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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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jet Plane And Oxbow
    Only occasionally does the grandeur threaten to run away from them, as on the over-blustery Pale Kings; otherwise, their form is more or less impeccable, with the swooning vocal melodies of Backchannels and the off-kilter creep of Filaments among its standout elements.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Adore Life
    With fearless approach and razor sharp delivery, Adore Life is so bruisingly intimate that it feels like a surgical hand taking grasp of your gut. When Savages speak, you listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New View
    Just when it all seems familiar, you're struck by a specific detail and realise you’ve started to smile.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Not to Disappear
    Not to Disappear is shattering throughout: a brooding sound board, crackling guitars, unsettling beats and Tonra buried in there somewhere, documenting unspeakable hurt, graphic and unfiltered.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spilt Milk
    At times this feels like a celebration of what can be achieved with three chords and an earnest tale, intelligently told.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Guadalupe Plata (2015)
    The Andalucian trio's fourth album was recorded live to eight track tape and you can tell: the arrangements are raw, the production barely there, the sound an abrasive, all-consuming clatter. It's an elementary mix but there's a blackened spirituality within its shadows.
    • 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.
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