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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Onwards to the Wall [EP]
    It's a restatement of relevance, a testament to strong songwriting, and ultimately, a legacy enhancer that they desperately needed.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thank You Very Quickly
    while Thank You Very Quickly is not shy about facing the challenges and horrors of certain parts of the world, it is defiant in its love for life in spite of struggle. It proclaims the power of working together and leaning on one another, no matter the circumstances.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hope in Dirt City
    As a genre that's saturated with trends, micro-trends, and anti-trends, it's rare to find someone doing something that makes a legitimate claim at being totally unique.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
    It remains to be seen if the loose, congenial vibe of Sun Bronzed Greek Gods can be sustained for more than this EP's 19 minutes, but betting against Dom might be foolhardy.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How I Got Over
    Gone are the frantic raps, menacing synths, and general hardness of the band's past three albums. In their place is a mellow approximation of the jazzy, old-school charm of The Roots circa Things Fall Apart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ritual Union
    Its dreamy interludes, leading into those electroclash tangents provide a welcome bit of inventiveness that help to remind that, while relatable at their best, Little Dragon are hardly conventional.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Truelove's Gutter
    The album is a crumbling beauty.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Enter The Vaselines
    Here, they sound polished and crisp, which is a remarkable change from other issues of these recordings. Presumably the band is happy sounding this way, but it often feels a little too clean.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    Maybe it's time to alter our exercitations for new TV on the Radio albums: We might not be blown away, but TV on the Radio's sonic environment is still one of the most interesting venues in music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kids Aflame
    You won’t get the same thing twice on Kids Aflame, and Goldstein keeps the surprises coming with subtle changes to his vocals, adding layers of horns in unexpected places and by simply choosing not to be safe.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything in Between
    Just a hair less than 40 minutes of energetic music. Which is a welcome change by today's standards -- to simply appreciate some music by itself.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Year Of Meteors
    Veirs hasn’t given us anything strikingly original with Year Of Meteors, but there’s something to be said for working within the confines of a given genre and excelling at what that entails.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Kid Sis has elected to keep things simple--so when the album works, it becomes clear that it really works.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Talk
    Body Talk concludes a triptych of highly enjoyable pop albums. Let's hope we don't have to wait another five years for the next batch.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Spell
    Although it's similar in style to the band's first three, numerically named releases, The Spell transcends more-of-the-sameness with the strategic addition of some elements culled from Amore and a further honing of the band's unmistakable sound.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Steeple
    Although Steeple is not entirely groundbreaking, it's not entirely safe either, as its fidgety temperament is remarkable enough to make anyone feel at home.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Hurts
    It's OK to play with enthusiasm. Oh, and also, it helps to have an album with 12 fantastic songs, the way the do on Nothing Hurts.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Field Report
    The result is 10 songs of lyrical brilliance that will have music listeners giving Porterfield the credit that's long overdue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forgiveness Rock Record
    Essentially, Forgiveness Rock Record finds Broken Social Scene trading "big and loud" for "wide and warm" and as a result sounding like they've really just settled further into their identity as a band.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Drift
    The most elaborately impenetrable album we're likely to hear this decade.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bitter Honey
    [The] most unexpectedly superb album so far this year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love And Other Planets
    Though the production value of Love and Other Planets intermittently occupies the same close corners that Homesongs did, Ilham's newer work presents a concept that is far too vast to for him to have covered on his rather intimately constructed solo debut.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Emma, Forever Ago
    The strength is in Vernon’s ability to make a quiet, lonely album that is not boring.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stay Positive
    Considering most of the album is spent describing what life’s like for the rest of us, it’s surprising Stay Positive ends on a relatively self-focused note, courtesy of album highlight “Slapped Actress.”
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inni [Live]
    He uses his angelic croon to beckon us to listen to him, sounding so damn desperate. Combine that with the rest of the band's driving, yet ambient build-ups and we have one of our most lovely and earnest records of 2011.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nocturne
    These lo-fi pop gems have been polished, and the result is sparkling.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hospice
    Hospice mixes the personal and fictional in a way that few indie albums outside releases from Arcade Fire and Neutral Milk Hotel tend to do. Granted, Antlers aren’t in that league yet, but Hospice positions them as one of the more exciting young bands in indie rock today.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Gangster
    The beat selection, personal insight, wit, and overall coherence surpasses that of "Kingdom Come" and fulfills many of the expectations that the latter album failed to meet.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Fits
    The self-titled release was dominated more by decaying, almost bleak instrumental meanderings than the half-cocked pop-fuzz that made the group's many singles such hot items. 2010's Nothing Fits, released on In the Red, is a near total about-face, consisting of 11 swift, fierce blasts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tripper
    Hella are a band reinvigorated on Tripper, realizing and embracing with all of their arms (a run through any of the tracks here definitely makes it sounds like they each have more than two) the sounds that absolutely work best for them while showcasing their growth as songwriters and the experiences they've picked up from their myriad side projects.
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