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For 1,575 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: 1,068 out of 1575
  2. Mixed: 502 out of 1575
  3. Negative: 5 out of 1575
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Best Troubador
    Much of the album remains true (or close enough) to the original arrangements, and you get a real sense that Oldham's singing these songs simply because he loves them and thinks other people should too. While that doesn't make for essential listening, it undoubtedly makes for an enjoyable and almost comforting experience.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    in•ter a•li•a
    In•ter a•li•a instead sounds vapid and empty, like it's blowing hot air around the room; the band sound like a parody of themselves.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1948-
    An indelible soundtrack of intelligent and bittersweet beauty.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All This I Do for Glory
    There’s a pervading darkness over All This I Do for Glory that makes it a tricky listen at points.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gargoyle
    Gargoyle kicks massive ass; here are ten songs you won’t be able to hear enough. Just about essential.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Possum in the Driveway
    Much of The Possum... feels like an echo of earlier, better work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rock N Roll Consciousness
    All told, Rock n Roll Consciousness feels deep and multilayered, the kind of record you want to spend some time with, a piece of art that will continue to change and shift as you engage with it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Now
    Mostly, What Now is intent on being bigger and brasher than its predecessor, perhaps to avoid politely slipping into the background quite so easily.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pleasure
    Pleasure is easily Feist’s most difficult album, far from the immediate accessibility of The Reminder, but she's a captivating performer and it may well be her richest statement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Risk To Exist
    There’s less of an exploratory bent to the record than there was last time out, on 2014's Too Much Information, and when there is a touch of that ambition, the band often revert to their comfort zone too quickly.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Volume 1
    This is the least inventive product you could have expected from a bunch of varyingly inventive songwriters. Which is to say, it’s not much good at all.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Electric Lines
    An admirable album concept, sure, but it is this preoccupation with the connections between different genres which robs Electric Lines of a galvanising, driving force.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Every Where Is Some Where
    K. Flay is definitely a Marmite artist and her alternative take on electro-pop/rock is likely to appeal to a lot of people, but unfortunately for some it will be quite difficult to stomach.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Season High
    For all Season High’s exuberance, the record never pitches too hard. Little Dragon sense when to turn it down just as well as they know when to ramp it up, and tracks like Butterflies and Strobe Lights deal in emerald lights and moody ultraviolet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Write In
    With this slice of US college rock, tinged with British humour, the band prove that they can maintain this essential quality of their sound, even as they mature.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Careless People
    Glossy and calculating, Careless People rarely pulls back.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Belladonna of Sadness
    Savior seems suffocated by the very strict parameters that have been drawn for her, by herself and others.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Make It Be
    d. If you’ve followed either Moore or Falkner, it’s certainly a curio. Everyone else--life is way too short.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
    The combination with Yorkston’s folky paeans was haunting and here, barely a year later, they’ve done it again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swear I'm Good at This
    The record successfully transfers all the eagerness of their energetic live shows to portray punk with unusual tenderness.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whiteout Conditions
    Dive in wholeheartedly; you’ll be happy to float in the outrageously catchy Whiteout Conditions for a long time to come.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pure Comedy
    He embraces the role, plays up to it, uses it to bend and manipulate the parameters of modern rock music and has managed to create something bitingly acerbic and cynical, yet achingly sincere. Again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sorcerer
    Sorcerer may not offer much in the way of straight-up pop thrills, and undoubtedly requires patience to truly appreciate its merits. ... [But] it’s an impressive statement of intent.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Common Truth
    Potentially one of the most beautiful records you’ll hear this year. It makes sweet misery out of melody while articulating a forlorn yet rousing sense of hope.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Star Stuff
    [Bundick’s] in his element here, embracing the improvisational jazz of The Mattson 2 as together they pry open your third eye and flood your mind with their cosmic apparitions.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coco Hames
    OK, this sort of retromanic pop writes its own logical criticism in a way (repeated formulas, looking backwards instead of forwards, etc etc), but when it’s done this well, it’s a timely reminder that the true logic of pop is music that communicates directly with the head and the heart.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Far Field
    What was previously disarming in its honesty, we now expect and prepare for. This doesn’t mean that the quality has suffered, it has just softened.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silver/Lead
    The biggest problem with this album is its bloated mid-section, which drags down the commendable peaks of its opening and closing segments.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grow Up
    Throughout, Grow Up is a bracing and vital antidote to genre norms, and shares a worldview that nourishes both heart and head. A huge undertaking, a staggering achievement. You need this.
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