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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Warm Blanket
    Sadly, these tracks don’t have any of the spontaneity and unexpected surprises that the warmer months bring with them, and instead these songs are plagued with familiar strains and arrangements that we’ve heard done far better in the past combined with overly simplistic, lovelorn lyrics that fail to make you think of anything other than bad middle-school poetry.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Sequel to the Prequel
    Nothing to rival ‘Time For Heroes’, then, but this as accessible, and as listenable, as anyone may have hoped for.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    John Wizards
    Its stylistic diversity can be off-putting at first. But the more you listen, the more it all comes together.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 1975
    This is pop, pure and simple, and taken as such, is a rollicking pleasure.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
    It’s a tremendous listen and a wonderful demonstration of her talents nonetheless.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Repave
    A daring, self-assured statement by a band who have finally figured out just what a special thing they have created with Volcano Choir, but still aren’t aware of where it’s going to take them next.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Surrounded
    Buckner’s record is a vague reflection of something remarkably powerful, a beautiful mirror image of dreams, of dusty reminiscences and pleas that come too late.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Years Not Living
    Most of the album functions as a dance album, and a pretty good one at that. It’s the sections of the record where the focus is shifted, and Melidis tips his hat to the rock and pop music of the 60s or 70s or another by-gone era, that let the album down.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hesitation Marks
    Sure, it’s chorus-driven and a touch too slick, lacking the density and the ambition and the sheer bloody nihilism of NIN’s 90’s heyday, but Reznor’s not that guy anymore--that guy died with the heroin overdose. But there are more than enough moments here to suggest a maker not--whatever the protestations of one of its tracks--yet at peace.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain Is Beauty
    Wolfe has crafted an impeccable release here, building upon her existing methods and evolving as a songwriter. Things feel more confident – there’s more energy and oomph.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breach
    All told, Breach is a sustainable thrill that despite the ambulatory nature of their name is more of a monument, or a line in the sand, especially in light of purported inter-band friction during the recording process.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Caveman
    Caveman could benefit from a further refining of their sound, paring down the influences just that bit more until we get a brilliant space-rock act delivering on every song. As it is Caveman is one great leap forward and a glimpse into a tantalising future.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
    There might well be a genuine intention on Ebert’s part to produce something of real artistic worth, but so long as he remains as verbally vapid and as musically undisciplined as he has been on this record, it’s hard to see his output having serious appeal to anybody who wants to be engaged on a level beyond mindless singalong.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Third Eye Centre
    There’s plenty to enjoy on The Third Eye Centre, but it’s considerably closer to ‘fans only’ territory than its indispensable predecessor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Era
    Era joins the other three albums as a missed opportunity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Push/Pull
    Push/Pull is brimming with stellar cuts. Every track is an intriguing mess, a cavalcade of hodgepodge elements that when smooshed together, far from sounding like a steaming dump, are riveting.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Engravings
    It’s a sonic exploration that, not unlike graphic design, takes physical elements and visualises them in another manner. And it sounds incredible.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Carrier
    Carrier is a joy and we have an album that’s up there with the most moving and stirring records of 2013.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Hate Music
    Rather than let heartbreak render the band static and immobile, Superchunk has thankfully turned to their faithful creative outlet of music once again, and the memories and spirit of their lost friends will resolutely live on in the stirring songs they have written to honour them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
    It sounds precisely like what it is: a very straightforward Franz Ferdinand record.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tonight You Look Like a Spider
    The album is best viewed as an extension of his physical artwork rather than musical endeavours: dark abstractions and brutally grim representations of mood rather than straightforward instancy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Prince Avalanche [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    If David Gordon Green can get performances this good out of Prince Avalanche stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch then he’s on to an absolute winner--Explosions In The Sky and David Wingo are already there.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perpetual Surrender
    Perpetual Surrender is an ambitious album that delivers on numerous levels, though it can sometimes sound a bit like a TV stuck on constant re-run. But just as that’s enjoyable in its own way, so are DIANA in theirs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moon Tides
    Moon Tides is a daydream, not a rollercoaster ride, and if you’re not enchanted with the album from its earliest moments you’re unlikely to find anything that will catch your attention down the line.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    6 Feet Beneath the Moon
    6 Feet Beneath The Moon is an album of mixed emotions, a complex work of focused, driven highs and meandering, confusing lows.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    No Better Time Than Now
    This one’s a slow burner. And it’s nice to be reminded that sometimes, that’s a good thing.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Yes, It's True
    While it’s likely to be the most enthusiastic record you hear all year, Yes, It’s True is probably the band’s weakest album yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stories Don't End
    A new Dawes album will succeed for one primary reason: Taylor Goldsmith’s ability to connect with a new batch of stories. To that end, Stories Don’t End is another success.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trap Lord
    Trap Lord is not an A$AP record; it is an A$AP Ferg record, sui generis, and that is its greatest achievement.
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