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For 2,374 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Promises
Lowest review score: 0 Lulu
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,109 out of 2374
  2. Mixed: 244 out of 2374
  3. Negative: 21 out of 2374
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue World
    There are clear signs of the heights he’d soon reach on A Love Supreme five months later. Observing such incremental shifts is both fascinating and valuable, and while the performances are all deeply satisfying it remains a tad disappointing that archival projects like this one tend to blot out contemporary work that proves that jazz continues to push forward in the present.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Drought
    This is her strongest album to date and one where “noise” is but a tool towards a much more expansive expression of music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Savage Imperial Death March
    It’s good to hear that 40 years in the game hasn’t jaded their urge for silliness. .... It’s all entertaining enough without breaking too much of a sweat.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Replica
    Put simply, nobody else could make music quite like this, no matter which part of the electronic fringe they might call home. Daniel Lopatin is in the zone.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pretty Ugly
    His vision continues to be as expansive and eccentric as usual.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feorm Falorx
    It doesn’t take long for the opening ‘Perspex’ to draw you into Plaid’s blissed-out dimension.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It All Comes Down to This
    Peering out from the shadow cast by their Band on the Wall contemporaries Joy Division and The Fall, their thirteenth album It All Comes Down To This is their strongest since 1982’s Sextet.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warm Leatherette [Deluxe Edition]
    Spread over four LPs, this Warm Leatherette box set is an exhaustive compilation that thankfully doesn’t dip in quality for the wealth of what’s on offer. For any Grace Jones fans this is as definitive as it gets, though it will take some serious powers of discernment to differentiate between LP one and LP two.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mudflowers
    Mudflowers sees him reincarnating and embodying his city's passion for a soulful Americana that flourished half a century ago.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Squared
    Thirty years later, Seefeel still know how to push our buttons.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Predicting Machine
    Solitude and/or headphones are the key to The Predicting Machine, another unflashily fine opus from a fellow who's almost cursed, in terms of the praise he gets, by being too reliable.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver Dollar Moment
    Silver Dollar Moment’s vibrancy is at odds with the current mood of the world, but it’s also a vital indication of where we’re at now in terms of indie music’s trajectory. It shakes off any negative connotations of modern indie, particularly in the ‘landfill’ sense of the word, and reclaims it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frontera
    The nine tracks on Frontera isolate Fly Pan Am’s part in the project, yet taking the multi- out of multimedia doesn’t dilute the themes seared into the music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XE
    Xe's slippery moves might not set Zs on a path to your average teen or idiot Howard Stern fan's iPod, but it is a deft and focused work, demanding its rightful place on college radio and the blogosphere.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luster
    In an era of genre-less music, it’s nice to hear an album that does one thing and does it well, capturing a landscape so old it never really gets old.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sling
    The beauty of Sling is immediately apparent, but it is so much more than ‘pretty’, Clairo is letting us in to her safe space and reminding us to nurture one another. She is creating songs that throw an arm (or paw) around you and share the weight of your experiences.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now! (In a Minute)
    In other hands an album as disparate and scattershot as this would fall flat, its moments of brilliance muddied by misfires. This is not one of those records.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live from KCRW
    Live At KCRW is a fine declaration of where The Bad Seeds are in the here and now. It would be a fool who would second-guess as to where they're headed to next but at this moment in time they sound as comfortable in their music as they do the fine suits they wear.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apple Cores
    The trio’s real triumph is found by looking at the bigger picture, discerning the elegant way in which they connect the ends of these disparate threads, shaping a close-knit, immensely enjoyable whole.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unnatural World
    For scope alone, Deathconsciousness feels important, but it also makes the band's new music sound contented and unfussy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    This commitment to inducing a full-body response, not merely the tap of a foot at a bus stop, has a lambent ferocity that Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam doubles down on.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry
    The two pieces enhance and complement one another to make a combined whole. This is very much a considered and, with regards to its structure, composed body of work.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Sun
    It is not pretentious and it is not pompous--here is an ingenuous album made by a couple of odd cherubs who just happen to be, inescapably, two of the Beautiful People.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exploded View
    Exploded View is the type of album that seeps into your soul. Consciously designed or not, it exposes various unpalatable truths about the way we live now and turns them into frightening, spellbinding music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Drop
    Pinkunoizu take synth pop, psych folk, surf rock, krautrock and other marginal forms of pop and rock from the last 50 years, and use them for the basis of extremely enjoyable excursions in deep listening.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Devour
    Rhythm plays a strong role in all Pharmakon albums, but Devour has a stronger pull and a denser composition. One rhythmic track layers on top of another, sometimes swallowing each other up and sometimes taking songs into different directions. ... Devour isn’t a rallying cry for change, it’s a reflection of the ugliness of it all, from the inside out.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghost Stations
    Ghost Stations is designed to arouse thoughts of “abandonment, empty spaces and dereliction”. But that denies the album’s soothing, ultimately positive nature. It may offer a melancholy tour of desolate scenes, but they’re lent the nocturnal beauty of ancient structures bathed in subdued lighting, any sense of threat exchanged for a reassuring sense of security.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Behold
    Experimental music inevitably engenders pretentious music writing, yet when it's as good as Behold it creates a listening experience that altogether dwarfs any linguistic rationalisation. This is a record of light and shade, and one that demands your fullest immersion.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Savage Heart
    With The Savage Heart, The Jim Jones Revue display a deft ability to move things forward whilst retaining firmly in place all the components that made them such a seductive proposition in the first place.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deeper than Sky
    It's a mind-bending metal album that casts the gaze of its extraterrestrial eye towards an unknown galaxy far away.
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