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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Have Some Faith in Magic
    Have Some Faith in Magic is very pretty and very meaningless.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hug of Thunder
    What has emerged is Broken Social Scene’s best album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moh Lhean
    WHY?’s brand of excess ought to be not abandoned, but embraced.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Traditional Synthesizer Music
    It's Venetian Snares going back to the root of his influences by means of a longer-established medium. An admirable idea well executed, but as a listener I'm just not ready for a drill & bass revival and as such this album beggars few repeat plays.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vanishing Point
    There remains a re-assurance in these grooves that here is a band that knows what is does best and is perfectly happy to play to its strengths.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drenge
    Drenge is giddily goofy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    1000 Days
    1000 Days is even more assured, and it often veers into being overproduced and losing that essential 1970s DIY role-playing game spirit.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Beast You Are
    Ultimately, Beast is smart and cohesive but still joyous and daft.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Requiem for Jazz
    The live recordings feel raw and vibrant, capturing the energy of the performance, the power of the music, and the subtlety of emotion.
    • The Quietus
      • Posted Apr 14, 2023
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    GUSH
    Musically, Smith’s electronic extravaganza finds kinship with such auteurs as Fever Ray and Estonian producer Maria Minerva. From shimmering hypnagogic pop on ‘Both’ to playful 8-bit ‘What’s Between Us’, Gush is inventive and unpredictable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    #N/A
    Nisennenmondai will fill your head with strange, billowing thoughts as their compositions sprint towards infinity. Approached in the correct spirit--principally an understanding that this is music that will ask questions rather than provide answers--their conjurings are irresistible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plastic Anniversary
    It is a record at once dark and joyous, fun and foreboding, gleeful and eerily apocalyptic. Curiously, it may also be the group’s most ‘organic’ record to date, an album whose every beat and every blip seems to question our sense of the real and the fake, the human and the alien.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    METAL FORTH
    Lower one’s expectations from its rescuing of the planet and Babymetal’s latest, Metal Forth, is a full-on hoot. .... Polished and compressed to the maximum, the metallic elements do their primal job of instigating the headbanging and devil’s horns. Each successive pop chorus is catchier than Saint Peter’s fishing net. The electronic details add to the endorphin-triggering lushness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unfidelity
    In rock, rehashing the past more often than not results in music that sounds anachronistic, but Unfidelity is proof that in electronic music, a disregard for technological progression can still result in a forward-looking album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul
    Traditional airs 'Women Of Ireland', 'Carrickfergus' and 'Curragh Of Kildare' are evocative, stately and impassioned, respectively and alternately, and Rowland's bolshy old yelp has softened to a croon. He brings the kind of authority he didn't always have 30 years ago, along with a hard-won wisdom that gives him the character to handle this stuff sincerely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tied to a Star
    If we were picking holes here, you might gently suggest Tied To A Star is not altogether captivating, but for serious fans of J Mascis' acoustic incline--it does deliver. His lack of clear narrative, comically dull song titles like 'And Then', 'Drifter', 'Heal The Star' and 'Come Down', still leaves J Mascis as something of a stranger to us.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Unsound
    Mission Of Burma are excellent, their new album is equally excellent, and an easy contender for best rock album of the year.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Into the Lime
    This a welcome shot of vitamin D in the cruellest month of the year where summer seems to be an eternity away while the filling of tax return forms only adds to the harshness of January.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
    A fantastic set of songs approached with a reverence that is never stifling, and one in which fans of either act will find plenty to love.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    (III)
    For every instance on III set to give the listener an aural acid bath, there are nearly as many that might induce a snooze on the bus, and a dribble on your neighbouring passenger's shoulder.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    The key success of Hurry Up is that his canvas has exponentially increased in size.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Obsidian
    This is an extremely strong, varied follow-up from an artist who is yet to fulfil his potential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never
    This is pop music, pure and simple: smarter, stranger than your average fare, no doubt, but don't confuse its oddness for inscrutable obtuseness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    M:FANS
    M:FANS perhaps loses some of those dissonant, euphoric yet deeply melancholic moments that Music For A New Society has to give us; tracks where it seems a self-consuming feat for Cale to bring himself to sing. But the two work in a partnership rather than against each other.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flight B741
    Flight b741 could have come off as overly kitsch or ironic, but King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard stick the landing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tracey Denim
    It’s refreshing then that their music comes without a prescribed meaning being spoon-fed to listeners. This allows the listener to come to their own conclusions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Singles Collection 2001-2011
    Gorillaz helped re-unite both indie and pop with that most Paul Morley's jowl-wobbling of things: the abstract.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015
    Of course such is the collage gonzoid splatter-gun style of the Blues Explosion and their huge canon of songs its almost inevitable that they might inadvertently chance on something shiny from their own back catalogue and contort it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clarietta
    There are moments when Clarietta breaks from being the wallflower at the indie disco, and lets fly with a few carefree windmills.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    EUSEXUA Afterglow
    There are highlights, sure (twigs is too preternaturally talented to avoid those completely), like the gleeful ‘Sushi’ or gorgeous closer ‘Stereo Boy’, but even the more compelling tracks like ‘Cheap Hotel’ – a satisfyingly eerie piece of slow-garage – would rank towards the bottom of EUSEXUA’s track-list. What’s odd is that we know twigs can do this style justice – she has an album from early this same year to prove it – so its bewildering to hear her deliver one unrewarding song after another.
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