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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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    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Echo Ono
    With Echo Ono, despite their disposition to meaty and minimalist hard rock, Pontiak have shown that there is music beyond what they know.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rhyton
    With no pretense and few frills, Rhyton have created an excellent document of tripped-out modern instrumental rock, drawn from open minds and extraordinary musicianship.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Open Your Heart
    The Men have decided to gift us with yet another 10 glorious songs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)
    Ingenious in its conception as a soundtrack, weak and tedious as a standalone musical venture, an interminable experience despite its brevity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Second of Love
    Gonzalez' voice is beautiful, but it doesn't have the emphatic uniqueness to carry the album on its own, while the songwriting, though producing gems like the EBTG-esque, understated "Mind & Eyes" is just uneven enough to fade occasionally into the background.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Joy
    Although it lacks the conceptual cohesion and embroidered orchestration of their last three albums and has a few weak tracks, Animal Joy adds sentiment to intellect, an undefined rebellion to Shearwater's heady songwriting and thereby challenges that duality.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 2
    Traceable by touch, cogent in dreams, the fibers of its text bear the weight of a psychedelic meisterwerk.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    We Will Always Be
    We Will Always Be rewards your attention, but only so far.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Young & Old
    It is still mostly sickly sweet sounds from Tennis, but the band must be commended for talking a bolder step the second time around.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blondes
    Music this agreeable and well-produced may not leave the most potent aftertaste, but it still makes for a sweet listen without veering into the saccharine.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ten$ion
    Neither the downfall nor demystification of the group, the truly awful Ten$ion only further tangles the mess of questions surrounding Die Antwoord.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Flumina
    Flumina does exactly what it's meant to. Which is not very much.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blouse
    Blouse may have inadvertently produced one of the most notable, truly unencumbered reflexive turns on the genre (and almost necessarily by extension, its subculture) in recent memory.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Maraqopa
    Maraqopa is a shooting star, an album bursting with presence of mind, a testimony to emotional rebirth buoyed by recurring themes of freedom and transcendence.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Reign of Terror
    The problem is that all of the moves feel like they're pointed in the wrong direction.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visions
    Consistently unique and fascinating.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Feel the Sound
    Imperial Teen sound here like they're trying to squeeze some new flavor out of a chewed-up piece of gum.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Will Set You Free
    While the lyrics at times retain the smarts and wicked humor that we've come to both revel in and expect, the romantic ballads more than flirt with cliché.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free All the Monsters
    As with other Bats albums, Free All the Monsters' charming modesty is a hair's breadth away from monotonous.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    He has always played it warm and safe, but in this album, he is playing it warmer and safer than ever....Lukewarm this album is, indeed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    The album pursues a house sound consistent with 2011's Ital's Theme.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Living Room Songs
    Living Room Songs succeeds specifically because Arnalds does not try to build it into a masterwork.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tramp
    Dessner, as studio ringleader, misperceives Van Etten's power as simply a matter of mounting force and so tries to buttress her performance (her personality) with all the layering clichés and atmospheric tricks in his indie rock playbook.
    • 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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Paralytic Stalks
    At the end of the day, Kevin Barnes is really trying to make good pop. Paralytic Stalks is just that, bombast and all.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Born to Die
    I have done my best to place the album, as a series of utterances, in its agony and vacuity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Clear Heart Full Eyes
    All the things that give an album its personality--the sound of a band finding its feet, the little tempo fluctuations, the requisite "are we rolling, Bob?" fits and starts--are here in spades.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Old Ideas
    For all its flaws, Old Ideas remains Cohen's strongest work for some time.
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