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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Plain Sight
    The resulting LP is a record that sonically dwarfs its predecessors, boasting a sound bigger and more fearless than ever before. ... In Plain Sight’s greatest weakness is its refusal to abandon the obvious and lean fully into the successful realisation of its more experimental moments.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Uncanney Valley
    Pay no attention to the lyrics (pretend you’re foreign or something), concentrate on the music, and you might just enjoy yourself after all.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Stay Together
    Too much of Stay Together sounds like it could be an ill-conceived Ricky Wilson solo record.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Love to Love You Donna
    Donna deserves more than this--don’t remember her this way.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beta Love
    Pop-radio metamorphosis hasn’t been fully achieved, and there are plenty of moments where pure beauty shines through.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Exile
    If you’re able to look past the campy facade and accept that this is purely a record of glimmering pop, it’ll be something you’ll cherish.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Make-up Is A Lie
    Flashes of quality make the album all the more frustrating. If the lyrics came anywhere near his halcyon days, the shortcomings might matter less.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Sweet Disarray
    Croll has some great, great tunes but they so often artfully distract from the rest of his approach, which can often be minimal, and lacking in effort.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    European Soul
    To be sure, there are some first-rate potential singles hiding amidst the bombast.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    So Long Forever
    Palace show they have matured-yet-remained faithful, and expanded-yet-honed. So Long Forever is an album from a band who know what they want, and how they want to get there.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Sequel to the Prequel
    Nothing to rival ‘Time For Heroes’, then, but this as accessible, and as listenable, as anyone may have hoped for.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hit the Waves
    This is an album that, as elegant and refined as it is, will be forgotten about soon enough. That’s not to say it doesn’t deserve to be extolled for the hard work alone.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    With a Little Help from My Fwends
    It's not a perfect album by any means, but it is a worthy cover of a nigh-on perfect album, capturing the joie de vivre of the original and dousing it in some serious lunacy for good measure. And that's no mean feat.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Love Frequency
    Love Frequency isn’t a terrible album, but at times it does feel terribly unimaginative.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Drowners
    It’s the record’s most easy-to-appreciate moment, but whether there’s enough to the rest of it to ensure its makers aren’t soon to be forgotten remains to be seen.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smile
    Smile feels like it’s just kind of there. It just sits at the table surrounded by Perry’s past, which has some of the aforementioned biggest tracks of the ‘00s, and a couple of toe-dips into new territory which were at least commendable, but Smile just walks the line of enjoyable.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Theme Park
    This is a hugely charismatic debut that, above everything else, is just very good fun.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Supermodel
    The album is lacklustre, and suffers for a lack of purpose and intent.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live: Uurop VIII-XII/Places in Sun & Winter, Son
    Fantastically frantic and multilayered, Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun & Winter, Son appropriately captures a live Fall experience in 2014, and reiterates just how durable the current line up is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Cave Rave
    They’ve poured so much time and effort into Cave Rave--but you may never get a chance to appreciate that aspect of the album, because for all their intrinsic talent and informed attention to detail, their passion for pure pop is overpowering.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Embrace
    Despite the curveballs and their extended break from the biz, the band’s phasers remain set to festival-primed, punch-the-air anthemic bravado, a formula as solid today as it was in their early feted period.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Panorama
    Panorama proves that Kiyoko isn’t limited to any 2018 zeitgeist. There are nods to her older sound, sure, but the matured production and continued experiments show that she’s not out to recreate Expectations – she’s growing from it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Be Here Now [Deluxe Edition - Remastered]
    We get the usual fan service on discs two and three of this new version. The second CD is a largely charmless collection of odds and ends.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    7 [EP]
    In terms of catchy beats and somewhat meaningful lyrics, each song has one or the other, and Lil Nas X just needs a little more time to get them to match up.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    High Anxiety
    High Anxiety could have been reduced to its 12 most essential tracks and been a bit better suited for more invested listening, but perhaps Green's goal was to give himself as much room as possible to experiment, and he certainly does so here.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Uncanny Valley
    Uncanny Valley is unfortunately too insignificant to escape the looming shadows all around.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Helium
    Homeshake widen their scope for their fourth record, Helium: a statement of identity. Homeshake’s sound on Helium captures the mood of our ears. hinting at zeitgeisty bedroon pop.
    • 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At Home
    Several of the tracks are too short, as if in an eagerness for the songs to sit within a four minute pop structure, instead of discarding some of their ideas, they cram them all in and cut down the song length.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's the End of the World, But It's a Beautiful Day
    The sounds present could all be attributed to any other artist and would sit fine but given they wrote a purported 200 songs for this new era, there should at least be some sonic substance to this outing. Thankfully, this new electronic palette they’re toting isn’t wholly lost. They carry it at times with at least some semblance of aplomb.
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