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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gigi's Recovery
    There are plenty of immediately-engrossing moments, like the dramatic vocal narration of “The Stars Will Leave Their Stage” or the rousing solo in “A Thousand Lives”, but mostly what I return for is the sense of development within songs and from one track to another. This is an album which manages to cover a lot of territory in under fifty minutes, even if the brief intro and outro tracks don’t feel fully fleshed out (my largest criticism).
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost In The Sound Of Separation
    When Underoath hits it they hit it well, and Lost in the Sound of Separation is still a very good record despite its faults.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clash the Truth
    In all, Clash the Truth is a major step forward for Beach Fossils, and it’s certainly an album that I’m not going to forget about so easily, if ever at all.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sound Kapital
    If this is what we're going to be getting from Boeckner and company, perhaps Wolf Parade can stand to take a break for as many years as it needs to.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unraveling of Puptheband
    The resultant journey is a jittery, joyous, glorious, gleaming mess: substantially less coherent than their previous outings, but no less endearing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
    Overall, 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons shows A Silver Mount Zion at their hardest rocking, their most powerful, and their most irritating.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mind Bokeh
    It's as colorful as it sounds, and it makes for an album where one can never quite know what to expect next.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pocket Symphony
    Most of these songs are melancholy and soft, waiting for a darkened sky to play to.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Matilda
    Matilda expands on the palette considerably, shooting off on several tangents without muddying the overall aesthetic at all. It's harder to get into than Stateless, but once this sinks in properly, it's even better.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Traditional Synthesizer Music
    Traditional Synthesizer Music’s rudimentary way of coming to be has an added bonus in that it’s softer on the ears than pretty much any of its predecessors, making the points at which Funk wakes from his slumber all the more palatable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rot Gut, Domestic
    In the end, what we have is a record that pushes towards an extremely promising new direction while still managing to maintain the band's adored personality.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unpatterns
    SMD's latest is an exploration not just in sound, but in concept; it feels like a defining statement, not just for them but for dance music in general.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Koloss
    By making precise tweaks and adjustments to their sound by approaching Koloss with a new attitude, all the while holding fast to their core strengths, Meshuggah have given us the first truly engaging metal album of 2012.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
    At some point or another, we all feel as though the electricity of our existence is being trapped in a confined space, waiting to break loose. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us pops the lid, vigorously releasing that energy into the atmosphere. It’s liberating.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tramp
    As a whole, Sharon Van Etten really hits the nail on the head with her third try.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shakira
    She sounds like she truly cares and poured her heart into her songs (and most of them are indeed co-written by her), with the overall result feeling satisfyingly emotional and incredibly fulfilling... something that couldn't be said as strongly about an album like She Wolf.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    War Paint
    War Paint may not be an album of 2011 contender, yet it challenges to be the most lyrically impressive.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Connector
    On Connector, the accomplished quartet have recorded an immersive album that is not only satisfying in the moment, but also reveals further layers and textures upon subsequent listening.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Nature
    Savoir Adore are best suited for exploring the recesses of indie-pop, noting what’s worked most successfully in the genre’s past and utilizing it to shade their brand of music as they please.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flight Of The Conchords
    Overall, Flight of the Conchords created a well-rounded, original, and entertaining album filled with classic songs from their hit show.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    50 Words for Snow
    Once again, Kate's found a new sound world to operate in and made an effortlessly great album that works both as a conceptually cohesive whole and as a set of standlone songs as warm and comforting as a roaring fire.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Delighted People EP
    It's a staggering return from his alleged creative crisis, a terrific addition to his discography, and a wonderful addition to an already fantastic 2010.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seventh Tree
    From the first minute till the last, this is enthralling, invigorating stuff, and because of that it's comfortably the duo's best album yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Viva La Vida
    Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends takes a band who should have been in decline and a sound that’s been tried and true and makes it all sound fantastically fresh.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Away
    This is a dazzlingly euphoric and utterly stubborn album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
    While Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place isn't the album that will make long time fans of Anberlin still holding out for some sort of magnum opus from the band weak in the knees, it is the third straight near perfect album released by them.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghosts
    Ghosts, at surface level, appears to be cut from the same futuristic mold with its uninviting and foreboding artwork and premise, but closer inspection finds album no. 8 to be the artist's most approachable album to date.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gallows
    There is not one note out of place; the music remaining tight, aggressive and addictive throughout.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    From the ashes of Volta, an album that occasionally felt like a career-killer, has come an album of startling beauty, furious invention, and inviting, warm atmosphere.
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