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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
    Compliments Please
    Her love of hip hop is imbued in the very core of Compliments Please, shirking much of the folkish arrangements of Slow Club for a sound far bolder, and at 16 tracks strong it is clear that Taylor is not short of ideas.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Good at Falling
    We have 13 tracks to wander through and empathise with. Amber Bain has created a record of complete honesty, offering us a first-hand account of the highs and lows she has experienced whilst traversing modern relationships.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Good Fruit
    It’s a challenge and a pleasure; a banger and a crooner; a lover and a leaver, and easily the best album of TEEN’s career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Crush on Me
    ["Heels" is] a track capturing the whirling chaos of a turbulent time, and the intensely liberating experience of charging through to its end--battered but unbeaten. This turbulence rocks the rest of the album as well, but it’s now a bumpiness that Sir Babygirl rides like a pro.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grey Area
    It's brave but vulnerable, energetic but reflective and youthful but wise. If you listen to any Little Simz track, you'll know instantly she's a great MC, but with this project she has stepped beyond that to become a uniquely gifted artist. An incredible album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Placeholder
    placeholder is the sound of Hand Habits hitting their stride, and playing to their strengths before anyone listening even realised what those strengths were. The guitar heroics of Duffy’s time in Morby’s band have yielded to an inspired flair for arrangements, piercing turns of phrase and the sound of an artist—and a person—truly finding themselves.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Effluxion
    Effluxion doesn’t ask questions, or make you want to ask questions, or answer any that you might have had. The only question you can ask of Effluxion is what the title means.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Crushing
    Even though many breakup references are scattered throughout Crushing, a strong sense of emotional progression is also woven in, flipping the narrative to be more positive in parts. Vivid lyricism personifies the album title in each track.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wraith
    It's a credit to the band's (newly streamlined to a trio) increasing ability to tie together the different strands and themes that have cropped up during their previous work that it all builds up into a cohesive, hugely arresting whole.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    In Search of the Miraculous
    In Search of the Miraculous finds Desperate Journalist striving and challenging themselves, happily searching for that sense of the sublime in a world that will outlive us all.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Other People's Lives
    There is a murkier, hypnotic side to the band’s frivolities and the human habit of despising routine until life strips it away. It is this bittersweet thread through Other People’s Lives that makes it so instantly affable and ultimately, relatable, even with Seed’s observational alienation.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lung Bread for Daddy
    Lung Bread For Daddy’s inauspicious genesis plunged Beth Jeans Houghton deep into an artistic quagmire, yet she has escaped with another outstanding record.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brickbat
    Brickbat is not an indulgent “supergroup” affair or a rehash of former glories (what would a Lush-Moose-Elastica-Modern English mashup even sound like?), it’s a chance alignment of classic alt-rock pedigree, on and of its own time.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Helium
    Homeshake widen their scope for their fourth record, Helium: a statement of identity. Homeshake’s sound on Helium captures the mood of our ears. hinting at zeitgeisty bedroon pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    State of Ruin
    State of Ruin is as successful in embracing the genre's menace as it is subverting it, revelling in the fist-pounding and neck-snapping as much as dream-like and beatless. All in all, a solid debut.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ladytron
    Long term fans won’t learn anything new here, but a good Ladytron album is better than no Ladytron album, and seeing how they didn't even seem to exist a few years ago, this is something to be thankful for.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Triage
    Triage is a spectrum of colour and abstract character, stained with a unique personality. Thanks to this approach, Triage is the finest work from Methyl Ethel yet.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ephyra
    Ephyra is an intelligent release, one that grows on its listeners far more than initial investigations would should suggest. Such things can be a double-edged sword however, and Ephyra is also a fractured record, the potential of which feels somewhat stymied by its own belligerence.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zeppelin Over China
    It's everything you've ever loved about Guided By Voices, all smashed together in one record.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    International Teachers of Pop
    This is intelligent, knowingly silly music that should have no place in 2019. It’s anachronistic, beholden to its influences, and just a bit lightweight to be anything but a bit of a laugh. But, as this is 2019, and the real world is anything but a bit of a laugh, thank God for records like this. The world is in a dire condition, and International Teachers of Pop have given us a beautiful distraction.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Different Forest
    [An] intelligently-crafted album that repays repeated playing to appreciate its numerous qualities.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rhinoceros
    At times reminiscent of the intricate indie on Doe’s excellent 2018 record Grow Into It, Allanic and co. working through their own peaks and troughs is what makes Rhinoceros so special. On this basis, their main point of differentiation is that they do it so well.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Girl with Basket of Fruit
    Unfortunately Girl realistically functions as little more than a jumbled hodgepodge of colorless notions, and another notch on the wall.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pursuit of Momentary Happiness
    They find even more to dig up and use as coal for their runaway train. Imagine a rollercoaster that immediately starts on a death-defying drop, that you’re white-knuckling through with a chorus of cackles and joy, which swiftly takes you on a psychedelic mosey through a twisted fairytale tunnel - and that’s just the first three songs.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    thank u, next
    It’s contradictory, assured yet tender. It’s delicate but strong. It’s sweet pop music wrapped in an unbreakable metal shell. It’s beautiful but vulgar. It is, frankly, much more than we could have ever hoped for from her.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seven Horses for Seven Kings
    Seven Horses is an ambitious soundtrack experience which works perfectly and will leave you moved, inspired, cleansed and a little afraid.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear
    It’s a heavy record for heavy times, but another intriguing example of what the trio can achieve, even when they’re burdened with the weight of the world on their shoulders.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    AJ Tracey
    With this record, he’s laid to down a marker, not just for 2019, but for the future of UK rap. It’s hard to think of a debut so confident in every musical aspect since J Hus’ Common Sense. Advice: consume daily for effective mood enhancement.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Quiet Signs
    While Jessica Pratt’s already-absorbing sound has been made fuller and richer on Quiet Signs, there’s still a charming simplicity to it all. And what do they say about simplicity? There’s a certain beauty in it. Here it’s ethereal and exquisite, with a magic that weaves its way into your being and transforms the world around you.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tip Of The Sphere
    Tip of the Sphere tackles generally what we’d expect it to--but with no disappointment, McCombs functions as a fail-safe narrator for our time. Within the LP’s musings, we as listeners look to him as he maintains a sense of worldliness and top-tier deftness as a songwriter and within those wonders and expectations, he invites us along as we get the chance to engage with his particular, introspective vision.
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