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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Summer Knights [Mixtape]
    Where things get truly interesting, though, is watching Joey’s flow adapt to the song.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wenu Wenu
    This is a record that moves and moves.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bikini Daze [EP]
    We see a spritz of various weapons in her arsenal, and though they may be brief snippets, they ensure that we’re not fatigued by her noise. Instead, we’d actually quite like more. A lot more.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somewhere Beautiful [Live]
    Thrilling and unexpected, Somewhere Beautiful is triumphant at retrofitting and perpetuating the best of The Chills, while the unreleased material marks promise for their forthcoming full-length.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tall Tall Shadow
    It’s a great ending to a great record, one that musically takes Bulat a bit further from the folk comfort zone, but not so far as to lose the essential character of what she is about.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lanterns
    In giving his compositions a little more leeway to spin and pirouette with maximum emotional force, Son Lux has made his best album to date and proven the wisdom of waving goodbye to restraint once in a while.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Retrash
    Uncomplicated, doing precisely what it says on the tin, Retrash might not be an album of the year contender or a game-changer; but for pure unadulterated fun Oozing Wound are pretty hard to beat.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Memorial
    It is true then, that Russian Circles are no longer pushing back the walls of post-rock acceptability, and also true that their albums don’t bite down as hard as they used to, but it is still definitely true that they wield the ability to compose the most beautiful, thought-provoking pieces of music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pure Heroine
    While she’ll have to work even harder to find an angle for record number two her debut delivers everything you could have hoped for from a pop star in 2013.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chance of Rain
    Plainly speaking, this is psychedelic music, and it’s music that’s both moving and a pleasure to move to.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Julia with Blue Jeans On
    Like the image which adorns the cover, sometimes it’s good to just take in the wonder of the simple things, and the modest but pensive charm of this album is well worth getting lost in.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stars Are Our Home
    These songs, and others such as “UFO” are pretty much straight indie tracks, but it’s when they utilise electronics that Stars Are Our Home really comes alive.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    No Blues
    These more polished but less straight-forward songs makes for their least instantly gratifying collection, but leaves a strong feeling that in the long-term it might become the most rewarding yet.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Prism
    Prism shows a more mature side to the singer, an ability to really connect with her experiences whilst still producing absolute pop smashes. It’s a combination that suits her very, very well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reflektor
    Reflektor acts as a vehicle through which the band’s established flair can be refracted into a new polarising, pulverising shape.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blur the Line
    Blur the Line is nothing like perfect, but it’s a record scored through with an impressively quick progression; not only have Those Darlins matured musically over the past couple of years, they’ve found something they’d sorely lacked to this point--bite.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Emancipated Hearts
    There’s rarely a moment over the past 25 years where Dean Wareham’s failed to deliver an album that’s at least three-quarters brilliant, and Emancipated Hearts doesn’t change that record.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    New
    New probably won’t reverse the malaise that his public profile is slowly suffering in Britain, but it’s enjoyable fare all the same.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adult Film
    Authenticity and honesty are the hallmarks here of a painful and unsettled rock record. It’s not hard to figure out why his own name was the ideal stage to sing from.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rapor [EP]
    It’s a very well-rounded EP--every box is ticked--and we’re left clamouring for more when the dust has settled.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City Forgiveness
    This does feel like an album of transition--about the journey rather than the destination and its more sophisticated moments point towards the idea that The Wave Pictures are a band which are only going to get finer with age.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Love to Love You Donna
    Donna deserves more than this--don’t remember her this way.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident
    While this album may not be the all-encompassing assault that was the signature of The Plot Against Common Sense this is a record that shows a willingness to change, adapt, try out exciting new things that simply retreading that formula would not have done. Outstanding.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Outside
    Outside sounds exactly like the repetitive spinning wheels on a bus (going ’round and ’round) and causes you to become restless and slightly angry of its lack of forward movement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shulamith
    Shulamith provides exactly what you want from a second Poliça album; it’s incredibly fresh and exciting, but still a reminder of what you loved so much the first time round.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Situation Comedy
    Rest assured, this isn’t a record built to break completely free of any trademark parochial charms.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Quarters
    Quarters is a reference to Berlin and a statement of intent then, and like the city Seams is likely to be on plenty of cool-hunters’ lists from now on.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Electricity by Candlelight: NYC 2/13/97
    His voice, tremulous, always searching, always yearning, makes everything he plays sound like the aftershocks of a broken heart, his teasing humour assuring you that despite everything it’d probably be ok.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Warble Womb
    While psych may offer an altered experience, a shifted perception, a rarified reality, Dead Meadow’s take on it this time around is an occasionally wonderful, momentarily beautiful, but largely confused and confusing experience.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fanfare
    Fanfare deserves a round of applause for taking a fearsomely retro concept (album as a mega-budget, widescreen statement) and, rather than sinking waist-deep into pointless pastiche or a rehash of vintage mistakes, ending up with a piece of work that would have been remarkable had it been released during the era it emulates, and which sounds remarkably ‘now’ today.
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