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For 1,341 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Lowest review score: 20 Killer Sounds
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 957 out of 1341
  2. Mixed: 381 out of 1341
  3. Negative: 3 out of 1341
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gigi's Recovery
    Full of safe risks, Gigi’s Recovery is very much a transitional album as The Murder Capital look to evolve without alienating their fanbase. Doors are left wide open for subsequent reinventions but for now, the five-piece are comfortable sticking close-by what they know.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Five Easy Hot Dogs
    Whilst it is purposefully lacking in intention, the experimental album has its moments of whimsy but feels noticeably devoid of humour, surprising for a musician known for his zaniness. Still a cohesive affair, it’s an apt depiction of transience and Mac DeMarco is taking us all along for the ride.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rush!
    This is Måneskin’s big strength. The songs on RUSH! may not be particularly original, reading heavily from a well-thumbed big-riffs-and-god-times playbook, but they write a very good one, and play them with an energy that frequently boils over with exuberance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Time's Arrow
    A brew of sinister synth waves nearly stagnates where we want it to cascade, and harmonies twine around one another where we want them to soar into anthems. In short, a potential blaze delivers a fizzle.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mercy
    Mercy is not an easy listen, but it is nevertheless inspiring to hear an octogenarian artist declining the comforts of nostalgia, still forging his own wayward path, opening byways for others to explore at their leisure.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never Going Under
    It’s a rarity to have an album in which every song could genuinely be a single, but they’ve managed it here.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cacti
    This is a softer, more introspective approach than her barn-storming debut, but this 12-track album doesn’t lack the punch and bite of its debut in spite of this.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn the Car Around
    Coombes, a quite masterful musical auteur after three decades in the game, skillfully navigates the record away from one long mid-life nightmare. ... it’s another hugely satisfying listen.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Strays
    Price’s fantastic fourth album, Strays, advances boldly into terrain occupied by such exalted US rock craftsmen as Jackson Browne and Tom Petty, with soulful vocal swagger, a widescreen band sound and a poetic lyrical depth that should leave most of her Nashville peers prostrate at her feet.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Late Developers
    Upon the first few listens, it’s a confusing album: there’s plenty of their usual sing-song melodies and musings on modern dissatisfaction, such as on When We Were Very Young. ... But it’s the synth-laden, poptastic I Don’t Know What You See In Me that seems glaringly out of place.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's Nothing But Space, Man!
    There is nothing particularly original or surprising here, yet in a pop market that is all interesting edges, self-enclosed scenes and leftfield genres, Ryder offers a hearty return to the reassuringly obvious, pitched straight into the mainstream. A star is born.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every Loser
    Every Loser is a great, energising opening blast for 2023, a loud and lairy rock album jam-packed with the lust for life that has characterised Iggy’s whole wayward career.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    $/He Who Feeds You...Owns You
    Protest albums don’t come more subtle and moving than this.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    NO THANK YOU
    The brilliance of No Thank You is how Simz uses her brazenly unapologetic narrative to spin out larger points about institutional and generational racism, the danger of business practices indifferent to their human impact, and links all of that to contemporary mental health crises.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    More Love, Less Ego
    [Wizkid's] finest body of work so far, showcasing a maturity and an artistic vision that cements his status as one of the most influential people in pop music today.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Me vs. Myself
    Most of the songs here do somewhat merge into one, long, party soundtrack that is enjoyable to listen to and yet entirely forgettable.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    S.O.S.
    It’s an expansion of her wonderfully experimental R&B, with all the candour listeners expect from this masterful songwriter. ... SOS is well worth the wait.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is What We Do
    Behind its rather mundane title, This is What We Do contains multitudes of grooves, with both a positive spirit and a physical imperative that are nigh-on impossible to resist.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Premonition
    Premonition is a finely wrought, searing career-coda, determined to take a sledgehammer to the cliché that growing older must result in complacency.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Get Rollin'
    Their tenth studio album kicks off in fine form with the first single, San Quentin. ... If only the whole album was like this, but instead listeners will get whiplash from all the genre changes, which spans American rock, country and frat-boy pop.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Divine Symmetry: The Journey to Hunky Dory [Box Set]
    Divine Symmetry shows that this metamorphosis didn’t happen without a good deal of huffing and puffing. Therein lies its intrigue, as the groundwork is revealed. ... It’s a fascinating journey.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is What I Mean
    This is What I Mean completely abandons the often very macho bullishness at the heart of hip hop, to show rap at its most sensitive.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live at the L.A. Forum, April 26, 1969
    This live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience is a compelling and beautiful tribute.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    softCORE
    When you are as talented as Fousheé, the temptation to show you're a jack of all trades must be intoxicating, and it's one of the reasons softCORE is such an unpredictable thrill ride.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Girl Magic
    It's sexy, restless, and perfectly suited for creatures of the night to writhe their glittery, glossed-up, bejewelled bodies to for all the ungodly hours.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Profound Mysteries III
    It’s a brave band that unleashes such an extensive body of work. It’s lucky, then, that it’s all so eminently listenable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Family
    The 17-track record is as hyperactive, heartfelt and honest as we’ve come to expect from the group.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World Record
    World Record is classic Young: passionate, direct, ragged and beautiful.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Like our planet, this album is a rare thing of wonder.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King's Disease III
    Although King’s Disease III might have some tonal missteps, Nas and Hit-Boy should be applauded for bringing warm soul samples back into hip hop culture at a time of such darkness and uncertainty. This is Godfather: Part III if Michael Corleone retired without all the treachery; music about being comfortable with your place and making it to the other side.
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