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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
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weird Sister
    On Weird Sister, Joanna Gruesome exotic blooms--forget the Ys and wherefores, and cue some!
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mole City
    A double album of prickly rock-outs, pugilistic odes, and utterly eerie ambient entr’actes bridging an anthology of lyricism that shunts your earbud-plugged head toward the mirror to take a good long look (and listen).
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fetch
    Melt-Banana prove with Fetch that they can twist their peculiar universe into something more cordial, but one that forfeits a certain part of their penchant for risk.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A History of Every One
    These songs are history, and have now become it again, renewed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Christs, Redeemers
    With Christs, Redeemers, they ignite a range of complex reactions designed to inspire and to petrify, the consequences of which reveal a wholly unsettling listen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Rewind
    Admittedly, Beautiful Rewind isn’t Kieran Hebden’s magnum opus, but it’s an album that succeeds at both moving the listener emotionally and, like much of the producer’s impressive body of work, inspiring him or her to literally and physically move.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Through My Mind
    Not only is it exciting to hear Youngs challenge himself with genre conventions, but it’s also comforting to know that no matter which mode Youngs adopts, it always sounds like him.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Interiors
    All these various elements are arranged like a sleek showroom with smooth glass surfaces, a few international flourishes, maybe a pair of funky modernist chairs in the corner; it all sounds like a seamless, impersonal, cosmopolitan package.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bones of What You Believe
    The Bones of What You Believe is one of the most unabashedly sincere works of indie pop.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bangerz
    Sometimes, like on the outstanding "Wrecking Ball," the emotion calcifies into catchy, mature hooks, propelled forth by Cyrus' oft-underestimated vocal heft. Then again, the breakup also produced "FU," a dismally adolescent electro-soul duet with French Montana.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Psychic
    Psychic simply doesn’t leave a lasting memory when one considers the work as a whole.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Heritage
    It continues to be true that instrumental synth of this caliber is a perfect backdrop, but today it gives the impression of digital trompe-l’œil, a backdrop devoid of foreground, a Real Hero as crash test dummy.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old
    While there’s certainly something thrilling about the wild, back-and-forth rollercoaster ride of listening to a Danny Brown album, in the end the grandest triumphs of Danny’s work are the myriad revelations gained from how the seemingly contradictory elements of these dualities interact with one another.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Night on Earth
    It’s not Sonic Youth, but Ranaldo, haunted with memory and philosophizing all this time stuff, sounds like he’s indeed having the best time of his life.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This Is...
    It’s not a terrible album. It’s not a spectacular train wreck. It is, in fact, so remarkably unremarkable that neither a glowing nor incinerating score feel deserved.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2
    Pared down and stripped to its primal rudiments, the latest Timberlake saga could have been something truly epic; instead, it just feels unnecessarily immense.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    K2O
    Admittedly, it may not furnish any musical diagrams of how to move from A to B, but in its own illogical way, it succeeds in submerging us deeper into A.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Days Are Gone
    This is frivolous, immaculate music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Vapor City
    When it’s watered down by this much sneakerhead aestheticism, it becomes hard to even hear the culture-shaking subversion that lurked in the sounds of Machinedrum’s influences.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    R Plus Seven
    What Lopatin leaves us with is a stunning example in the evolution of an artistic premise and a flawless embodiment of emotive responses to sound, which unite here in their most fractured form: a moving stillness for the digital age.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nothing Was the Same
    While Nothing Was The Same won’t do anything to win over Drake’s detractors, doing pretty much nothing new for the rapper except bringing in more drill-style hi-hats and scaling back the obsession with 808s.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Armed Courage
    Russell has talked about how he enjoys the constraints of old equipment and recording in humble environments, but on Armed Courage, the effect couldn’t appear further from restriction, as it forges the very motifs that set their sound free.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Herein Wild
    Those pop songs, [not the ones on Herein Wild,] confess everything and never apologize. Herein Wild just disappears.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dalmak
    While the concept is admirable and ultimately quite touching, its forays into disorientation, uncertainty and exoticism can make for a rather patchy album.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colonial Patterns
    Transforming such intensity into a product so bewitching is an incredible effort, and the resulting works leave very little doubt that Colonial Patterns is more than some admirable interpretation--it’s a ruthless conquest.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Seasons of Your Day
    Sandoval and her collaborators may never modify the melancholy torch that they bear, but they keep that fire masterfully for those of us who still have a yen for patient, no-frills sounds that happen to serve as a miracle balm.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pearl Mystic
    As Hookworms gain more confidence and their heady rhythms are spread further afield, hopes remain that future material might be slightly less veiled.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mediation of Ecstatic Energy
    Mediation succeeds not only as a stunning instrumental performance, but as an hour of personal storytelling.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tides End
    It’s the change in an almost overall sound--when acts like The Human League, OMD, Ultravox, and Depeche Mode weren’t the only ones making ample use of keyboards--and Kilfoyle captures this incredibly well while retaining a still-in-formation yet already distinct MINKS sound, much in the way many formerly post-punk bands retained their own certain darkness throughout.
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