Resident Advisor's Scores

  • Music
For 1,177 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Biokinetics [Reissue]
Lowest review score: 36 Déjà-Vu
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 1 out of 1177
1177 music reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most of The Edge Of Everything is top-tier drum & bass with an experimental bent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She's continuing the very tradition she's studying, ending her intimate and vulnerable album with a cover that finds new purpose by making someone else's words—and grief—all her own.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Morgan sings and raps on the LP, the first time they've used their voice on their records. That helps make Power their most accessible release. The singing is charmingly unpolished.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It keeps intact what makes her one of the most exciting UK pop acts of the 2020s, gesturing towards the mainstream while still keeping one foot in her musical hometown. It's the kind of record a promising artist puts out before they release something truly next-level.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He might have translated his sound into electronics with Excavation, but here Krlic's music feels more wrenchingly human than it ever has been.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a record that balances the hardcore continuum with emotion as she turns out club tunes touched by vulnerability.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WOW
    Listening to WOW delivers genuine warmth, happiness and light. Within these settings, Shilonosova expands her ever-evolving and inquisitive personal soundworld of beautiful music for the body and the mind.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unpatterns is very now, yet by employing key electronic music touchstones it sounds classic as well.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gordian is a delightful listen, packed with plenty of rewarding oddities if you care to sit down and really take your time with it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fleshed out with flecks of African-style guitar and tumbling bass...there's still the trademarked bedrock: that motor-fueled, machine-grind churn.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    serpentwithfeet is not a project that deals in restraint, but it's the mix of melodrama and newfound control that makes soil a great record.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's just Jamie Teasdale, an already accomplished producer, freely chasing his inspiration and coming out the other end with near genius in the process.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Woo may be playful and irreverent, but that shouldn't disguise its status as a potent exploration of sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the most fully realized vision of the Fever Ray project yet, Dreijer unspools some of their best lyrics and pop songs since The Knife's 2007 smash "Heartbeats.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Eternity is like a long and endless tunnel: for all its twists and turns, you're always in the same sensory deprivation chamber.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Further Out Than The Edge's vibrant cast of characters, lively experimental rhythms and rich improvisation underlines why Speakers Corner Quartet are so firmly embedded within South London's musical landscape.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautiful Rewind is an extended tribute to pirate radio, connecting the dots between jungle, garage and minimalist house music.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drown Out really lets his music breathe.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That Devour is such a tiring album is a testament to its cohesiveness. These tracks flow elegantly into one another, and the attention to dynamics and tension allows for seamless listening.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In her latest album, Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes, she relies on a reconfiguration of negro spirituals, scattered jazz and roiling punk vocals to embark on an arresting travel through time with lucid narratives of black protest. ... While preserving the erratic nature of an arresting live set, her productions appear clearer and more controlled than on previous albums.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The strength of In These Times is in its considered arrangements. The melodies take center stage rather than solely the kinetic rhythmic attack McCraven can unleash whenever he pleases. And when he pleases, his percussion charts can hit with a ferocity that shudders like drum licks plucked from a lengthy Fela-meets James-Brown after-hours live session.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    once Random Access Memories unravels, it is, at its best, pretty magnificent.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moot! is an unpretentious and fun record peppered with quick gear changes, pitch shifts and soul-searching anecdotes about empty neighbourhoods and peering into dark waters at dusk. Everything is immediate and anchored by Magaletti's percussion, which is both raw and immaculate.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fetch picks up right where Horizontal Structures left off: von Oswald allowing the group's myriad tones and timbres to bleed out and coagulate.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What does it feel like to be alive in a digital age, overloaded and confused, but excited, too? What perspectives are possible now? Piteous Gate is a captivating attempt at putting those feelings into sound.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The spirit of the concept is dazzlingly portrayed at times, but the LP also conveys the emptiness of these things, the true idea of a "new pleasure"—everything we want, though not always enough of what we need. But it's great while it lasts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    hej! is one of PC Music's most well-rounded records yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the "electronic music" aspect of Strange Passion that's most fascinating.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is one of the most punchy, lyrically explorative UK rap albums of the year.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From its rumbling lows to its ethereal, resonant highs, Tomorrow Was The Golden Age is one of the simplest and most beguiling albums of its kind since Stars Of The Lid's landmark run on Kranky in the '00s.