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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Giver Taker
    Wailing down the hallowed halls of memory and experience, Chithambo feels the resonation of these moments and channels the hurt through extraordinary delicate songs where harmonies wrap around each other with a spectral quality, and the dripping rain of picked guitar strings decorate the walls taking leaves from the book of Sufjan Stevens.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sleeping Through the War
    Sleeping Through the War nods more than it winks, but it operates with its own in-joke sense of humor.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Strong Feelings
    A compelling listen, and a new side to Doug Paisley.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Forgetting the Present
    Forgetting The Present is the latest and most perfect union of Remember Remember’s distinctive blend of styles. Expect that record to stand for as long as it takes for their next album to appear.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Mogic
    Like many of Dawson’s projects, its effect is gradual but profound: it takes a little time to truly settle into Mogic, but it’s nigh-impossible to leave once you become accustomed to its mores.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Range of Light
    The listener is never really on terra firma when ambling through the elusive foothills of Range of Light, but every fluctuating composition and shift in mood makes for a refreshing experience spin after spin on a record that could so easily be entangled and mired in its own instrumental mastery.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Desecration of Desire
    Each of his records could have come from any year from the past twenty five, to the next twenty five. There is the sound of now, the sound of then, and the sound of Dave Clarke.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Anoyo
    While Hecker continues to be a paradigm in formulating how sound exists, he proves with Anoyo what it means to extend his means and throughout its cleansing spirit, Hecker evokes a bewitching status, serving as one of today’s continued and top creators of elysian odysseys.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A New Nature
    This record is a masterpiece of aural and visual pandemonium.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Keepsake
    Keepsake has an inexplicable familiarity even as it bursts with new ideas. It is a document capable of throwing us into our own pasts, the perfect score for the movies we make in our minds.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Imploding the Mirage
    Escapism running through its veins, right down to the gentle “woah-oh’s” or cascading drums, Imploding The Mirage works because it doesn’t try hard but still pulls all of those components we’ve come to know and love together.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
    Both albums [Quazarz: Born On A Gangsta Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines] deliver uneasy commentary on modern times, and the music that supports it is as equally challenging.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quiet Signs
    While Jessica Pratt’s already-absorbing sound has been made fuller and richer on Quiet Signs, there’s still a charming simplicity to it all. And what do they say about simplicity? There’s a certain beauty in it. Here it’s ethereal and exquisite, with a magic that weaves its way into your being and transforms the world around you.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Nightmare Logic
    In addition to the improved songwriting, the production has been upgraded. Returning as producer and engineer, Arthur Rizk wisely dials back the reverb from Decimation, resulting in a clearer record that allows breakneck riff-fests.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
    Both albums [Quazarz: Born On A Gangsta Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines] deliver uneasy commentary on modern times, and the music that supports it is as equally challenging.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
    Leithauser and Rostam have clearly tapped into the long, illustrious history of the great American pop standard for inspiration on these dynamic new songs, offering up their own inventive twists on the art form to keep the expressive dialogue going for a whole new generation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Late Night Tales
    With this record, Frahm reminds us that music--whatever it's genre, origin, form or status--holds a power like no other medium to represent our shared, human emotional experiences.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    An Odd Entrances
    His reluctance to be confined to one particular sound (which makes him even more psychedelic), his nonchalant attitude towards genre, his increasing influence in leftfield rock and his skill in piecing together rhythm, chaos and calm makes him one of the most captivating artists indie rock has right now.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    I'm Not Your Man
    Her new found confidence comes through in spades here and the end product is a record that shines with a captivating vibrancy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hot Dreams
    Timber Timbre, in crafting Hot Dreams, have cultivated an immensely strong record and an alternate sonic dimension you can spend a lifetime exploring.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    AJ Tracey
    With this record, he’s laid to down a marker, not just for 2019, but for the future of UK rap. It’s hard to think of a debut so confident in every musical aspect since J Hus’ Common Sense. Advice: consume daily for effective mood enhancement.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Dying
    It's a noisy little beast that will leave you feeling somewhat battered, disorientated, but actually, the stink of the corpse of rock has never sounded so good. Just have some paracetamol to hand.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Skeleton Tree
    Death and loss have always been topics mined by Cave, but this may be the most visceral and powerful portrait of those feelings he’s ever painted.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hallelujah Anyhow
    The result is an album that's uplifting without stumbling into the saccharine-dosed forced jolliness that particular word might bring to mind.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hang
    While Hang doesn’t explore much new ground, that’s never really been on Foxygen's agenda. It's a great return all the same.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Deceiver
    Deceiver isn’t your Oshin or Is the Is Are, not by a longshot. Yet, while certain touchstones are present that give away that this is in fact DIIV, in a much larger sense we’re observing a band operating unlike they have before, and in the midst of that shift, they execute it stunningly.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Happy in the Hollow
    Happy in The Hollow is their most satisfying work to date, doubly notable for its being the first record the band have produced themselves.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Goes West
    While it’s difficult to not fully engulf yourself in his ethos from the LP’s sit-in folk jam stylings to even crossing over into more celestial territory that finds itself throughout Goes West, Tyler’s dexterity in capturing emotion and conveying a story is rather significant under his instrumental hand – a gift that he’s always yielded, but likely now more than he ever has.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Tearing at the Seams
    With Tearing at the Seams, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have distillated the ups and downs life throws at you into a vibrant collection of many-hued vignettes; some make you smile, some make you well up, and some make for the ideal accompaniment to good ol’ sauced-up revelry. Whatever the case, they’ll all make you feel that thing inside you. Soul.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Schlagenheim
    If bands like Can or The Residents or Public Image Ltd only existed on paper, you would imagine that they’d sound a lot like black midi (and vice versa), but it is only through direct experience with the songs that make up this exceptional album that we realise that there are some things (including track names) that are best left unsaid, virginally awaiting the experience of the listener.
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