AllMusic's Scores
- Music
For 17,261 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | The Marshall Mathers LP | |
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Lowest review score: | Graffiti |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14,378 out of 17261
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Mixed: 2,861 out of 17261
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Negative: 22 out of 17261
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The Great Escape shows that Chris Stamey still has a faultless touch as a songwriter, vocalist, producer, and arranger, and it gently but confidently sees him adding new colors to his palette and using them well.- AllMusic
- Posted Nov 1, 2023
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"Blurring" is an inventive trip-hop diversion, with booming illbient bass, slowly crushing breaks, and a downright lovely vocal hook. It ends up leaving a much bigger impression than most of the other tracks on the album, even if it isn't exactly the type of earworm one might expect from the artist's description of his intentions for the project.- AllMusic
- Posted Nov 1, 2023
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Something to Give Each Other succeeds because Sivan has been freed: to be who he wants to be and express that through his most engaging and addictive album to date.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Its seven tracks are rhythmically labyrinthine, unhurried in tempo, with clamping drums and cosmic synthesizers that burble, prance, and sometimes create a sense of menace.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Ultimately, it's the singles that keep Angel Face interesting, an ironic twist, given that the period he fetishizes most certainly favored singles over LPs. So, in a sense, he has hit his mark squarely.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Selvutsletter is some of the duo's most expressive and widest-ranging work -- and given how committed Volden and Hval are to experimentation, that's saying something.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Joni Mitchell's powers as a songwriter and creative spirit are unparalleled at every step of her journey, but her output in the '70s was on a higher plane, even for her. Archives, Vol. 3 reflects this with behind-the-scenes material just as storied and worthy as the music that Mitchell was making during one of her finest hours.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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All That Was East Is West of Me Now confirms that as an artist, he's not wasting the days he has left on the trivial, and the craft and the emotional power of this music is strong enough that we can all hope he might have another 10 or 20 years of music this good left in him.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Tirzah's music may be volatile, but it's also remarkably consistent; trip9love...??? is the third time in a row that they've turned a handful of sounds and a wealth of ideas into a haunting, forward-thinking album.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Offset seems equally at home in almost every style he tries on, and though the heavily varied production and artistic approaches from track to track can give the album a less-than-consistent feel, the steady stream of guest appearances from stars like Future, Young Nudy, Latto, and others all help to emphasize how Set It Off is more exciting than it is uneven.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Madres deals with serious subject matter, but ultimately it's an abundantly thankful, joyous, and celebratory record.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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If Jenny From Thebes may be a bit more cryptic than his best work, every song contains a yarn worth hearing, and his quietly bold, ordinary-guy delivery is surprisingly flexible, adjusting itself to fit any situation he presents.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Twenty years after the release of Keep on Your Mean Side -- a time when many acts consolidate their sound into something safe and reliable -- Mosshart and Hince are still at the top of their game.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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The Silver Cord was released in two different editions; one with the songs edited to around four minutes each, one where the songs stretch out over the ten minute mark. The extended versions don't add much to the overall effect of the album, merely giving the listener more time to wonder why the band chose to go down this route.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Action Adventure doesn't sound like DJ Shadow's other records, but it's exactly the type of album he would make -- a risky, expectation-bucking set that only fully makes sense to the artist himself.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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An album that continues very much in the melancholy vein of its predecessor while taking a generally looser approach to arrangements.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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With a more congruous title, "Anxiety's Rainbow" is an album highlight for its marriage of rousing melody, dissonance, and groove, while the rest is interesting enough to hope for more from this ambitious isolation-induced project.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 25, 2023
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It's always fascinating to hear Barnes take Forest Swords' distinctive musical vocabulary in different directions, especially when the results are as eloquent as Bolted.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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The EP's wistful quality combined with its brevity can make The Rest seem almost unassuming, but it's not slight: it's a welcome coda to the relative exuberance of The Record.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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While it plays a less-sure hand than classic predecessors like YHLQMDLG, it nonetheless proves a welcome gift for the star's dedicated fanbase.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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At its heart, it's nothing more than the Rolling Stones knocking out some good Rolling Stones songs, which seems like a minor miracle after such a long wait.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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It may not be the second -- or third to be more precise -- coming of Lush, but it's good to have Anderson back and making music as pretty, sweetly sad, and ultimately comforting as Pearlies.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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Overall, it feels less like a comeback and more like the latest chapter in the ongoing saga Skinner has been spinning since 2002.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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While this is far less downcast, the joy, wonderment, and fond reminiscences in the songs are complicated by worry, uncertainty, and longing.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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One More Time... plays like a love letter, both to fans who stuck with them and to each other -- a letter that doesn't so much ask for forgiveness as offer it willingly, passionately, and without conditions.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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More accessible than past Slauson Malone releases, Excelsior is still a strange, mysterious creation that warrants extensive, engrossed listening.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 16, 2023
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Chock-full of brusque rhymes that, even with occasional respite with the odd slow jam, become mind-numbing over the course of its hour-long duration, Scarlet is a fascinating follow-up to Planet Her.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Though Crazymad, For Me lacks a bit of the wit of If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, anyone who has had their heart stepped on in the past 20 years will embrace it as their own.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The deep involvement of McClenney, assistance from additional producers such as Wynne Bennett and Alissia Benveniste, and the familiar presence of Peter CottonTale all nudge and stretch Woods' sound into new realms of left-field pop, folk, and funk without squeezing out a drop of soul.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Goat prove once again on Medicine that they deserve to be in the top echelon where the groups, past or present, who play this style of music with an incalculable amount of imagination and an unquenchable desire to scale new heights of sound are nobly enshrined.- AllMusic
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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