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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Afterparty Babies
    Over and over, we get the sense that Cadence makes records for that gaggle of kids on the album cover, for the look on their faces. If any of the rest of us likes it, all the better. It works: We’d like to know more about Mr. Weapon, and his buds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wilderness Heart
    Wilderness Heart is tight but never overly controlled, and it varies in all the ways you could possibly want it to. It's a Black Mountain record through and through, that's for sure.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seadrum/House Of Sun
    If Sea Drum/ House of Sun was the debut album from some little-known psych act, I’d be hailing it as one of the year’s best records.... But from the Boredoms, Seadrum/House of Sun is nothing special.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Weight Is A Gift
    The main problem here is the theme -- the weight would have been a gift had there been some.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Couples
    The Long Blondes sophomore album, Couples, is a disappointing follow-up to their sublime 2006 debut, "Someone to Drive You Home," but not as disappointing as it initially appears.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    Sky Blue Sky is Wilco's first step toward aging well, but it transcends transition and is an album that sounds right in its place and time.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Robert Pollard Is Off To Business
    On Off to Business, he accomplishes another step toward canonization, making a late-period album that removes any semblance of what made him great in the first place and is a largely uninspired trip down memory lane.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tapes
    While maintaining a slick vibe embodying the sultry lowlights of an unsuspecting loft party, Foals' Tapes are nothing particularly groundbreaking--but sure as hell an intoxicating listen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    8 Diagrams
    When looked at from afar, 8 Diagrams is far more of a success than it is a failure, and years from now, when it is fully removed from the drama and hype, it just may sound even better.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beach House
    Ultimately, Beach House is a mood piece, finding a specific tone and lingering there for its entirety.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brightblack Morning Light
    Most of the material is as impressive in sound as it is atmosphere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under A Billion Suns
    Under a Billion Suns is a great record, and Mudhoney is one of the best bands in rock 'n' roll, period.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    "Everything Is Under Control" is worth a download, and Saul Williams's spoken-word performance on "Mr. Nichols" is worth noting, but how much of this record has been done before and how much of it will be done again? What Coldcut mix can you say the same about?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Knives Don't Have Your Back
    She may not excel on her solo album the way she has with Broken Social Scene or Metric, but it's still a rainy-day listen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fear Is On Our Side
    The band's accomplishment on Fear Is on Our Side is that no matter what direction the song goes, the journey is always worth it, the ending is a satisfying resolution.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exposion
    Exposion challenges us to rethink the limitations of a song, and thusly rewards us with an album unlike any other this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crystal Castles
    Crystal Castles leaves its mark as an electro record that challenges, succeeding and failing all at once, and perhaps most important, never forgetting the primary goal of dance music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Finding Forever
    Finding Forever, then, is Common's snapshot of hip-hop's awkward middle age--an album that is neither here nor there.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Do Whatever You Want All the Time
    Ponytail fans will surely enjoy this relatively formed incarnation of the band's energy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Places Vs. Mankind
    It seems impossible that the same band that started out so ramshackle could deliver an album as splendid and tighly wound as this.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    We All Belong
    Ultimately, We All Belong hints at the band's innocuousness. Nothing here offends, but there's nothing anywhere near compelling, either.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Free The Bees
    Free the Bees shows a group of skilled musicians who are comfortable in their style and songwriting, and it plays like it was unearthed in a warehouse basement, where it was hidden for the last forty years.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We're Animals
    We're Animals may not be as mind-boggling as Numbers' 2004 release, In My Mind All the Time, but it merges elements of the precursors to the new wave/post-punk movements with a psychedelic ambiance.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Keep Your Eyes Ahead
    Keep Your Eyes Ahead could easily be seen as the result of making the best out of a bad situation and succeeding in spades.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Eggs
    Down to the minute details, epic pop should center on creating a tiny, vibrant world that begins and ends within the space of the song, and Eggs’ best songs truly achieve this aim.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    King Krule [EP]
    We have an airy, understated collage that acts more as a stopgap teaser to keep the spotlight on the young lad from London, before something more cohesive and fully-realized can be recorded.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Narrow Stairs
    Narrow Stairs finds Gibbard more than willing to play to type, offering the same staid character sketches he’s used since his first EP and songs that reiterate his point, that, like, love can be rough on you.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bitter Honey
    [The] most unexpectedly superb album so far this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The BQE
    While The BQE might not put Stevens in the running as the most groundbreaking voice in contemporary classical music, it's certainly a damn sight better than the orchestral efforts squeezed out over the last several years by the likes of Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, et al.
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