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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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    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imaad Wasif
    Wasif is able to create a lot out of very little, making every sound count, and more importantly, making sure that the songwriting, singing, and melody are top-notch.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grand Archives
    But even with Brooke’s uncharacteristically romantic epiphanies, The Grand Archives still occasionally tends toward predictable sentimentality.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hold Time
    The music here speaks for itself, whatever else Ward might be trying to say through it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Family Crimes
    The tracks as a whole may come off a bit uniform, containing little in the way of surprise, but Family Crimes is nonetheless a sweet reward for those of us who’ve spent years following Jeweled Antler and everything after.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Can't Wait Another Day
    The tunes sometimes lack a punch or vigor — not to say they aren’t catchy; I’m just not shocked when they’re misinterpreted as stale.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Rarity of Experience
    These climactic moments of “High Castle,” and the others like it on the record, are a kind of triumph of Forsyth’s musical grammar, too: the efficiency of communication, the transmission of feeling via the blunt physicality of sound.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Your Future Our Clutter
    While it doesn't quite hit with the immediacy of 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent, Your Future Our Clutter has already proved to be quite the grower, with complex lyrics (Smith grappling with his recent medical issues and overall mortality) and penetrating aesthetics.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spooky Action at a Distance
    The new songs display a newfound sophistication in composition, arrangement, and production, with richly layered, textured guitars, and Pundt having come ever closer to finding his own voice.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Doris
    Doris hits a couple more high points when Earl flirts with horrorcore.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Past Time
    Early Grass Widow gems like the haunting "Lulu's Lips" suggested a band that was really going to deliver one day. Past Time confirms those suspicions with firm resolve.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    White Chalk
    Polly has always done well to play outside her comfort zone, and in doing so on this album, she crafts a reminder more effective than her return-to-form attempt on "Uh Huh Her."
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Serpent & the Sphere
    The Serpent is, in many ways, more reminiscent of 2002’s The Mantle than it is of Marrow, but with a refined and elegant brutality that Agalloch lacked in their earlier form.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Old Growth
    For the first time, Dead Meadow have created something for everyone, not just fans of one aspect of their sound. While that might piss off those very same fans, it is for the greater good.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Business Casual
    So, it's formulaic, it's 'retro' in a really kitschy way, and Business Casual sounds pretty much the same as their 2004 debut, Fancy Footwork; and still, Chromeo are fucking great.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Odd Blood
    Odd Blood is an album whose highs are higher than its lows are low; those valleys are, however, still very much present.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Pompadour
    A classy affair all the way, Black Pompadour is sure to impress those who let it work its magic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Emblems
    What Emblems lacks in youthful charm it makes up in its confident and solid delivery.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Expect the Best
    As ever, the Brooklyn four-piece triumph when they succumb to the dreamier elements of their work, of which Expect the Best carries just enough to sustain the listener across the finish line.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Leaders Of The Free World
    It's probably the worst Elbow album yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Don’t Be A Stranger
    Not enough of Farmer or Poor Richard. Not enough sweat and gunpowder. They are intent on a tent shakeout, but no one’s pitching it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New View
    Rather than going full-on honeymoon or dead-end breakup, New View treads a middle ground that would border on the mundane were it not for Friedberger’s own headstrong presence, a matter-of-fact reading that gives the potentially uncomfortable tension of the lyrics a healthy dollop of confidence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Idiot
    Self-referential, unified, and insanely catchy, American Idiot's positives outweigh its clichéd delivery and ironic medium for corporate America critique.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What a Time to Be Alive
    What a Time to Be Alive, the yawp and the yeah and the yowl, is the perfect thesis and pinched nail. It’s the resolution to remain unhampered by despair while excising and atomizing all the moments we have to despair in.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden
    These United States sidesteps what could have easily been part of a superfluous boy-and-his-guitar genre by folding classic standards and varying its instrumentation and pop arrangements enough to create a warm and subtle structure, making for an altogether fresh and uniform interpretation of railroad folk introspection.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Singles
    The Singles shows the band has successfully solidified its brand of disordered dance-punk, and hopefully Free Blood will continue this promising trajectory with future full-length releases.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wave(s) [EP]
    This new one is no less heady and singular, and even if it doesn’t do much to advance Jenkins’s captivating line in brain-hop, it solidifies his reputation as one of the most intriguing Wise Guy critics of the “thug life” still branding far too many rappers today.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Decimation Blues
    Decimation Blues examines with more boldness some of the possibilities hinted at in his previous recordings and brings them shuddering to life.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MU.ZZ.LE
    While MU.ZZ.LE isn't thrilling, in the suspense film sense, it manages to strike a rewarding middle ground between comfort and pain, simplicity and difficulty.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blossoms
    The 10 selections are less a swirling cacophonous summation of Purgas and Ginzburg’s documents thus far than a series of muted, disorganized footnotes. They step out and freeze like models on a runway at a pace both deliberate and seemingly tentative. ... Most vitally, Blossoms is Emptyset continuing to do uncompromising, restless Emptyset, with no sign of stagnation (even if this very phenomenon continues to be a crucial aspect of their sound).
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