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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Water
    Water often reminds me of Soused, the excellent Sunn O))) and Scott Walker collaboration. They are both albums where there seems to be so much unavoidable emotional distress on first listen but eventually it can sound exultant. The initial atonality is replaced by the surrender to a different way of treating harmony.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World Peace Is None of Your Business
    The very best moments of World Peace... allow a rare slip of a perpetually teenage mask. It's the revenge of Morrissey the artist over Morrissey the cartoon character, and he's caught me completely off guard, the bastard.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bermuda Drain
    Bermuda Drain is, from the off, a massive step forward for Prurient.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Real Back in Style
    All in all, Potter Payper lives up to the title of his debut album, officially putting the real rappers back in style.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    EP2
    Recorded last October, and with producer Gil Norton (who produced the band's final three albums) back at the helm, EP2 immediately delivers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond Time: William Turnbull
    As musical accompaniment to Turnbull's visual imagery and bronze icons, 23 Skidoo's soundtrack juxtaposes perfectly in sparking off coloured patinas and twisted moulds to their mutual benefit.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forgetting the Present
    Texturally, Forgetting The Present is gorgeous, a deep field of beautiful orchestration to explore.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 73
    Pangaea's Fabriclive is the much needed and triumphant reboot the format's needed, istilling something of club music's ongoing renaissance into a seamless, pounding missive. Every act is one to watch and discover, but at this point none deserve to be followed as closely as Pangaea himself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chemistry Lessons Volume 1
    The album doesn’t feel like a compilation though and works well as a whole, even though it covers a lot of ground.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Koloss
    Koloss runs the gamut of Meshuggah's craft and technical prowess.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If I don't make it, I love u
    Here, the trio integrate skeletal post-rock with soul and jazz, deconstructed by a presiding impulse to blur lines between terms or genres, allowing it all to collapse and collide. It’s harmony clashing with disharmony, the musicality of concrete sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Actually, You Can
    Actually, You Can might tumble headfirst into doomsday, but Deerhoof’s day of reckoning sounds just as botanical and prismatic and baroque as they proclaim.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Belladonna
    The resulting music is stunning, perhaps a little more difficult to get a handle on than Amaryllis, but offering an invigorating glimpse into new territory for Halvorson. Though more abstract than its companion volume, Belladonna’s instrumentation tugs at the heartstrings aplenty.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bellowing Sun
    The circular drum-like sculpture was intended to create an ever-changing architectural kaleidoscope of organic shapes and colours, but the 12 tracks do this on their own. They oscillate and breathe, melding in with the synapses of the listener and lulling them into a rapturous state.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Distractions
    It's infectious, a record and a band that don't shirk away from documenting the toil, but also offer some fight, some life and some colour in setting about taking on the challenges to cope with it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Azari & III
    From a purely musical perspective, however, it executes that very most rare form of retroism--the type that makes the tired, forgotten and domesticated once again radical.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Foundations of Burden
    Rather than carry a casket loaded down with the fast-tiring tropes of the doom genre, with Foundations Of Burden Pallbearer choose to breathe thrilling new life into them.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Build a Problem
    There is not a song on Build A Problem that does not deserve its place on the album. They all have the potential to be favourites, depending on the day, your mood and what you want from a song. Smoothly woven from dodie’s most intimate moments, Build a Problem has it all.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jacqueline
    This is a record of infinite different energies, and as a result can be headspinning as it whirls from one to another, but beneath them all there is this deeper, more primal momentum at play - a hypnotic, looping repetition around which those myriad flourishes are wound.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Appalling Human
    From relationship failings to poor comedic efforts and acerbic remarks aimed at his peers, Gonzalez is extremely charming in his boundless self-deprecation set to effervescent 80s synth-pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MMXII
    MMX11 is unexpectedly loaded with similarly bomb-laden gems.
    • 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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Athena
    But where her EPs stubbornly wrapped tracks of jarring, syncopated beats around those massive tracks, Athena leans more towards R&B, and Parks takes advantage of the space of an LP to smooth out any previous idiosyncrasies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rong Weicknes
    The songs on Rong Weicknes are also longer than the rapid-fire tracks of their previous two albums. Giving the songs space allows for tricks like the kaleidoscopic way instruments morph into each other. Without a frenetic pace to keep up with, singer Ma Clément also has more of a showcase for her vocals.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Clouds Bring Not Rain
    It sounds, somehow, like a record from the 1960s that nobody made. Not because it sounds retro, but because it has the self-evidence of something that should always have existed.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Humanhood
    It’s an album that, as much as it looks inwards lyrically, is finally just as universal as Weather Station’s climate change-themed breakthrough album Ignorance, a remarkable achievement in itself.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Red Sun Through Smoke
    Through the toxic smoke of environmental catastrophe, a new romantic love emerged for Craig and was immediately complicated by long-distancing, infusing the record with the strangest blend of emotional contrasts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Return to Solaris
    The result is a suite of textured deep space drones haunted by existential anxieties.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Up to Emma
    It's Up To Emma is as blatant an intimate reckoning with betrayal, anger and pain as it gets and yet it's Scout Niblett's most sonorous, most beautiful album to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born In The Echoes
    Born In The Echoes is another example of Rowlands and Simons' magic way of making machines sing.
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