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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell
    Although he may be the keystone that holds this record together, Russell seems more comfortable behind the boards, letting the talents of his collaborators take centre stage. His tight, percussive productions lay the perfect foundations for the all-star cast to take flight, filling in the gaps with trickling melodies and expertly picked samples.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When My Heart Felt Volcanic
    When My Heart Felt Volcanic is a breezy, fun debut, but The Aces hardly stray from the road well-travelled. It’s a shame, considering they’re at their best when they push beyond the generic indie-rock song structure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stuffed & Ready
    hile Stuffed & Ready shares the glossy sheen (thanks to Carlos de la Garza, who returns for a second go-round as producer) and excellent songwriting of its predecessor, 2017’s Apocalipstick, the former is darker and more insular both musically and lyrically.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seven Steps Behind
    It’s wildly unpredictable in a lot of ways. It will just veer, with no rhyme or reason, into territory you’d never think possible to be immortalised in recorded sound. If you were to step back, you might even think for a moment that it’s genius.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs for You
    Songs For You is triumphant; those unexpected pivots more often than not being pulled off with an addictive energy. For those that had given up hope, Songs For You is a sign that you should never count Tinashe out just yet. Now fully back in control, her only way is up.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Used to Think I Could Fly
    While McRae’s previous outings may have been more complexly assembled, her new songs are more immediately accessible. Stylistically and in terms of production, many of the tracks on I Used to Think I Could Fly are markedly unconvoluted and easily recallable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Golden
    GOLDEN comes out guns blazing, full of personality, and as a result feels very front-loaded. Jung Kook’s desire to do his best work is obvious, but a little bit of pacing of the tracklist wouldn't have gone amiss, as energy levels (and featured artists) peter out all too quickly.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    People Who Aren't There Anymore
    More than any record in their discography, People Who Aren’t There Anymore is as newly accessible as it is relishing in prior experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Still Worries Me
    At an impressive bakers-dozen in length, Everything Still Worries Me is an impressive debut record from the rising pop-princess. Abbie Ozard is a sure-fire one to watch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ricochet
    The messaging does feel appreciative yet it feels too familiar between its use of commonplace metaphors and lack of clear thematic thread.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Idle No More
    Idle No More is inspiring on many levels, but mostly because it beckons us to dance passionately and live fully in the wake of ever present darkness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Honora
    Surprising, always engaging debut solo album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's Up to Emma
    Imbibing such personal performances with a universally relatable humanity is the greatest strength to a record that makes fragility sound pretty devastating.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deleter
    The band’s fun and pretty new full-length, Deleter, continues this growth and expansion. To wit, it’s the album that least resembles their first.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    More Rain
    On his eighth solo studio album, More Rain, Ward once again taps into the familiar echoes of musical history, crafting a breezy, uptempo collection of tracks that show off his songwriting talents as well as his wide array of influences.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soft Cavalry
    The Soft Cavalry has the full-vision flow of an album like Deserter’s Songs, wherein each track has a unique character and story to tell. If the writing process behind these songs was hesitant and searching, the production that has brought them to fruition, helmed by Clarke’s fellow musician brother Michael, is striking and confident.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Soft Machine
    Doing what it says on the tin, My Soft Machine is powerfully subtle, and reasserts Parks’ ability to capture and alleviate negative emotions, while simultaneously furthering her exploration of the sound that put her on the map.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Origin
    A truly interesting album that is sure to maintain Rakei’s notoriety amongst artists and listeners.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Requiem
    There is a feeling of higher power, an all encompassing truth or consciousness that pervades the album, and provides the thread to link their myriad sounds. Rather than an end, this feels like a reincarnation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eusa
    The tone and the simplicity and the subtle melancholy of these eighteen miniature pieces make EUSA the most charming Tiersen release in some time.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Morningside
    Though there is some tightening up to be done, and a feeling that Murray has some more grand moments like “Misread” waiting, Morningside is a wonderful half hour spent in her company.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
    So, it seems that band that once loved us all like madmen have mellowed and become more self-assured with age. But they've definitely not lost their spark.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not the Actual Events [EP]
    In five tracks and just over 20 minutes, Not The Actual Events manages to build on Nine Inch Nails' past while stepping resolutely into their future. And after 28 years, we’re still excited to see what comes next.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forever Becoming
    This isn’t a terrible album, but it’s not much more than a re-run of what Pelican have been doing for a decade before.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bermuda Waterfall
    This is yet another different side we’re seeing, but it’s no less special.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    If Anything
    One of the best albums of the year so far.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Imaginary Man
    All in all, Imaginary Man is a bit like an early afternoon festival set: a perfectly pleasant, though ultimately forgettable, prelude to something better best enjoyed while lubricating for the headliners with beer.
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