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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ruff
    ‘Their most mature work’ it may be, but listening to a shuffle of all their output to date outlines a noticeably poorer quarter.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feel Good
    It’s a record that showcases professionalism and musicianship, a sonic rhizome of musical references and genealogies.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guilt Mirrors
    Guilt Mirror’s musical confusion overall is shattering, there are moments of violence, others of beautiful fragility, and it’s a great big mess of ideas all thrown against a wall until they’re smashed into tiny pieces... lucky wall.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What Is This Heart?
    Krell’s voice could never get tiresome, but the album seems unclear as to what it wants to be--too restless for heartbreak, too downbeat for the dancefloor, like a candle that’s trying to illuminate a club.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Where You're Meant To Be [Live]
    Where You’re Meant To Be conveys the coziness of the room without any tricks or much polish, just a balance among the performers and enough proximity to the audience to capture bits of individual voices here and there.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Awake
    Awake isn’t without grip or feeling, it’s just deft, and I’ve got an awful lot of time for something that picks me up whilst being so easy to listen to and so hard to forget.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When You See Yourself
    There’s nothing inherently bad about When You See Yourself, but it feels like you could merge it with any releases from their last decade of activity and construct an album that has some heart to it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Woman Worldwide
    For all of its positives there is the leftover taste that this is an album that will please die-hard fans, but will ultimately leave those outside of that pondering if it was really needed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here Comes the Cowboy
    Mac’s latest release is unremarkable in almost every way, it is powerfully inoffensive in its delivery, instrumentation and intent which makes it hard to engage with and harder still to enjoy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    New York in the '70s
    His concerns are consistent and consistently bizarre, his delivery as unsettling as ever, the atmosphere he creates both bleak and battered--yet he’s still a man armed with tunes as well as wit, brilliance to match the bitterness; a new album that digs into the past, chokes it down and regurgitates it with a sly smile.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Creation
    As is so often the case with albums like Creation--records that find bands daring to tear up old moves and comfortable registers--the album only stalls when it lapses into familiarity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What I Breathe
    As a confident debut, What I Breathe encapsulates exactly what Mall Grab wants us to feel. Weaving multiple genres together through dance and electronic, he shows us what he lives for and what’s pushing him forward.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Embracism
    Although at times Embracism feels like a meandering listen or musical stream of consciousness, Callinan’s songwriting skills have allowed him to find cohesion throughout its ten songs, a consistency that a less engaging personality certainly wouldn’t have struck upon.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scatter
    The intensity may curtail towards the end, but the band more than make up for it with an album that has a core of bulldozer guitar lines and assaulting drums, all of which carry with them the promise of the best house party you’ve ever been to.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adults
    Adult is fun for a little while, but it’s hard to see it keeping listeners’ attention for long.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cinderland
    Morgan and Bridges compliment each other well on Cinderland.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Levitation
    Doused in the kind of mysticism that drenched the original psych scene, oblique lyrics about being the sun and a cascading approach to influences, Levitation still manages to retain a lot of the expansive wonder that so much modern psych has neglected.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Walk With Love and Death
    A Walk With Love and Death re-frames the Melvins’ legacy with newfound aplomb. Whilst perhaps unlikely to win over anyone sitting on the fence up until now this is not merely their most impressively realised effort in many a moon, but also one of the most rewarding listens of the year thus far.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Forever Neverland
    Over the course of the record, MØ finds her own identity again. And although Forever Neverland features Diplo, Charli XCX and Empress Of (two of which for whom she’s returning the favour), they never overshadow her; a refreshing angle considering she’s been the featured one for the past few years.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Metal Galaxy
    It’s a fine line to walk between variety and novelty. Metal Galaxy dances along this line in admittedly very fun way, but that fun is at the expense of true depth and soul.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Woman
    For the majority of Woman, Justice are acting out their pop dreams through machinery. Where in the past they’ve allowed to let the equipment do the talking, here, they show that they too are human after all.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oczy Mlody
    At times acutely annoyingly, far-out wackiness permeate much of the proceedings, rendering the album's less rewarding half as disposable as the band's frustratingly inconsequential recent self-indulgences ala messy guest star workout The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (2012).
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forcefield
    Sometimes doing what comes naturally is as big a risk as attempting to do something outside of your comfort zone, and that gamble paid off this time for Tokyo Police Club.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So Long, See You Tomorrow
    It’s a mighty lunge forwards for the four-piece.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Freedom
    This is not a terrible record, just a bland and misguided one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vitriola
    Where Domestica broke your heart, Vitriola only manages to get you half riled at the world around you. Kasher and co. continue to produce records that hit the nail on the head in terms of topic. This time, however, the hammer blows aren’t what they’ve been before.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yungblud
    It does feel harsh to pick holes in a record that’s already so visibly bruised by criticism; where credit’s due, the home stretch is much, much stronger.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barbie: The Album
    Barbie the Album dashes headfirst for airy joy and low-key festivity, all hyperbolic and glittery when its primary focus should be on elucidating the film’s feminist thesis.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Solar Power
    Songs like “Solar Power” redeem the album’s sluggishness, with a fun attitude over an upbeat track which would feel like the carefree joyous song on the album, if the rest of it wasn’t so up in the clouds. ... All the genius on Melodrama seems to have stayed there, leaving Solar Power high and dry without any flavour or journey to embark on.
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