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For 4,517 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 31% 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: 4,058 out of 4517
  2. Mixed: 442 out of 4517
  3. Negative: 17 out of 4517
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Safe to Run
    A four-track run from “Spider” to “New Magic II” – which includes the title track and “St. Francis Waltz” – proves a career best for Rose, housing her most affecting tunes yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tracey Denim
    Tracey Denim manages that difficult task, of creating an album that feels like a self-contained world without losing sight of songs that really work in and of themselves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FREE SPIRITS
    FREE SPIRITS brilliantly represents the pairs growth into themselves and into the reality around them. It’s as playful as you’d expect – the features all doing their part to add to the dizzying hold on to actuality – but beneath the smirk lies something more deliberate.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elsewhere
    Elsewhere is a compelling debut, on which Moore has successfully revitalised the folksy feel of some of her earlier work. For a first album, it’s certainly a triumph.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011
    Has God Seen My Shadow? seems similarly poised to wipe out Lanegan’s reputation as a perennial sideman: on this showing, he must count amongst the most compelling voices currently in circulation.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Way Home
    Long Way Home is a vindication of all that time spent slowly learning her craft and doing almost everything herself. As a result, she has finally delivered what all those early tracks promised; a bedroom record conceived in the club that drags confessional pop music further into the future.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Source
    The Source is a work that showcases a great rhythmic and tonal diversity throughout, floating between a myriad of influences and arrangements.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Invite the Light
    Invite The Light stays true to the hallmarks of Dam Funk's sound; winning formulas never need much adjustment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect
    In all, it's a glossy debut that certainly gives you something to shout about.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sunset Violent
    If it doesn’t quite hit the consistent highs of 2017’s Love What Survives, The Sunset Violent is a clear next step for Mount Kimbie. With limited features and a cohesive throughline, they’ve never felt so much of a unit, embarking on a trip together.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Faithful
    By the time it’s over, you’re wondering how a record so precise, so considered, can sound so gloriously laid-back, and quite how they’ve managed to convey so many different ideas so efficiently.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twelve Nudes
    This isn’t Furman’s best album, but it might be his most heartfelt, his most intense, his most candid – and that’s more than enough for now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Will I Live Without a Body?
    There’s an enchantment in the album's pacing and sequencing that we journey with the band through each of these emotions and emerge from trepidation with renewed hope, feeling reborn.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    San Fermin
    San Fermin is a classical album, fitted with an accompanying tale of love and heartache. San Fermin is also a folk-pop album, set in a world of brilliantly beautiful classical instrumentation and composition. It sits perfectly in both of these guises, and for this, Ellis Ludwig-Leone deserves all of the praise in the world.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wonderland
    Wonderland‘s a cracking slab of chewy pop-toffee. It’s sugary, and superficially slathered with rainbow glitter, but it takes more than a few seconds to comprehend and devour the music.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Half Mirror
    Each track is married in evoking a similar sense of a vast misty landscape and hazy melancholic mornings, though the albums finale does this particularly well.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neuroplasticity
    Everywhere the listener turns on this album there is something else to be found, another subtle motif, another dab or colour. When combined with the inescapably affecting vocal and accomplished songwriting style of Spx, this creates a record that manages to reveal its treasures over multiple listens without ever sacrificing immediate appeal.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Talkie Talkie
    Talkie Talkie is a triumphant follow-up to their debut. It sparkles intensely has tonnes of shiny charisma and sustains its shape while trying new things in the second half.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Krüller
    Author & Punisher’s Krüller is a sonic purge that rages and recoils in equal measure, enhanced by collaboration, but with Shone remaining the master of ceremonies of his distinctive noise.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multitude
    A record that uses choral, electronic and orchestral features to embellish Stromae’s creativity, Multitude is crafted to be enjoyed again and again.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happy Today
    The audience becomes an audibly thrilled fifth member of the band whenever Butterss and Bellerose land on a more steadily rooted groove, which renders the initially hushed, seemingly telepathic exchanges between the musicians into a collective effort to work up a muscular and hypnotic musical sweat.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out of Touch, In the Wild
    A warm-hearted lover of an album that is hard to pin down but acquiesces to exploration and will, in a fairly filthy way, leave the listener sated, satisfied and inspired.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Forget Me
    It’s always charming, but in its best moments, Don’t Forget Me is often phenomenally well-written, a solid show from an artist who’s likely to linger in your memory for a while.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Radio Songs
    Whether he is the influencer or the influenced, there’s such a clear creativity and worldliness in his music, that Radio Songs should be listened to multiple times to really get the depth of where he’s taking his sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sit Down for Dinner
    Alternately dreamily anxious and immaculately groovy it marks the stunning apex of an intensely satisfying record. Just don’t forget that what comes next will be different again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lately I Feel Everything
    As carefree as it is frustrated, as playful as it is temperamental, WILLOW’s lately I feel EVERYTHING is a straight up lively hit of jaded emo bangers that will have a new generation of listeners whipping their hair back and forth.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deeper
    It’s sharp, the beats are punchier, and by utilising similar methods to production as techno, he's made his best album yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Antisocialites
    It’s soppy in the right amount, but it captures the humour and truth in trying to make it through that quarter-life crisis. While it might never really reach the dizzying heights of Alvvays, it still shows the band head and shoulders above the rest.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Comforting Notion [EP]
    With A Comforting Notion, Orme moves between dejection and expostulations of lyrical and musical outrage, one moment wallowing in nihilism, the next celebrating the mysteries of birth, sex, death, and creativity. She has clearly absorbed many of popular music’s important templates, asserting a multifaceted voice that captures life’s highs, lows, and in-betweens.
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