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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Exit
Lowest review score: 10 The Path of Totality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,936 out of 2596
  2. Mixed: 572 out of 2596
  3. Negative: 88 out of 2596
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Call Me If You Get Lost
    A good-to-great set of songs, that would make a fire mixtape if you cut the energy-draining bores "RUNITUP" and "I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE"? A half-finished classic album, powered by reckless abandon and thrilling energy, but too scattershot to make it over the finish line? It's both, and neither, and I don't know, man. ... Call Me If You Get Lost is too busy shooting itself in the foot and calling it coming down to earth to be complete, but following along with its fragmented course down is still an exercise worth engaging in.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels 3
    RTJ 3 is both a sprinter’s dip and a victory lap – it is neither as sinewy as RTJ 1 nor as effusively vivacious as 2014’s RTJ 2, but still finds itself imbibed with the kind of assured professionalism that is only permitted to those who have previously done enough to be granted a low-pressure outing.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    ICONOCLASTS
    Iconoclasts is pretty much a complete 180 from any of Anna's previous output. That may scare some long time fans, but let this fellow Anna lover ease your mind because this album is pure bliss.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vacation
    The songs are fun, intimate, personal, and at times simply epic.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Heaven to a Tortured Mind eliminates the diversity and nuance of its predecessor in favour of underdeveloped avant-pop.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Big Time
    This is a significantly more rustic album than All Mirrors, with major country and folk influences joining that album’s lush art pop sound. Even the songs which lean towards the latter style are often gentle and delicate. It’s also a record which feels infinitely more personal.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Magdalene
    Magdalene sees FKA Twigs reach a wholly satisfying pinnacle that is unlikely to be rivaled by any of her peers in 2019.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Undun
    In some ways the album works better as a slightly blemished and broken piece, because like its protagonist it exits quietly while still leaving so much to say, and it's those pieces of work that weeks later are still being debated over that stand the true test of time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3+5
    There is hardly a wasted second on this thing, not a single gap in the energy rush it sustains, and I suspect it will fare extremely well in a live setting as such. Quibble if you will over this being the mode Melt-Banana have opted to commit to; we're still getting them at their best.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Manning Fireworks
    Lenderman plays the tropes, sure, but when those warm blasts of fuzz come swelling up underneath that lazy slide guitar, what else can you do but smile and roll right along with them? If I don’t feel this hitting the status of its great forebears, that sure won’t keep them from being in the same conversation; hell, with Manning Fireworks Lenderman may find himself shuffling his way into that pantheon.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    The music within the album has many sides to it, and the execution gives each aspect enough emphasis to add to the sound without creating clutter or over saturation.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Only God Was Above Us
    When Only God Was Above Us isn’t shattering glass ceilings, it’s delivering some of the most beautiful but disquieting indie-rock in recent memory.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slow Forever
    With their newest release, Eric Wunder as loosened the tether and slipped into the savage void. The band is all the better for it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Bleeds
    While Bleeds may not have the monstrous impact of Rat Saw God, it’s a truly glorious follow-up with just as many moments of brilliance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Headsoup
    Two new tracks make this compilation all the worthwhile, with the devilish funk of "Fill My Mouth" being one of the best tracks the band has ever released, and the creeping incantation of "Queen of the Underground" wrapping up this collection of essentials from the Swedish collective.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Bandana
    Bandana is terrific because it makes you yearn for that imagined history, the struggle from page to audio that surely happened to produce such a god-given chemistry. Freddie's deep, choppy flows might initially seem somewhat at odds with Madlib's production but that's why it works, because playing too much to the soul-soaked nostalgia robs the proceedings of their bite.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    All We Love We Leave Behind
    Converge has become synonymous with consistency, and the band's latest effort proves that after seven albums they still have what it takes to put their listeners through hell in the best kind of way.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No Devolucion
    By combining these previously worked on sounds in new ways Thursday have created an album that is not only new and unique, but also unmistakably their own.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kindred [EP]
    Like a pang of guilt does he sample his former self, like a torch carried to its final flicker of illumination. And to hear all that, to be able to almost feel that happening, is to bear witness to an artist working at the apex of his talent.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    A doubling down on their unapologetically weirdest influences; instead, a scattershot sampling of basically every sound they can conjure, recorded in every different way. The only thing Dragon... cements is that nothing about Big Thief is set in stone, which is in its own way an absolutely remarkable achievement.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Rooms of the House
    Wildlife was a great leap forward, and Rooms Of The House further evolves their sound.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Loved You at Your Darkest
    A well-earned victory lap for a band that pulled itself back from the brink of oblivion to sound stronger than ever. A source of pure joy, indeed.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Hardest Part
    The Hardest Part contains some of the most genuine sounding country/pop that has been released in quite some time.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Foxing
    Foxing may be a cacophonous, unhinged symphony of chaos, but it's also one that quietly encourages us to look at what's already around us, open our arms, and embrace it while we still can...to reach out and touch what is real. It is one of the most dissonant, powerful, legitimately terrifying, and ultimately uplifting pieces of music I've ever heard.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    You're Dead!
    Save for a few stretches of inconsistent detours, You're Dead! is another reliable entry into the canon of one of the most brazen and forward-thinking producers out there.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Science Fiction
    Science Fiction is a bold, legend-making statement well worth the eight year wait. If it ends up being their swan song, then we can rest assured that Brand New is going out on their own terms: in peak form, bearing no regrets.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Exit
    Exit is a classic, a refreshing and rewarding experience that is sweet and euphoric and brilliant. Exit should make Tokumaru a star.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Emma, Forever Ago
    For Emma, Forever Ago is a heartbreaking and heartwarming album that ventures deeper than the its simple history could predict.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Lips
    Back with a bang so refined it’s positively deafening, BLUE LIPS is an intriguing, befuddling, unique collection of songs that signals the start of a new era for ScHoolboy Q: the man who survived the CrasH.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Have You in My Wilderness
    Deciphering the message in her words relies on just how much time the listener is willing to devote to the album, but with music this brilliant, the task seems all the more alluring.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    There's a huge promise to Fleet Foxes, one that can't be ignored, but Pecknold and the rest of the guys haven't tapped into it yet.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    YTILAER
    Despite the record running slightly long and a few songs getting a bit repetitive: the lyrics and the arrangements are great, sure, but it’s the singer-songwriter’s ability to make us feel “it” which matters.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 96 Critic Score
    GNX
    GNX is the sound of an artist stepping into their power and the newfound freedom that comes without have to prove a damn thing. It’s a several-victory lap long coronation that serves as the perfect capstone to what was already a legendary year that shifted the entire rap hierarchy with just a handful of songs.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    It’s safe to say that, Person Pitch just might be album of the year (so far, at least).
    • 87 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    In These Times
    In These Times is an alluring listen because it is multi-faceted and fun.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Inlet
    To its general credit, this music doesn’t really belong to 2020, but neither is it a ‘90s time capsule: it’s a Hum record through and through, and its assurance as such is far more exciting than talk of timeframes, expectations or comebacks. Hum are right here.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blackstar
    Only by placing the music in the context of David Bowie's death has that roadblock been removed--something I'm quite certain was deliberate on the part of the artist, as musical context so often is. And once that context is realized, so is the dark beauty of Blackstar.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    M B V
    While m b v is a record that is more than capable of standing on its own, at the same time it also sounds exactly like the sort of thing that we might have expected My Bloody Valentine to produce two decades ago, and this noticeable lack of allegiance to the present is perhaps the most potent thing about this entire revisionist affair.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Painted
    Within its 26 minutes lies an amicable amount of intensity, passion, and palpable creativity, portraying a fresh sound that absolutely begs to be heard.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kodama
    Continuing to dominate the fusing of musical styles he unintentionally started, the punchy yet gorgeous qualities of Kodama sees an impressive balance of contrasts, darker and more purposeful than Shelter while evolving triumphantly.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life Is But a Dream...
    In short, whatever your thoughts are on the band, leave your preconceived notions at the door and give it a try, Life is But a Dream… is set to be one of the best albums of 2023.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Cusp
    Some patience is required, but if you embrace the slow burn, Cusp will slowly reveal itself to you; the bright harmonies covering Diane’s darkest lyrics will come crumbling down. And when that happens, all you can do is listen--in awe of the beauty born from personal pain.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Spiritual Sound
    This album might not flow as perfectly as others or have one consistent style, but what it does have is riffs, balls and atmosphere aplenty, and when creating music based in black metal, it doesn’t get any better than that.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Congregation
    A few quibbles aside, this is a rock-solid debut and it’ll be interesting to see where these women take their music next.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    You Won't Get What You Want
    Whatever voodoo made their unapproachable sound so damn fun and cathartic is completely gone. In its place is a something altogether darker and uglier, but ultimately more brilliant and enrapturing than ever before. You Won't Get What You Want is Daughters finest moment and everything I’ve wanted.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Bright Future
    Compared to its highly-praised predecessor, Bright Future might come up just short, brought down by its occasional unevenness in quality and weaker coherence as a full listen, but this latest album contains a multitude of Lenker’s finest work yet, while suggesting her reign at the top of indie-dom might be only just beginning. This is a triumphant work from an ascendant artist, and, oh yeah, also one of the finer folk albums of recent years.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Seer
    The Seer is everything we could have hoped for--it is Swans, standing proudly and unabashedly at the top of their game after nearly thirty years.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    NO THANK YOU
    It's a worthy follow-up to Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, trading that album's shimmering polish and clear curation for a looser, more raw aesthetic.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    And Their Refinement Of The Decline
    This album is a swirl of pure emotions and grandiosity, but is never overbearing, never feeling like anything more than your own personal score. Thus, it’s completely brilliant.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Vulnicura
    Bjork's ninth studio album is the first to deal with such dismal and personal details, and is her most revealing as a result--through lyricism as well as through songwriting.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Airtight's Revenge
    Airtight's Revenge sounds like he had a lot of **** he needed to work through, but from great talent, and great catharsis, has come great art. It's hard to imagine that this will break through to any major audience, since it's even less accessible than the rejected Love for Sale, but it seriously deserves it.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Reaching for Indigo
    Reaching for Indigo transcends the traditional appeal of a singer-songwriter. Whenever Haley Fohr sings, it’s as if the instrumentation around her is momentarily frozen in time; quite the compliment for an album that surrounds her with so many uncommon vibrations.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    CTRL
    Ctrl is a Facebook-photo album of opinions and behaviours that probably shouldn’t be broadcasted online. It’s also an assembly of tracks that prevail as mantras of self-affirmation, and it balances the two sides of its character with an awareness that feels like an accident, though it's welcomed all the same. But even if we disregard what it all means, these tracks are still jams, tunes, or any other blasé term people attach to music that you can throw away your dignity to.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Birthing
    Birthing does not resolve so much as disperse into a shimmering lullaby afterworld. It releases you, maybe. Maybe not. Maybe it’s still playing and you haven’t noticed. Maybe you’ve changed afterward. Maybe not. It’s no new world for Swans. But it does feel like a world that’s more charged with that strange luminosity of those brightest days, when the edges of everything feel like they’re dispersing into the atmosphere. Whatever it is, it’s a beautiful thing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    I Love You, Honeybear
    I Love You, Honeybear is the rare love letter that manages to capture all the ugly, bitter sides to a relationship, the angles covered in shadow and hidden behind front doors, because it understands that these are the moments that make up a full and fulfilling relationship between two people with issues and histories and feelings that are more often awful and conflicted than not.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Be the Cowboy
    There’s such a rush to these songs and, resultingly, it feels like Mitski is hurrying to capture something before it dissolves into smoke. It’s ephemeral because life is.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ohms
    Ohms is abrasive, destructive, and alluringly beautiful – but most of all, there’s a profound purpose and longing behind every punch that they throw. After two and a half decades, Deftones are still finding new ways to energize, enrage, and inspire themselves – and with Ohms, they’re finding new ways to peak.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon Bible
    It's about as good as Funeral and features some truly wonderful songs; although The Arcade Fire have certainly progressed, Neon Bible features everything that made them special in the first place, to even more epic proportions.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Umbilical
    Umbilical unleashes a different side of the band’s signature blend of bone-crunching riffs and ear-splitting screeching, but it’s characteristically well-crafted and certain to satisfy music fans previously seduced by Thou’s grim and imposing style.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    This is her best album yet, and great moments abound amidst the fat.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Is a Photograph
    This Is A Photograph is an album which aims for an impressively grand vision, but rarely hits the mark. In its less grandiose moments, though, it’s frequently successful, providing the listener with a number of lovely folk tunes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Empty Country
    D'Agostino remains one of music's most enigmatic yet intensely relatable figures. A voice like a car engine cutting in and out and the discursive, layered nature of his songwriting ensures the full impact of Empty Country won't land for several listens. This, if anything, is just another notch on its list of strengths.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Is Survived By
    Whether or not you’re a fan of their earlier, grittier material or their newer, more polished recordings, Is Survived By is a massively engaging and surprisingly triumphant record, and you cant expect anything but for them to continue to add to their ranks of love-moshing fans with an album that is just so damn solid.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Innocence is Kinky
    It may be difficult to listen to, and even harder to stomach, but there is great reward in focusing on what happens in this deceptively hushed landscape that Hval has built, because for all its use of soft atmospherics and gentle, eiderdown-laced vocals, the album ultimately betrays the implication of a lifetime of misuse beneath its soothing dulcet tones and restrained palettes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Suburbs
    The music on The Suburbs is as direct and straightforward as Butler's lyrics.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    In Colour
    It remodels slabs of wax in a way that not only acknowledges but embraces the pop potential those snippets of sound have been denied for so long.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reform Club
    Rich and intelligent, it's a welcome blow of muted midnight compulsions, swimming in its own tides against the sea of bombast and extravagance that's taken root in recent years. Underwater dance music at its finest.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
    This album destroys as much as possible while it’s on, and even if it leaves a little to be desired once it’s over (damn expectations!), it doesn’t seem to give a fuck about what you think. Honestly, fair enough.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Balloons
    Despite being a free mixtape, House of Balloons feels like a true album, a true labor of love (and pain and hardship and everything else), more genuine than more prominent R&B stars, but perhaps that is due to The Weeknd's anonymity.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shore
    Shore sees Fleet Foxes reborn and entering a new season themselves; a stunning evolution to behold. Fleet Foxes’ fourth album glistens with warmth, energy, and melody. Whereas Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues, and Crack-Up were earthbound, Shore sees Fleet Foxes entirely liberated and taking flight – a fresh incarnation of their former selves.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kala
    Kala is definitely a song-based album, but, that being said, the songs fit together perfectly, and even more surprisingly, they’re all good.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    EUSEXUA
    Where Magdalene found itself virtually overburdened by its own emotional weight, this album is almost ponderously short of it, yet malleable and playful in a way that vindicates its escapist bent.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    22, A Million
    22, A Million is an entirely different kind of beast. Not only does it confirm that Vernon is a modern visionary at the forefront of folk, but it sets the new standard for experimentalism in alternative music.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Chemical Miracle
    From continuous instrumental surprises to brutally honest lyrics, Trophy Eye’s sophomore effort is much more than a solid return, it’s an unanticipated punch to the gut--one that will leave the listener reeling as it rightfully earns its spot among the genre’s most passionate and achingly honest albums.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let England Shake
    This is war poetry at its finest and will keep you coming back for many repeat listens. Its influence on any listener, impressionable or otherwise, should be a positive one.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sound Of Silver
    The great thing about this album is the same as was great about the last full length LCD Soundsystem album, and that is its effortless blend and execution of mix.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers don't owe us anything except themselves, which Heavy Heavy feels like a true and warmly sincere extension of, a hand extended from the light across the dark, if we're willing to let go and take it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Talk
    It's this underdog story that emphasizes just why Body Talk is such a revelation; it is the musical peak of an artist who has always had a bigger picture for what pop could sound like.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Bécs
    There aren't many artists who can deconstruct and rebuild such interesting tracks equally based on both disturbing and exquisite soundscapes, yet Fennesz continues his winning streak.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    End of the Middle
    Sure, The End of the Middle might not be as breathtakingly immersive as Ruby Cord or as transportive as Peasant, but it further cements Dawson's place as modern folk's most fascinating auteur, turning historical echoes into something eerily prophetic.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Remind Me Tomorrow
    This is the kind of record that never loses sight of a desire to learn and change. Whenever Remind Me Tomorrow circles in on starry-eyed nostalgia -- that vile, misleading thing -- it rearranges the fabric of its composition and converts idealism to retrospect.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Audio Vertigo
    This is a good album for a band as deep into their career as Elbow, but it’s also worthwhile even without that qualifier. The band aren’t getting any younger, but they are getting wiser and, dare I say, more fun.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    thank u, next
    The songs that hew closer to pop than hip-hop are the strongest because they show the most confidence, both vocally and musically. That there is even a disparity, however, points to the biggest problem with thank u, next: its occasional lack of a clear identity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome To Mali
    A couple of 50 year olds have just made the most vibrant, youthful record you'll hear all year. What's not to love?
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Some listeners may find the album samey or too similar but one aspect of Mirrored that can't be disputed is that it is a unique album with little to no similar peers.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bon Iver
    The entire album is a collaborative project, in that sense; yet each song acts like a personal journal entry, documenting Justin Vernon's experience back with the living, after being with the ghosts of memory for some time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Blackest Beautiful
    Songs on Fake History sometimes sounded like they were simply vehicles for Butler’s frenetic performances instead of complete songs. That isn’t the case here, which means that most of these songs aren’t as immediate, but lack of immediacy is generally a good indicator of an album’s longevity, especially in post-hardcore.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brave Faces Everyone
    What we have here will likely go down in history as the band’s magnum opus. It’s just so fucking massive and Netflix-level binge-worthy. Without a slow song or acoustic number, Brave Faces Everyoneis ten tracks of loud, abrasive rock music that should connect with anyone who’s life isn’t perfect.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    American Siren
    American Siren is the kind of album that connects with you on a personal level, leaving all kinds of potent thoughts dancing around in your head. Few songs in recent memory have stunned me with a rushing flood of emotions like the heavy cuts here did with ease.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Magic 3
    Nas sounds as energized as ever in his current era and he’s dealing some serious bars across the 15 tracks composing Magic 3. At the same time, it sounds as if the Hit-Boy partnership is finally losing steam--something evident in a record that is stretched thin (cough 15 tracks) and inconsistent, capable of reaching commendable heights and consequently worrying depths.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hercules And Love Affair
    Hercules and Love Affair is a killer work from Butler, an album not meant to break down any barriers or start a revolution.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Syro
    Syro stands as a quiet achievement, an un-fussy, humbling, and excellent release.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Run the Jewels
    Killer Mike and El-P release a short, 33-minute record absolutely brimming with ten of the hardest bangers known to man.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    The Anthropocene Extinction
    While often a little too unfocused, The Anthropocene Extinction is a fine addition to their catalog.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Night Palace
    It just finds this fantastic middle ground, not only in the way that its frantic smattering of ideas somehow presents not as overwhelming, but comforting - the exuberance infectious, the fuzz electric - but, also, in how Night Palace ties in with the broader Elverum catalogue.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Once I Was an Eagle
    It’s easily the most charming she’s ever been--she's no master hunter, but she doesn't need to be.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    But Here We Are
    While not reinventing the wheel, and still struggling with occasional blandness, there are plenty of moments here which simply provoke more excitement and emotion than I’ve felt from Foo Fighters’ music for a while.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Bird Machine
    Bird Machine impresses both as an unexpectedly resurrected album with that classic Sparklehorse feel, and as a distinct entity which sees the project move in a comparatively polished and refined direction. Even without the mournful context of its release, it’s one of the best indie albums of the year.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Promises
    Make no mistake, the payoff that Promises promises is by no means immediate. This is music to savour with eyes closed in a dark room, headphones on and all other distractions firmly yeeted from sight.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halcyon Digest
    A great album, tweaked.
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