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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Real Emotional Trash
    Even when the album gets really flaccid, as in the clattering breakdown of the turgid story-song 'Hopscotch Willie,' Malkmus is still annoyingly good at writing stuck-in-your-dome-piece melodies that keep you humming the tunes you don’t like just as much as the highlights
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Drop Beneath
    The Drop Beneath takes their sound in a direction both more eclectic and more shoegazy than 2011’s excellent Correct Behavior, even occasionally straying into jangle-Cure territory.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born Again Revisited
    Times New Viking neither regress nor abandon their origins, offering instead a compromise where the harsh timbres commingle with increasingly more adept proclivities for memorable pop songs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tender Buttons
    Many tracks sound like they're simply missing a piece.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Central Market
    The strongest tracks here make a case for Braxton’s compositional skills; the rest feel like recycled tales from his nights out with Stanier and Williams, an unfortunate byproduct of placing them within this context.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Queen of Golden Dogs
    Ultimately, despite Gainsborough’s troubling of dance, of the physical, of expectations, the most successful (and most fascinating) tracks are those that engage with the dancefloor, or at least with rhythm, rather than do away with it completely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Sun Awakens
    If you were hoping for a predictable outing from Ben Chasny, you won't find it on The Sun Awakens.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Woke Myself Up
    [It] finds her in fine form.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Yes
    Love Yes flings the sound skyward and waits to hear what bounces back. The pop haze of In Limbo, the bounce and blip of The Way and Color are rebroadcast as a symphony for synths and hi-hat.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moderat
    An effective collaboration tempers the rougher edges around both artists and allows them to combine their own artistic strengths synthetically.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fading Parade
    In cynical marketing terms, an 'indispensible' sticker has been slapped on this effort through these moves, so that no wallflower's music library would be complete without a shy Fading Parade.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    The theatrical tricks -- and they are tricks -- are more interesting this time around. But by and large, it's more of the same.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    Although there is much to like about the album, it can be difficult to differentiate one from another.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fuckbook
    The songs are neither here nor there, which, to me, is exactly what a cover should be. That the men and woman behind Yo La Tengo have created yet another fine album after 25 years of existence and 11 full-lengths is outstanding.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rainwater Cassette Exchange
    Rainwater Cassette Exchange is another reason to head down to your local cassette exchange and a great nightcap to polish off one of last year’s strongest albums.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rated R
    Rihanna has released a flawed album that may shrink under the weight of her biography, but it also succeeds when approached more directly, superficially.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Space Is Only Noise
    Such is the exquisite control he holds over his music, his vision evident even in the weakest moments of Space Is Only Noise.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Need to Feel Your Love
    Need to Feel Your Love is musically propulsive and provides evidence to the talk that a guitar band in 2017 can be a source of ingenuity without pulling excessive tricks and mutations upon the craft.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Green Language
    On one level, these tracks might be compared to ambient music in its non-teleological synthesized progressions that are more concerned with exploration than attainment. But there is still an astonishing feeling of fluid movement maintained throughout, thereby avoiding stagnancy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Leaving Songs
    It's a pleasure to be embraced by a record this pretty and soulful.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ferndorf
    It’s his intensity of focus coupled with an impressive range of motion that gives this album its real strength and maturity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drums Between the Bells
    Drums Between The Bells is challenging and complex, but evocative, rewarding, and not altogether fragmentary, not even (or especially) when you bust up the long-playing order.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Velvet
    Even if it frontloads the strongest and newest material, Black Velvet provides a largely engaging second side. The one exception being his cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold,” originally released as a single in 2011, which feels somehow more gimmicky than the (solid, even if it highlights how cloying Cobain’s lyrics could be) Nirvana cover preceding it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Republic
    Given time, these transmissions work on a person like a vast overgrowth, subsuming one’s fastidious human preoccupations. When it hits you right, it’s like that first big beam of sunlight after weeks of cloudy sky.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Road To Rouen
    Road to Rouen isn't going to blow away any fan new to Supergrass, nor is any old fan going to go ga-ga over what they're hearing, but it's good to know the band isn't sitting on their laurels fantasizing about killing their commercial appeal.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen
    Casiokids show a subtly deep thoughtfulness coursing their thoroughly joyous songs.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Mad & Faithful Telling
    A Mad & Faithful Telling, however, comes off as their most focused and researched work yet, incorporating traditional and pop culture aspects without getting cluttered or seeming like they’re trying too hard to find a niche.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Coloring Book [Mixtape]
    Chance is no longer quite coming from that place of adolescence that was essential to 10 Day and Acid Rap, but on Coloring Book, he doesn’t yet sound comfortably settled into whatever it is that’s supposed to come next.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gumption
    Duality pervades Gumption. City and country. Natural, machine. Personal, abstract. Song. Noise.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gore
    If we pretend that on some level this album doesn’t contain the cringe-worthy hetero-male angst of early-2000s rock, we’d be lying to ourselves, but the technical quality of the work renders it engrossing nonetheless, especially taken alongside its odd tenderness, its prescient cultural relevance, and its culmination of the fluidity of gendered tropes that ran throughout their career, where the concept of aggression becomes as much a floating signifier among a sea of textural dynamics as a reification of rage.
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