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For 491 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Lowest review score: 32 Something To Be
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 427 out of 491
  2. Mixed: 59 out of 491
  3. Negative: 5 out of 491
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gimme Fiction
    Fiction finds Daniel and Eno exploring the tension between a tight rhythm section and chaotic production techniques (from messy guitar parts to bizarre samples). And that provides an edge to the music that not only makes for an attention-grabbing collection, but also rewards repeated listens.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feels
    Feels doesn’t trump earlier, more intimate Animal Collective releases. It’s just louder and messier.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Takk...
    Shifts into a cruise-control comfort zone, blissfully coasting on what has come before.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Black Album
    Carter's sulky obsession with proving himself against a field that has all but laid down and acknowledged him as its master detracts from the hard-won grandeur wrought by this nostalgic magnum opus of self-regard (to say nothing of the engaging beats and typically nimble rhymes).
    • 84 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [2006 Version]
    Basically, this is the definitive (if incomplete) version of a landmark release.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    The Crane Wife
    The Crane Wife is an album that nicely fits into the Decemberists' universe and has roots in earlier works, but sounds -- and hangs together -- better than any of them.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Machine
    Apart the two versions are about equal, combined they could have been amazing.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Beginning Stages Of...
    While the upbeat message is laudable, the entire exercise could prove overly precious, not to mention repetitive, if not for a few tunes that help add much needed variety.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghosts Of The Great Highway
    Ghosts of the Great Highway is propelled by excellent songwriting, rich, heartfelt vocals, and solid musicianship.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    These Were The Earlies
    It's not half-bad, providing you can get over the fact that the Earlies have yet to find a sound to call their own.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
    Winter Hymn is one of the year's memorable, noteworthy listens, and DMST's finest effort overall.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Transatlanticism
    Despite utilizing the same basic indie-pop template utilized to agreeable effect on its previous three albums, Death Cab for Cutie lays an outright goose egg with the bland, tepid Transatlanticism.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multiply
    Multiply sacrifices cohesion in its quest for stylistic diversity, but it’s a bravura tour through the smooth sounds and hot jams of yesteryear.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    A whatever-sticks debut with meritorious replay value.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Cast Of Thousands
    Cast of Thousands is populated by a motley crew of fringe-dwellers, outsiders and no-accounts, looking for a warm place to drink and like-minded company to occupy the waking hours -- and Guy Garvey is the right man to tell their tales.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The Smell Of Our Own
    Gibb’s passionate vocals and direct, literate lyrics work best when he’s confronting issues that concern him (like organized religion, for instance), as opposed to wallowing in less confrontational topics (as when he frolics happily on the beach with “Boys Of Melody”).
    • 84 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The Body, The Blood, The Machine
    They've slowed down the tempo a little and cleaned up the sound a lot.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Inches
    Taken as a whole, Inches is a fantastic collection, achieving what other full-length Les Savy Fav albums have not: Delivering a wholly satisfying listening experience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    The Letting Go
    This promising notion of marrying the overly pensive, doomed-romantic Billy persona with orchestral-sized studio ambitions is a wash, the cumulative effect being undeniably gorgeous, in a rainy-day internalized apocalypse kind of way.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Her Majesty The Decemberists
    Her Majesty rewards repeated listenings, ultimately revealing itself to be a deeper, subtler work than Castaways.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    School Of The Flower
    School of the Flower is as pretty as its titular place of higher learning intimates and as substantive as bongsmoke.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Out of Season
    That Out of Season leaves an imprint, and a powerfully lasting one at that, is a testament to Gibbons’ carefully sculpted lyrics and her vocal interpretation of same, combined with Webb’s unobtrusive but no less vital studio work.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Game Theory
    A few throwaways... keep Theory from attaining the rarified heights of earlier efforts. But in the final count, it’s just nice to hear this criminally underappreciated outfit sounding so sharp and revitalized.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Apologies To The Queen Mary
    Apologies to the Queen Mary gets by more on energy than chops.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Faking The Books
    Faking the Books is a small forward step rather than a dramatic leap for Lali Puna -- which, all things considered, is still a step in the right direction.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Sung Tongs
    Before, it sounded like Animal Collective sought only to please themselves. Sung Tongs sounds like a concession to the rest of us, and that's not a very exciting prospect from such a unique and potentially great band.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good News For People Who Love Bad News
    Good News could well be looked back on as the band's rite of passage, filled with energetic but reckless noisemakers and more studied, stylistically adventurous tracks.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Be
    Be won’t win many points for daring, but in terms of user-friendly hip-hop charged by a refreshingly positive undercurrent, it more than hits its hard-to-miss mark.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine A Light
    Though trite lyrics too often undermine strong instrumentation, Shine a Light is a promising sophomore effort from a group that clearly has the chops to blaze even brighter.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    Think Tank, then, is neither the best Blur album nor the worst; rather, it's a unique creature, guaranteed to be the oddball in the band's catalogue.
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