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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Star Wars
    On first time listen, Star Wars feels neither utterly victorious nor rushed, vapid or misjudged. Whilst moments of majesty and bona fide alt-rock wizardry snake in and out of the occasionally throwaway, the overriding feeling here is one of huge relief and pleasant surprise.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Decency
    They haven't really taken a new direction with regards to the songwriting on Decency.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something More Than Free
    This latest collection pairs Isbell’s keen ear for catchy melodies with fuller, bouncier arrangements and more optimistic subject matter. The result is a record spattered with songs capable of bridging the gap between “alt” and accessible.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slow Gum
    It is such a thorough conglomeration of influences that it mostly manages to avoid sounding derivative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Key Markets
    Williamson is so quick and witty with his references that it's not until two or three plays that you actually spot the humour in what he's expressing. It's got a way of making each track funnier, and more prescient, with every spin.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Distractions
    With Distractions, Sauna Youth showcase their ability to infuse a classic punk aesthetic with skilful artistry.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Work It Out
    There are a few duds in there where the dynamism and the delicacy clash ineffectively, but they are outnumbered by the surprising number of triumphs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magnifique
    the New York duo have shown that they indeed own that genre because well, it’s their own genre. Thankfully, the same feelings are still mustered with new offering Magnifique--and then some.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Communion
    Communion is brimming with razor-sharp summer pop anthems that succeed in bringing a smile to your face time and time again.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Glider
    Glider is an album for all seasons, from star-gazing on a humid summer’s night to blanketed winter evenings beside the fire. And, come the short days and long nights later this year, we’ll look back on it as one of 2015’s best.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tied to the Moon
    Tied To The Moon is a beautiful record, so full of intricacies that it continues to reward with every listen, allowing you to lose yourself in its stories.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Knockin' Boots
    An album clearly made by a mercurial talent, but who still sounds at his best quietly knocking out unassuming dancefloor gold.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Adrian Younge Presents: Twelve Reasons to Die II
    Twelve Reasons to Die II suggests that breaking new ground might be a futile undertaking if there's this much juice left in the good old tricks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Perpetual Motion People
    Despite Furman’s own insecurities and wanderlust, Perpetual Motion People sounds like home.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Lesson Unlearnt
    The variety of genres synthesised to generate this finished record show that they have absorbed life's lessons and reconstituted them to suit a unique outlook. The effect is a strangely familiar, yet singularly arranged thread of consciousness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Everything Is a Mess
    It’s beautifully crafted, and you’ve really not heard anything like it before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    I Aubade
    verall it feels like a real thrift shop of curiosities with a few gems to be found if you go looking. And if you do, be prepared for a fair amount of sifting.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Morning/Evening
    It’s clear that Morning/Evening has been inspired by, and tailored for, its respective times of day and this works well. But it feels like the majority of Hebden’s attention has gone into the first side resulting in an enjoyable, if front-loaded album.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Wildheart
    Miguel writes nothing but memorable melodies and his songwriting is the engine that makes Wildheart all work, that takes his affinity for funk, psychedelia and Prince, and turns them an album that feels totally of the moment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Love Is Cool
    The cocksure quality of My Love Is Cool represents some majority of its charm.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Inji
    Rather than rushing into something, Inji is a complex compilation of his finest material.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sovereign Self
    On The Sovereign Self, they combine to remarkable effect. This is not an easy record, but it needs to be heard. Again and again.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Music For The Motion Picture Victoria [OST]
    Despite these downbeat descriptions, the beauty is evident from start to finish.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Freedom
    This is not a terrible record, just a bland and misguided one.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful
    There’s plenty to suggest that she is still developing and searching for her true self, but there's more evidence that Flo is a captivating and striking new voice.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Monsanto Years
    The Monsanto Years is another inessential and underpowered Neil Young album to file alongside the likes of 2003's ecological garage rock opera Greendale: good ideas and inspiring ideals grounded by half-baked presentation and paucity of substantial songcraft.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mercy
    Good things do come with time, and this LP is no doubt a stopping point on Active Child's journey to uncharted, challenging places.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Feels Like
    They’re sounds we’ve all heard before but done spectacularly.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Get to Heaven
    This is pop music with complex narratives, and if the masses are willing to listen, they could be the band that recharges the UK charts with genuinely meaningful music.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Déjà-Vu
    Expecting Moroder to reach the heights of "I Feel Love" is, of course, futile, and yes, after a few repeated plays you may find the odd track or two that stand out from the rest, but there’s little you’ll love to love here.
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