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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Nature of Imitation
    F for all its lofty intentions and complex construction, it is a remarkably easy listen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Color
    Gately describes her method as a question: "How much can I add before it just sounds too crazy. What's the most obnoxious thing I can make the song do?" With Color, she's overshot.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lonely Planet
    Lonely Planet rarely veers off the beaten path, but when it does, it's quite the voyage.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 73
    For a techno mix, Fabriclive.73 is a surprisingly breezy affair.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vermont
    Whether they're taking inspiration from '70s kosmische or more contemporary sounds, Vermont's debut album is continually intriguing and texturally rich.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Body
    Phoenix fully establishes a distinct Eartheater style, building mountains underground and finding worlds of meaning in deep introspection.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Joli Mai
    The Fabriclive mix was much more than the sum of its parts, but to have some of its best tracks available in this way makes for both a solid album and a chance to wonder what you could build with them yourself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anxiety
    Many of the songs feel like they're improvised by someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of vocal pop music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    The Names
    Baio's tunes are short and snappy, and at around 40 minutes long, The Names takes less time than reading most chapters of a DeLillo book.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still Slipping, Vol. 1 [Mixtape]
    still slipping vol. 1 is an honest and humanizing document, giving us a deeper look into the musical styles and influence that drive Joy Orbison than anything else we've heard before.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Concrete Desert
    Concrete Desert is a response to a real environment. But the album feels less specific to a given city. It seems instead like a parallel space, one that builds an impression of some future dystopia.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Her Blurry Pictures
    His fans might find this fascinating. For anyone else, there are better entry points into Jonson's catalogue.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Gardens
    Blue Gardens is another milestone in a banner year for one of the UK's most consistently exciting labels.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life Performance
    Ultimately, in the cold light of day, it all begins to sound unrelentingly grey and one-paced.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Psychic 9-5 Club
    Their first record done entirely as a duo, and their most mature piece of music yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hyperdub 10.2
    As expected, Hyperdub's output retains a pretty sophisticated tone even when it's dealing in pop hooks and party tracks.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Texture Like Sun
    Fascinating and vibrant, Texture Like Sun finds Deenmamode less concerned with his own life and times, focusing instead on the world around him.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    That final third of DJ-Kicks might not be its strongest section but it no less feels like the most emblematic of Riddick's timeless appeal--connecting funk's past, present and future with an unbreakable thread of authenticity and positivity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death Peak
    A large part of Death Peak--despite the morbid title--contains some of Clark's most accessible and melodic dance floor tracks.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Dream a Garden
    Rather than an earth-shattering opus, Dream A Garden is a stepping stone to a new sound, one with enough promising moments to suggest it's only a matter of time before Latham gets there.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sensational
    t's a work of clever, classy and timeless R&B that builds on some of the most enduring and ubiquitous music of the last 30 years.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Chance of Rain
    The image has no direct connection to the music (it was drawn in the '70s, before Halo was born) but it's intricate, strange and beautiful--much like the album itself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Rat Road
    Tightening up the chaos that blighted his sophomore record, The Rat Road doubles down on SBTRKT's multi-genre vision and pulls it off slightly better. His cocktail of pop and underground influences sounds more decisive and refined, though there are still moments that fizzle rather than ignite.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Zoospa
    It's not a splashy supergroup album, nor is it perfect. It's the work of two experienced producers producing sharp songs. Like all of Edgar and Stewart's work as J-E-T-S, Zoospa is impressive but surprisingly low-key.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Harlecore
    Harlecore is the souvenir, a collection of dance music so deliriously upbeat you can't help but surrender to it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emika
    Listen on a good system and you'll be entrapped and immersed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Social Experiment 003
    It's a boisterously enjoyable and skilfully compressed journey, and a further evolution in an already promising mix series.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dissent
    This is an experimental record culled from fully improvised sessions, so it follows that some zones feel more inspired than others. To these ears, some of the most inspired of Dissent's "Chapters" are more densely referential than previous MVOT music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Foreign Body
    The best moments here are almost indistinguishable from Grouper's best work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Venus in Leo
    While this scrappier, DIY vibe feels like a natural fit for HTRK, Venus In Leo lacks some of the depth and mystery that makes their music so powerful. ... Still, HTRK create something their fans will never tire of: a dark, sensual, poetic languor that's theirs alone. Venus In Leo delivers a welcome fresh take on that sound.
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