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For 2,596 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Cascade
    Pulls its weight at the points that count, fumbles mainly at those that don't, feels less successful holistically than it does as the sum of its parts, leaves me with anything but satisfaction by the time it's done, and does very little to address the question of when Shepherd will finally show the chutzpah and scope of vision to make a truly great work on solely his own terms.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Majesty Shredding
    The thing is, despite their participation in the bustling, creative and innovative 90's scene, Majesty Shredding might just be their best album yet.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    As Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You winds to a close, it feels like reading the final part of a novel that kept you hanging on its every word. No matter what Anhedonia does next, this will always be a classic chapter in her book.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Ceremony
    In all its ethereal beauty, Ceremony is an ideal companion, whatever you’re going through right now. It’s a perfectly suited album to fill your earbuds while going on a walk, or for the next time you’re lounging on a chair in your backyard as the sun shines down.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Around the World & Back
    The quintet still perform pop-punk better than many of their contemporaries, and it should be noted that this LP sounds significantly more effective when played out loud, rather than through head or earphones... But it’s difficult to ignore the feeling that they are capable of better.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No More Heroes
    A lyrically potent, melodic, and danceable piece, make sure to cop one of the best records the year has to offer.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist along with Mike and Vince Staples (on occasion) make an album that is like sap. it leaks, percolates into gaps: the gap between consciousness and subconscious, night/day, joie de vive/joie de ***-it-all (i don't know the french term for this feeling).
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hunter
    The Hunter is the album that shows that as long as Mastodon stay true to their selves, they have the creative wherewithal to not only endure but keep themselves in the spotlight for years and years to come.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    softscars
    The record showcases their most cohesive and potentially most versatile stylistic palette to date. Returning fans will find the likes of “softscars”, “ghosts” and “bloodbunny” full of familiar glitchy flourishes, and “inferno” within a stone’s throw of Serotonin II’s understated reveries, but there’s a much more ‘physical’ presence to the music here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swim
    Swim is quite dark; this is definitely pop of the bedroom sort, and despite Snaith's vocals usually being indecipherable, buried underneath hissing drum machines and meretricious synths, there's a pervading sense of intimacy to the whole thing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Harlem River Blues
    Harlem River Blues is Justin Townes Earle's crowning moment. It's relaxed without being tiresome, vintage without being gimmicky. Most importantly, it's great. The songs are great, the lyrics are great and there's not a weak song on it.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Immutable
    While it has highlights aplenty, they seem the kind of highlights that would fare better outside of the context of Listening To A Whole Album In 2022. ... As a start-to-finish experience, there’s a tendency for things to melt together as momentum flags, the sequencing grates, or you find yourself paying less than your most devout attention to the swiftly passing milieu.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    It's like the debut, but slightly different, definitely better.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oyster Cuts
    The listener might not quite know what they’re getting, song by song, but the whole tracklist remains high-quality guitar-driven pop. There are notable highlights - among them the utterly infectious opener “Never Be Lonely”, the immaculate title track, and the drugged-out and strangely hypnotic “Screensaver” - but every tune has its own merits.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Expert in a Dying Field
    The strength of the opening trio of tracks on Expert In A Dying Field is a potent reminder of their best attributes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Noise
    Black Noise is something worth delving into. It is something intensely personal and emotionally gray, but it’s also grounded, accessible enough to welcome you inside.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Visiter
    Visiter is an impressive sophomore album, a wonderful growth for the Dodos, and one of the year’s subtlest surprises, even if it took thirty listens to get there.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    For the First Time
    They delivered neither a classic nor an embarrassing flop that revealed them as a flavour-of-the-week fancy, but just a pretty good album with room to improve.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Forever Howlong
    All in all, Forever Howlong feels like a missed opportunity. There are enough good bits to show that the band are as capable as ever of crafting a spellbinding moment, but there’s a frustrating lack of direction or commitment that prevents these moments from ever coalescing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nikki Nack
    Sonically, Nikki Nack is a joyous record which sees Gabril bursting at the seams with restless energy and tremendous creativity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wall of Eyes
    If A Light for Attracting Attention felt like a perhaps unnecessary but strong redux of a Radiohead album (A Moon Shaped Pool, specifically), then Wall of Eyes feels like an album Radiohead never made here on Earth, even if they could’ve conceivably done so in an alternate dimension. That’s progress.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
    Great albums don’t need to define a generation or open doors to other worlds, they just need to make great music--and Inquiry does exactly that. It’s a batch of quality pop songs--nothing more, nothing less.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Forevher
    forevher is a supremely catchy, slightly experimental (the horn sections in ‘princess leia’ couldn’t go unmentioned), but chiefly fun pop record that implements plenty of ideas that are completely new to Shura’s arsenal. ... With a sound this infectious and spellbinding, Shura has undoubtedly found her calling.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Few Good Things
    Few Good Things is a vibrant, technicolour celebration of life's triumphs and joys.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Futurology
    There’s plenty to be pleased about here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    M
    M is painfully bland and too on the nose.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    Dixon’s radiant songwriting paves the way, and his expressive style makes for an enchanting journey through blissful soundscapes.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live Love A$AP
    It all combines to create a very particular aesthetic, perfect for late night drives or dank smoke sessions, and the album doesn't have any higher ambitions than perfectly fitting these particular situations.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    obZen
    obZen is a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging record, and is without question an early contender for metal Album of the Year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blue Sky Noise
    The entirety of Blue Sky Noise blows away anything else that Circa Survive have ever done. It is immense, it is challenging, and it will make fools out of those who doubt it.
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