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For 2,595 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: 1,935 out of 2595
  2. Mixed: 572 out of 2595
  3. Negative: 88 out of 2595
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Illusion [EP]
    Illusion is a decent release, but it doesn't differentiate itself from anything Fleet Foxes would have written.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Our Version of Events
    Disappointingly, Our Version of Events, with the exceptions of "Heaven" and "Daddy", is as flimsy and mushy as they come.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Head Is an Animal
    A strong-willed, beautifully composed piece of modern day indie-folk.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Transistor Rhythm
    While Transistor Rhythm ends up as the superbly-produced album that Addison Groove has always hinted at, it's the uniform sterility and refusal to tread water beyond the reach of his peers that stops it from succeeding beyond anything more that simple idol worship.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Wasteland Companion
    A Wasteland Companion at first seems unsure of what it wants to be or where it wants to go, vacillating between various genre exercises rooted in a common retro theme, but by the end it reaffirms what those who've loved Ward's old work have always known.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sea
    A great vocal performance and solid musicianship from the backing band result in a record well worth the time.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rooms Filled with Light
    Rooms Filled With Light is more than an interesting transitional release, it is a bold and moderately successful grower which will reward the patient.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weapons
    Weapons feels so full, so intentional, that it's hard not to get dragged into the chorus of people that will doubtless lock arms to these songs live.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wonky
    Wonky is a work full of many flaws and too few shining moments, but as ammunition for the obvious tours to follow, there's enough here to be effective enough in a large enough setting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    De Vermis Mysteriis
    It is a ferocious and captivating listen that twists and turns through the deepest darkest depths all the while pushing forward into new sonic territory.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Church That Fits Our Needs
    It's an exhausting listen, but what A Church That Fits Our Needs does so well is how it makes this loss palatable--the grief is real and heartfelt and sometimes overwhelming, but in its honesty and the warm instrumentation that Picker has mastered, it's thoughtful and all too easy to get lost in.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond
    None of these songs will top the charts, and none of them are very immediate, but they work together like a well-oiled machine that delivers a relatively accurate depiction of how you might feel while reading the book or watching the film.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kids in the Street
    Ultimately Kids in the Street will go down as a solid album that is an ambitious and interesting grower... Nothing more, nothing less.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sonik Kicks
    Sonik Kicks rather helpfully lives up to its name.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Amaryllis
    Shinedown has the raw talent to keep Amaryllis afloat, but the album is full of holes and it always appears to be on the verge of sinking.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Songs
    The album is still very much a tale of two cities: for every half-baked wobbly anthem that the rooster-haired cockney thug has in his pocket he still manages to surprise with an occasional outburst of borderline genius.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea
    This is Merritt in designer mood, playing with layers and music. The joy is found in watching it take shape.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The General Strike
    All in all, The General Strike is all we can really ask for from Anti-Flag these days: a solid set of tunes for the pinko bastard in all of us.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eternal Turn of the Wheel
    There are moments here worth returning for time and again, but not much to put Eternal Turn of the Wheel in the same level of esteem as its distant predecessors.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Port of Morrow
    Port of Morrow seems much more a step sideways than forward for Mercer, not so much a dramatic comeback but more a compilation of greatest hits masquerading as new songs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Threads
    Even though it can be repetitive at times, it still possesses enough standout moments to keep it from fading into oblivion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Land
    As a band, Yellow Ostrich is in its infancy, and it's forgiveable that they haven't quite found the best way to show their hand both as a unit and as separate entities at this stage.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happy to You
    That decision to expand their sound and focus more on the links between where they were and where they want to go is the true treat of Happy to You.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All of Me
    The end result is a mish-mash of styles that leaves this LP somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at the turn of the millennium.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Prisoner
    'Prisoner' is unquestionably a captivating LP where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, since the cohesive nature of its songwriting is clearly intended to suit a beginning-to-end listening experience and enhance longevity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Anarchy, My Dear
    Anarchy, My Dear fails because it tries to recapture things that Bemis just doesn't seem to have right now--true discontentment and anger and venom.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elemental
    While Elemental isn't quite on par with their earlier material (more than a few tracks here are simply nothing more than feedback loops, as if the group were deliberately trying to sound scary instead of just simply being scary), as a whole package it's still a genuinely disturbing yet fascinating experience from two men truly caught up in a dialogue that only they seem to be able to hear.
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