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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Material
    While certain songs definitively outshine others, they all contain their own character and energy resulting in something not only haunting and enigmatic, but something rather stunning.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Bubblegum
    By virtue of its accessibility, Black Bubblegum presents itself as the most singular album Copeland has produced to date and who knows, maybe some pop bangers will be coming our way after all.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Still
    Still is somewhat of a step forward for the alt-R&B star, but often loses its way with repetitive songwriting and a lack of shine; its stillness might be too lax an angle.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Everybody Looking
    What it evidently lacks in ideas and concepts, it makes up for in well-channeled cathartic energy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born In The Echoes
    Born In The Echoes continues their fusing of psychedelic head music with the dancefloor, and while it doesn’t break new ground, it’s a timely smack on the nose to the pretenders to their throne.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ullages
    There is undoubtedly more beauty in Ullages, but darkness always seems to linger in the background.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Heydays
    A short album of promise and potential stretched too thin by its stifled delivery.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outer Peace
    Toro Y Moi’s overreliance on autotune can also stand in the way of his lyricism at points which is disappointing. Ultimately though, Chaz Bear’s decision to take himself less seriously is an experiment to be considered broadly successful and sees the release of some of his more inspired and infectious material in years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Gentle Grip
    Its best moments also its most agitated. For those of us keen on more of the same from York and co, let's just hope she keeps her beady eye on the anxieties of the everyday and not on paying a visit to outerspace.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Herein Wild
    Her sonic advancement doesn’t smack you in the chops are much as it did on Interstellar, but there’s notable alterations and plenty of reasons to love it regardless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under the Spell of Joy
    Death Valley Girls’ music is, for better or worse, calculatedly disposable, and the band make no real attempts to secure lasting hooks or forge undeniable melodies. What they do, they do well, and that’s more than enough reason to give Under the Spell of Joy a spin.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Get Gone
    The formula might not be a new one, and ultimately Seratones are unlikely to change the world, but they will make your day.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Resistance
    Brandon Coleman's debut album is a funk-fuelled cacophony that some will adore, but its over-commitment to a narrow sound means that, unless you fall in love, you may find limited replay-ability in this album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Kidsticks
    Beth Orton has fluidly transformed her trip-hop+singer/songwriter roots into a fresh, original sound, which will surely resonate with both her longtime fans and new listeners alike, while providing a rich foundation for Orton to build upon during her third creative decade of casting intoxicating musical spells over us all.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Joyland
    It’s lucky for us that Joyland so often yields gems amongst the heavy strata of computerized monoliths.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Iteration
    The production is perfection, and if you're in to classic pop musical cliches that defined electronic music in that era, Iteration becomes more of a celebration of nostalgia than perhaps a narrative into something deeper. The trip back is kind of fun, even if it is not directly intended.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    An album this strong, delivered this late into an artist’s career, would usually be given an ugly tag like “return to form” or something equally crass. However, in Byrne’s case, it’s simply a continuation of what has been--and will hopefully continue to be--a glittering career full of highlights and continuations of form.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Flowers
    It can be powerfully sweet, but it’s never twee. It’s often busy, but never cluttered. Flowers is, put simply, a beautiful album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mala
    Herein lies the central problem with Devendra Banhart’s latest record; there are moments to savour, but for each of these there’s at least one frustrating or disappointing moment to counteract it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    If You Leave
    If You Leave is staggeringly beautiful from beginning to close, a catharsis that’s both bracing and woozily amniotic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arts & Crafts: 2003-2013
    This compilation, of tracks from 2003-2013, captures what’s utterly brilliant about the A&C roster by mixing the hits with rarer tracks, giving perhaps the definitive overview of the Canadian music scene of the past ten years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Love
    There is something intangibly magnetic about In Love, and it feels like a wonderful, igniting record--when so many other “indie” records fail to stir any emotion other than indifference.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Palms
    It’s a solid start from this supergroup, but the tug of old strings still dominates proceedings a little too much to mark this out as anything wholly unique in itself. But for some, that’ll be just fine.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Waverley
    Waverly is just that: a study of tension, mysticism and some natural elements thrown in for good measure.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're Always on My Mind
    It’s somewhat beyond comprehension that their unique remedy to feeling down in the dumps hasn’t broken in the UK yet, but believe us when we say that this is an album, and a band, that deserves your full attention.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Absolute Zero
    There is a little filler to strip, and Little Green Cars are still a work in progress--but they have already honed a seasoned sound, paying homage to peers beyond their years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Push/Pull
    Push/Pull is brimming with stellar cuts. Every track is an intriguing mess, a cavalcade of hodgepodge elements that when smooshed together, far from sounding like a steaming dump, are riveting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City Forgiveness
    This does feel like an album of transition--about the journey rather than the destination and its more sophisticated moments point towards the idea that The Wave Pictures are a band which are only going to get finer with age.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jubilee
    This is a record that repays multiple listens, and may prove to be The Deep Dark Woods’ most enduring album yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oh My Sexy Lord
    “Vibrant Beast” is an entirely apt term to describe the complete album, as well as serving as its rowdy closing track, with Marijuana Deathsquads emphatically proving once again that there is indeed beauty to be found in electronic dissonance, as well as plenty of original artistry in the band’s boundless creative exploration.
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