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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
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let It Sway
    The album's lyrical shortcomings are easy to overlook, especially when most of its best parts occur when the words drop away entirely and the crisp handclaps come in. It's that sort of giddy, emotional, inarticulate pop that Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin does best, and Walla does his part in bringing that side of them out.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alive As You Are
    On their third full-length album, Alive As You Are, the members of Darker My Love drop the whole neo-shoegaze, Jesus And Mary Chain worship of their first two albums and instead engage in a sampling of different '60s sounds.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Budos Band III
    The bass can get lost in the mix as well beneath all the moving parts. With the kinds of rhythms The Budos Band lay down, you need the bass up front and center. These qualms are minor compared with the overall delight the album conveys.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
    Like a good mixtape, the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack works less as a primetime rock album and more as an entry point to some great work that those on the margin may have missed. And for what it's worth, it's the best soundtrack Cera has ever been associated with.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The Suburbs
    For all the over-arching themes, The Suburbs is the most rocking Arcade Fire album yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King of the Beach
    The album's about being depressed, smoking weed, having fun, not understanding girls. You know, the moments that define any summer.
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    On the Ones and Threes
    The album may have its bumps, but the unassuming charm these guys have always brought to their records comes through more often than not.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3
    It's the kind of release that will keep longtime fans happy, and acts as a welcoming primer to new ears, inviting them to join El-P on his side of the line before exposing them to his harsher, more eye-opening material.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Str8 Killa [EP]
    His mixtapes still might be better (especially Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik), but Str8 Killa is the first step toward Gibbs regaining the label contract that is so rightfully his.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazy for You
    The album is filled with well-conceived, well-executed pop pieces, but it would be silly to pretend that the musical landscape, including Top 40, isn't occupied by songwriters who make reasonably innocent songs about boys at least as well as Best Coast does.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beach Fossils
    It's simply a case of the repetition and lack of attention to detail exposing that, as pretty as Beach Fossils is, it could be better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mines
    Simply, Menomena are a band that sounds completely familiar but totally different.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    That's How We Burn
    For the most part this album is devoid of those special moments--no big choruses, no unexpected climaxes. Just 11 consistent tracks to perhaps one day rediscover, individually, while idly browsing your iPod's shuffle.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Archive 2003-2006
    Archive acts as this brief glimpse into the evolution of a celebrated songwriter and a band, yet with the quality and the high level of music geekery required, it's obvious that this one's intended for the superfans.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Pink Graffiti
    The result is an album that's heavy on ideas instead of execution. It's pleasant but forgettable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Disconnect from Desire
    It's airy, synth-heavy and loud, and it moves like a glacier.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Admiral Fell Promises
    Mark Kozelek is surely a distinct voice, and a dynamic guitar player, but there's a difference between playing solo and playing to yourself. And he stumbles over that line just enough to hold this album back from greatness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MAYA
    While some songs appear to have a cleaner polish (the pleasantly danceable "XXXO" and the epic "Tell Me Why") than others (the freewheeling "Born Free" and the ultra-compressed "Space"), every song is structured like a concise pop song with just a few rough edges.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Aphrodite
    Aphrodite is everything you expect it to be: inspiring, motivating and celebratory.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    How To Destroy Angels
    Even if this EP is the byproduct of a band that's working out the kinks, it's still a promising glimpse into what to expect from How to Destroy Angels' 2011 full-length.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Again & Again
    The band strips away any hard kicks and allows each song to quietly pulse at a more human pace. Ironically, the album feels best suited for traveling.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
    Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty isn't just an expertly produced and performed slab of brilliantly odd, futuristic dance music. It isn't just the best rap album of the year so far.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Expo 86
    Expo 86 just straight up rocks. It never lets up on the monstrous riffs it delivers in its first 10 seconds.
    • 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
    • 60 Critic Score
    Total Life Forever
    All in all, though, Total Life Forever is a slightly more assured record from Foals; this time out they sound like they've taken complete ownership of their music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Talk Pt 1
    Robyn's transition to the boldest--and maybe loneliest--girl in the room allowed her to showcase her versatile range of emotions and musical influences, plenty of which are on display in Body Talk Pt. 1.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Thank Me Later
    Because of his relatively privileged upbringing (he's from a wealthy part of Toronto), Thank Me Later is less about chronicling and rising up out of his environment (like basically every rap debut since Illmatic) and more about how Drake is uncomfortable being famous.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Crystal Castles [2010]
    The group's bleak, sinister quality has always been one of its best assets, and in humanizing themselves, even in the record's shinier latter half, the musicians take on a slightly stronger shadow.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Champ
    Champ might have its fair share of weak spots (basically the back third), yet it's another proficient album from one of the more (still) promising young bands around.
    • 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.
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