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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
    Mr. M
    It washes you in sound, and if you let that sound wash over you, what it does is exquisite.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visions
    Visions is a more focused album than the spaced-out Halfaxa or the disparate Geidi Primes but one of the key charms of Grimes' sound is its unforcedness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Something Rain
    The Something Rain is the sound of a band entirely reinvigorated, like a new band even, bursting with dreamy, soulful, intelligent songs, though you won't be surprised to learn everything is executed in the most understated way.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put Your Back N 2 It
    If Learning was a private primal scream, Put Your Back N 2 It is Mike Hadreas' first public display of his escalating talent.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reign of Terror
    The net result is a lack of texture and the element of surprise that made this album's predecessor so wonderfully seductive.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Paralytic Stalks
    All too often Paralytic Stalks feels like an attempt to assume the role of indie-pop's Steve Vai by competitively crushing structural formats underfoot until there's nothing left but dusty granules.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fin
    Beautifully composed and beautifully produced.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 2
    It feels more that Earth have given us time to absorb what may come to be seen, in retrospect, as something of a magnum opus.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ten$ion
    Ten$ion's depiction of modern South Africa is nothing less than thrilling.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plumb
    Perhaps the finest distillation to date of the various elements that comprise the group's distinctive sound.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    These are long form constructions, masterfully wrought from the simplest of sonic elements--basically just synths, the odd sample and plenty of percussion--and festooned with idiosyncratic detail.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blondes
    A thoroughly good larksome house record.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tramp
    The blend of soul and rootsy grit may not be startlingly original, but here, at least, it's Van Etten's and nobody else's that truly shines.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    U&I
    While there are undoubtedly a number of interesting tracks here, it is debatable how well they work together. With judicious editing U & I could have made a truly killer E.P
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clear Heart Full Eyes
    The arrangements are simple, often pretty ... but mostly they serve to support the delivery of some of Finn's most evocative and well observed lyrics.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    No One Can Ever Know
    This is a timid stand for a band who've made a career out of courageously embracing their fears.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clay Class
    This album's great strength lies in the rearguard action its brittleness mounts against kitsch accounts of authenticity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Attack On Memory
    The album also succeeds in capturing a spirit and essence of youth... the spunk, snarl and energy that comes with being one is integral to this record, even if isn't always fully realised.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old Ideas
    Old Ideas is the most musically considered Leonard Cohen album yet, and perhaps the first that sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect from an old master of the 1960s and 70s.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    Lanegan blends his most satisfying and heady aural brew to date.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Feel the Sound
    Feel The Sound, their first album since 2007, boasts the kind of incremental shifts in emphasis that no one but fans will savour.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
    An album of scope and unbridled invention, drawing from the past (in both music and aesthetics) to create a universe of sounds and textures that are quite unlike anything around at the moment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hotel Sessions
    It might be better to think of Hotel Sessions as a surviving collection of demos and rarities rather than a planned project. Handled in this way, the album begins to exude at least some charm.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Django Django
    Django Django are at their best when their sounds are at their gnarliest.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 61
    I suspect that you'll be unlikely to come across a better mixed and more punchy summary of current underground dubstep this year.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    E Volo Love
    The result is something of a mixed bag: moments of tender and enduring beauty broken up by landfill indie pop with a French accent.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MU.ZZ.LE
    An enticing, at times uncomfortable and intoxicating record.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vantaa
    It offers astonishingly rich pickings--its pillowy-soft surfaces might have all the edges filed away, but there's a stunning amount of detail packed into each of its eight tracks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Have Some Faith in Magic
    Have Some Faith in Magic is very pretty and very meaningless.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rad Times Xpress IV
    Herrema and her group are obviously having a blast, and the fact that they have managed to blend so many disparate ingredients into a surprisingly potent brew is far more important than the supposition that they might not be taking themselves too seriously.
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