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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For That Beautiful Feeling
    Only Underworld have truly kept up with the consistency of The Chemical Brothers, and with the scintillating form shown on For That Beautiful Feeling, it’s going to take something really spectacular to catch up.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guts
    The result is a raw, confessional album more interested in telling Rodrigo’s story than conforming to the standards of popular music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bewitched
    Bewitched is a marked step up in every way. And, because of it, she’s more than the promising young star she was in her early career – she has shown herself to be an established talent.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Playing Robots Into Heaven
    With skills and interests cemented across various styles, he’s figuring out in real time exactly what he does best – providing floor fillers to club crowds or elevating his performances through complex production. Perhaps when he sings, “Where are my wings? / they’re loading”, the artist is acknowledging that he’s still to assume his most resolute form yet.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    trip9love…???
    Trip9Love…??? feels just as symbiotic in that way as previous cuts 2018's Devotion and 2021's Colourgrade did, but this time, they’re so emotionally vivid that it’s disquieting to feel like a fly on the wall. Once again, they leave the listener submerged.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blómi
    Blømi leaves solutions for our current problems back in the times where they could have been useful. This can only be music as morphine: a painkiller mixed with transcendental meditation.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    End of the Day
    It is interesting that Barnett’s chosen soundtrack to the movie about her life is much more subdued than the rest of her discography. Where she has previously depended on frank and revealing lyrical turns to convey emotion, she here demonstrates that she can do the same with only her instrument.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rabbit Rabbit
    Overall, although there is quite a bit of filler on Rabbit Rabbit, the album does contain some enjoyable songs, with Dupuis and Molholt demonstrating their obvious talents for solid guitar riffs at several points.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Window
    When you finally reach the level of brilliance you’ve been working toward for so long, The Window is exactly what it sounds like.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back to the Water Below
    It’s a short and snappy experience clocking in at under 30 minutes, but the rising tides of sin and crashing waves of liability make Back To The Water Below the most all-encompassing outing of Royal Blood’s career.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    HELLMODE
    Essentially, HELLMODE all but confirms the sincerity electrifying the voice of our charming punk hero. With little hope to hold onto, he's still angry, urgent, and prescient as ever.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Karpeh
    Like the tracks themselves, the album as a whole contains a breadth in the way of sounds and styles, but less so in depth. Confused and trying on more hats than a grandfather at a beachfront souvenir shop, Cautious Clay flickers with interest and leaves without a second thought.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rivers of Heresy
    When Neil leads us away cheekily with the macabre “I’ll never grow old in a graveyard”, the confidence sounds resolute. The trio’s abilities were already in cement, but being uninhibited by past musical ventures has become a marvellously fun, snarling beast.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Is Alive
    These songs are indubitably vigorous and youthful. Moreover, there’s also a fleck of Slowdive's nostalgia and urgency spattered on them, like the golden sky at sunset, whose warm-coloured canvas quickly loses its treasured vibrance to nightly darkness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Voir Dire
    If anything, Voir Dire is a record that pulls itself apart as it continues, subtly dredging the listener in philosophical bile and pause-the-track one-liners.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'd Be Lying if I Said I Didn't Care
    I'd Be Lying If I Said I Didn't Care is not an easy listen. It's a cold lake on a summer's day – not immediately comforting, but if you commit to the activity, you'll be unaware of how long you've been enjoying it. The overarching feeling of optimism keeps the record above water and prevents it from falling into an unenjoyable experience.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spellling & the Mystery School
    Cabral and her band have taken what could have been a disaster and turned it into her best work. A stunning, unexpected album from an artist to keep a very close eye on.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Perfect Saviors
    The collective's return gleams with ambition. Packing the same ferocity and awe of a firework display with ebullient lighter moments shaded with synth flourishes, and rapturously prototypical loud darker ones which apprehend and shake you to the core.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weedkiller
    It’s a definitive project encapsulating body autonomy, queer love, humour and fury, all the more confidently told by a vocal chameleon whose performance stands out amongst the rich production traversing decaying foliage, fizzling suns and AI leaders.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mommy
    Be Your Own Pet burned out from having too much fuuuuuun, but by playing around with old influences, Mommy shows they're still nothing but a good time.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Suede [30th Anniversary Edition]
    If you want to find a remaster that’s worth your time and money, then Suede is the gem to look into at this very moment.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snow Angel
    It’s an oddly assured debut, tender and strong at the same time – and its greatest strength is that Rapp is as good of a songwriter as a performer of her own emotions.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Struggler
    It’s a fantastic example of how artists can still come to a project with tonnes of contextual flavour that they want to include and not have it overpower the entire dish.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Homo Anxietatem
    Shamir settles into the familiarity of gleaming indie-pop arrangements and sweet starbursts of melody, all while hints of darkness bleed through the margins. While not a startling stylistic reinvention, the album does feel like a rewarding artistic waypoint from an exceedingly consistent singer and songwriter.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Unreal Unearth
    From the folk twang of “First Time” to the torrential clapping on “Anything But,” this is a Hozier album to the hilt: considered, earnest, and moving.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Echo the Diamond
    Echo The Diamond recaptures what made Margaret Glaspy so exciting. Her sense of drama is thrilling, and its quietest moments find the beauty in her raw, prickly vocals.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sundial
    Her striking lyrical flow has become more relentless but comes off more like a constant drip of honey than an imposing assault, at least sonically. On the other hand, the subject matter of the lyrics is rife with Socratic lines of moral questioning and political comedy. Every track excels in a topical focus that will not be spoiled or summarized by the deadline-watching eyes of a critic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volcano
    Exploring a whole new sphere of genres, eras and musical styles, Volcano's unexpected twists and turns place Jungle at their peak of most progressive yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
    They’re the whirling dervish we’ve enjoyed for decades, having brewed another storm when music needs a serious injection of fun again.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ooh Rap I Ya
    The instrumentals of Ooh Rap I Ya are a feat of surrealism in songcraft, ebbing waves of synths and overblown drums soundtrack much of the run time, but in increasingly more abstract ways. It isn’t long until the mastery of the pop form displayed in the first half of the record devolves into the spare parts of a song: 90s hits deconstructed and remade in the most obtuse yet enjoyable ways.
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