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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Weather
    During its most striking moments, Weather is yet another example of Scott Hansen’s musical craftsmanship and excitingly it clearly illustrates the validity of his collaborative efforts with other musical artists. However the weighting on Weather is at times off-kilter and inconsistent, if Hansen can rectify and master this in future projects, he will likely be making the best music of his career.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Emotional Education
    Coherent despite a refusal to adhere to genre-based constraints, Emotional Education is heartbreaking yet hopeful, relatable yet precise. ... As complex and multi-faceted as any woman in her early twenties, IDER’s debut LP is an album made for people like those who wrote it, and is all the stronger for it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Don't You Think You've Had Enough?
    This is state-of-the-art pop music with an irresistible sense of rough and tough feminine glamour. Do not miss out.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hiide
    Singles “POiiSON” and “SEiiZURE” close out HiiDE on an undeniable high; a reminder that whilse BABii’s genreless electro-dance-pop hybrid may echo similarly macabre and mysterious predecessors, her high-concept, DIY approach reveals a strength of vision that’s all her own.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King's Mouth: Music and Songs
    Bleeding between the nebulous and formulaic, King's Mouth simultaneously presents the band at their most obscure and lucid; opposing absolutes that are wrought with the band’s ineffable style. This incongruity does not, however, dent the album’s stronger moments, which can be considered the Lips’ finest material in several years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Tracing Back the Radiance
    It’d be easy for Tracing Back to follow down the paths of say, GAS, or the somber mirk of Kyle Bobby Dunn, but thoughtfully, Cantu-Ledesma never verges over that line even though he may hint at it. Instead, by staying in line, Tracing Back serves as one of this year’s most angelically-bright collections of ambient music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What We Say in Private
    Not a single moment is out of place. Everything is crafted to induce a reaction. ... Ada Lea has a musical mind that pushes so much further than just some melodies and words.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Until the Tide Creeps In
    Though it needn't define them, with Until The Tide Creeps In Penelope Isles have built a strong foundation on familial dynamics and the criss-crossing of sibling perspectives with elegant and catchy songwriting, springboarding them in to the many sets of arms ready to welcome them.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains is a project born of perspective and circumspection, not self-indulgence or score-settling. It may not be the 2019’s easiest listen, but it’s certainly its most honest, and one of the year’s most rewarding.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stonechild
    Stonechild isn’t as much a revelation as it is an affirmation of the truth – a truth which the singer bears out across the album in fragments, inviting her listeners to construct a full picture for themselves.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    Overall, Banks has taken a step forward in her development as an artist, and you can hear this increase in maturity across each album. At times, her evolution is not as convincing as other artists on her level, though the quality of the songwriting here generally makes up for that.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soft Cavalry
    The Soft Cavalry has the full-vision flow of an album like Deserter’s Songs, wherein each track has a unique character and story to tell. If the writing process behind these songs was hesitant and searching, the production that has brought them to fruition, helmed by Clarke’s fellow musician brother Michael, is striking and confident.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Was Real
    A further evolution and expansion of the templates honed on 2016's UK debut Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock, I Was Real features a rotating cost of eight guest musicians and tracks that are in no hurry to conclude.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    ANIMA
    This is an unusually difficult album to love, because its true beauty is obscured, deliberately so, by clouds of uninviting sonic textures, but hidden in the depths are incredible moments of clarity and intent. ... Probably Thom Yorke’s most beautiful work to date.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Horizon
    Incorporating a sense of scale and sounds that highlight the ingenuity and curiosity that sits are the heart of the trio, Horizon is a celebration of the trio’s vision and collective experiences. Wherever it takes them next, let’s hope it continues to be as enthralling as this.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    7 [EP]
    In terms of catchy beats and somewhat meaningful lyrics, each song has one or the other, and Lil Nas X just needs a little more time to get them to match up.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All That Ever Could Have Been
    It's all too easy to use adjectives such as glimmering and glacial when describing these kind of sounds but the music here is so expressive you can visualise the sights experienced by its makers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By Night
    By Night, apparently named due to the smash and grab nature of late-night studio sessions, is muscular, robust and takes no prisoners. It does its noisy thing swiftly, leaving you feeling shattered and somewhat dazed afterward. A perfect representation of punk rock in 2019, then.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Can You Really Find Me
    Despite moments that may lull, Night Moves exude with charisma and reformed creative panache on an LP that will find favour with seasoned fans and new listeners alike.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bandana
    It is an exceptional modern hip-hop album unafraid of exploring the darker sides of the modern rap persona, all whilst creating a rich, textured sonic environment within which it can be best ingested.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Let's Rock
    Sitting comfortably alongside high water marks like El Camino, it’s clear on Let’s Rock that the boys’ batteries are fully charged and ready to giddy up and hit the ground running once again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Quiet River of Dust, Vol. 2
    The album just takes you to the place in your brain where everything is just fine.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    An Obelisk
    The songs here beg to fall apart but are kept in tight reign by Chris Wilson's drums and R.J. Gordon’s flurrying bass while Stickles and guitarist Liam Betson slay riffs and trade licks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Keepsake
    Keepsake has an inexplicable familiarity even as it bursts with new ideas. It is a document capable of throwing us into our own pasts, the perfect score for the movies we make in our minds.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Schlagenheim
    If bands like Can or The Residents or Public Image Ltd only existed on paper, you would imagine that they’d sound a lot like black midi (and vice versa), but it is only through direct experience with the songs that make up this exceptional album that we realise that there are some things (including track names) that are best left unsaid, virginally awaiting the experience of the listener.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Book Of Traps and Lessons
    She has a unique capacity to include all the world’s issues in the album just by slipping in an occasional nugget of truth that punches the listener in the gut.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jinx
    For all the light-headed horns and lo-fi bedroom production, there’s this clarity and precision that ends "Cracking". Jinx is both their misadventure and their healing as intrepid explorers of the New York night.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Satis Factory
    Satis Factory is a damn fine album, made by someone who clearly loves the sounds and vibes of records old enough to be her mother. ... But you can only wish she’d do something slightly more original with them, because she only serves to undermine her own talent by shamelessly peddling music that other folks have done, and done better.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Age of Immunology
    The Age of Immunology is, simply, a masterpiece.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Club Nites
    Even rushing through the time between songs so as to maintain momentum, the endless energy and refusal to stay still is admirable of Dumb. Unfortunately, the pace results in some items ultimately being left undone.
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