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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. Positive: 1,018 out of 1177
  2. Mixed: 158 out of 1177
  3. Negative: 1 out of 1177
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miss Anthropocene
    This celebratory nihilism defines an album that's sometimes dark and moody, sometimes manic and fun. There are familiar moments of quirky guitar pop ("Delete Forever," "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around"). More exciting is when Grimes goes big on reverb and club-sized beats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Series of Shocks
    Like his last album, Leaning Over Backwards, A Series of Shocks is rich and spatially ambitious.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Enthusiast
    Serious and focused but also enormously fun, it represents the late flowering of a distinctive, accomplished talent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Gonzalez outdoes himself on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: a double album in tribute to the hefty documents of pre-digital, pre-iTunes yesteryear.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wander/Wonder
    See Birds, was a promising debut, but Wander / Wonder is the kind of record that can pull you into its emotional undertow from the minute those helium angels start singing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Galaxy Garden
    Lone hasn't fully reinvented the narrative thread he started with "Pineapple Crush," but he's enriched it with a deeper exploration of his music's other referents, finding new dimensions to a sound that was beginning to feel awfully one-dimensional.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Release
    The sound of Pangaea doing his thang, then? Yep. Ahead of the game? On this evidence, most certainly.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through the Fire
    On You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire, they lay bare their heartbreak through squalls of sound, managing softness even in the album's more hardened sonic environments.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Playing Robots Into Heaven
    Playing Robots Into Heaven pitches itself right in the middle, swallowing up Blake's wounded reveries in a tide of dance floor-friendly inspiration. It's the most vital he's sounded in years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Siblings
    While Self's experimental productions showcase the versatility of the voice, his poppier songs luxuriate in its timbre.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Euphoria Bound
    In some ways, Euphoria Bound is the most Shackleton-sounding Shackleton record in some time, but there are still new references and sonic detours on display.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back on Time
    For the most part, Vibert's approach to drum & bass still sounds unique, although there are some signs that this was produced in the '90s if you're looking for them.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blank Project
    Lyrically, this may be the work of a 49 year-old woman, with its ruminations on family, married life and paying the bills, but, in terms of its energy and sheer lust for life, it could not sound fresher.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vapor City
    What really marks Machinedrum's growth are the moments that subtly push Stewart's sound into small stylistic corners only hinted at before.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?
    It's the most relaxed, comfortable album he's ever made, and it's a delight to drift along with him.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Voids
    His latest LP isn't nostalgic. If anything, Voids proves Deijkers is as comfortable in the here and now as he's ever been.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music for Animals
    It's like listening to the sea, before the strings slip in and out of tune like crashing waves. The beauty that emerges throughout the record requires patience to be appreciated in full and—to Frahm's credit—when it arrives, it's worth the wait.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Legacy, Vol. 2
    The spirit of those dance floors lives on through this second volume of the Legacy series.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    U&I
    This new U&I long player is a welcomed return to form and Leila's most gripping work to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ekstasis
    Ekstasis is brimming with them though [moments that are avant-gard yet instantly accessible] -an album so coherently constructed that it's perhaps more notable for its instants, its moments and sequences, than its full tracks.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a Hammer
    It traces Yaeji's emotional development, coming to terms with anger and resentment she had suppressed as a child—a period that she channels into her charged and surprisingly bracing new LP.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dependent and Happy
    Dependent and Happy sounds like the hungriest dance music that Ricardo Villalobos has recorded in some time.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Islands
    Islands might not have the far-reaching social insights of Routes, but it shows that Idehen's personal world is almost as gripping.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two Sisters
    As a whole, the album succeeds at doing something tricky: pandering to fans of theory, minimalism and ambient music all in equal measure.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occulting Disk
    Stern's use of repetition is powerful and carefully considered, making space for deep thought and reflection. Pockets of silence strengthen this concentrative quality.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raw Solutions
    Where many similar hybrids are too cerebral or schizophrenic, his album is impressively tactile, and laced with a genuinely passionate pulse.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inner Song
    Inner Song's highs are very high. Beyond the bang-on production, the LP feels like as much of a journey for the listener as it does the protagonist.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Redeemer
    Such interventions, like the coughing fit that concludes "Brutal," are vital in the fabric of The Redeemer, which feels part art installation, part cri de coeur, but all true--further reason to believe the Hype.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remember Your Black Day
    Remember... feels cohesive in a way that has eluded Fernow through the rest of his work as Vatican Shadow, and signals a new frontier for the producer that's as promising as it is grim.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They!Live
    They! Live is a lovely, highly listenable release, flowing effortlessly in a way that most house music albums can only hope for.
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