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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Donkey
    It fails as dance, as rock, as pop, and as art-rock or art-pop. Really, should we be settling for an average, inoffensive midpoint between all these, given all the music that exists in the world?
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fate
    Simply put, Fate is a refreshment of the sound that has been missing for so long.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Day As A Lion [EP]
    The sound quality is, by all accounts, mediocre, but the raw nature of the music reflects the “one day” aspect of their motto.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beautiful Future
    This is just lazily done and disappointing considering it’s been marketed very well to appear mysterious.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Untitled
    Untitled is far from terrible, but it's still a deflating, disappointing, infuriating listen.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Coral Sea
    Ultimately this is very hard to judge as pop music. Judged as art, however, it's sensual, insidious, cathartic, and quite beautiful.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hercules And Love Affair
    Hercules and Love Affair is a killer work from Butler, an album not meant to break down any barriers or start a revolution.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
    So Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is just another Sigur Ros album, but if I can be the first to say it, our "first vital band of the 21st century" is starting to feel old hat.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Saints Of Los Angeles
    While Saints Of Los Angeles is occasionally stunning, as is consistent with Sixx’s recent return to form, it often sounds too much like something Nikki Sixx would expect Crüe fans to like, rather than the top-class rock n’ roll he’s time-and-time-again proven himself capable of making.
    • 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.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
    This misguided eagerness to please is endemic throughout the album’s 12 tracks, from the appropriation of other artists’ styles (the chunky riffing and brutish vocals of ‘Hammerhead’ are reminiscent of Dave Grohl, while closer ‘Rage And Grace’ is a transparent attempt to recreate the vitality of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’) to Holland’s equally unrelatable lyrics.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    19
    It can't even stack up to Gabriella Cilmi. Estelle? Leona Lewis? Yikes. Avoid.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evil Urges
    As of right now though, Evil Urges is on the top of the heap for 2008.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tha Carter III
    Tha Carter III is scattershot, which oddly strengthens its faults, as if any lull in quality means that the next batch of producers can just reset the formula.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Los Angeles
    Flying Lotus has once again proved that he is an artist that can consistently reinvent himself and make his new sound just as effective as it was before
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exiting Arm
    A triumph on many levels and a failure on only a few small fronts, ExitingARM is a more than worthy addition to Themselve’s vast array of musical treasures, and a sign that perhaps in the future we’ll see a truly universal album come from anticon.’s most brilliant duo.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    There's a huge promise to Fleet Foxes, one that can't be ignored, but Pecknold and the rest of the guys haven't tapped into it yet.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rook
    While Meiburg's voice, charisma, and songwriting dominate this album, his backing band does a fantastic job of growing and falling, creating the dramatic effects he envisioned.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bake Sale [EP]
    The witty anti-gangster taunts of A Little Bit Cooler and pretty much everything else on the album, makes for a fun, but still quality, Hip-Hop record.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Indestructible
    The album features a great number of their best songs to date, a couple expected stinkers, and some expected and unexpected lyricism.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Life...The Best Game In Town
    There’s not much else to say that you shouldn’t already know: thick, melodic and endearing, Life...The Best Game in Town is essential listening.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
    By listening to What Does It All Mean?, you're giving yourself a vital history lesson, a blast of fun, and above all, some 130 minutes of fantastic music.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Anywhere I Lay My Head
    Anywhere I Lay My Head is a vanity project made by Scarlett Johansson, for Scarlett Johansson, and what's more, it sounds suspiciously like a desperate cry for credibility from a woman who doesn't actually need any.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arm's Way
    Islands produced an adventurous and daring record with Arm's Way, an adventure many bands are afraid to attempt.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lie Down In The Light
    Lie Down In The Light is still slightly marred by this uneven pace.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rockferry
    Duffy is a major talent, and Rockferry is little short of outstanding.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Narrow Stairs
    Caught between the indie-pop that they so cleverly deviated and their new found ambitious sound, Death Cab For Cutie have lost themselves.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
    The album is harmless fun, and the funky, groovy, hook-dominated tracks are impossible to hate.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Airing Of Grievances
    The Airing Of Grievances is not about anything so much as it is for everything--the beauty of life, the tragedy of life wasted, the looming of death and the desire to go out having lived fully--no, it is not about those things at all, it is for those things, it is a collection of songs written as odes to the gritty and the beautiful and the mixing of the two: our world, our sick world.
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