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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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Cosmogramma
    Yet, even though the steady presence of featured performances helps beautify Cosmogramma, this is essentially Ellison's crowning achievement. The album is sequenced with a sense of purpose, evidential from the promo being presented as a long continuous track.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Cryptograms
    When the proper songs throughout are so uniformly good in spite of their fractured approaches, complaining about scarcity seems despicably greedy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Berberian Sound Studio
    Marked with woe from beginning to end, BerberianSoundStudio is closer to antichrist than Hallelujah, but Broadcast reminds you that divinity is intrinsic with death.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Thee Physical
    Simply put, this album is more than pretty good.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Moody Motorcycle
    Moody Motorcycle is a deft reappropriation and re-imagining of the harmonic pop of the Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Dreamer/The Believer
    The Dreamer, The Believer reestablishes Common's place in the upper echelon of hip hop.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Kings & Queens
    The disc is packed with tightly crafted modern pop, and seamlessly melds the artist’s myriad influences.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Mercy
    Strange Mercy is her best yet, a deft mixture of self-confession, master class musicality, and downright unshakable songs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ships
    Earlier efforts may suffer from a bit of kindergarten syndrome, in both the styles of singing and instrumentation, but Ships seems to see Danielson maturing at a faster rate.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Way The Wind Blows
    Another stellar song collection.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earthology
    By description, Earthology may seem like an exercise in music dabbling. But at the heart of the Whitefield Brothers' sound is deadly solid funk.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Attack On Memory
    Cloud Nothings have produced a transfixing head rush of a release and one of the well-wrought examples of '90s revivalism.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Carrion Crawler/The Dream
    Carrion Crawler/The Dream captures the band in psychedelic bulldozer mode instead, delivering ten blistering cuts at a furious pace.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All You Need Is Now
    As a group of former heartthrobs with something to prove, Duran Duran are both a product of its time and a band with its eye on the future -- and they've finally managed to capture the titular sense of Now.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breakup Song
    In short; it's new, interesting, and the inevitable remixes are going to be great.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Serena-Maneesh
    Serena-Maneesh sounds like the kind of record many bands spend their entire careers trying to create.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Love Extreme
    A Love Extreme giddily steals from and collides with a kaleidoscope of genres, all without a trace of modern guilt.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last of the Country Gentlemen
    While no single song on the album comes close to the weight and volume that Lift to Experience was capable of slinging, Last of the Country Gentlemen delivers its own subtle intensity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now You Are One Of Us
    Sure, 2004's God Bless Your Black Heart may be the Paper Chase's best album in terms of accessibility, but the band has taken its usual dark angle and bent it another hundred or so degrees toward further obtuseness.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family of Love
    With Family of Love, Dom hasn't fizzled out--it's flowered in five different directions.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Ecstatic
    It lacks the mind-blowing qualities that made Rounds the essential album in his catalogue, but Everything Ecstatic is another must-own from Four Tet, the most reliable of producers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Barton Hollow
    Sure, Barton Hollow's love-swept core and well-worn conventions might make it a tad limited, but for what it sets outs to accomplish, it succeeds with pitch-perfect elegance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tired Of Hanging Around
    One of the most likeable albums of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Andorra
    Although such swaths of varied, nebulous beauty obscure Snaith's musical core--if there is one--the music is so joyful in its rag and bone cherry-picking of the best of Britpop's history that such concerns are rendered pointless.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mixed Emotions
    Eric Emm and Jess Cohen have produced an album is both substantially intelligent and undeniably fun in equal measure.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beauty And The Beat
    There is little doubt Edan is an innovator on the production tip, but he’s not nearly as talented an emcee.
    • 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    End Times
    The album rewards those who listen with songs that are confessional but also insightful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cookbook
    Despite the absence of Timbo, Elliott continues to do what she does best: cross-fertilizing genres, geographies and temporalities and continuing to transform her musical identity without sacrificing any authenticity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Putrifiers II
    It's a summer album released just too late, but should do a stellar job of carrying some heat over into the colder months. Most importantly, it's yet another case in the argument to trust Thee Oh Sees with whatever sounds capture their interest.
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