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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Homesick
    This is machine music for a machine-ruled future made by someone who truly loves machines.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints
    This new LP is understated by comparison, with fewer jarring moments and more shifting grooves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Portraits
    Portraits resonates at a level of button-pushing sentimentality, but Maribou State are such deft directors of their sound, and so melodically gifted, that they still create moments of magic.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 36 Critic Score
    Déjà-Vu
    It hardly bears Moroder's personality at all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Starfire
    Starfire won't get stuck in your head for days, but you could spend weeks unpacking it and still never quite get to the bottom of it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Tundra
    On Tundra, the duo's debut long-player for R&S, Lakker seem fully in their element. The ideas have room to breathe and consolidate themselves.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks: DJ Koze
    Since the beginning, DJ-Kicks has been about finding unique takes on this craft. Kozalla's 50th instalment more than lives up to this tradition.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Nozinja Lodge
    Nozinja Lodge is joyous, colourful dance music from one of the electronic scene's most eccentric and promising personalities.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Walk Dance Talk Sing
    Walk Dance Talk Sing shows you can't have too much of a good thing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Lantern
    When Lantern hits its high points, it ends up somewhere in the stratosphere. When it falters, it's mostly because it's too ambitious, either thematically, as with the overblown love songs, or technically, as with the roller-coaster sequencing that halts the momentum over and over.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Shakes
    The Shakes is worth hearing for the sonic detail alone. The best tracks have an inclusive, sweeping abandon that rivals the high points of Scale.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Olympic Mess
    Ambiguities can make Olympic Mess's charms difficult to excavate, but it's well worth making the effort to do so.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Frozen Niagara Falls
    The LP hops between ideas and experiments in the tradition of the rock music double-album, and even within individual songs things are rarely straightforward.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Why Make Sense?
    Stylistically, it's more of a grab-bag than ever before, occasionally tipping the scales from charming to bombastic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Platform
    Platform is full of beautifully corrupted, synthesised signals.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    In Colour
    What we're left with is an uneven album that's rarely as profound or as meaningful as it tries to be.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Dumb Flesh
    It's slightly ludicrous, highly theatrical and great fun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Urals
    This is a short album that toggles around pretty familiar sounds without doing anything new with them. But in this final salvo, Walls have proven that they are a force.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    PC Music Volume 1
    For all their strange angles and squeaky sonorities, these songs satisfy in the way that pop has always satisfied, no more and no less.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    Cunningham focuses primarily on selection for his hour-long jaunt through murky technoisms. All too often, though, technique and sequencing seem to have been banned from the booth.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Runddans
    Runddans is an intriguing and sometimes fun experiment, but it's not quite a meeting of great musical minds.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Past We Leave Behind
    The album is a ultimately a disappointment, but it has its moments nonetheless.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trickfinger
    Very little of Trickfinger could be called surprising, but it isn't without its charms.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Captain of None
    Captain Of None places Schott's voice front-and-centre and folds in her long-burning love for dub and reggae rhythms, making for her most approachable and otherworldly record yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fading Love
    An elegant, heartbroken album that wraps its dance floor influence in thick pop overtones.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Damogen Furies
    Where Ufabulum felt like a garish souvenir from the performance built around it, Damogen Furies is more substantial and self-contained.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Dark Red
    Where Bad Vibes had a dynamic range of feeling, Dark Red is melodramatic to the point of being alienating.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Dark Energy
    Jlin has plenty to say, and she has a remarkably strong and distinctive voice with which to say it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Unspell
    Beneath its stylish veneer, Unspell lacks substance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Insides
    The gussied-up politeness that has followed Greene throughout his career is still an issue here, making the less adventurous material sound slightly anonymous. That's why the thick textures on "Folle" stand out so much, or why it's so exciting when Greene lets it all float away on "Lately." There are more than enough of these moments to make the record worthwhile.
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