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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ring
    Ring is an album that puts Cameron Mesirow on par with any of the emerging group of experimental female vocalists and if we didn't notice it before, there's a Glasser-shaped hole somewhere between Bat For Lashes' conceptual pop schizophrenia and Fever Ray's icy soundscapes and Cameron Mesirow is the missing puzzle piece. Debut albums rarely come more accomplished.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Operator
    MSTRKRFT and Keeler have never been ones for half measures. Operator’s overall refusal to do just that, its inexorable 808 death march through a digital hell, makes it MSTRKRFT’s best album yet, not to mention an impressive approximation of DFA1979’s live show, in spirit if not in sound.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bad Dream Jaguar
    It’s a bunch of sad songs which make you feel good to be alive. Can’t go wrong with that.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hollywood Park
    This is Jollett and his band accessing their very best traits while achieving a sense of resolution, and it’s a gorgeous thing to behold.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is How Tomorrow Moves
    Whereas Beatopia felt stuck between two different eras and styles, This Is How Tomorrow Moves takes the new ideas beabadoobee introduced on that record and fully fleshes them out with no reservations. As a result, it’s the most self-assured and downright enjoyable album she’s released in several years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Be Monsters
    This lovely journey offers both lush and haunting moments without sacrificing any of the experimental edges or familiar sounds.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libre
    A very, very impressive album all around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It Won't Be Soon Before Long
    These are all songs that you would have trouble getting out of your head, and It Won’t Be Soon Before Long is the second coming and establishing factor of Maroon 5 as the pop band of the century thus far.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Temper
    Sometimes wistful and reflective, other times earnest, Temper is always tranquil, concise, and accessible.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cousin
    It’s another worthy addition to a burgeoning discography. It’s a wonderful feeling when an old favorite is still in a groove and pumping out quality music after so many years.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    UGK 4 Life
    Excessive, sexual, and catchy, UGK has crafted the most definitive template for the southern rap record. Sadly, it'll be their last.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lysandre
    At only 28 minutes long, Lysandre is easily digestible in a single sitting, but that really just embellishes its true purpose--to temporarily whet our appetites till all those other Christopher Owens solo records appear.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Target Earth
    Target Earth is the speed, technicality and thrashy weirdness of the band's earliest album enveloped in a modern package that is also able to retain its own vibe and personality.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stillness Softness...
    The result is something to be proud of, establishing Omori as a welcome presence in the ambient landscape.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volta
    Volta is a strong album with memorable, remarkable tracks that have great variety, so much that the album loses cohesion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baby, We're Ascending
    There’s a warmth and resonance to every last beat here, and so the album, while frequently propulsive, is far too lush to be harsh or impersonal. When it goes it doesn’t shut you out, it sweeps you along.
    • 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
    Syro
    Syro stands as a quiet achievement, an un-fussy, humbling, and excellent release.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Static Tensions
    Along with fellow Georgia natives Mastodon, Kylesa have crafted one of the metal albums to beat this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    brand new eyes
    Brand New Eyes shows that they have the potential--now they've just got to live up to it and create the classic album the fans know they can make.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star Wars
    This is the sound of a cohesive unit letting it rip in the studio for by far the shortest album of their careers--and not a note is misplaced or wasted, despite how (intentionally) messy it sounds.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Juggernaut: Alpha
    Alpha is easily the band's most accessible album to date.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pre-Human Ideas
    On a very basic level Pre-Human Ideas may appear to be the work of an artist diving headfirst into insanity. But at its core the album is one of the most personal and engaging releases of Mount Eerie’s career.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    21
    Hearing a voice that grows scratchy and threatens to break and has not been tampered with, has not been slicked over in a studio, a voice that reveals all that can be found within a person and also seems to hold something back, to suggest another truth just behind the veil.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl with Basket of Fruit
    Girl With Basket of Fruit is the only record Xiu Xiu could've possibly made after what was the impossibly positive, yet unsure-sounding Forget back in 2017. The music contained on the album is hyper-aggressive, manic, even unpredictable at times, but that's the magic of what Jamie Stewart is doing, for better or worse.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perch Patchwork
    Even though the change in sound might alienate the most stubborn of fans, what they gain on their Barsuk debut is a new found sense of direction and a grandiose vision that stretches farther than the confines of math-rock ever could.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Severant
    Because beauty comes thick and fast with this album, and even though it's taken wholesale from more popular sources, here it feels like we're only now hearing it for the first time.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is PiL
    PiL have created something solid, vicious and with enough value for repeat listens.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That Golden Time
    That Golden Time is an accessible listen, in the sense that it doesn’t demand much engagement to be pleasant, but repeated exposure will uncover nuances both musical and lyrical, while the ten song tracklist is impressively consistent in quality. Give it a try.
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