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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Platform
    While still creating boundless, exceptional fringe-pop, on Platform Herndon is finding countless new ways to hold our attention: deploying a greater sense of narrative, an emboldened melodic arsenal and enough enthusiasm to remind us why she remains a vital voice in peripheral pop.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goon
    Some of the exhaustion on Goon is a lack of emotional range. The continued packaging and shrinking of love and misery for commercial consumption, something Jesso Jr. doesn't do cynically, but he does it so well and so often.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    R Plus Seven
    Revel in the moods and noises, go with the ebb and flow of mood, pace and dynamic, conjure up your own tales to tell around its sounds: this is music with elastic boundaries, that will accommodate the interpretations that you choose to place on it, and bear them with a surprising lightness of touch.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Push the Sky Away
    Experimental yet built on superb songwriting, fresh and surprising but still somehow recognisably a Bad Seeds record, the amount of innovation and inspiration found on Push The Sky Away proves that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds must still care an awful lot about this rock ‘n’ roll stuff.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lese Majesty
    Lese Majesty gently disorientates you with dizzying vibrations, droning, ephemeral space sounds and abstract noise pieces (the weirdest being the utterly formless “Divine of Form”) that don’t so much blow you away, as lull you into a deep cosmic trance. It’s really quite beautiful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bambino
    It’s a record which blossoms with this kind of randomness but it rarely looses soul and groove. Forget the Superfood of old, because this record is different for all the right reasons.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Emotional Education
    Coherent despite a refusal to adhere to genre-based constraints, Emotional Education is heartbreaking yet hopeful, relatable yet precise. ... As complex and multi-faceted as any woman in her early twenties, IDER’s debut LP is an album made for people like those who wrote it, and is all the stronger for it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Avalanche
    Though the lyricism and imagery present across The Avalanche might be some of Kinsella’s bleakest, and a stark contrast to the soft subtleties of its instrumentation, it’s also some of his strongest and most transparent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wherever I Go, I Want To Leave
    A lusciously uninhibited collection of songs, bringing together a host of collaborators from across the world of indie, rock and pop, providing an introspective accumulation of intimate musings, indie bangers and synth-pop sounds.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Christfucker
    This is purposefully difficult music with very little in the way of hand-holding via melody or catchy riffs. Yet, in the end the potential reward is revealed: if you’re willing to brave the torment (of PoG’s music or of life, or both), perhaps you’ll achieve something like catharsis and be better for it on the other side.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lateness of Dancers
    Strong as the songs are, it’s the rich musical settings that really hit hard.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Quiet Moments
    Despite its tumultuous origins, In Quiet Moments is certainly a more accomplished record than its predecessor. An improvisational grounding and a strong lyrical brief have allowed the impressive list of co-signs to feel more pertinent, and in that, more able to successfully explore thematic material, both sonically and lyrically.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Visions
    Jones places a premium on tonal variance and equilibrium throughout Visions; it’s a wise chess move, ensuring an absorbing listen with every spin.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze
    This collection excels by showcasing the depth of music that had the word applied to it during the album’s seven year time span ('88 to '95). That word, 'shoegaze', was applied to much more than just skinny guys looking a bit sad with guitars. By investigating these areas - from the end of the C86 scene through to shoegaze itself via grunge and ending with Britpop - Still in A Dream proves itself to be a truly comprehensive release.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Potential
    Its narrative arc and Hinton’s own emotional investment into the project elevates Potential over some of the more high profile electronic releases of the past few years.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Monomania
    Its mood is all over the place, but that suits it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chemtrails Over the Country Club
    Chemtrails leans further into the sounds of sunny, ‘70s California - summoning Judee Sill and Karen Dalton - and it’s watertight too: her first 45 minute album since her debut. Sonically, things sound gorgeous.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Source
    Chockful of jazz that embraces you in a familiar feeling, Source is akin to an old friend you may not see for a while, but whenever you do, the world feels that little bit brighter and it’s as if no time has passed at all.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Short Movie
    What Short Movie does do is remind us of the poise with which Marling carries her prodigious ability as a songwriter, and reaffirm that she’s genuinely ambitious, too; she sounds excited again, and so should we be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reeling
    The band demonstrate the excitement bubbling beneath the surface of the UK rock scene, ready to pierce through its thin veil at any moment – Reeling is that moment for The Mysterines, and it’s a debut you won’t forget in a hurry.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Charlie
    An album that turns a sound into a physical being, CHARLIE is packed full of personality and heart.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back to the Water Below
    It’s a short and snappy experience clocking in at under 30 minutes, but the rising tides of sin and crashing waves of liability make Back To The Water Below the most all-encompassing outing of Royal Blood’s career.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver
    The album’s sprawl also allows the stunning space-funk title track to spread its wings for full lift-off unhurriedly over 9 minutes until total resistance-shattering hypnosis has been achieved. If this is their Silver, Say She She’s gold must be out of this world.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    LUMP
    An ambient, compelling and unique look into whether contemporary life really has to be so empty.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mutant
    It’s a testament to his cohesive sound and willingness to defy convention that this record, despite a lack of samples or anything really resembling typical electronic music, conveys emotion as well as it does.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Swimmer
    While the set brims with a sense of unrest and dislocation, it also rouses an implicit exuberance: though we suffer profoundly, art is redemptive, life is inexplicably beautiful.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    hooke’s law
    It’s simultaneously consistent and assorted, richly individuated without any overwrought attempts to appear authentic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Key Markets
    Williamson is so quick and witty with his references that it's not until two or three plays that you actually spot the humour in what he's expressing. It's got a way of making each track funnier, and more prescient, with every spin.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Palo Santo
    An album that sees Years & Years revisit the musical, lyrical and aesthetic concerns of their debut and refresh them with unprecedented confidence and self-knowledge.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everybody Scream
    Those who aren’t invested in live performances may find Everybody Scream less compelling. The deeper the record goes, the more dependent it is on Welch and co’s theatricality that can sometimes only be appreciated by seeing it seep into their stage presence before your eyes. .... Luckily, there are just enough tracks on the album that emanate with such radiant energy even on stream, beckoning you to lose yourself in the restorative and ever-expanding coven.
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