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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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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Safe In The Hands Of Love
    Bowie’s only consistent trajectory has been one of tearing down his mythos even as his builds it, and his latest manages to knock down yet another wall as he steps more fully into the light than he’s ever dared tread before. On Safe in the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor isn’t concerned with being “experimental;” he’s simply concerned with being.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Anniemal
    Perfect pop bliss.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Afternooners
    They are radically transformative and marvelously sublime.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Before The Dawn Heals Us
    Full of so many moments of exhilarating joy and equally exhilarating sorrow.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Needle Was Traveling
    The production is lush and crystalline, and the melodies are dense and aplenty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Some Rap Songs
    For all its signs of progression, the record is never heavy-handed with its ambition. Its unforced attempt at making sense of the fraught present, at finding shelter without resorting to convenient escape, is a rare and, dare I say, sincere feat.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Aesthethica
    The band's aching for that contradictory limit can be felt quivering in every inch of Aesthetica. It is to their credit that one feels at peace through the record's most violent and cataclysmic moments.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No Better Time Than Now
    Like a masterfully carved piece of woodwork, every facet of this record has been lovingly molded such that, when all’s said and done, the finished product looks completely natural.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Horses In The Sky
    Essentially, Horses in the Sky adopts a host of varying song mechanics and a wider array of lyrical themes, a broadened pallet that either suggest a band in transition, or a newfound confidence in songwriting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Craft
    Is it possible that Gab and Xcel could have improved and surpassed Blazing Arrow's success? The Craft simply says yes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Surrounded By Silence
    Surrounded by Silence is at once more scatterbrained and fast moving than any other Prefuse album (even more so than the blink-and-you-miss-the-hook Extinguished), but the difference here is the cohesion of the radically different cuts.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Any Other Way
    Even if her catalog was small, the 25 tracks on this set won’t likely leave anyone wanting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Heretic Pride
    It all adds up to The Mountain Goats’ most musically sophisticated endeavor to date. In fact, the music is finally beginning to hold its own with the lyrics.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tyrannosaurus Hives
    They have clearly mastered their craft, and have begun to push it beyond its boundaries without betraying its punk ethic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Logos
    Logos is an admirably worn, carefully composed record detailing a kaleidoscope of sound.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Love What Survives
    Define artistic success as you will, but it’s beyond question that Mount Kimbie have here translated, and therefore transmitted, an entire state of being.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Now, More Than Ever
    Jim Guthrie has created a masterful soundtrack of peace and tranquility, similar to the crowning achievement of another earthly troubadour, named Sufjan Stevens.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    thank u, next
    thank u, next builds on Sweetener by switching modes of scale. It’s less about looking at the world than being by yourself, more focused on the textures of memory than our actions stemming from it. ... thank u, next is also Ariana’s most stunning vocal album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Women
    Every track on Women serves a purpose to the overall stereo image, resulting in a debut that sets the bar very high.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wind's Poem
    As invigorating as the first half of Wind’s Poem is, its second half is where a filmic sensibility arises and the music becomes at one with the listener, the sounds yielding way to both chaotic and calming images as waves crash and subside.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dark Energy
    Jlin has provided us with evidence of veins untapped, an obscure map of zones still to be colonized in the name of the dance. If you care about footwork at all, you need to hear this album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Trust Now
    This uncanny sound field suggests a different set of priorities from the usual transcendentalist rock seekers, and Trust Now is all the better for it.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ta Det Lugnt
    The aural face of this album is frighteningly flawless: a technical perfection that only lends to the mythic proportions of the songs, behemoths so pregnant with ideas and so rich in sound that they seem to stretch for miles.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Benji
    Benji, Mark Kozelek’s sixth album as Sun Kil Moon, is as abrasive as Pharmakon, as hauntingly emotive as Dean Blunt, and as disorienting as Oneohtrix Point Never.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Invisible Cities
    A companion album to last year’s Ghost Rock, Invisible Cities again finds the group in fine form, refining their sound and moving gradually further from revivalist afrobeat into a style all their own.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fever Dream
    Alias gives us a promise that, after closing a three-year mute gap, after a decade of production and creation, there is still in him an artist to be excited about.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Another Life
    Another Life, chameleonic as it is demonic, aggregates its influences and kaleidoscopes them into earworming shards of electronic puncta, a diabolical mimesis whose loathsome grin belies its functionality as dance music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Too Many Voices
    Too Many Voices is an immersive experience that builds on the artists’ past without once holding them back.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Greatest
    This will be on most of the indie-ish year end tops charts this year, guaranteed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Elemental
    On Elemental, Demdike Stare give us glimmers of melody - looped chimes or listless piano figures - shivering out from the cloud of reverb, but for the most part what we get are dub shadows of songs, low on contrast and grainy with dust particles, uncanny echoes and malevolent drones.
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