past decisions poignant enough to keep Presley musing, wide-eyed, remorseful--but nonetheless hopeful.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who Kill
    Garbus might be more known right now as a magnetic performer, but w h o k i l l proves she's just as beguiling on record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Powder Burns
    With Powder Burns he has surpassed all expectations brought on from his previous releases.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boys And Girls In America
    This is far from an album that will appeal to all, but it's a hell of a lot more fun than the Hold Steady's previous two efforts.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Three's Co.
    On Three's Co., Rademaker's songwriting has matured, which combined with the bigger production, makes for a thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying listen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Our Heads
    In Our Heads boasts at least eight festival crowd decimators, and finally strikes the right balance between Hot Chip's two sides.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peel Sessions
    A perfect summation of everything that was great about this band.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Third
    Behind these minor tones and detached themes, Third emits a knowing and quiet confidence that communicates the band’s strongly held ideas, especially that of existential ennui.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pigeons
    Even in a crowded field this summer, chockfull of musical juggernaunts releasing albums, Pigeons will likely catch people's attention. And those people will be glad it did.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mantaray
    Loud, brash, but never cocksure, Mantaray swaggers like a cat in heat.
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