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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Giver Taker
    Wailing down the hallowed halls of memory and experience, Chithambo feels the resonation of these moments and channels the hurt through extraordinary delicate songs where harmonies wrap around each other with a spectral quality, and the dripping rain of picked guitar strings decorate the walls taking leaves from the book of Sufjan Stevens.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Zeros
    Zeros is a cross-generational demi masterpiece. It’s also wholly modern though, not simply relying on nostalgia. McKenna displays an incredibly mature understanding and absorption of his inspirations, rather than just referencing or rehashing them.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    RE-ANIMATOR
    As a group, Everything Everything has always worn that indie art pop weirdness on its sleeve and its still refreshingly intact here, Re-animator is yet another flamboyant feather in the cap of a band that refuses to phone it in.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Universal Want
    Familiarity isn’t a bad thing when it’s done well, if we refer back to the four cycles of reformation, Doves land firmly in the bands who have their fire relit by a break category, The Universal Want is Doves in essential form.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    American Head
    American Head is a rare concept album that actually coheres as a narrative, but can just as easily (but less rewardingly, perhaps) be enjoyed as simply a set of the band’s most potent and moving tunes since the early '00s.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fall To Pieces
    His best, most vital album in a long time.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Faith
    Faith is a very, very good album – most likely their best since their debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass
    What fans will appreciate most about this collection is how Del Rey's poetry seems to give us a much clearer understanding of her than than her songs are able to.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Gold Record
    This is a story-album: each track is its own world and, like any novel, it demands attention. ... Gold Record feels self-consciously like a classic country album, something The Bellamy Brothers might have put their names to.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Hannah
    She possesses a rare aptitude for packing in the same amount of emotional clarity into songs that last five minutes, as well as songs that barely meet the minute mark. It is the sign of an artist whose being is overflowing - completely bursting with life.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All That Emotion
    While you can identify his signature guitar looping motifs on the records, providing a subtle backdrop for Georgas’ expressive vocals, it's her willingness to open herself up on such a bare naked level that gifts All That Emotion its titular promise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Baby
    The Baby is an incredibly self-aware pop record that proves Samia’s not a baby anymore.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death of the Party
    On Death Of The Party the four-piece adds a dash of Northern Soul to the mix, and it’s a perfect complement to their Beach Boys harmonies.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Energy
    Energy is something of a misfire for Disclosure, it is an album that opts to play things safe and the consequence is an unremarkable album that feels at once overthought and simultaneously underdeveloped.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smile
    Smile feels like it’s just kind of there. It just sits at the table surrounded by Perry’s past, which has some of the aforementioned biggest tracks of the ‘00s, and a couple of toe-dips into new territory which were at least commendable, but Smile just walks the line of enjoyable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SuperGood
    Undoubtedly, Duckwrth knows how to pen a beat, and to keep the party going, especially when the lights seem determined to come on. It can’t be recommended enough to shut the world out and to let SuperGood carry you away on its positivity, love-lorn and big-dream current.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Use Me
    The album in question is worth the wait though, a collection of polished alt-pop tracks with the band's consistently sparkling production, this time helmed by JT Daly with considerable input from vocalist Lynn Gunn.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dream Nails
    Dream Nails are their best when their lyrics feel like an arm around your shoulder.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Whole New Mess
    With these two albums [All Mirrors and Whole New Mess] she’s proven the vast range of her songwriting, and that she could go just about anywhere with what she does next.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Motherhood
    The result is a blisteringly progressive record - one that genuinely feels years ahead of its time.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Inner Song
    It’s hard not to lavish Owens with praise here, but atop Inner Song’s exceptional track list and an underlying message based around acceptance and healing, Owens uses those experiences to expand into a wider array of exploration and storytelling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Recover
    Since bursting on to scene with “Young Blood” all those years ago, The Naked and Famous have proven themselves to be more than well-deserved mainstays in the indie bop world.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Play With Fire
    L.A. Witch has managed to capture lightning in a bottle with enough space for you to stand back and observe without getting singed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SUGAREGG
    SUGAREGG is not without its moments of doubt and misfires. Regardless, it’s a product of its context, an artefact indicative of a change in intent and perspective by its creator. It’s a product full of joy, not maddening, but genuinely uplifting and encouraging. It’s also the best thing Bognanno has written.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Source
    Chockful of jazz that embraces you in a familiar feeling, Source is akin to an old friend you may not see for a while, but whenever you do, the world feels that little bit brighter and it’s as if no time has passed at all.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Songs for the General Public
    Songs For The General Public is a landmark album, unlike any other, that draws from the past, churns it up, modernises it and chucks it into our present with sonic-like energy through sheer effervescing talent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Imploding the Mirage
    Escapism running through its veins, right down to the gentle “woah-oh’s” or cascading drums, Imploding The Mirage works because it doesn’t try hard but still pulls all of those components we’ve come to know and love together.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Show Pony [EP]
    He is a true, wonderful artist that seems – on this evidence – to be on a one-man mission to take country out farther into the wilderness that its ever been. Make sure you’re along for the ride.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Witness
    While it's certainly missing any form of coherency, Witness does feel like you're growing with Perry - going on this journey that's helped her find new ground and a reinvigorated appreciation for all walks of the pop music spectrum.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Open Up Your Head
    With every listen, each song takes on a new richness, becoming something that will simultaneously become the sound of summer, yet a particular personal soundtrack that you’ll keep on coming back to.
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