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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ultravisitor
    The middle of the album is as hard-edged and relentless as anything of Squarepusher's, if not more.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Heroes To Zeros
    There is very little experimentation on the album, at least in relation to previous albums, but there is also a wider spectrum of songs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Certain Feeling
    It’s refreshing to hear such heavyweight harmonies being shipped out by a modern act, especially when relatively crunchy guitars and urgent drums act as the styrofoam packing peanuts, ensuring things never get too messy or convoluted.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    They’ve managed to wrap the menacing and the rewarding up in an air-conditioned pleasure circuit, beyond transgression and provocation
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Antidotes
    Antidotes is really a pleasurable record that found itself displaced by its worn-out, second-hand clothing
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Golden Archipelago
    Serving as the final part of a trilogy that includes the much feted records Rook and , the album is an epic feat of baroque pop craftsmanship, something akin to an update of Scott IV or Dusty in Memphis for the new millennium.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947
    Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 won't win any awards for innovation and probably won't yield any radio hits, but that's perfect. This album isn't about creating the perfect pop song, but about creating a story that bridges generations.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Me Moan
    Unfortunately, Me Moan doesn’t really deepen Gibson’s exploration of this novel niche. Instead, it feels mostly like a country record that still has one foot in the sample-based electronic aesthetic that previously defined Gibson’s work.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Across the Meridian
    A bit more laidback than its predecessors and encapsulated by exotic shades, Across the Meridian sits somewhere between Les Baxter’s lovable cheese, the playful ingenuity of Pierre Bastien, and the more twisted corners of a 1970s European TV station library music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When The Going Gets Dark
    With more focus on the adventurous composition and skilled playing of Coomes and Weiss, it would be hard for anyone, including myself, to dismiss this as anything other than impressive. Now, if they just hire a new lyricist for their next one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wit's End
    McCombs is making music as if his soul depended on it. I'd listen to the sound of that struggle any day.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ideal Lives
    The songs are all snappy with their rhythmic play and potentially memorable with their stop-start hooks.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Polymorphia; Jonny Greenwood: Popcorn Superhet Receiver; 48 Responses to Polymorphia
    Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood are cultivating a dialogue of past, present, and future ideas, presented as potential energy for creation--and also for acquiring new ways of understanding music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Behind the Green Door [EP]
    Its framework and color scheme may possibly end up as just a passing diversion for Halo, but it will still remain a captious rendering of where her craft and human-craft could one day go.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mosaics Within Mosaics
    A lot of W.C. Hart’s lyrics are preoccupied with the idea of locating yourself within the whole whorl of the earth-psychedelia-human experience, be it from underneath, above, sideways, chronologically, anyhow, anyway, somewhere between the “rock and stars and sand.”
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Face Tat
    The songs that do hit the number, however, are unimaginably nimble in their enthusiastic originality, carrying on the busy-bee legacy Hill has been building and venturing into exciting territory. Considering how ground-floor some of his proper-solo recordings have been, this is an intriguing development.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kazuashita
    Kazuashita wants what psychedelics want of human brains: transcendence. But its fleetingness masks any sort of completion. Frantic impulses come from afar, a random sphere of floating values, frames of signification.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    On My Way
    The guitar work is all painted in one color and changes are predictable, while the vocals are less adventurous and human than before.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
    There are plenty of sticky hooks and hummable melodies to be found, and their existence inside the delicate, shifting tapestries are what makes Dreams Say so endearing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    None Shall Pass
    Essentially, it’s the effects of Aesop’s modesty that keeps him afloat above some of his equally skilled contemporaries. (This, in addition to the dope factor, more than makes up for the moment when the album overwhelms and shapes into a part-primal/part-industrial drone.)
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Humbucking Coil
    A languid mood piece with discreet variations, Coil is a pleasant, if homogeneous, listening experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    II is, on the whole, worthy of the names and histories that have coalesced and been commingled in its making.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stars Of CCTV
    There isn't much about Stars Of CCTV that hasn't already been done and better.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Underachievers Please Try Harder
    They are unprepossessing in style, dainty and sweet in quality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    End of Daze [EP]
    While End of Daze features some of Dum Dum Girls' more sophisticated songwriting to date, there is an overwhelming shadow of certainty and safety that is cast over the EP, preventing it from being a truly singular musical experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tight Knit
    A connoisseur of contemporary folk may find something to love in Andy Cabic’s latest offering. For the rest of us, Tight Knit will likely serve as little more than a relaxing soundtrack to our mid-afternoon siesta.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Junior
    Junior is about as sturdy as a disco album can be, which is a remarkable achievement itself. One deliberately-paced decade in and Royksopp are showing no signs of creative fatigue or self-cannibalization.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hvarf/Heim
    Far from essential, Hvarf/Heim can merely be looked at as a stop-gap before the next proper record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Living Well
    An album that, much like Pinback’s 2004 full-length Summer in Abaddon, is more immediate in its appeal but suffers from repeated listens.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What Comes After The Blues
    Once upon an Axcess and Ace, this was a musician who would let his timid voice and simple themes sink in until they were a full part of the consciousness. Now, and more so than on the MEC premiere, strings, slide guitar, peddle steel, banjo, violin, trumpet, and piano are filling in every cranny to create less of a full-on effect, but an equally satisfying rash of strong songs.
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