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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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Guilty Rainbow
    It's got more of an arc and sense of unspoken redemption than most contemporary albums that parade themselves as such. It's also one of those rare albums that starts out great and gets better over its 45-minute length.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hospitality
    "Eighth Avenue" starts us off with a case study in mid-aughts indie pop: nylon thrumming, snare-led rhythm, spare buoyant bass.... Feels orchestrated but spontaneous, massive but twee.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coming Apart
    For the moment, it’s surely a worthwhile project for players and listeners alike, an album of unusual synergy, exploration, and focus that expands both artists’ repertoires well beyond genre constructions to create something both unique and replayable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gem
    On GEM, the power of Megan Remy's hooks is almost dangerous, to the point of threatening to overwhelm entire songs. It's where she attends to the muscle of her work that GEM invites deeper listening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bliss Release
    Although the album's been released in the United States a year after it was in their native Australia, the songs have held up quite nicely, memorable and unique as they are.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Stars
    The recordings all fit within a folk or blues tradition, but given the complex rhythmic layers, they may as well be post-rock songs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    If The Raconteurs were any other group (that is, if The Raconteurs didn't have Jack White), the press/Blogosphere would slam it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Our Thickness
    It doesn't have a whole lot of replay value.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Olympic Mess
    As ever, the project is a winner off the bat for producing material where no one track resembles the other. Olympic Mess raises the bar, however, in a fashion set off by the invitingly tactile, yet nevertheless challenging work of the past three years.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    EP 4
    EP 4 is super cohesive, conscious of what unions and dialogues are and what it means to re-union yourself with something.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Romance Is Boring
    The album is a carefully crafted rollercoaster of emotional and auditory highs and lows, exhibiting the group's subtle growth since its major breakout, "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints
    It’s a dedicated focus on the materials that compel bodies and minds into motion that make RP Boo a continuously shining light in the ever-growing discourse he helped invent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Certain Trigger
    The high points are so fantastic that their missteps are easily forgiven.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience
    On 20/20, the Timberlake/Timbaland team seems content to set up a basic (and more often than not, bland) hook, repeat it ad infinitum, and tack on some superfluous bits until the desired, bloated end product comes into being.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Switch
    The live shows Body/Head have done in the interim, where much of the material comprising The Switch sprang from, seems to’ve helped them nail down a more cohesive approach. It’s still wide open, drifting music, but with a relative brevity that helps it lodge more with the listener as an album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An Argument with Myself [EP]
    Sadly, there aren't many moments on An Argument With Myself that register strongly.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Big Wheel and Others
    McCombs doesn’t want to be known any better than he already is, but here, for once, he shows that he understands everyone else a far lot better than he has to date.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fe3O4: Magnetite
    Magnetite is not wholly arrhythmic, but its rhythms are sparse. They enter, and as soon as they develop to recognition (slow gong sounds, for instance, are common), Vainio destroys them with either unrecognizable noise or silence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    The production on each song is a little too repetitive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There Is No Enemy
    Taken as a whole, There Is No Enemy is a solid album on par with the band’s more recent output.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Centre Cannot Hold
    It’s more akin to a journal of the individual’s emotions amidst this state of the world. Constantly on the edge between sadness and rage, its disillusionment becomes anger, brought on by the feeling of helplessness in the face of global violence.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Generation Indigo
    Although as a dub obsessive it saddens me to say it (indeed, it saddens me to say anything critical of anyone as seminal, interesting, and all-round sympathetic as Styrene), it's mostly the reggae tracks and uninspiring deejay cameos that let the album down.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Art Brut vs. Satan
    For Art Brut vs. Satan, the band didn’t need Frank Black to give them an edge; they needed a mentor to help them focus on their real message: changing the musical landscape. Satan may have won this round, but don’t count out Art Brut. Not just yet.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Way, It's Every Way
    Clue to Kalo may give acts like Postal Service and Her Space Holiday a run for their money.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rejoicer
    These are the giants' shoulders that Grooms have chosen to stand upon, and with Rejoicer they have done so excellently.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Else Matters
    On Everything Else Matters, the band funnels the Kansas post-rock group Appleseed Cast’s delay-pedal wizardry and open-ended song forms into bright pop that’s more in line with Astrobrite alum Andrew Prinz’s Mahogany.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joji
    If you like Palace Music, Joji will most likely make your day.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blue Eyed In The Red Room
    Blue Eyed inarguably sets Hollon as one of the finest artists in electronica today, and it would be a shame if you were to miss out on this release.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Places
    It manages to captures our curiosity without giving away too much, gently nudging us to explore.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old Punch Card
    In a lesser person's hands, this particular analog stew would have turned out to be nothing more than an album of farting robot sounds, but in Prekop's it is a well-conceived piece of musical experimentation. Drastically more daring than previous releases, Old Punch Card shows a radical side to Prekop that is relentlessly inventive.
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