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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Across Six Leap Years
    Taken as a ‘new’ complete album it could do with stretching out a little and lighting the occasional fire under the occasionally maintained for a touch too long strolling pace, but it works absolutely fine as a way of shining new light on often overlooked but clearly internally beloved outposts of their two decade career of rainy nights and velvet-lined plush bars at last orders.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Tourist
    While there’s some quirky songwriting and clever lyrical tales on The Tourist, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah just don’t seem to be hitting the mark that they once did.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trip at Knight
    Trip at Knight is likely the closest Redd has come to snapping into the desolate, depraved world he’s so eager to create. When the ashes settle, there’s the sense that he still has some miles to go, but there’s no taking this moment away from him.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Since I Have a Lover
    Even when 6LACK is on cruise control, the emotional hour drives by, hiding thoughtful romanticisms and nuanced musical flashes that are a delight to discover.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    EVOL
    Odds are Future will drop another project or five between now and the end of the calendar year, so while EVOL is ultimately dispensable it’s still a pretty good time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Rebel Heart
    Rebel Heart is chaotic. It’s often amazing, and occasionally crap. If she deleted half of its tracks, it’d be the comeback record she was hoping for.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mexico
    There’s a communal ambience on show here; using three vocalists gives it a mixtape aesthetic, the music feeling like a bulging bag of pick and mix.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chasing Yesterday
    With Chasing Yesterday it certainly ain’t broke; it may not be as wacky as he imagined it, but it does its job rather well.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    To Kill A King
    This is a frustrating second record, but it does prove that To Kill A King have the potential to be a far better band.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Basses Loaded
    Rather than making a sharp left turn on Basses Loaded, the band instead pays homage to their long, curious history by plugging in with some longtime cohorts, making an unholy ruckus, and once again not giving a damn about what we think of it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sunshine Redux
    In the end, few of the songs here approach the heights promised by his debut. But Scott, still just twenty-two, deserves the time and the encouragement to develop what is very clearly a unique voice.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Skilled Mechanics
    Twenty one years since his Mercury Prize nominated debut solo album Maxinquaye emerged, Tricky may have finally delivered one that can stand proudly equal alongside it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Apar
    It glistens like a pop album should, shimmering like a blue lagoon under midday sun..
    • 68 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    True Sadness
    The record doesn’t fully commit to a new direction, so its primary audience will still be Avett diehards, but it’s a fun listen for the summer and a testament to the brothers’ enduring success as one of the savvier folk groups out there.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cool Planet
    Cool Planet sits perfectly in the balance of effortless craftsmanship and half-arsed laziness. Just where it should be.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    iii
    The misfires on iii are few, and this is a record that deserves spins not only from Miike Snow diehards, but also those who believe the group may not be their cup of tea.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Five Easy Hot Dogs
    While perhaps not the return to bigger records that fans of Salad Days might have hoped for, Five Easy Hot Dogs stays true to the linear, if unexpected, evolution of Mac DeMarco’s music. Each iteration is somehow even more sparse and experimental; it seems this record is the result of DeMarco slowly whittling down his sound until it is just its own essential core.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You Gots 2 Chill
    Sure, there are flashes of brilliance where studio trickery elicits intriguing headphone moments but these are by-and-large in the minority.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Night on Earth
    It’s difficult, though, to listen to fifty percent of Sonic Youth making endearingly experimental music and feel obliged to pick faults with it. When Last Night on Earth gets it right, the results are magical--the searing ‘The Rising Tide’ is the highlight of any post-Youth output to date.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Comedown Machine
    The Strokes have shamefully settled for average, and have failed even at that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Be Your Own King
    The Concrete Knives will be a nice addition to the Bella Union family as they fit right in by not fitting in, instead, carving their own path while instructing us to do the same: Be Your Own King.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ride the Black Wave
    Ride The Black Wave is both a joy to listen to and a pain to consider critically: The type of music they’re playing could realistically be called superfluous or superb, depending on your level of engagement with it; the tunes could be called plagiaristic or panoptic depending on your state of mind when you’re listening to them.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lacuna
    Lacuna is a euphoric, ecstatic and effortlessly cool record which warrants your undivided and immediate attention.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Visitor
    The Visitor excels in the kind of attention to detail and musical imagination that's eluded Young in recent years. If the backing of California quartet Promise of the Real (featuring Willie Nelson's songs Lukas and, when playing live, Micah) has brought to mind a cut-price Crazy Horse on their previous two collaborations with Young, the band are superbly versatile here.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    on to better things
    “Complicate it”, “heavy”, “heartbreak3r”, all standalone fine, but ultimately all bring the same contribution to the shape of on to better things without providing much else. Where he digresses though, he does so excellently, promising that maybe with the challenge of a feature or with the fire to push his sound a bit more, he could be great.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lysandre
    For the most part Lysandre is a masterful exhibition of how to execute and relay truth and emotion.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Is Over One Day Old
    Time Is Over One Day Old use a less is more approach, the understated subtlety of which results in their best album to date.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Father of All…
    It's clear what they've wanted to do, and in some aspects have nailed it head-on, but to execute this properly, there needs to be more focus on wrapping that pure-as-fuck punk heart that beats in their chests in something more than a cartoon unicorn.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silicon Tare [EP]
    It’s a very strong release, energetic and intense, and promises a high-octane finale.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Colored Emotions
    This record represents a bold, imaginative first step for a young band that seems poised to take their sound anywhere.
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