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For 2,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Lost Wisdom pt. 2
Lowest review score: 0 America's Sweetheart
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,804 out of 2889
  2. Mixed: 961 out of 2889
  3. Negative: 124 out of 2889
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    Amazingly, it lacks any pretense: their aesthetic is organic and fluid, indicating a band that responds honestly and artistically to circumstance, rather than one that imposes a rigid, stagnant aesthetic for more idealistic purposes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Screening Purposes Only
    If you can get past the hype, you'll find that For Screening Purposes Only is a solid, sometimes spectacular debut from an exciting group of young'uns.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pangaea Ultima
    On Pangaea Ultima, that world isn’t one with which the audience is typically familiar, but Moore does a spectacular job of making us feel at home there.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atrocity Exhibition
    Brown cathects his trauma into his songs, redirecting his pain to a productive, pedagogic end.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Shadow in Time
    On A Shadow In Time, Basinski tries not merely to locate Bowie’s ghost in the machine, but to find its cross-dressing, orange-haired, anisocoric-eyed soul locked somewhere inside the hard electronic casing of the world.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Stand-In
    It’s not so easily classifiable as “country,” but easily classifiable as really great pop music.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flying Scroll Flight Control
    Yet as someone who may struggle to believe what they say, I’m enamored with Ringhofer’s wild exuberance in proclaiming them, in repurposing them, and, by extension, I would even say in explicating them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lucky Ones
    Although Mudhoney aren’t shaking things up too much with their established formula, The Lucky Ones shows no signs of the band mellowing out, and their bloozy, fuzzy rock action still sounds pretty damn great after a couple High Lifes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Calcination Of Scout Niblett
    Here she sounds more focused, and her delivery more triumphant.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oversteps
    Their developments are nothing if not honest, even if the gruff, muffled intimations of hip-hop sound awkward or antagonistic, even if the softness of these pieces evades any conventional sense of emotional directness.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delirium Cordia
    In essence, it’s an improvisational nightmare that leaves you feeling extremely uncomfortable for an entire hour, while concurrently having you wish you could lie down to listen.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Miserable Miracles
    Maybe much will be made of their newplayful trifling with those muchmaligned indiedancetronica influences, but I don’think this is the mereaesthetic synthwave chill,man plasticity of the endlessly reproducible shoppingmall sunset.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As Seen Through Windows
    The album is post-rock at its best, a monumentous achievement even by the group’s standards.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deerhoof Vs. Evil
    Deerhoof are spazzy, but not sloppy, and their execution is as serious as the atomic bomb on the album cover.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain Is Beauty
    Chelsea Wolfe’s songs don’t often sound like they’re supposed to, and therefore they always sound exactly like Chelsea Wolfe.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tears Of The Valedictorian
    Tears of the Valedictorian works on so many levels. It adds another hefty, colorful cornea to the Frog Eyes spazz gallery, for one. It also takes a step toward streamlining their sound, which may, in the wrong hands, be considered a faulty premise, but let me assure you, it isn’t; this recording is crystal-clear but far from diamond-decadence.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Total Folklore
    Total Folklore is a captivating release of memorable, “hummable” tunes dressed in the trappings of noise and “difficult listening.”
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    De-Loused In The Comatorium
    De-Loused in the Comatorium is a very strong debut album for the Mars Volta.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nocturnes
    Nocturnes points the way out, with Hesketh having demonstrated not only the willingness and the ability to grow and develop, but also to retain a sense of her individuality and a keenness for what may set Little Boots apart from the rest.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Long Slow Dance
    Sound-wise, the album is gorgeous and perfectly placed, natch. Although I've spent so much space and breath on the thematic qualities of Long Slow Dance, the actual sounds might be the strongest force of the album.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    Nine Types of Light has the same basic sonic patina, but TV on the Radio still have cards left to play.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No No
    Through this the mesmerizing plan of the album becomes, at last, apparent. The issue of making sense becomes a far-off one.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chemistry Of Common Life
    This is music at its most carnal.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Actor
    While Actor’s best moments may not reach the same high points as Marry Me’s, it’s an even more cohesive effort, and one that I haven’t tired of after countless listens.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shout At The Doner
    It is the right kind of unsettling to get your feet and heart pounding with the full power of your soul in total awareness of the moment. Embrace the darkness and appreciate the light.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Venice
    The fact that Venice takes a few missteps before getting into full strut inevitably takes its toll on the overall body of work.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Western Xterminator
    RTX’s Western Xtermintor packs an undeniable hard-rock punch and leaves no question that the band have both the chops and the attitude to back it up.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    OneTwoThreeFour [EP]
    The album holds to the unambitious qualities deemed upon indie pop and twee pop, exploring no new territory while doing just enough to make it sound like themselves.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skelethon
    Aesop has tremendous control for a syllable-stuffer; he's Kweli with restraint, knowing when to rein in the racehorse flow and slow down for emphasis, never loosening his grip long enough to stumble over the vigorous drum-driven beats, which - to the benefit of Aesop's gruff narration - are simple and unobtrusive and angry and allow whatever he's talking about at the moment ... to sound not only compelling, but also hard.
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