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For 4,495 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Adore Life
Lowest review score: 20 143
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,040 out of 4495
  2. Mixed: 438 out of 4495
  3. Negative: 17 out of 4495
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Talkin To The Trees
    Talkin’ To The Trees is no major return to form: there is too much letting go of unfinished things on view here for that. However, in its commitment to keeping things simple and looking inwards for inspiration, it resembles 2000’s underrated Silver & Gold, which alongside Toast (recorded in 2001 but not released until 2022) featured the last evidence of Young’s 1990s creative comeback: not a bad result for a 2025 model Neil Young album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unity
    The female/male synth fused with rock duo is a saturated market but on Unity The KVB showcase why they’re worthy of attention.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blue Film
    Beautiful in places, but falling flat on an emotional level elsewhere, there is an air of duality in Lo-Fang’s work as light and dark elements intertwine and clash with each other. For someone who has done so much travelling, it is clear that Lo-Fang is still finding his feet.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Violent Light
    This time out, they do a far better job injecting their own original spirit into their stirring music and impassioned songs, while taking these familiar musical sounds and styles of the past in a modern new direction.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fly by Wire
    Returning to the attic in which they wrote and recorded Broom, the three-piece have suitably streamlined their sound to accommodate the lesser manpower and what’s more, it works.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mellow Moon
    Whilst he floods creativity into the engine of his tracks to generate a powerful sound basis, it becomes apparent that sometimes Alfie needs to be refuelled in the lyric department. ... Mellow Moon acts as Alfie Templeman’s experimental wonderland that shows there is nothing that will halt his creative output.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Risk To Exist
    Overall, this is a much better album from the now quartet from the North-East. While it is still a long way from achieving the status of A Certain Trigger, Risk To Exist reveals Maxïmo Park in a new light and is certainly a step in the right direction.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dalliance
    Dalliance is a brief half an hour expression of energy, without too much angst. It will never be considered a highly innovative venture, but the five-piece do manage to include some interesting twists on an old formula.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glacier
    All in all, Glacier appears to constitute a bid to be taken seriously.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Gamble
    An electronically based album rich in its own distinctive character.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Skin
    While so much EDM sounds the same right now, his tracks are thankfully hard to pigeonhole--as they weave industrial, deep house, dubstep, minimal and hip hop influences into a cohesive whole that’s both danceable and perfect for sofa listening too.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Careful of Your Keepers
    While the latter half of the record isn’t as engrossing as the first half, it still concludes with a solid trio of tunes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brightly Painted One
    It’s tempting to think of Brightly Painted One as a “grower” of an album, and much of that depends on where you stand on the music/lyrics side of things. The problem is, for all of its evident beauty, it’s difficult to get inside – frustratingly so.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Future Politics
    The result is another record that provides ample room for the elaborate unfurling of Stelmanis’ talents as a vocalist, her altitudinous range the billowing banner of a call to arms.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bad Dream Jaguar
    While the album is surely born of a specific shared experience, Sun June creates enough space to leave that jaguar’s identity up to interpretation for the listener.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodbye Small Head
    Furman’s upfront picture of Goodbye Small Head is perhaps clouded by jest: “orchestral emo prog-rock record sprinkled with samples,” she writes. Yet, it’s a continued display of her marked empathy as a songwriter, trying to seize control against a rhetoric centred on exclusion. Her observational musings are even more: a sign to band together now more than ever.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Soft Hair
    Sometimes you can lose yourself, in the twists and turns, but ultimately, this is unashamedly fun music from two of the most interesting musicians around, and being brought along for the ride is a worthwhile experience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Go Extinct
    Fanfarlo may not be breaking new ground with this, but they’re building on their previous foundations nicely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seasonal Hire
    His playing may offer fewer surprises than you might expect, but his spirit as a leader is present and the handful of sonic oddities he throws in are a joy to behold.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born Under Saturn
    What remains is a definitively good album, albeit not a great one.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Retrash
    Uncomplicated, doing precisely what it says on the tin, Retrash might not be an album of the year contender or a game-changer; but for pure unadulterated fun Oozing Wound are pretty hard to beat.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shrink Dust
    Shrink Dust is still very much a CVG record, just one that you can cozy up with a little easier.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aromanticism
    Bereft of any shine or polish, Aromanticism is a piercing debut collection of songs of remarkable intensity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Quantum Baby
    Quantum Baby is relaxed and a little uncomplicated but continues her dependable streak as an athlete, sex icon, visionary, and artist rolled into one. The best part is she’s never satisfied staying still.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birding
    Perhaps what’s most striking about Birding is how cohesive it is for a debut, every swell is intentional and carefully placed without ever feeling clinical. There’s warmth and space while including all the finely crafted minutia needed to give songs genuine depth and the band have resisted the urge to overcomplicate things.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Got a Love
    Although he doesn’t offer the genre anything noticeably new, he’s more than capable to keep the momentum going over a long player.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    + -
    While the peaks on +- are cloud-scraping highs, there are lows to temper the bliss.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hot Shock
    This is everything you could want in a debut record, a distillation of a confident and coherent sound with plenty of room to develop, and plenty of time in which to do so.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete
    It’s the subtle touches that create an overwhelming sense of unity on Goodnight.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Things Take Time, Take Time
    Whilst being worlds away from debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit, Barnett’s latest sonic venture marks a new era for the Aussie musician, and one we’re all the better for.
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