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For 1,530 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
Lowest review score: 15 Revival
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,296 out of 1530
  2. Mixed: 209 out of 1530
  3. Negative: 25 out of 1530
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I Am Easy to Find
    The talented likes of Lisa Hannigan and Sharon Van Etten attempt to breathe life into affairs, but there’s no resuscitating a creature that never breathed to begin with. No less, they for some reason decided to draw this death rattle out across their longest album to date, blindly moping through an inexplicably sixty-three minute run time.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Rhythm
    Rhythm is a collection of great ideas, improperly organised and occasionally poorly executed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Better Than This
    Tthe record is a continuation of Pile as voice for a bizarre following that it simultaneously evokes and has, apparently, tangibly brought together.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Villains
    The album is definitely progress, but maybe not as much progress as those of us eagerly awaiting new music were hoping for.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Devotion
    On Devotion, she cordons off her own corner of modern Rn’B with a statement destined to become a genre staple.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    E-MO-TION Side B [EP]
    The success of Emotion and its predecessor, Kiss, was a product of balance. ... Side B does not find that balance, and is most instructive in the ways it illuminates her process. It lets us peek in on the misfits that are the product of every pop album, and hints at the unsexy labor of music-making.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Howl
    It is the album's ability to create such an immersive experience with relatively few constituent parts that makes this Ryan Lee West's finest release to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If All I Was Was Black
    If All I Was Was Black is often times both troubling and soothing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brilliant Sanity
    Happily, the quirky musical moments that characterised the London band's 2014 debut Breakfast are sprinkled over Brilliant Sanity, resulting in 11 pleasingly playful songs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    New Path
    This album, short in track numbers but long in duration, fluctuates intensities, whirlpooling on its own without losing its path, logic and coherence.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sound & Color
    Quite simply, Sound & Color isn't an album to Tidal or play off've some 'device', it's one to sit down and listen to in its entirety before happily handing down through the ages like a sweaty bag of Werther's.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now
    Here there is less pop, more disco, less experimentation, more thought, less anthem, more groove and unjustly more quality, less attention.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Future's Void
    The term 'masterpiece' is thrown around a lot.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Entanglement
    Overall, Entanglement continues Erased Tapes' music and emotional aesthetic which can lift up the anchor of imagination and let its listeners float in its possibilities.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Paradise [EP]
    Overall, Paradise is a safe bridge from HOPELESSNESS, where the singer is able to express herself in another wide collection of musical manifestos.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forth Wanderers
    Despite the lack of variance from song to song, each of the 10 songs here are finely written candidates for radio. ... The issue is that it’s not worth it to dig through all 10 of these tracks to find the nuanced intricacies that so frequently play second fiddle to loud rock and roll.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No One Wants To Be Here and No One Wants To Leave
    They sound as powerful as ever, and their penchant for weaving subtle folk melodies amongst their noise is still pretty special.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where We Were Together
    You can hear the band's fearlessness in every fun-soaked note on Where We Were Together.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
    It’s a culmination of just about every texture they’ve explored before, fostered through unmistakable maturity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Are Sing Sinck, Sing
    All of the album’s five tracks share the same aural characteristics of minimalist and pulsating synth drone, languid vocals and swirls and ripples of mechanised undulations and the album feels like a complete body of work rather than a collection of songs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ratchet
    Ratchet is instantly likeable and oh so infectious. A great pop album through and through, there's enough here to keep you dancing all through the summer.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Noonday Dream
    Complex, surreal and divine. Noonday Dream is Ben Howard's best work to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Shall Die Here
    The sheer solidity of The Body's sound seems to erase all thoughts of humanity and in the end all we are left with are the machines and the monuments, forgotten relics that in time will be destroyed as well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stellular
    Finally, she has stepped out into the light, her outward-facing confidence having infused her music with a timeless joy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    DiCaprio 2
    Every inflection, every word, even nearly every concept feels lifted from rap’s reigning King’s playbook. It’s a haphazard mixture of TDE’s figurehead circa Section.80, with a big heap of Good Kid and a smattering of To Pimp a Butterfly, just for good measure. ... DiCaprio 2 is a heavy helping of technicality, signifying absolutely nothing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Emmaar
    Inspirational work, yet again.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Street Worms
    The depraved and descending post-punk of ‘Down in the Basement’ sets the blueprint for Viagra Boys throughout most of the album, and on some tracks it feels a bit repetitive at times. The factor that distinguishes these tracks from each other are the odd and uncouth characters being described.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Honest
    The album suffers from a bit of an identity crisis, it is an honest album as the name suggests but it seems Future has difficulties in being an artist who feels the need to balance his street upbringing with his skill at writing, what are essentially, hip-hop love songs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pleasure
    Unfortunately, the album ends up being a whole that is less than the sum of its parts, making no real impact on the listener as it quietly meanders along.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Music for the Age of Miracles
    More than ever, the human experience is tangible through their music, and they manage to create those unmaintainable moments of joy that can, in a moment or a movement, dissolve into something else entirely; a memory of something long forgotten, a vision of your inconsequentiality in the world, a realisation that everything is temporary. Fortunately, they are not always downers, moreover it just feels comforting to have those feelings quantified so stirringly through music.
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