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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mystère
    La Femme’s second album Mystère continues where Psycho Tropical Berlin left off, though it is a more sophisticated affair, and perhaps more subdued too (though that’s no bad thing). There’s still room for the surf rock antics of the impossible catchy ‘Où va le monde’, but on tracks like ‘Septembre’, there’s a definite sense of foreboding as summer ends and the season changes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Our Heads
    Three good tracks [songs, "Motion Sickness," "Ends of the Earth," and "Flutes,"] do not an album make - and, unfortunately, this is the sum of the worthwhile moments on In Our Heads. Elsewhere the album is pure drudgery, remarkable only in its dullness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nepenthe
    In taking her sorrow, turning it on its head and finding inspiration in another magical place, she has produced something powerfully, uniquely transcendent: something vast and expansive, intimate and affecting all at once.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Know What It's Like
    You Know What It’s Like is a grower, and one that demands repeated listening.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    There is joy here, beyond the pleasure of wallowing so elegantly and tunefully in ennui.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Home Counties
    A musically diverse affair yet still coherently Saint Etienne.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let's Turn It Into Sound
    It’s not just a mongrel mesh of genres. It’s stretching and cracking them into new shapes, creating something fresh, hyperactive, and utterly pop.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lover
    Lover is a fabulous record, full of super-fun standout pop hits that make your heart burst. It oozes with Swift’s much more palatable upbeat sass. She’s in love and also thinking about different kinds of love.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rarely Do I Dream
    The woozy charm that oozes through the shaded vocals and the lulling chug of the record mean that some of its delightful intricacies can be missed without leaning in closely.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here and Nowhere Else
    While Here And Nowhere Else is a noisy onslaught that rattles along at a cracking pace, there's a real sense of fun and catchy melodies that Billie Joe Armstrong would be proud of.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cerulean Salt
    These are sad songs, sure; desperately sad, sometimes. But while the connections they depict may be long-severed, that they once existed at all is enough to grace this assured, affecting collection some hope, and an unlikely warmth that seeps in around its blunt, hard edges.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Factory Floor
    Theirs is a physically and mentally overwhelming (and exhausting) form of full body sonic experience that's equally akin to the psychedelic techno battery of Jeff Mills and the blissed-out sensations of swimming through MBV's arcs of feedback. With its airless surrounds and restrained feel, however, Factory Floor clearly doesn't sound quite like they do onstage.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some Say I So I Say Light
    Sequentially, Some Say I makes its six-of-11 central meditation on separation perfectly telegraphed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ignorance Is Bliss
    If Konnichiwa was Skepta’s coming of age, then Ignorance is Bliss is a comfortable consolidation, one that hints at the changes in the artist’s life without ever delving deep in. Nonetheless, the project comfortably asserts his place in the current moment as a unique figurehead of UK culture, possessing artistic ability in bags and a persona that suggests far more to come.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Healing Is a Miracle
    Healing is a Miracle is easily Barwick's most intimate – and intentioned – foray in years.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There Is No Space For Us
    There Is No Space For Us is certainly more straightforward than its predecessors, though it’s no less creative for the exercise of reining in some of their more indulgent moments.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abyss
    Metal is a cradle-to-grave church of the outsider; birth occurring when you first heard Black Sabbath, Slayer or Metallica. On Abyss, however, Los Angeles' Chelsea Wolfe dabbles in it, owns it, then walks away.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Night Time, My Time
    At times things get messy and sound a lot like Ferreria and her various producers totally forgot what was going on ('Omanko' & 'Kristine') but these moments do a great job of hammering home the fact that the record clearly wasn't signed off by someone with a seasoned commercial agenda.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Metal
    Ratcheting up the glimpses of honesty found on The Redeemer, it is his most transparent collection to date.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bermuda Drain
    Bermuda Drain is, from the off, a massive step forward for Prurient.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Fans of the characteristic Kylesa stomp will find enough of it remaining in the cracks to keep them entertained, but the originality and kinetic force of their vision has become a splutter.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Culture of Volume
    This is an album that sounds massive, pompous, threatening, druggy, psychically hollow, a mirror turned against the daily noise... and is all the better for it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I, Gemini
    There is something unsettling but ultimately compulsive about this record. From the opening moments of ‘Deep Six Textbook’, you feel compelled to listen attentively and follow the whole oddball affair to its conclusion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forgetting the Present
    Texturally, Forgetting The Present is gorgeous, a deep field of beautiful orchestration to explore.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sequence
    Nothing feels hashed out in haste or haze; every beat, clatter and hiss is perfectly orchestrated. The recordings sound cavernous--this album envelops you, and everything is in its right place. The beauty of Sequence is how deftly Rattle guide you into a narrow slipstream that somehow ripples out into an infinity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jump Into Life
    An album that has not only been well worth the wait but also, a clear indicator of the benefits of having an incubation period and what happens when artists are intentional in slowing down the process in order to get the best results.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Birthmarks
    This remains a rock album that won’t sound out of place in the daytime schedule on 6Music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My First Album
    You could spend days mapping the landscape of My First Album, which is woven with enough references to flummox and delight any pop nerd. The trouble with this approach – artist as nostalgic fangirl – is that it leaves you wondering who Jessica Winter is, and what her sound might have to say other than “I really love the music of my youth”.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sidings
    Crisp, rich tones leave space for the imagination to flood in, and take us to a location that exists only in the mind. Sidings is Craven Faults’ best, most irresistible work to date.
    • 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.
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