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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Admission
    There’s little to fault here in all honesty; it plays everything right and does so with a near flawless execution. Though one could argue it’s a little one-dimensional in terms of almost exclusively working with one style, as I said earlier, it nails the way these songs are presented.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Cater to Cowards
    This thing is a beast. If nothing more, We Cater to Cowards has convinced me that I need more of this kind of noisy bullsh*t in my life. After wading through all this thick sludge, at least two showers will be necessary, but I’m in no rush; I’d almost forgotten how much fun it can be to play in the dirt.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    Evergreen
    The bulk of EVERGREEN does little more than yeeting a distorted riff at you, copy-pasting vocal melodies on top and subsequently repeating a few lines by way of a chorus (and, if you’re lucky, this is the part where Gunn’s vocals get a little grittier, yay!). While this affords the record an inherent sense of cohesion, none of the songs here are particularly memorable or uh, good.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Big Sigh
    It’s hard not to feel like there could be a little more to Big Sigh, a little more to Hackman. Regardless, there is a lot to be found in this excellent album if you allow it some time, give it some space and, while it may not be as easy as it seems, embrace its familiarity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live from the Underground
    Live From The Underground offers nothing game-changing, but is definitely enjoyable (especially on high energy jams like "Yeah Dats Me"), emulating its influences well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lady Killer
    Thankfully, the thrills don't stop with the summer's hit single.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Rolling Golden Holy
    This album is certainly worth checking for those who found something to enjoy on Bonny Light Horseman, and even for those who simply desire a mellow folky listen, but don’t expect anything earth-shattering. Chalk it up as another pretty good effort from a supergroup.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Flamagra
    It’s not a reversal of normal Flying Lotus material. We’re still dealing with confusion exemplified as a messy but ultimately rewarding tracklist, fear exemplified as music that is just off enough that it could feel terrifying, depression exemplified as little quirks and late starts scattered like jacks and marbles. The difference is that, for once, he’s not trying to fight it all off.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
    More than just a pretty acoustic record, Harris, through Grouper, has created a startlingly vivid and brooding shoegaze gem that works in spite of its length and first impressions.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    My Finest Work Yet
    It may not garner the same kind of fond appreciation that fans have for The Mysterious Production of Eggs, or Break It Yourself, but this album is less a niche corner of the folk genre and more an illustrious banner for all to appreciate. In Bird’s vast canon of genre experimentation, there’s room for at least one big time indie-rock record--and this fills those shoes quite well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Appaloosa Bones
    Appaloosa Bones demonstrates that Gregory Alan Isakov remains standing as an essential voice in the folk scene.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
    It’s a triumphant rebirth, pulsating and healing dark energy that feels inspiring and genuine.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Spiral in a Straight Line
    Spiral in a Straight Line strives to strike a balance. It’s a collection of great songs, varies in pace, and is recognisably Touché.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Stay Gold
    It’s a record confident in its own making, even more so when it turns its focus inward.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Gallarais
    At its best, the album embodies the curiosity of revisiting audio or video recordings, scanning for oddities which could possibly be the etchings of spirits crossing the veil between worlds. At its worst, Gallarais fools you into thinking its divination has lasting credibility.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Earthly Delights
    The group has expanded its vocabulary and in general made its sound more broad and enjoyable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
    The album feels wonderfully grounded as such, and is ideally placed as an ambassador for the open-heartedness, peace, and healing that are as key to new age as its otherworldly mystique.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything in Between
    Unlike previous releases, there is not a dire need to shuffle back a few tracks to listen repetitively, but more of a, 'when I'm in the mood' feeling. No Age are certainly living in the moment, and Everything In Between has a similar retention factor.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anti-Icon
    Anti-Icon is a concise offering with plenty to offer both fans of Ghostemane and the industrial genre.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reflektor
    There are enough interesting motifs and musical adventuring on Reflektor that the negatives seem inconsequential on the whole.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Director's Cut
    If you've heard the albums it's drawing its material from, you've already got all of those secrets figured out. Ultimately, that renders this album as a novelty of sorts, a release that should only have a footnote in the story of her career rather than its own chapter.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Chalk
    There's not a weak track here, and on close inspection each song could be singled out as a highlight if debased from the album.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Pleiades Dust [EP]
    The song is always so compelling, so rich and vibrant, so immaculately layered that in the end it doesn't really matter. Gorguts, as usual, have created a death metal masterpiece.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Big Freeze
    It is difficult to even listen to individual songs because they flow into each other so well that it feels wrong to skip around. That said, this is her strongest collection of songs yet.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Green to Gold
    The latest album by indie rock's stalwarts of subtle evolution and refinement will not disappoint those of us who always delighted in their hidden textures and atmospheres as much as barn-burning screamalongs; it is a resolutely peaceful affair, totally unconcerned with forcing drama or histrionics onto its gorgeous landscapes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Saturnalia
    This represents a new territory for both Dulli and Lanegan, and it's one that they (generally) excel in.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grid of Points
    It’s pithy and monochromatic, forcing the listener to pay the closest attention to every movement. Every harmony is a different shade of grey, and this record does yield some of her loveliest harmonies.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    The Jacket
    The Jacket is an excellent foray into dream pop, country, indie, music, textiles, life, the stratosphere.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    We've Been Going About This All Wrong reflects on the darkest moments of her earliest work with a newfound sense of confidence and control fully discovered in the Remind Me Tomorrow era.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
    This latest Lana del Rey record does contain some measure of robust and moving songwriting about topics other than sex, death and California. ... Secondary highlights “Paris, Texas” and “Kintsugi” disappear into the background; otherwise cogent hip-hop flirtations turn into innocuous daliances (“Fishtail”); the middle of the road becomes the most desolate of wasted spaces (“Fingertips”).
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