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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heads Up
    It’s a journey through their journey, and of influences and styles we’ve all known and loved. But it has all the joy of something completely new, pulled together at the seams lovingly and beautifully into a patchwork that, at first, may feel like clash or confusion but in time feels full of strength.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
    This is earnest, albeit loud, songwriting. And that sincerity carries this these (already great) songs further than you'd expect.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Skeleton Tree
    Death and loss have always been topics mined by Cave, but this may be the most visceral and powerful portrait of those feelings he’s ever painted.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
    Leithauser and Rostam have clearly tapped into the long, illustrious history of the great American pop standard for inspiration on these dynamic new songs, offering up their own inventive twists on the art form to keep the expressive dialogue going for a whole new generation.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If You See Me, Say Yes
    If You See Me... has the potential to mark the beginning of something very special.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Remember
    I Remember isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s an all round strong record where both Reid and Francis solidify their complimentary strengths.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stage Four
    All in all, Stage Four is an exercise in catharsis and self examination of what it means to lose someone close to you, but instead of being dragged down into a spiralling bleakness, it's is an album that ultimately feels resolutely life-affirming.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Unseen
    There’s nothing in the way of a bold step forward on Unseen, which is the wooziest collection of songs they’ve put out in quite a while; this is very much an album for the wee small hours.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
    Shine A Light is by turns sombre and playful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Small Hours
    He nails some sassy jazzy tunes mixed with poetic melancholia. There are still some lines that sound initially amusing in their absurdity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    FurFour
    The vast bulk--and on an album as thick with ideas as this, vast is the operative word--of Furfour is a masterclass in modern psychedelia, experimental enough to satiate the genre’s connoisseurs yet fluid and welcoming enough to be accessed by audiences from across the popular music spectrum.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transcendence
    So yes, it's a cracking release from DTP, but it's not without fault. You certainly get your money's worth though and only a fool would hesitate before recommending it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Misery
    Crucially, New Misery never sinks--it’s lightweight enough to ensure it never gets weighed down.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    AIM
    If this it to be M.I.A.’s final release, it’s a fittingly confrontational, vibrant and invigorating piece of work.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Femejism
    Femejism may not have quite the same impact [as their debut Sistronix], but their second album has enough to it to suggest that Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards will be able to maintain interest our vested interest.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Preoccupations
    The truth is, it is both cultured Tibetan Singing Bowls and DIY damp finger on wine glass and all the richer for it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Foreverland
    The essence of these songs is exactly what the essence of The Divine Comedy has always been. Expanded, with more intricately woven textures, Foreverland is an ode to everything that lasts: from historical characters to our own enduring emotions, the record celebrates the importance of importance on every level.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunlit Youth
    This release is not a cliched, sulky attempt to do something new fuelled by the frustrating necessity for a narrative to complement their art. Instead, Sunlit Youth sounds like music Local Natives want to make.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Sun's Tirade
    While the album may have been crafted during a two-year tsunami of struggle, Isaiah Rashad still manages to sound as calm as an ocean’s gentle waves; sounding so effortless has never taken so much effort.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
    A series of vulnerable, tender numbers that highlight how talented a songwriter White truly is--a trait that gets lost amidst the critical commotion surrounding his increasingly eccentric creative pursuits.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Moment of Madness
    At 17 tracks, A Moment of Madness could be more taut and, frankly, have a bit more madness in the mix. Bizu is such a gifted vocalist that it would’ve been a treat to get a few less polished cuts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Big Fugitive Life [EP]
    While the first three songs here are all Rock 'n' Roll ebullience, on the final three Furman explores a more plaintive side to his writing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    GLA
    Twin Atlantic deserves credit for doing more than just leaning into the sound that earned them airplay on Great Divide, and while GLA isn't perfect it points to an exciting direction for the Glasgow outfit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Calico Review
    Calico Review refers to a type of pattern in which a range of colours merge into one; as much as it may frustrate Allah-Las, the palette of their Calico Review remains a similar hue, but their ability to paint brilliant art with it remains intact.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Splendor & Misery
    Frankly, a rap space opera shouldn't work this well, and it's a testament to the trio's vision that it does, even if Splendor & Misery can be a pretty turbulent voyage.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Astronaut Meets Appleman
    It’s a classic KC album. His Scottish brogue, the bagpipes, accordion and harp all reappear for his now expected impish magic.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here
    The core components of their sound have remained intact, and it's only the delivery--which has naturally slowed down in pace--that has changed.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Away
    It may take some time for casual fans to fully embrace the record’s shifting sound, but anybody who has ever dealt with loss can get something out of Away.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Going, Going...
    It’s The Wedding Present as we’ve known/loved them since 1991’s tour de force Seamonsters--opening squalls of feedback, a deceptively sweet melody, and Gedge’s lyrics fluctuating between self-lacerating and acrimonious in the midst of ferocious guitars. We’re on far less familiar ground with a number of the other 19 tracks, though.
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