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For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971
Lowest review score: 0 They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
  2. Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
  3. Negative: 55 out of 4305
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Isla Bonita
    Even the full-length's sleepier moments offer a break from its breakneck speed and succeed in balancing out an otherwise dizzying record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mountain
    The result, which is gentler and more eclectic than the Bastards' earlier releases, is also Wennerstrom's most glorious, a collection of salty, rousing rock'n'roll that'll leave you aching for a roadhouse, a sticky bar stool, and a chipped glass of bourbon.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bless Off
    Their excellent new Bless Off, which careens even more crank-ably--not to mention somewhat less grumpily--than 2011's also very good Primitive Blast.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High As Hope
    The most rewarding Florence and the Machine full-length yet.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The High End Of Low
    While it's still easy to dismiss his shock tactics as puerile and insensitive (if you're gonna sing about someone "pretty as a swastika," they'd better be really ugly), he hasn't sounded this vital--and tuneful--since "Mechanical Animals."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eucalyptus
    Though it lacks the electrifying newness of the Sung Tongs era, Eucalyptus is nonetheless a success. It is a patient, reflective, and decidedly low-key work, one that seems content to thrum along in its own corner of the universe without much regard for whether anyone’s there to receive its generous gifts.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acid Rap
    His new mixtape's best moments gain their power from such good-idea/bad-idea indulgences and batty risk-taking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Woman
    She’s never more at home than when BJ the Chicago Kid accepts an offer of her “chocolate covered honey” on the closing “Beautiful Love.”
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mutant
    Mutant, even as it threatens to filibuster itself at over an hour long, feels like the album that Xen was meant to grow into, with every lesson that Vulnicura taught integrated at a molecular level.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crazy for You
    Crazy for You is a soundtrack to bikini season as it's actually experienced, racked by impossible expectations and as high as the tide line.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full Circle
    Full Circle is like an afternoon on the front porch listening to Lynn tell you her life story, a trajectory with an impact that no single disc could ever fully sum up.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
    Luaka Bop has done a remarkable job of collecting recordings that were originally scattered across multiple releases and giving them the feeling of a consistent whole.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Yourself: Tear
    Their most relaxed to date. ... Whereas the first installment of the series seemed uneasy and disjointed in its span of styles, Love Yourself: Tear’s genre-hopping sounds like the group is simply having a good time.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drift
    Nosaj’s remarkable, entrancing debut album gathers sundry influences, from U.K. dubstep to Aphex Twin-styled IDM, into a 36-minute computerized symphony.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gather, Form & Fly
    Gather, Form & Fly extends Megafaun’s back-porch mad science into unexpectedly epic realms, including straight blues and even pure pop, embellished with skronky, experimental sound effects.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dennis Coffey
    Coffey is the star, and on tracks like "Plutonius" and "Space Traveller," his monstrously psychedelic groove still kills.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love You To Death
    All over their eighth album, the Quins continue to demonstrate what makes them such fine songwriters.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lush
    The record’s brutal frankness belies its lyrical depth–small touches, like the reprisal of the intro track “Anytime” as the album’s closer, leave the listener with a sense of a hopeful, if ambivalent, closure.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Endless Now
    Endless Now was recorded in the same upstate church where Dinosaur Jr. made 1993's Where You Been, and it sounds like a happy refugee from that alt-rock era, all battering drums and youthful, melodic confusion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Saint Heron
    What's interesting about Saint Heron is that it trips giddily over the line between relatively conventional approaches (Aiko, Solange, Shawn) and more heavily processed, speculative stuff (Sampha, Iman Omari, BC Kingdom), but takes no pains to make an overarching statement.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freetown Sound
    This isn’t just glassy-eyed ambition--Hynes seems to have deliberately made this his blurriest effort to date, a blending of his chosen genres and ideas in a disorienting collage.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Värähtelijä
    With their fourth album Värähtelijä they’ve finally made a record that fully follows through on the paradoxical promise of their component parts.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Excitement Plan
    Like Robert Earl Keen, he has a way with a punch line and the frat-boy fans to prove it--they're gonna love 'America's Favorite Pastime,' which recounts the 1970 no-hitter Dock Ellis pitched on LSD. The rest of us will admire 'Bring 'Em Home,' a spirited call to get our troops the hell out of harm's way.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mind Control
    The music on their third album, Mind Control, shows a broader vocabulary of anachronism.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Savage Gold
    Savage Gold is of course far more than the sum of its parts, but those parts--Killing Joke, Deathspell Omega, later Death--make for an excellent starting point for the band's considerable combined talents to spring from.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tassili
    Tinariwen's fifth album takes off on an acoustic path following the open-
ing track's otherworldy 
appearance by Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Persuasion [EP]
    On Persuasion, which came out in August, Blondes waste no time stripping three tracks to their most essential elements, decorating them with just scraps of tinsel.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dream River
    Dream River flows from one track to the next, with a similarity of tempo that makes it play like eight movements of one 40-minute song. But a few moments stand out.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hang
    Here, they’ve crafted a shag and wood-grained interior as remarkably indebted to its predecessors as it is now warm and full and huge.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night Thoughts
    Night Thoughts honors Suede’s longstanding place in Brit-rock history as theatrical brooders with a penchant for pop and post-punk, while also celebrating the five-piece’s growth by supplying listeners with another round of swirling dance ballads (the gloomy, arena-filling “Outsiders” and the twinkling “No Tomorrow”) and operatic, Dog Man Star-ry ruminations (“Tightrope”).
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