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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An Imaginary Country
    Tim Hecker’s beautiful meditations are inviting but still retain the edge of a seeker that isn’t quite finished with the trip.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rockwell
    Rockwell is a promising debut, and she’ll be wise to stick to the road less traveled on future excursions.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Song Of The Pearl
    Song of the Pearl marks a nice transition for these guys, but it ends up sounding like it could have been more.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
    Benjamin Verdoes and his bandmates have put together a debut of impressive songs that can be infectious and inviting, but also caustic and surprising.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Truth Is Here [EP]
    Ali can do this, can take the familiar, the overly confrontational, even the trite and overdone, and make it riveting, because he has a voice that strains syllables so that the meanings of his words are made perfectly clear--you can't escape what he's saying--and a flow that loads and unleashes relentlessly.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Advance Base Battery Life
    The odd bits and bobs typical of the 7-inch and B-side world manage to make Advance Base Battery Life a little more interesting than Owen Ashworth's previous work.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty Bomb
    With an ear pointed to the type of gritty urban centers depicted on the album cover, Dirty Bomb references dubstep, baile funk, breakcore, North African drum patterns, Arabic folk music and Bollywood strings. And it will devastate your subwoofer.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mystery [EP]
    Mystery, a four-song warning shot of an EP, completes the cycle of hype. Duck and cover, y’all: Something wicked this way comes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Line On The Horizon
    By this point, it's within their rights to utilize pieces of their past in building a new present for themselves, as long as they don't half-ass it and start turning out inferior remakes of their old tunes. That's not what's going on here, and if anything, No Line is ultimately a more visceral and memorable effort than either of the band's other two 21st century offerings.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
    When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence contains some of the most interesting bass-centered tracks to come out in some time, and represents a progression in the current bass scene as a whole, no matter what specific genre each track belongs to.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Take My Breath Away
    Take My Breath Away is a techno album, and it will probably be listened to either by people who know what they’re getting into or anonymously at a bar on the Lower East Side.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    C'est Com...Com...Complique
    C'est Com..Com..Complique is superb, a monument that could only have been sculpted by the group's original hands.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Little Hells
    Little Hells still works from start to finish, but if that's the case, then it's pretty good for process output.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl
    At its weary, lovely close, it becomes clear that Live belongs not to the listener but to the artist who created it. And that makes this album one of the most vital and electric he's made in years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    200 Million Thousand
    200 Million Thousand has more hooks and is better top-to-bottom than any previous Black Lips effort.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hungry Bird
    Taken as a whole, the music on Hungry Bird is at times lovely, but also has the tendency to become unsettling.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Here We Go Magic
    When it works, Temple stuns. Unfortunately, it seems he's also chosen to pad this album with formless sound collages and white-noise excursions, diluting what would have been a stellar EP's worth of material.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Padded Room
    The Joe Budden on Padded Room, however, is focused and hungry, spinning dense, psychological yarns that build for dozens and dozens of bars. Budden scratched and clawed for his second chance, and he hasn’t squandered it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Have Hands
    Unfortunately, it takes quite a bit of effort to sift through 30 such songs to find the more immediately arresting moments. The sugar-rush aesthetic grows tiresome over the course of the record and threatens to overshadow the more sublime moments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    White Bird Release
    White Bird Release is a solid, completely contained work.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dissolver
    Dissolver is easily Iran’s most cohesive album-length statement, and it proves that there is more to the band than idle four-track trickery.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Hold Time
    These new songs have lofty melodic ambitions but aren’t dedicated to the kind of journeying Ward’s lyrics imply.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Years Of Refusal
    With music this uniformly entertaining, it’s best just to quiet down and let the former Stephen Patrick Morrissey do the talking. That's what Years of Refusal confirms as his greatest strength, anyway.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hush
    As far as listening experiences go, you can certainly do a lot worse than sitting back in your chair, being consistently affected by Asobi Seksu's sunlit wandering. Unfortunately, it would probably be better for Hush if the band stepped into the shadows every once in a while.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Spirit Of Apollo
    The Spirit of Apollo is what happens when you pack 40 guest appearances onto a single album and expect their charisma alone to make something intriguing. It’s a huge gamble, and one The Spirit of Apollo lost.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tight Knit
    A subtle, intricate album that simply gets better with every listen. A bittersweet pleasure from beginning to end.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Havilah
    The thickset blues-rock of Havilah, the fifth studio album from the Drones, makes for opaque and impenetrable listening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Be Still
    The poetry on To Be Still is sometimes a bit too delicate for my taste, but the songs show off much more than words alone. They display a quirky vocal talent and songwriting skill.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Reviver [EP]
    Vidal’s newfound penchant for quiet introspection, providing a fantastic centerpiece to this EP, which contains more riveting ideas and modes of expression than most full-length albums.
    • 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.
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