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For 4,492 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: 4,038 out of 4492
  2. Mixed: 437 out of 4492
  3. Negative: 17 out of 4492
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Whoop Dee Doo
    We are treated to a collection of refreshingly care-free and up-tempo punk; well-crafted and not at all pretentious.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lese Majesty
    Lese Majesty gently disorientates you with dizzying vibrations, droning, ephemeral space sounds and abstract noise pieces (the weirdest being the utterly formless “Divine of Form”) that don’t so much blow you away, as lull you into a deep cosmic trance. It’s really quite beautiful.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pe'ahi
    Pe-Ahi, despite being entertaining, cries out for something we haven’t heard from them before.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Voyager
    There isn’t a weak track on the album--just varying degrees of excellence.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Soul Mining (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Box Set]
    This lovingly and lavishly packaged reissue is a timely reminder of what a supremely focused and satisfying record Soul Mining is.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From Scotland with Love
    It also works as stand-alone propaganda for our friends north of the border, and album that feeds the imagination and makes you long for mountains, open space, and something a little more natural.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For Those Who Stay
    PS I Love You stand worryingly characterless--as nervy as that inadvertently muttered, instantly regrettable moniker--in the corner of the party; forgettable faces soon cast into history once the fresh night air hits intoxicated skin.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Alvvays
    Alvvays’ record is a hard-hitting, multi-faceted anthology of awesome, and sits pretty as one of 2014’s brightest debuts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Passerby
    This quaint duo has created a bold and unapologetic record that stands out as the best of its kind for quite some time.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Thousand Thoughts
    It would seem that, even forty years on, the quartet is still brimming with dynamism and inventiveness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honeyblood
    While the album has its forgettable moments, there are points where McVicar and Tweeddale really show what they’re made of--and that, if you piss them off, you’re going to know about it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    For The Recently Found Innocent
    For his fifth long player as White Fence, things have remained very much the same musically.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble in Paradise
    There’s a notable evolution here, and we see the lone Jackson strive for something you can sink your teeth into over the course of a few days, weeks, month, rather than something you can insufflate at a club in the space of a few minutes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Weather [EP]
    Calvi thrashes, broils, sweats, cries and lusts through the EP, and returns to reality remarkably unscathed from Strange Weather. Kudos to Calvi.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon Icon
    Riff’s lyricism, rightfully lionized for its eccentricity and boundary pushing--Riff Raff, along with rappers like Heems and Kool A.D., extend the idea of rapping as abstract expressionists did painting--is not so often hailed for its dexterity, which Neon Icon demonstrates in its barbed hooks, lackadaisical lopes, professional wrestler entering the ring peacocking.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1000 Forms of Fear
    1000 Forms of Fear is a anguished pop album for our uncertain times, crafted by an artist who is conflicted and torn by her celebrity as well as her vulnerable heart.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Complete Surrender
    Slow Club are grander than ever, shimmering like disco balls, toting an LP that’ll break them into mainstream darlinghood; by the sounds of this bolshy confidence and tune-garlanded melange, they’re not only ready, but expecting it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    L'Aventura
    While it may not be as charmingly naïve as he claims, L’Aventura is an unexpected transformation of the classic Tellier formula: pure electro-madness and bearded sex-appeal.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shattered
    Shattered is a deeply comfortable and comforting thirty minutes of expertly curated rock-and-soul.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mosaic
    There are no question marks next to ambition here but rather a general air of confusion in the artistic make-up of the songs that makes Mosaic a slightly frustrating listen.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    CSNY 1974 [Box Set]
    CSNY 1974 does an unerring job at capturing a must-capture moment in music history, it’s just the moment acquits itself as more a valiant effort than a resounding success.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jungle
    Combining the pop world’s two biggest current loves--forward-thinking dance music and throwback soul/funk--Jungle are ticking every box on the ‘perfect debut’ checklist, and they’re doing it with pizazz.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paperback Ghosts
    Once again, they’ve treated genre boundaries with genuine disdain on Paperback Ghosts, and the result is a reassuringly eclectic collection of songs - Feck is one of Britain’s true originals.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Phoenix
    It could be argued that you need to put in some effort yourself to fully enjoy music like this that demands activity from your brain, but with a catalyst like The Phoenix, all you need to do is listen and let your mind wander into a galaxy far, far away.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Model of You
    The real flaw, if there is one, is that they might have strayed a little too far from their roots. The uninitiated, though, will see this as an intriguing electro-pop record, first and foremost.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Futurology
    Futurology just happens to be their most daring folly yet.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Coast
    While No Coast is more resurrection than reinvention, hearing new Braid now after 15 years without drums up the realization that nothing has sounded quite like it since.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Chroma
    It’s a more evolved release for sure, and with less it seems Eugene McGuinness can actually achieve more.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Air Between Words
    The glue holding Martyn’s third LP together is his immaculately-produced tone rather than succinct emotional movement through the album. The individual tracks don’t suffer from it, but it makes sitting down and listening all the way through The Air Between Words a less attractive prospect than doing the same for Immunity. That being said, there’s plenty to take away from Martyn’s third LP.
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