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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
    They’ve experimented with vocals, concentrated their musical chemistry, further polished their production, and tweaked their songwriting so that the transitions between movements in their songs are less sheer cliff-faces of fury and more lithe passages. All this, combined with some of the best songs they’ve ever written, makes Ordinary Corrupt Human Love the band’s most irrefutable credential as a leader in modern Rock.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Qualm
    Qualm is her inauguration. Its agitated kineticism and flagrant oddness, blossoming from Hauff’s intrinsic charisma and craft, is exhilarating. It is techno gorgeously streamlined; straddling the fucking weird and the primally gratifying, as present in the grimiest tunnel raves as in soundtracking the imminent robot revolution.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Age of Immunology
    The Age of Immunology honors a potentially fading ideal. Should it all come crashing down, it's hard to think of a more fitting, colorful, and ambitious tribute than the one Vanishing Twin have given us here.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Bonito Generation
    It’s an album crammed full of massive singles; the musical equivalent of a table full of gaudy, delicious cupcakes. You know too much of it is probably bad for you, but you can’t help but diving in and sampling each and every one with relish.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Invasion of Privacy
    Here, Cardi’s explosive personality translates flawlessly into confidence-saturated rhymes about hardships, love and success.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Kazuashita
    While Kazuashita might not be a completely perfect album, it is as close as you can get to perfect when it comes to fulfilling the potential of the album as an artistic concept. Every piece fits together, it has a message without pontificating, and it’s absolutely crucial to experience it all at once.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Power
    While Power conjures up one of the most hectic, impenetrable, and eclectic listening experiences of the year, it’s above all, a true rags to riches story, one that complexingly captures a struggling artist on the verge of fulfilling immense potential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Queen of Golden Dogs
    Queen of Golden Dogs is a bold and original statement that collides together emotions, textures and beats to gloriously dissonant effect. It’s also Vessel's best album to date.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    From When I Wake the Want Is
    Joseph’s songwriting is descriptive and its simplicity is one of the most fascinating aspects of her artistry. She does not only sing her dark hues, but she also wants us to listen as if we were reading pages of her diary.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Schlagenheim
    Schlagenheim may possess some semblance of the aforementioned genres, alongside others like kraut and yes, even jazz, but pining for some rigid label is futile, because Schlagenheim is one of the most unique rock records released this year and maybe of the past five years.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
    Even when the album isn't serving up infectious bass riffs and glistening guitar chords, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure offers beautifully constructed songs that, even in the darkest moments, offer a glimmer of hope.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lush
    The extra-textual background isn’t as impressive as her music is enjoyable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Impermanence
    Silberman’s compositions are packed with poignancy and are captivating.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All Mirrors
    Angel is unprepared to commit to anything in the long term, but is always fully committed to now, and this has allowed her to make her boldest and most purposeful step yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    "Awaken, My Love!"
    Glover has delivered an inter-generational, retro-futuristic 11-track history lesson on the healing and inspiring qualities of funk.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Negative Capability
    Negative Capability is sure to stand the test of time, much like its creator. Marianne Faithfull has delivered a searing late career masterstroke, as vital as any in her storied career.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Get to Heaven
    It's better paced than Arc, which had great songs but grew tiresome. It's the insular nature of these songs that makes the album better than their previous efforts, a purity emerges from their new found restraint, there is depth to be found in its breathing room.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    No Home Record
    No Home Record is impossible to listen to without making reference to her former band, yet it stands alone as the finest work of a magnificent, imposing talent.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Are You Serious
    It's accessible, creative, and honest- everything art wishes it could be.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sujud
    There’s simply no encountering something as powerful, as primal, as Senyawa without scarring. This is their turf, and only they know the rules. Sujud is an experience. Be safe, everyone.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Taiga
    This is what it sounds like when an artist matures, discovers a confidence they perhaps never knew they had, and return, revitalised.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Strange Weather [EP]
    On the Strange Weather EP, she takes this signature style and applies it to the songs of other artists who share the same particular penchant for music that finds inspiration in the dark recesses of our minds. This proves stunningly successful, no doubt responsible in part for the help Calvi recruited in the form of producer Thomas Bartlett (The National, Antony and the Johnsons) and one Mr David Byrne.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
    A Brief Inquiry is a record of substance that manages to both poke fun at and be a product of its time. The 1975 might be white-boys with guitars, but they're so much more than that.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It Won't Be Like This All the Time
    They continue to plough the same furrow as on their previous albums, yet with a little more urgency, consistency and richness that some of their earlier work lacked. There is a simplicity here, both in terms of lyrical content and musicality.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam [EP]
    These 16 minutes from Thundercat will likely prove to be one of the year's thought provoking and most rewarding listens of the year.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Corpse Wired for Sound
    It makes for an exhausting and engrossing listen, and ultimately can’t be anything but a life-affirming statement.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Wonderland
    Similar to the likes of Animal Collective, it weeds out the ordinary pop listener to reward the fan devoted to deciphering its layers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    In Spades
    An already impressive album that both solidifies their reputation as one of the more compelling bands to come out of the 90s alternative landscape, and cements their reunion as one of the few necessary ones that are currently happening.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    On the Echoing Green
    On The Echoing Green is an experiential album, but not in the way of something like The Wall. This is an album that seduces you to come and spend some time with it; sit in the shade with it, stroll in the hot summer sun with it, take a dip in the lake with it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Emotional Education
    A supremely assured, instantly addicting debut, it walks the precarious balance beam between earworm and confessional.
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