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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cursing the Sea
    However cloaked in black this record often feels (the closing track “Sister” deals viscerally head-on with the issue of rape with passion and extreme clarity), it’s rarely at the expense of any listening pleasure; sure there’s little let up in the mood but when the writing is consistently good you really can’t quibble about wanting more colours on the palette.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wig Out at Jagbags
    Wig Out at Jagbags is pretty much everything we could have hoped for from Stephen Malkmus at this point in his career.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Galapagos
    On its own merits, Galapagos offers diversity and stickiness and ensures that the Post War Years might hang around a while yet.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    These Spirits
    As it is, the quality is a bit inconsistent, which is a shame, as the bits that are good are really, really good.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The End of Silence
    It tells more of a story than rolling news coverage ever could, and for that The End of Silence is as close as I’d ever want to get to real conflict.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alternate/Endings
    Alternate/Endings is never a relaxing listen; when the breakneck pace drops, it’s only replaced by an unsettling calm, and one that doesn’t last very long.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Remainderer [EP]
    Abrasive but not completely inaccessible, it’s The Fall very nearly at their best.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Black Panties
    Feathers excluded, art abstracted from the man, Black Panties is one of the finest albums of the year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Friend Fish
    This record is a lot of fun and show great song writing promise.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Because the Internet
    Because the Internet, like Camp before it, fails to bring the sparkle that Glover has displayed in his comedy writing to his music; where his debut was crude, cartoonish and silly, this effort is faux-reflective, misguided and ultimately collapses under the weight of a concept that’s almost impossible to make sense of.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    From the Sea to the Land Beyond [OST]
    The collaboration between the film and the music is so successful, in fact, that it is hard to describe the music without noting the scenes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blazing Gentlemen
    There has never been anything wrong with the oddities that emerge from Bob’s brain, and Blazing Gentlemen simply sees the man operating in as relentlessly fine form as ever.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Sun Full and Drowning
    The melodies are coated in finely woven layers which aren’t as straight-forward as they seem to be. And with dense lines to dismantle in addition to the materials they’re carefully wrapped in, prepare to invest time in this true love of a band.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    MellowHigh
    It’s an aimless, winding record that occasionally stumbles upon greatness, but with the amount of mediocrity, you can’t help feel that the high points are mere accidents.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Christmas Album
    This is a conventional theme LP rather than a document providing a great deal of insight into Bright Eyes’ musical development.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Live at the Cellar Door
    Although more than half of the songs on Cellar Door also appear on Massey Hall, there are plenty of fresh-sounding goodies here for the casual listener, let alone the Young buff.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    #8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985)
    Minor gripes aside 8385 is a fascinating glimpse at what artists in the 80’s thought the future would sound like; this is the point where post punk electronica such as New York’s Suicide ends, and proto industrial-goth artists such of Ministry and Nitzer Ebb begin.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Join the Dots
    The difficulties seem to arise when melody and vocals are expected to step up and carry a track for them. They don’t, much more often than they do, which ends up leaving the listener (or this listener, at least) vaguely dissatisfied.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There's a Dream I've Been Saving: 1966-1971
    As a collection of music, There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving is excellent, but as a story it is a true revelation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Harlem River
    Harlem River sees Morby’s melancholic discomforts through a refreshingly soft lens.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Desert Skies
    The album is so much more than a set of rough drafts of more considered compositions. These 1998 offerings succeed in their own right.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sum/One
    By being both coherent and pleasingly unhinged, bEEdEEgEE more than fills the role of cosmic dance music vacated by Gang Gang Dance.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sumie
    There is undeniable beauty lying in each of these ten offerings, but when listened to in one sitting, they lose their individual draw.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live from KCRW
    Those who like their Bad Seeds really bad may be disappointed with the tracklisting, but what stands true with this release is that Cave can be at his most powerful when at his most soulful.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stealth of Days
    Even if its emotional distance pushes it a bit too close to an intellectual exercise for comfort, Stealth of Days remains a fascinating and rewarding listen, whether or not you’re an R&B nostalgist.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jubilee
    This is a record that repays multiple listens, and may prove to be The Deep Dark Woods’ most enduring album yet.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bowler Hat Soup
    Whilst Bowler Hat Soup does come across as a little mashed-up at times, that’s its charm.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jamaica Plain [EP]
    This EP is more for fans of Robinson than Vile, though those picking it up just for name recognition won’t be disappointed as long as they don’t ask for more than what’s on offer--an absorbing but brief ambient interlude.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Electric Slave
    For if you don’t get distracted by the constant temptations of modern contrivances and social connectivity, and buy into these simple but striking songs that Lewis is selling on Electric Slave, then he’s got the cure for the modern ills and then some.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surrender to the Fantasy
    Surrender to the Fantasy is a timely reminder that Elisa Ambrogio and Peter Nolan are a truly talented pair of musicians, making some of the best noise-rock you’re likely to find in either the US or on these shores.
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