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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Chaos Angel
    Chaos Angel stays inherently pure, expertly produced in a way that Hawke’s airy vocals are free to dance over a gathering of enchanting instrumentation. Still, her poetic writing achievements rest at the foreground of the record, demonstrating a detailed surveillance of her life, in order to acquire some valuable closure in the face of chaos.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wooden Head
    Wooden Head is a more than agreeable rethink of late sixties rock.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Ever Written
    This is a fan’s album, made for, helped by and a testament to Idlewild’s worshippers’ passion and patience. For some, the changes will be welcomed with flung-open arms like an old friend; for others, it might just be a little too much to handle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abandoned City
    It’s a worldly record in many ways, and though the core tenet is of his personal feelings, it works just as well as you what you’d probably assume the record to be about--abandoned cities.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Home For Now
    The melding of beats, instrumentation and vocals congeal to form a silky smooth palate of R&B, old school hip-hop beats, and the tang of straight-up restrained pop rich in life and vulnerability.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs
    This isn’t mere dilettantism, and while it’s likely to net both acts new fans from the other side of the great genre divide, it holds up more than capably on its own terms.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Seems Unfair
    Seems Unfair manages exceed its predecessor in every way whilst never shedding any of the DIY charm that made their debut so endearing to begin with.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    So When You Gonna...
    There are one or two slightly lacklustre moments, such as "Hold On Me", which doesn’t feel like it belongs, but they are far outnumbered and outshined by the groove of songs like "Old Flame" and the smart, questioning lyrics of "Validation". It’s a record that challenges complacency
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trying Times
    Even if it doesn’t feel like a groundbreaking return, many tracks here align with his ingenious artistic consistency.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soft Bounce
    Collaborating with vocalists such as Hannah Peel, Blaine Harrison of The Mystery Jets, Euros Childs and Jane Weaver, the musical styles glide from genre to genre with impressive ease. The approach would have resulted in a patchy album in most other people’s hands, but The Soft Bounce makes such eclecticism sound like a natural thing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Savage Times
    Listeners may not like the whole album--but they’ll almost definitely love it in parts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Open Up Your Head
    With every listen, each song takes on a new richness, becoming something that will simultaneously become the sound of summer, yet a particular personal soundtrack that you’ll keep on coming back to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    IV
    There’s a richness to IV which was not present on their last record, and it revolutionises their appeal.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frozen Letter
    Brief as it may be, Frozen Letter covers a lot of ground for Spider Bags--it has them gleefully offering us tasty kibbles of what they’ve always excelled at while also boldly paving themselves a new path forward.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
    They’re the whirling dervish we’ve enjoyed for decades, having brewed another storm when music needs a serious injection of fun again.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Music, Trial and Trauma: A Drill Story
    Complete with contributions from a star-studded cohort of guests including Stormzy, Aitch and Popcaan, the LP serves as Loski’s most accessible project to date, but he takes care to spotlight his less well-known Harlem Spartans colleagues Blanco and MizOrMac.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Saltwater
    With Saltwater but as a difficult second album goes, this is a total breeze rather than a mainsail-battering ocean storm.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Death After Life
    It’s music that shakes you to your core, and even if you’re left frosty-hearted afterwards, you’ll be under the spell.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Morning/Evening
    It’s clear that Morning/Evening has been inspired by, and tailored for, its respective times of day and this works well. But it feels like the majority of Hebden’s attention has gone into the first side resulting in an enjoyable, if front-loaded album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bigger Than Life
    The eleven songs here are tidy and self-contained but not sealed. The possibilities for Black Marble continue to open.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Abysmal Thoughts
    Going it alone might not have been the most obvious next step for Pierce, however he has managed to maintain a catchy and consistent sound that justifies that decision.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Celestite
    Every bit as dense and nuanced as their more traditional work, Celestite might end up finding itself falling between two stools, but no-one could accuse Wolves in the Throne Room of going at this half-heartedly.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver/Lead
    Silver / Lead is a record with density but one that is also light on its feet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Felder
    Its resistance to structure creates in the listener a heightened awareness of each individual sound, and the resulting friction or harmony when pressed against another.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silver Tongues
    This debut record still sounds like a band caught between two stools, not sure if they’re still full-on punks anymore or softer, introspective shoegazers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Intruder
    Clocking in at sixty-two-minutes, Intruder finds Gary Numan undeterred in continuing to push at the buttons of a world increasingly devoted to its own demise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Armageddon In A Summer Dress
    The product of constant playing and musical experimentation between tour duties, Armageddon In A Summer Dress marks the point where the nominally folkie Ward goes electric. The effect is frequently electrifying.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gliss Riffer
    This is a record that shrugs off some of the grandiosity of America and instead offers more detail and smaller, more nuanced yet easily interpreted emotions within a relatively familiar context.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Typhoons
    Whilst they recognise that change in any capacity comes with risks, they are taking matters into their own hands, and coming out the other side better for it.
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