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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
    He is constantly blowing up what’s good about his work, adding extraneous parts, going on wild tangents, obfuscating emotional truth with impenetrable verbosity, veering from good taste to bad in the blink of an eye, or reinventing his band’s sound wholesale. While this impulse doesn’t always translate to an enjoyable experience for the listener, and can be especially trying for longtime fans, who can become overly attached to what they would consider to be Of Montreal’s definitive sound, there’s no denying that Barnes takes your ears to places they’ve likely never been before. There won’t be another album that comes out this year that sounds like White is Relic/Irrealis Mood.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    California Nights
    Aside from two or three fillers, this record should be applauded for doing what Consentino does best: writing melodies that stick in your head for days.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Moon
    The restraint and delicate nature of their performances compliment Stephanie Dose's voice and help showcase her unusual style of singing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Year Of The Snitch
    Year of the Snitch elicits the same anxiety-ridden feeling as having two dozen browser windows open at the same time. In its sensory overload, its embrace of ugliness and beauty, of chaos and calm, of proficiency and slackness, and its willingness to by turns troll and impress the listener, it reflects the complicated, frustrating nature of the Internet in 2018.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Being
    Being is a bit fragmented, and purposefully so.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Altid Sammen
    You might not revisit this record often, but when you want to step back and step out Altid Sammen in its quiet contemplation will be the record to open up new avenues and expose what it was you were searching for.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Painting With
    This is a lush, intellectual and brilliant collection, constantly teeming with sounds, innovations and ideas.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    What Is This Heart?
    At its heart it is an album at odds with itself as much as it is with its audience, too weird to gain mainstream popularity, but too pop to be truly revered by existing fans.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Awake
    Awake is a very environmental album, but not a particularly emotional one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tallies
    Come at a pace so consistently slow the album's charm begins to ache.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here Comes the Cowboy
    It feels Mac also went through these motions creating Here Comes The Cowboy, something is lacking, and it feels like it was motivation. That being said, with this record Mac has taken some creative risks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    When listening to this album you can’t help but feel the infectiousness of the group sitting around together just jamming out these songs.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Supreme Blientele
    Gunn is a highly skilled rapper, but he doesn't quite bring Supreme Blientele together to be the street epic it could’ve been.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forever Neverland
    Forever Neverland is an illustration of how modern pop should be--full of character, colourful and 14 tracks full of pop hit after hit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arcadia
    As far as solo jaunts go, this is one she should be immensely proud of. It's Macomberesque as opposed to Borrellian.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Woman
    Woman is by no means a bad listen, it just isn’t a very original one either.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Oczy Mlody
    The result is a chaos of sound that leaves little direction for the listener.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So Long, See You Tomorrow
    It must be frustrating for Steadman and his fellow Bicycle Clubbers to be unable to shake off the mainstream's lager-stained memories of their debut, but you get the sense that So Long, See You Tomorrow is an appreciative, if somewhat firm, farewell aimed in their direction.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Freedom
    Freedom is nothing more than an exercise in competent stadium rock.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Habitat [EP]
    [An] electronic gem.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vitriola
    The circular fate of a world that is doomed to repeat itself is told on the thrashy ‘Ouroboros’ which is riddled with scuzzy feedback, but Ted Stevens’ melody manages to crack through the darkness. It’s these under-written melodies that somewhat cut the bleakness which is on offer here. That’s not to say there aren’t any moments of hope. There are.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Days of Abandon
    POBPAH's third LP lunges confidently into all the right places, emitting sunshine, glee, rainbows, sugar and sparkles as it goes like a sweaty unicorn running a marathon.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Range of Light
    Carey is making music that concerns itself with nuance, and yet he has made the audio equivalent of cutting a victoria sponge cake with a chainsaw, doing his best to serve it up to a nervous gathering of increasingly swearing nuns.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Model of You
    The music is bigger, bolder and more direct, but crucially there is still that lingering murkiness on the edges.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pattern of Excel
    Even where his pieces feel unscripted and accidental, they all manage to paint a doomy melancholy which has a filmic charm.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Become Alive
    It's an astounding debut in which he demonstrates the discipline to shape his wildly creative visions into something not only thrilling and compelling, but also focused.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Other I
    Whilst making a discernible attempt to liven up their song-craft, 2:54 has definitely returned as a stronger, more endearing band. Sometimes the experiments don't work.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heartstrings
    Heartstrings may be a rather trippy journey, but be assured, you are at all times with a capably lucid and extremely thoughtful driver.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A New Nature
    It's a tremendous record, that simply, and effectively puts their contemporaries to shame.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Convertibles
    It may be a bit malnourished in thematic ingenuity--it's not as honest as Old or Oxymoron, or as celebratory as Acid Rap--but the allure comes from ingenious, inventive production
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