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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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Lasts Forever
    Nothing Lasts Forever, but Teenage Fanclub probably could if they so wished.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sonic Bloom
    The album’s second half doesn’t let up on the grooves or the gusto.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mutt's Nuts
    hubby and the Gang are what punk should be in 2021; heavy, fun, and unrepentantly honest.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Continue as a Guest
    Pure baroque 'n' roll goodness.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amnioverse
    It’s disorientating, harrowing, yet hopeful – the ending needed to complete the circle. The only thing to do now is go back to the start and enjoy it all over again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sketchy.
    Sketchy is a bold album in so many ways but it’s also incredibly, comfortingly Tune-Yards: High energy, offbeat movements, looped vocals, powerful cries, incredible rhythms, a belief that fighting for what is right is the only option. It’s life affirming.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Day of the Dead
    Day Of The Dead certainly makes a compelling case in favour of the Grateful Dead's merits as musicians and songwriters as opposed to uncommonly successful marketers of an alternative lifestyle.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jinx
    For all the light-headed horns and lo-fi bedroom production, there’s this clarity and precision that ends "Cracking". Jinx is both their misadventure and their healing as intrepid explorers of the New York night.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico
    With only the most faithful replications of the original performances falling in any way flat, the contributors' ability to balance reverential respect with an ethos of printing their own identity on these indelible songs is what makes I'll Be Your Mirror succeed where so many similar tributes nosedive into dull irrelevance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Me Moan
    The album’s cohesiveness and its lush sonic range are clearly among the benefits of improved production, and Gibson has made good use of his new toys. Nevertheless, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that few of the album’s highlights quite match up to the strange magic captured by All Hell’s finest moments.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Virgins
    The layers of noise, which at first may seem intimidating, are so harmonically rich they immerse the listener as the sounds interact creating new and unexpectedly mellifluous sounds.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mahashmashana
    This is a record of patient, sojourning hope, so leave your adolescence at the door.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fact Facer
    Embracing crippling fear has never sounded so bracing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Long Sleep [EP]
    The four-track offering is a rather wild journey, in that it refuses to offer anything up easily. Instead, it allows its intricate layers to build up to whatever it is they eventually come to stoke inside of you.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fast Idol
    On Fast Idol, Stewart once again offers a perfectly poignant distillation of danceable, downbeat synth music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nearer My God
    There are no bad songs on the record, just ones in which fewer ideas work.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Restless Spheres
    Restless Spheres never settles on one kind of terrain for long, but it exudes the assurance of an artist who has explored a range of styles over time and found his consistency among all of them.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nobody Loves You More
    In Nobody Loves You More, Kim Deal delivers an album that stands both as a tribute to her past and a reassertion of her relevance, it’s an emotional and moving experience.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cowards
    It builds dread with slight but sudden stabs, scrapes, and bubbling bass, and rarely gives you the pleasure of a cathartic release. It’s a long way from the funky chaos of “Houseplants”, and it’s all the more interesting for it.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From The Pyre
    While Prelude might feature thicker arrangements and traffic more in classic pathos, with Pyre, TLDP are as sublime and theatrical as ever.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Schmilco
    Even as another merely good Wilco album, however, Schmilco does pay plentiful dividends for listeners patient enough to discover its gradually revealed riches.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aşk
    It will be undoubtedly considered a ‘return to form’ for fans who might have felt a little aggrieved about Altın Gün’s turn towards a softer direction on their last two records, but for new listeners, this is a superb place to jump on the bandwagon and a perfect introduction to a world of music that they might not have experienced otherwise.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ballad of Darren
    As Albarn croons, “Every generation has its gilded poseurs” and The Ballad of Darren prove that Blur are some of the best ever to do it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pedestrian Verse
    Pedestrian Verse sees Frightened Rabbit make a triumphant return to the magnificent songwriting present on their lauded second album, The Midnight Organ Fight.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Pink Caves
    The songs are much more complex and nuanced than one might expect on first listen and, like most good music, it is an album that deserves deeper comprehension.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    It’s such an confrontational piece of work that you need to mentally prepare prior to the needle hitting the groove. Once it does though, you are dragged into Bo Ningen’s world, a place where the fusion of rhythm fighting against musical aggression has never sounded so thrilling.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    the record
    Their debut album – aptly titled the record – is here in all its poetic, cutting glory; and it’s been entirely worth the wait.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain Is Beauty
    Wolfe has crafted an impeccable release here, building upon her existing methods and evolving as a songwriter. Things feel more confident – there’s more energy and oomph.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Desired Effect
    Somehow, despite his success, Flowers understands that good music isn’t about what you have, but what could have been, and although his wife must wonder who he’s singing about all the time, the rest of us can press our face against the windows of childhood car journeys, and dream.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Was Born Swimming
    It’s the imagery that Williams draws from in her lyrics that places you there. ... Despite the sense of movement, one doesn’t get the feeling that Williams is driving, running or swimming towards nor away from anything in particular. Rather, that she’s on the journey because it means something in itself to sit alone in a dark and silent car and see everything become clearer.
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