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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
    Xen
    It's an instrumental record, as probably is to be expected, and those looking for the kind of emotional depth (beyond primal urges and base fear) or commentary might be a bit disappointed. Nonetheless, that minor point will probably be a non-issue, totally overshadowed the devastation in play.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Every Bad
    There’s nothing too complex about what Porridge Radio do, but they do it very well, and Every Bad is unlikely to wear itself out soon.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Ghettoville
    Ghettoville is lonely and solipsistic, music for 3am and the glow of streetlamps and the distant reflections of glass and steel, of crumbling urbanity meshed with neon glow and shadows cast long and deep.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Bride
    This is also her most musically subtle and lyrically direct album to date.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Instructions
    The real moments of surprise come when the band strip things back and sound heavier than ever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Stay Gold
    Despite the changes in their compositional style, their growth, their pain and their heartbreak, First Aid Kit haven’t lost the key element that makes them so distinct.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Content Nausea
    The music itself is, in truth, not all that much of a departure from the trademark spiky, speedy post-punk that found a home on Light Up Gold and Sunbathing Animal. But the album’s covers, something hitherto avoided, offer a little respite from the repetition.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    To Live Alone in That Long Summer
    This is a lovely, beautiful and reflective record, the music is intelligent, has depth and sounds gorgeous.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    "Awaken, My Love!"
    The result is an earthy, positive album that buzzes with authenticity and pride.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Fade
    Fade is vintage Yo La Tengo, but somehow gorgeously grown-up, with moments which your head will tell you sound normal, as if you have heard them before, but which make the rest of you feel contemplative and still.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Kidal
    Kidal is first and foremost a kick-ass, spirited rock 'n' roll album that demands to be heard far beyond any 'World Music' specialist interest circles.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    American Head
    American Head is a rare concept album that actually coheres as a narrative, but can just as easily (but less rewardingly, perhaps) be enjoyed as simply a set of the band’s most potent and moving tunes since the early '00s.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Colfax
    Colfax, then, resembles best of Richmond Fontaine’s work: unassuming, deceptively simple songs that gradually gain the resonance of a great short story that happens to be accompanied by great music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Nothing Is Still
    Each track is like a new stride upon their voyage, each sound a new experience or emotion.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Luck
    Once again this clutch of sound, coming in at under an hour, is the vehicle for one of the most unusual and malleable voices in Britain today.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    From Kinshasa
    From Kinshasa is a distorted transmission of a sound of a city, but it's not the neatly paved, orderly and predominantly functioning type of town most of us are used to.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Chasescene
    Chasescene will delight existing fans and lure in fresh blood with equal measure.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Shriek
    Shriek is perhaps not what we expected from a Wye Oak record, but it’s blinding nonetheless, and, while destroying any preconceived notions of the band, lodges itself near the top--if not at the top--of their canon.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
    It’s utterly, completely, resolutely and defiantly them. It’s futuristic but warm, nostalgic but distant, pretentious but human.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    MartyrLoserKing
    MartyrLoserKing may not just be one of Saul Williams' best, but it could also find itself among the most important albums of this year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    In the Silence
    There’s nary a misstep, and yet, it still sounds as raw as a carcass in a butcher’s window.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Escape From Evil
    In confronting their own personal heartbreaks and terrors, she and her bandmates have created their most engaging and universal album to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Get to Heaven
    This is pop music with complex narratives, and if the masses are willing to listen, they could be the band that recharges the UK charts with genuinely meaningful music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Why Do the Heathen Rage?
    Rage is, by turns, ridiculous, overly-serious, and self-satisfying. It’s also one helluva EDM record and an intelligent send-up of an otherwise difficult-to-work-with (and work in) music genre.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Beings
    This is an album of sometimes brutal beauty; a risk taken and richly rewarded through a work suggestive of fragility, yet simultaneously attesting to defiance rather than any maudlin self-pity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Harkin
    The chaos and contradiction is audible throughout the record, which flips between analog alt-rock and eclectic, genre-smashing experimentation. ... It's this duality that proves to be her biggest strength.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All That Ever Could Have Been
    It's all too easy to use adjectives such as glimmering and glacial when describing these kind of sounds but the music here is so expressive you can visualise the sights experienced by its makers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Un Deux Trois
    Juniore’s cinematic yet understated psychedelia provides much-needed opportunity for escapism in these turbulent times, and allows us to dip our toes into a world where all that matters are happenin’ hooks and rad riffs.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Being
    No matter how many times she’s labelled ‘the next Grimes’, there’s nought they can do about the fact that this one, well, she’s really one on her own.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Thr!!!er
    THR!!!LER is a significantly more organic record, one where picturing the band having the time of their lives bashing it out in a practice space requires no effort at all.
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