The Line of Best Fit's Scores

  • Music
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:
4495 music reviews
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s direct, angry, and often joyful – a reminder that making good music well is always worth doing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Enderness is a record you're guaranteed to want to return to again and again.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Going from strength to strength, the road that The Best of Luck Club brings will undoubtedly be filled with Lahey's sounds making people move, proof that she is indeed doing it right.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is lightless, horrifically bleak electronic music, but it still sounds human despite its lack of words, melodies or analog instrumentation; there’s a tangible personality to it that’s all its own.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whatever the nuances of the arrangement, it is one that both sides would be wise to return to.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This incarnation of The Album Leaf asserts the resilience that has always held up their sentimental exterior.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There’s a notable evolution here, and we see the lone Jackson strive for something you can sink your teeth into over the course of a few days, weeks, month, rather than something you can insufflate at a club in the space of a few minutes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The substance to his music however means Anthropocene is consistently listenable, and at times immensely enjoyable. Exploring one of the most dismal subjects we as a race can face, it’s nonetheless a joy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a mighty lunge forwards for the four-piece.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To a certain extent, Euro-Country distances itself from her previous releases, however, the material still remains distinctly, unmistakably CMAT. It possesses the same piercing humour and ambitious craft while offering her most personal collection of songs thus far.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While most of the individual tracks dazzle, there's not much of a unifying theme the bind the pleasantly punishing beats, pastoral orchestral leanings and ambient drifts together. Even so, Crush may not be the album more recent converts to Floating Points may have hoped for, but it is worthy of our undivided attention regardless.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With art this bold and ambitious, Halsey doesn’t really have to choose between love and power: they deserve both.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Thin Black Duke isn’t their finest album--for my money, that’d have to be 1995’s Steve Albini-produced Let Me Be A Woman--but it’s still one of the most thrilling, galvanising records I’ve heard in recent months.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s not derivative, it’s devotional.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though dark times have inspired and shaped this work, there is light and hope in its message of communication, achieving a real sense of togetherness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beast Epic may well sound too tame and house-trained to sustain interest. Keep at it, however, and the album is soon likely to cast a subtle spell.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Georgia is an album that speaks of youth in urban landscapes, and scenarios familiar to anyone who has hung around South London long enough. It's an area that's culturally thriving, and it might have a new hero.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scalping’s world-creation on Void is engaging and welcoming while being both ecstatic and unnerving. What gives this record cohesion is its ability to freely blend sounds and be bold while maintaining its heart as a rhythmic electronic record that’s audibly bursting to be let loose on a live audience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In giving his compositions a little more leeway to spin and pirouette with maximum emotional force, Son Lux has made his best album to date and proven the wisdom of waving goodbye to restraint once in a while.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tough Baby demands your attention; it's a dizzying array of vibrant innovation and determination to be counterintuitive.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neil Davidge takes full advantage of his big opportunity to finally show off his textured sonic mastery on a full-length that is entirely his own, and Slo Light only enhances his reputation as one of the greatest sound alchemists of his time.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While it’s pretty impossible to sit through more than a couple of hours of this box in one go, the importance of this body of work is undeniable. Music simply hasn’t caught up--this still sounds futuristic, enigmatic, distant and complicated.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mourn is clearly a band developing at a rapid pace while continuing to play with an ability, set of musical touchpoints and a belly full of fire that belies their youth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On his third album, he continues crafting his inimitable blend of pop, R&B, and electronica, ferociously cementing his place amongst the very best at work today.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To, Knocked Loose expand in all directions while staying true to their core.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When it comes to Israel Nash's Silver Season, it's impossible to get tired of it. Try it--it won't let you down, either.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last Man Dancing is a party to escape to when life gets a little bit too much, and it delivers on its mission statement with abundance.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It achieves the toughest task for a soundtrack--to maintain interest independent of the images it was built to accompany and accentuate--with impressive ease.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Disco Volador feels like a journey into a world undiscovered, without ever feeling too alien.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Between analyzing her own recent past with the empathy and allowances of an emotional anthropologist and the lazy precision of the grooves, Woods pairs harmony with righteousness like the inextricable twins they are.