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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Tracing Back the Radiance
    It’d be easy for Tracing Back to follow down the paths of say, GAS, or the somber mirk of Kyle Bobby Dunn, but thoughtfully, Cantu-Ledesma never verges over that line even though he may hint at it. Instead, by staying in line, Tracing Back serves as one of this year’s most angelically-bright collections of ambient music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Immunity
    The record is an absolute trip: a movable feast pressed to 12 inches of microgroove.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Good Time [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    As a coherent album, it’s an affecting listen. The samples of dialogue that occasionally flicker behind the dense aural foliage, Burial-like, provide a human counterpoint to this austere, automated music, organic glows that briefly distract from Lopatin’s caustic waves of electronica.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Gamel
    At its best, the album is all at once loud, ethereal, and haunting--as if being violently jolted awake from a lucid dream you can’t quite remember.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Thin Mind
    Thin Mind speaks to the concerns of an age fraught with ennui and commodification; much-needed social commentary scored with the understated, melodic, often allusive edge that is the outfit’s creative stamp.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Faulty Superheroes
    Faulty Superheroes, simply put, is faultless.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Forever Turned Around
    While Forever… stands as a cohesive work, its last three songs stand out, containing some of Whitney’s most powerful writing to date.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Atrocity Exhibition
    Rich, deep, full of wit, rapid fire lyrics and fantastically unusual production, it’s Danny Brown proving yet again that he is one of the most exciting rappers working right now.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Commune
    An experience that's exhilarating, frenetic and gratifying.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    White Men Are Black Men Too
    Young Fathers had nothing to prove in 2015, which makes White Men Are Black Men Too such a start to finish joy to listen to. Even the tail end of the record is packed with surprises.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Shakes
    The Shakes is a record with raw energy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Personal Record
    In Personal Record, Eleanor Friedberger has delivered on every promise she’s ever made with her music, and come up with an ever-unfolding, fully-realised gem.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Reality Testing
    Amongst the album’s subtler shades, some might miss Lone’s trademark fireworks, but while Reality Testing might not bear the genre-defining feel of its predecessor, its personality and refreshing humanity provide ample compensation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    La Isla Bonita
    Almost inevitably, the result is something that makes most commercial music look like a palid, indistinct, homogenous mass.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Compliments Please
    Her love of hip hop is imbued in the very core of Compliments Please, shirking much of the folkish arrangements of Slow Club for a sound far bolder, and at 16 tracks strong it is clear that Taylor is not short of ideas.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Life After Defo
    Life After Defo is a truly captivating debut, with a poignancy that lasts far beyond the first listen.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    IV
    There’s a richness to IV which was not present on their last record, and it revolutionises their appeal.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Wysing Forest
    For those that do connect with the concept of this album as a whole and allow themselves to become immersed in Abbott’s analogue world, Wysing is as beguiling and intriguing as any record released this year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Lady Wood
    It’s pop music of the highest calibre, music for the head, heart, feet and everywhere in between.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Mess
    Mess is characteristically confident and brash, but humane and enduring. In short, it’s up there with the rest of their unerringly brilliant back-catalogue.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Darling Arithmetic
    In Darling Artihmetic Conor O'Brien has put together his best album under the Villagers moniker.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Razzmatazz
    It sits balances between a '70s and '80s sound, yet is somehow incredibly modern in tone. This is something IDKHOW do remarkably well.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Ruins
    It’s a classic high-quality, well-arranged and passionate album from First Aid Kit, but this time--it’s not so innocent.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Picture You
    Picture You is most certainly amongst 2015's most remarkable releases. Drink it in, and be careful not to judge it too soon.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Triad
    That’s just what this album’s got. A heart. Mathmatical, mechanical parts that once evoked landscapes, snowscapes, a view frozen in time now evoke emotions and memories. Fleshy stuff, any mistakes made with a smile. It’s that searched for human touch, something no mere tin man could create.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    El Pintor
    Throughout, the refreshed use of light and dark is notable and works. There is contrast and there is colour.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Stand-In
    While it manifests in a way that’s less playful than on her debut, it’s replaced by a gravitas that befits a sophomore record.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
    This is earnest, albeit loud, songwriting. And that sincerity carries this these (already great) songs further than you'd expect.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Unseen In Between
    Within its nine tracks, Gunn addresses matters of death, acceptance, and expectations, all of which round his music with serenity and credence, thus positioning him on the forefront not only as a quintessential narrator for our time, but a faithful guide who gently directs us revitalized and untroubled.
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