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For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 A Hero's Death
Lowest review score: 0 Gemstones
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
  2. Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
  3. Negative: 78 out of 8545
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All or Nothing
    They make modern life's drain and strain exhilarating. [Mar 2020, p.120]
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      • Posted Feb 6, 2020
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Names
    An innovative and pretty irresistible record. [Oct 2015, p.101]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Sep 1, 2015
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New Magnetic Wonder
    As ever... not everything comes off. But the good bits are very good indeed. [Apr 2007, p.116]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Makes a King
    Suffused in African melody and harmony, the touches of house and hip-hop more decorative than foundational, it reads like Esau's love letter to his homeland. [Jun 2015, p.113]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted May 6, 2015
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Family and Friends
    Alt-rap veteran's lo-fi gamble pays off handsomely. [Sept. 2011, p. 116]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Aug 16, 2011
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old Fears
    Twisty and characterful, this is frequently dazzling stuff. [May 2014, p.118]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Apr 23, 2014
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seasonal Hire
    More an EP than an album, it's possibly not for the unwitting. [Apr 2015, p.102]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Feb 25, 2015
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Humor Risk
    Humor Risk is another casually monumental achievement from one of the great singer-songwriters of the day. [Dec. 2011 p. 130]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Dec 15, 2011
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deep Fantasy
    Their heritage might be clear, but over 10 songs and 22 minutes, their grip on the present never lets up. [Aug 2014, p.115]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jul 2, 2014
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rabbit Fur Coat
    The real stars... are Lewis's songs. [Feb 2006, p.103]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twentytwo in Blue
    The vintage record store rummaging has given way to a more pared-back sound. Here, retro guitar tones and proggy breakdowns complement rather than dominate. [May 2018, p.114]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Mar 20, 2018
    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
    He's never that far from plunging towards obviousness. [Jun 2004, p.108]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ex Lives
    A spontaneous, short, sharp stab of a record but one that might have been great had it not sounded so rushed. [April 2012, p.101]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Mar 14, 2012
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nobody's Smiling
    Sounds dangerously like a genuine hip-hop album. [Sep 2014, p.114]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Aug 28, 2014
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Useless Coordinates
    The album is so cacophonous that it borders on the unpleasant. Yet there are redemptive moments. [Summer 2019, p.111]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jun 14, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FFS
    They mesh exquisitely here. [Jul 2015, p.105]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jun 2, 2015
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fort Nightly
    Pick of the bunch is 'March of the Camels,' which marries a doomy baseline with children's choir backing vocals, and exemplifies their gift for the surreal. [Apr 2008, p.117]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clinging To A Scheme
    Immaculately crafted, and with a smattering of good songs, it's also disappointingly samey, with all too little standing out and demanding to be heard. [May 2010, p.125]
    • Q Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mura Masa
    Pure quality, from start to finish. [Aug 2017, p.109]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jul 7, 2017
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2
    A far more considered affair, wistful, even half-regretful, yet redolent of breezing down the freeway from the Deep South to California with the Stones and Flying Burrito Brothers on the radio. [Aug 2016, p.114]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jun 29, 2016
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death Dreams
    Saulnier's wild-man-on-a-rampage vocals are no longer hidden behind the unfettered sequel of his equally uncivilized guitar. [Jul 2012, p.109]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Oct 12, 2012
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Saltbreakers
    Even if she sometimes strays into down-home schmaltz, the world of alt-folk would be poorer without her. [Apr 2007, p.122]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Electric Cables
    The uninitiated may find the unrelenting nerve-soothing a little too much like anaesthesia. [May 2012, p.100]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Apr 24, 2012
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Face The Truth
    Stuffed with little revelations. [Jun 2005, p.113]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    The presence of more filler than is comfortable does not detract from the creative health in evidence on the better songs. [Feb 2006, p.100]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hit Reset
    Hit Reset presents Hanna in rude creative health. Only on closer Calverton does any vulnerability peek through. [Aug 2016, p.113]
    • Q Magazine
      • Posted Jul 1, 2016
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Guero
    The production lacks the loose-fit liveliness and lightness of touch which was The Dust Brothers' trademark back in the mid-'90s. [Apr 2005, p.114]
    • Q Magazine
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    End Of Love
    A winning collection of giddy, C&W laments. [Jun 2005, p.111]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm New Here
    His first album in more than 15 years sees him back atr the musical vanguard--thanks in large part to XL boss and producer, Richard Russell, whose arrangements brilliantly frame the 60-year-old's rich burr and terse street poetry with brooding electronica and stark blues handclaps. [Mar 2010, p.106]
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