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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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gang Of Losers
    So, no, this isn't the sound of The Dears taking it to the next level, but the level they're on is still pretty solid.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alegranza
    It’s no mistake that the title of this superbly fun album ends with an exclamation point; El Guincho has created an album that’s relentless in its ferocious rhythms and beats until the very last track.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weval
    This isn’t their first release, but it’s no doubt their best so far, a fully realized space of shimmering notes and subtle signs toward a masterful production and shared creative mindset of defying expectation.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ship
    He’s gently guiding, minding small details as they contribute to the success of the larger mission and never forcing their emergence, Eno’s keen grasp of these two forms of songwriting allowing him to easily walk that line.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lenses Alien
    As a sophomore set, Lenses Alien is daring and cohesive, layered and challenging.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Advance Of The Broken Arm
    Juggling potential contradictions with the greatest of ease, In Advance of the Broken Arm ushers in a new voice in rock, one that seems poised to be blazing trails for years to come.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Near to the Wild Heart of Life
    The energy imparted simply can’t overcome a drowning of influences, or rather, the kinetic is overcome by the potential.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vertigo
    From the get-go, from the very first tremblings of Chris Abrahams’s piano and the hullabaloo of Tony Buck’s drums, the album engineers an atmosphere of beguiling insecurity and enigmatic possibility.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Travels With Myself And Another
    Travels With Myself and Another is the best thing this crew has ever made. It’s got all you could ask for: hooks, riffs, volume, wordplay, razor-sharp absurdity, and Jack Egglestone’s incomparable power drumming.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apocalypse, Girl
    Both her songs and her subject matter hold back from shocking the listener by virtue of their content, and yet they make a startling impact--creating a headspace that leads to nowhere in the same moment that it paves the way to salvation.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Noble Beast
    Although it’s undoubtedly consistent and enjoyable, these are the kind of adjectives that restrain this established songwriter from truly challenging or surprising his audience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Son
    Son should stand as one of the most beautiful and inspiring albums of 2006.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brill Bruisers
    Brill Bruisers is an enthusiastic correction in course, as well as a reminder that age doesn’t always equal solemnity or, for that matter, slouching toward self-importance of any kind.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Grey Album
    Dangermouse's actions have breathed creative life back into a 35-year-old record while inventing a completely new work of hip-hop art.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ouliposaliva
    Despite the janky piano, dissonant woodwind arrangements, and Angil’s sometimes abrasive vocal delivery, it all works well. You haven’t heard this album before, and that is very refreshing.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Liars
    The lack of a unifying theme on this particular album leaves their past influences far downstream and without a paddle.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Magic
    The Magic is Deerhoof’s 13th full-length album, and it’s one of their most well-rounded, sweeter offerings, perhaps a companion to Friend Opportunity or Offend Maggie in size and spirit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sol Invictus
    It doesn’t offer any major stylistic advance over Album of the Year, admittedly, but its 10 songs are constructed with an incomparable craft and creativity that few bands in rock and metal can reproduce.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Am Very Far
    I Am Very Far can only be considered a stumble or misstep on a steeply curved scale, yet it proves, even as the shock of the musical pomposity fades and familiarity sets in, to be a less emotionally generative return to the same wells from which Sheff has long drawn.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Prism
    In Prism’s genius is to service the newbies and true believers in equal measure.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Woo
    For Pickering, electronic music is as powerful as any supernatural promise, and on House of Woo, he demonstrates his dedication to the beat with a most persuasive degree of conviction.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daze
    DAZE is a collection of perverted smash hits in overdrive, a keyed up, obsessively concerned, hyperbolic exaggeration along the lines of Werkflow compatriot Recsund’s recent mix for Disjecta.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So This Is Goodbye
    In the end, Junior Boys' improved skills at constructing pop songs within their fantastic sonic template is more than enough to make So This Is Goodbye one of my favorite releases of 2006 so far.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Biophilia
    Biophilia the "Bjork album" stands with the best of them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tracing Back the Radiance
    Cantu-Ledesma’s ensemble (that’s 11 in total, including greats like Mary Lattimore, JAB, and Roger Tellier Craig) achieve an elegant cascade here that’s more stoicism than stupor and more calm than stagnancy.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hold Time
    The music here speaks for itself, whatever else Ward might be trying to say through it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces
    What makes a Wolf Eyes album worthwhile is less the raging skree than their keen application of dark, delectably uncouth fragment. Your head can still wade in this bracken, even if it may not be as tumultuously roiling as it once was.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bend Beyond
    Another solid release.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Unseen In Between
    He might not be making sounds for fighting the many injustices of our current place and time, but Unseen in Between is nonetheless a solid compatriot against the confounding effect of going forward among them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Coexist
    Where xx was an album that got its hooks in you, Coexist becomes a somnolent atmosphere-in-itself, in which hooks are conspicuous by their absence. It all works best when the tempo rises (relatively speaking), as on "Tides" and "Swept Away;" still, the pulse races placidly.
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