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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Claustrophobia
    Instead of trying something new, he focuses on what he's good at, which makes Claustrophobia a lateral move rather than a step forward. It seems Rose is trying to recapture the brilliance of his peak-period work. In Claustrophobia's best moments, he does.

    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Digital Solutions
    He may be trading more in the glow of nostalgia than the shock of the new, but he can still deliver the goods.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Excerpts
    Excerpts feels like a series of glimpses into Gast's world, where past full-lengths have been an unbroken wander through it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Year with 13 Moons
    An album that finds Cantu-Ledesma orchestrating perhaps the most gorgeous ambience of his career so far.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Projections
    Without its academic trappings, Projections starts to grate, with its middle-of-the-road niceness and mood of tepid celebration. With them, it's borderline offensive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Late Night Endless
    For all the dub diehards, Late Night Endless is a must-have. For the rest, it's a leisurely detour in the catalogues of two great artists who proved themselves a long time ago.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Levon Vincent
    "Junkies" is the album's only weak moment. The others, while never delivering the thrills of "Six Figures" or "Solemn Days," slowly reveal a different kind of charm.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pearson Sound
    Coming from a producer who habitually finds new ways to dazzle, Pearson Sound is uncharacteristically average.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Modern Streets
    Modern Streets may lack ingenuity, but it works as a sincere and relatable portrayal of the artist's experience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Heterocetera [EP]
    Over its 20 minutes, the EP pushes dance music through violent twists and turns until it becomes disorienting and startling.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Future Brown
    Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu and J. Cush have delivered a surprisingly solid record with a global outlook and more than a few surprises surprises up its sleeve.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Creatures
    It's all meticulously crafted with a keen ear for mood and emotion, and yet Creatures has trouble moving beyond a pastiche of Castex's record collection.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    The Mainframe
    If The Mainframe is a film, then it's a Michael Bay blockbuster: slick and engaging but totally adolescent in worldview, its plot tortuous, its characters flimsily drawn, all of it an excuse for a string of eye-popping action set-pieces.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Pill
    Body Pill is thoroughly understated throughout. It's an odd little album that only shows us part of the Anthony Naples puzzle, which is probably appropriate for an artist whose work seems to come in small and unusual bursts of inspiration.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Signs Under Test
    A beautiful collection of tunes as striking as they are subtle.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments, Pt. 2 [EP]
    James spends most of the EP in that exploratory mode, and though there's a certain pleasure in listening to an artist figure things out, a full 28 minutes feels like overkill. Regardless, it's comforting to know James isn't settling into a routine.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Vulnicura
    Some tracks, like "Mouth Mantra," simply feel overcrowded. The Haxan Cloak, who mixed the album, struggles to find clarity in busier moments. But the story, visceral and tragic, transcends these imperfections in the telling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Ghost Culture
    Ghost Culture is a good record from an artist who is probably capable of a great one.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
    It's a testament to Lennox's dexterity that these brief detours into soft introspection only enhance the wondrous breadth and vision of Panda Bear Versus The Grim Reaper.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shaken Up Versions
    The result is a set of tracks that, compared to the prickly, experimental music of Shaking The Habitual, are purposeful, propulsive and emotionally direct.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visa
    Visa finds Ripatti attuned to a very specific, focused energy, and the result is some of his best work.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Parallel Memories
    For something as weighty as a debut album from a hotly-tipped artist, Parallel Memories feels a little too light for its own good.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Power of Anonymity
    Power Of Anonymity merely repeats the ideas first laid out on Yours & Mine, sometimes improved yet other times untouched.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let's Cry and Do Pushups at the Same Time
    It's another entry of his sublime wanderer's music as Torn Hawk, and includes some of his most arresting and sonically numbing creations to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Magazine 13
    Magazine 13 doesn't feel like a coherent album so much as a more open-ended platform for the same thing we get on his 12-inches.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vapor City Archives
    Clearly, Stewart's future does not lie in crossover R&B--he should drill down into his musical imagination to open up ever weirder, deeper seams.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Natural Selection
    Where their first album felt like a definitive statement, Natural Selection sounds, as so many second albums do, like a diffuse bunch of half-realised ideas.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clark
    Even when Clark is firing sounds at bewildering speeds, it's never a chore--in other words, it's a lot more fun than Clark's reputation might suggest.
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