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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Limits of Desire
    By pushing Josh Kolenik’s vocals further up in the mix, the songs tell more of a narrative of discovery than their hazy, ambiguous earlier material.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transcendence
    So yes, it's a cracking release from DTP, but it's not without fault. You certainly get your money's worth though and only a fool would hesitate before recommending it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Is Free [EP]
    Love Is Free sits strangely in the canon of Robyn. It’s euphoric, and like every great Robyn anthem, there’s a cry-while-you-party type sound on the mini-LP that’s intensely emotional but wields an undeniable kinetic streak.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Love Invention
    The Love Invention isn’t quite the crown grab it has the potential to be, despite her being on brilliant form as always.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Small World
    Whilst Small World doesn't quite pack as much of a punch as Metronomy Forever, it’s a sweet and uplifting album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do
    Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do--isn’t really revelatory in any sense, though it’s an irrefutably gorgeous document.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The House
    Though longtime fans of Porches--or any of Maine’s work--will never get another Pool, The House makes for a fulfilling, if not occasionally excellent listen and addition to Maine’s discography.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Hermitage
    Jambinai are at their most moving when reduce their ire and create more drawn out, ambient compositions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Day All of This Won't Matter Any More
    The poppier efforts here don’t quite puncture the atmosphere that the band have worked so hard to cultivate elsewhere, but they’re hardly necessary either.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bitter Rivals
    Bitter Rivals' more diffuse nature seems to have prevented them from impressing their personality on their music in quite the same manner; it’s difficult to rate it as highly as a result, but this remains a solid effort.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never Exhale
    For all its fury and fragmentation, Never Exhale is remarkably cohesive, a testament to DITZ’s ability to harness chaos into something purposeful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    True Story of Bananagun
    This is a warming, rewarding album that grows with each listen, blossoming and unfurling in front of you. If you can get past the intensity, and see through to the glowing heart at the centre of this record, it’ll keep you coming back again and again.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Deeper Well
    Despite the occasional lack of captivating subject matter, it signifies a grown woman embracing new beginnings. The grim clouds are already clearing towards the finale – a million little stars bursting, fluttering, ready for more grandeur.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Disappear
    Sure, there's no new ground broken, and no definitive answers given, but We Disappear isn't meant to be that. Instead, the album is a soundtrack of reassurance.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Party Gator Purgatory
    Sitting at ten tracks long, the amusingly titled Party Gator Purgatory whisks through freeform rap (“lookaliveandplaydead”), chilling electronics, and almost cacophonous vocals to make, what could be argued, as the most bizarrely interesting record of the 21st century.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Commontime
    This is a fine record and if it doesn’t match up to the high standards alluded to above, that’s because Field Music really only sound like Field Music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wait to Pleasure
    It’s a far more eccentric record than their first effort, stretching past the obvious influences that led to their pigeonholing as a shoegaze band, but loses a little of the unbroken, hypnotic atmosphere as a result.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hanging Valley
    Ultimately, it may not dramatically change their fortunes, but it remaina an album that’ll help further cement Cold Pumas as being one of the UK’s most underrated bands.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Real Deal
    Ultimately, Real Deal sees Honeyglaze steadily accessing parts outside their comfort zone, their range expanding with the new territory they gain.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eternal Sunshine
    There are a number of highlights on the record, but “supernatural” is the shining star. .... There’s also moments that don’t quite hit where they should, with “true story” and “i wish i hated you” being perfectly nice but lacklustre or simple in their writing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Astro Tough
    Consistency may still be a struggle, but when they get it right, Audiobooks’ unsettling brand of musical chaos makes for an impressive sophomore album that is every bit as effervescent as their debut.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What a Relief
    You can’t help but to admire Gavin’s inescapably raw approach to this project. Sheer honesty is burrowed into every line, sometimes even at the cost of lyrical flow.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Campfire Songs [EP]
    Campfire Songs admirably continues along their new musical direction and beckons you to head to Vermont wearing a wooly jumper, with all ingredients needed for S’mores in tow.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    The album itself doesn’t quite reach the sharp, perfect coherence that Timberlake was clearly aiming for.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Wicked Nature
    Wicked Nature is certainly the start of a renaissance, if not quite the all-conquering return it could have been
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Teens of Style
    While retaining links with Toledo's DIY past, much of the tracks bleed in to one another, making stand-out moments such as "The Drum" and "Times To Die" fall flatter than they deserve. Fortunately however, the entire second half of the record makes up for any early indiscretions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Divine Ecstasy
    [Divine Ecstasy] is a sound--no matter how hard to quite pin down and vivisect--with which the music world has been familiar for going on a few years now, and very little groundbreaking--cloud breaking? sunshine breaks through clouds, right?--is going on here, although Cuts’ brand of amoeba production does have enough individuality to stand apart from its peers.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Spreading Rumours
    Spreading Rumours has enough charm to keep you busy, but not enough (bar ‘Ways To Go’) to keep you mesmerised in the long-term.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Father of the Bride
    Koenig’s apparent comfort in adulthood, the security and confidence in his newer lyrics--evokes this Facebook-notification angst on a grander scale, a musicalised alienation that prompts stark re-evaluation. It’s unfair to deny even our most beloved artists this progression and growth--they don’t owe us anything – but it’s difficult to be faced with a work that suggests they have grown past the confused state that we still feel rooted to.
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