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For 4,495 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: 4,040 out of 4495
  2. Mixed: 438 out of 4495
  3. Negative: 17 out of 4495
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Junk
    Once Gonzalez has had his fun and begins to settle in to the ways of the old M83, but with a bit of a pop sheen to it, is when Junk works best. It’s just a shame you have to flick through the channels to find the gold.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pussy's Dead
    Instead of signaling a demise (of a feline nature or otherwise), the album represents yet another sonic rebirth from a band who has been making a methodical career out of rising from the ashes of inactivity to surprise us all once again.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    #N/A
    The album in it’s conventional format may be too limiting for Nisennenmondai here and therefore, this is not their greatest advert.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Silent Earthling
    Silent Earthling is clearly an experiment in how to expand on a sound that is already protean and expansive by nature. It’s a difficult job, and that’s clear from listening to the record, but such is the breathtaking nature of Three Trapped Tigers that it is highly doubtful many will mind.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Slime Season 3 [Mixtape]
    This isn’t one of the standout tapes in Thug’s ever-expanding discography. But, as always, it signifies development, progression--most of it accessible on "Drippin’".
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Changes
    Ultimately the Screaming Eagle of Soul continues to soar, and despite all of the changes, the reasons to fall for Charles Bradley remain constant.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything You've Come to Expect
    Considering that The Last Shadow Puppets is just a casual commitment and a bit on the side for Turner, Everything We’ve Come to Expect is champagne-coated, arena-sized pop-rock album that’s slick and accessibly smart.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lost Time
    They are definitely a marketable band (it’s no wonder Katy Perry ripped them off) and Lost Time is Tacocat’s biggest accomplishment to date--27 minutes of bubblegum pop that doesn’t lose its taste.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Atomic
    Atomic doesn’t quite hit the heights of their greatest soundtrack successes, but as a further document of a restlessly inventive band constantly tweaking their sound, it’s well worth approaching with open ears.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Mineral Love
    Minor setbacks aside, it’s another beautiful, consumable collection of music from Bibio that no other artist could make sound so inherently theirs, and one that leaves Wilkinson's future musical trajectory as wide open as it’s ever been.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Are You Serious
    Even if you’ve hated Bird for the past twenty years, Are You Serious is the kind of record that is so breathtakingly alive and enjoyable that you should take the time to listen and consider rethinking your stance on him as an artist.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Wilderness
    The album is thrillingly foreign yet familiar in its finest moments.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Amen & Goodbye
    With the aid of deft production and mild restraint, Amen & Goodbye is well within therapeutic range. Its hybrid of analogue and digital techniques have allowed Yeasayer to create their most enthralling and satisfying record to date.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Eric Bachmann
    We can certainly add this gorgeous new album to the list of things that we take warmly to our hearts during these trouble times to help us make some brief sense out of it all.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    IV
    Working with producer Randall Dunn again at the famed Avast! Studio in Seattle (fortifying that West Coast pedigree), Black Mountain have become more capable than ever of transmuting their kaleidoscopic visions into a volcanic unison.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luneworks
    It’s hard to single out a standalone track from this impressive debut and this, in itself, is testament to the LP on the whole.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vroom Vroom [EP]
    She might have talked about breaking the rules on Sucker, but here you can feel her doing it, and it turns out to be a thrilling ride.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Weezer (White Album)
    The White Album is, hands down, the best Weezer album since... well, since it became so hard to agree on what the last great Weezer album was.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Where You're Meant To Be [Live]
    Where You’re Meant To Be conveys the coziness of the room without any tricks or much polish, just a balance among the performers and enough proximity to the audience to capture bits of individual voices here and there.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Disappear
    Sure, there's no new ground broken, and no definitive answers given, but We Disappear isn't meant to be that. Instead, the album is a soundtrack of reassurance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stiff
    The group still manages to fluidly blend southern-fried garage rock, soul, psychedelia, and funk on their sixth studio effort, showing no ill effects from the recent shakeup to their tight-knit core.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Potential
    Its narrative arc and Hinton’s own emotional investment into the project elevates Potential over some of the more high profile electronic releases of the past few years.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grapefruit
    With Grapefruit he’s has shown an ability to take the fabric of rock n roll to other dimensions, to surprise, to confound. At times this means it’s pretty heavy going but it’s never boring. It’s wildly ambitious, challenging and wonderful.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patch the Sky
    It’s the contrast of sparkling melodic effervescence and Mould’s obsidian soul that drives the tracks on Patch The Sky. Here, Mould has turned up the contrast between anger and melody, and found some sense of enlightenment.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fleeting
    Fleeting is, in sum, an art in the sweet and wholesome worship of nature, it's comforting highs and dark, confusing depths encompassing all the brief human relationships it gives birth to and provides a stage for.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Full Circle
    There aren’t any outright failures on Full Circle--Bernardout and her bandmates Dom Goldsmith and Arthur Delaney are too talented to turn out a subpar project--but there are moments that simply lack staying power.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
    Sometimes you have to look back to move forward, and by doing that, Underworld have made their best album in almost twenty years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Compassion
    As a whole, Compassion is very impressive. It’s a largely fat-free collection of club-ready Danish synth-pop.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chaosmosis
    Chaosmosis has its moments, but it sure is patchy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Post Pop Depression
    Post Pop Depression doesn't really sound like anything Pop's done before, yet it sounds unmistakably, naturally like an Iggy Pop album, a very good and, at its frequent best, impressively alive one, proving that what Pop really needs is a collaborator who understands how best to frame his unique talents.
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