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For 1,576 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Aa
Lowest review score: 20 Heartworms
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,069 out of 1576
  2. Mixed: 502 out of 1576
  3. Negative: 5 out of 1576
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Magic
    They’re weird. Wired. Wonderful. They sound like no one but themselves, and they’re still getting better.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Power
    Through it all, Lotic maintains a deep sense of nuance, sounds constantly morphing and remaining grippingly vital, still with great emotional intensity around every corner.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sex & Food
    This is a smorgasbord of an album: one to be indulged, and one to be savoured.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Not Your Man
    Not abandoning her folk roots entirely, I’m Not Your Man proves an emotional and sonic progression for Hackman, a record that at its best is affecting and fun.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raspberry Moon
    Raspberry Moon brings out the best of what the Hotline TNT project can offer; it's an emo-shoegaze-indie-noise-pop melting pot that hits just right.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perfect Version
    Shapiro’s solo album is a portrait in greyscale, dissecting the rules by which we live with nuance and compassion.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    On Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You Cain has once again been able to translate incredibly personal experiences into deeply universal feelings that come from young love and heartbreak.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who Is the Sky?
    Byrne claims that he doesn't fully understand why the avant-garde resonates with him and so many others, but continuously proves himself (as he has done throughout his entire career) as an arbiter of the genre.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hey Mr Ferryman
    On Hey Mr Ferryman, Eitzel no longer exudes such a colossal sense of searing introspection; perhaps he has finally reconciled with himself and, in Butler, has found the perfect foil to achieve this harmony.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eton Alive
    Taking chances while renewing and enhancing their inimitable sound, Eton Alive is a belch in the face of the architects of austerity, a cry of sheer life amid an increasingly deadening environment.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sinister Grift
    If you’re looking for another Bros or Good Girl / Carrots, it ain’t here. What there is, ten tracks co-produced with Animal Collective bandmate Josh Dibb, is worth celebrating. These are meticulously crafted songs performed by one of modern music’s most distinguished vocalists.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    kick iiii
    kick iiii was intended to be all instrumental piano, and while it certainly isn't that, it is a relatively calm affair (in stark contrast to its violent cover).
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Football (LP3)
    American Football build on their distinct craft for creating pop songs out of odd time signatures, seamlessly weaving multi-minute epics without ever feeling overblown such as on Silhouettes, cementing the band's return as a success.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skip a Sinking Stone
    Skip A Sinking Stone isn’t an immediate record, and neither is there anything particularly novel in its utilisation of imagery, but that’s picking holes for the sake of it; tracks such as Getting Gone and the titular Skipping Stones balance naturally, the harmonies gentle, the acoustic guitar, piano and strings positioned with grace.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Praise a Lord… is Yves Tumor’s most palatable music to date, and for those that have enjoyed the hurricane horror of their production previously – listen back to Noid with its blood-curdling screams and whirring sirens – the clean lines here will feel a little too neat. But with a new sense of clarity in sound comes a conceptual rigour.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pompeii
    Bolstered with warm tones of sax and synth, bearing colourful thumbprints of the past, Pompeii is certainly a success of Le Bon’s continual daring.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leave Me Alone
    It's the peppiest, jauntiest, most charismatic debut you’ll likely find in the next 12 months.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Endless Arcade
    Teenage Fanclub sound refreshed, renewed and remarkably like themselves as Endless Arcade reveals an old group with some new tricks sounding in rude health.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Mirrors
    All Mirrors retains a good amount of iconic devastation. Olsen’s timeless, musing lyrics are wise as ever, if perhaps more cynical than before. Yet there is a new, almost paradoxical, quality to the sound, as though it comes both from the past and the future.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Ruins
    Bold and ambitious, Future Ruins is deliriously difficult to place, and all the more exciting for it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Death Jokes
    It’s at times a frustrating listen – just as a flow appears, dark, ominous vignettes (Joyrider, Predator) shatter the illusion. Eventually, reward arrives. Carrying you through the epic collage of Round the World is McMahon’s anchor of a voice, proving there’s beauty to be found in the disquiet.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hypersonic Missiles
    Mostly, though, this is everything a debut should be: fascinating, confused and a little bit terrified.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lotta Sea Lice
    Lotta Sea Lice is a joyful, ambling product of two connected creative minds.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heart Under
    Heart Under is an ear-piercing piece of intuitively crafted work.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Weekend
    This record, like the band behind it, repeatedly and successfully refuses genrefication in its ambitiousness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    IV
    Ultimately IV is Part Chimp 101--a righteous addition to their canon whether a newcomer or long-time devotee.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crystal Fairy
    It’s the Le Butcherettes vocalist’s sheer power that makes Crystal Fairy feel less like a Melvins offshoot and more like its own entity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ancestor Boy
    Harnessing a very earthy and elemental attitude and sound, ANCESTOR BOY is often powerful and overflowing with sound but never feels overwhelming as it is consistently surprising and deeply engaging. It's difficult not to dive head first into Lafawndah’s musical vision.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TFCF
    As soon as you get a grip on it, TFCF wriggles into another shape. But even at its weirdest, Angus Andrew’s songwriting couldn’t be clearer, and that’s what makes it a mess worth unravelling.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Tell Me
    You Tell Me is probably at its peak when it leans further towards these pacey, pop-infused moments. However, the handful of tracks that stray into ballad territory are still often striking--not simply due to the musical intricacies that lie within them but because Hayes' vocals evoke strength and tenderness in equal measure, giving them some real emotional weight.
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