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For 450 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 77% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: 100 Xen
Lowest review score: 50 The Mountain Will Fall
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 396 out of 450
  2. Mixed: 54 out of 450
  3. Negative: 0 out of 450
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My House From All Angles
    My House From All Angles, comes some 27 years after his first effort. Almost nothing has changed in the interim: it’s all about drum machine, acid riff, repeated vocal, the odd disco loop--job’s a good ‘un. Kids a third of Dunn’s age go mad trying to create retro house, but he does it effortlessly, because it’s all he’s ever needed to do.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Realisationship
    Reminiscent of a clumsier kind of guitar-drums-bass (plus synths) arrangement, the only remnant of Hung’s Fuck Buttons days is the privileging of drums in the mix. The rest of this unexpected foray is a trip into a post-punk and synth-pop past that needs no repeating.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    For Paris
    There’s a new-age wash to some tracks that’s a bit too Enya-like for comfort, but this is an emotionally resonant LP that speaks of artistic, as well as personal, development.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Value
    If ‘Safe’ was Visionist’s “personal portrait of anxiety”, then ‘Value’ is his awakening.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arpo
    If you’re looking for some immersive and emotional electronica, just Call Super.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rationale
    While ‘Loving Life’ channels Jermaine Jackson’s ‘Do What You Do’ but takes it to church rather than the charts. 'Fast Lane’, meanwhile, drives straight to the pop pulpit with a chorus Jim Steinman would be proud of.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Reworked by Detroiters
    Names like Underground Resistance, Moodymann, Ectomorph and Claude Young should be all you need to hear to assure you you’re in safe hands, and the results are stunning, as they twist the disco, funk and psychedelia into fresh and crisp patterns.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    As the mix migrates to the dancefloor, Lone drops some smooth 90s techno with John Beltran’s ‘Placid Angles’ and the cyber-electro of Drexciya’s ‘Bubble Metropolis’, before signing off with Radiohead’s obscure and atmospheric mood sketch ‘Worrywort’.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Take Me Apart
    Bursts with textured atmospheres and danceable beats, all led by the unwavering might of Kelela’s lungs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Animal Spirits
    With a new band alongside him, he fills The Animal Spirits with haunting brain-melters that fuse modular synths, jazzy musicianship and trance-like rhythms.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Belief System
    Belief System is not only Special Request’s most definitive piece of work, but it will also, probably, prove to be Paul Woolford’s magnum opus.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mnestic Pressure
    This is music born from information overload and the quick slide toward environmental and political chaos, but while Gamble threatens to leave you scarred, he also offers refuge, too, in the form of his signature styles.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Alright Between Us as It Is
    This new album works hard to add several new jams to his inimitable canon.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabriclive 94
    It’s a classy, timeless mix from a classy and timeless selector.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tribe
    In short, Chase & Status remain fierce and on form.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Qualia
    It’s not always entirely straightforward listening, but when it comes together--like on the military march-meets-indie/techno schaffel of ‘Selling The Shadow’--it’s a timely reminder of Weatherall’s knack for putting smiles on faces
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Okovi
    Zola Jesus’ distinctive, dramatic voice has always been the prime weapon in her arsenal, and on new album ‘Okovi’ it sounds more brooding than ever.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Parallels
    It eventually drifts into spaced-out blissfulness on the final four tracks, bringing a melodic ear-trip to a close.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take Flight
    It’s so absorbing that, by the end of the two-hour odyssey, you’ll be left wondering where the time went. Splendid stuff.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Good Time [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    The spirits of Vangelis, Wendy Carlos and John Carpenter permeate throughout, and it feels like no exaggeration to suggest that Lopatin could soon join them in the pantheon of great electronic soundtrack composers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Moment Apart
    If you’re a little refreshed and in the midst of a heartfelt festival singalong, things might sound different. But it’s hard to get caught up in some of the grandiose gestures on offer here.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Kid
    ‘The Kid’ feels organic and human; you can hear it in ‘Who I Am Why I Am Where I Am’, where repetitive Steve Reich-style phrases are layered like filo pastry. Like much of this beautiful record, its hypnotic intensity is immensely comforting.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rainbow Edition
    It explores a plethora of bold sounds and styles with a distinctive ethereal edge--and just a touch of delectable curios
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Orbit
    Thankfully, it doesn’t veer too wildly from his solo work, as Man Duo dive into shuddering Krautrock rhythms, slow-burn electro and stoner synth-pop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love What Survives
    Here, they sound comfortable as a band rather than an electronic duo who use guitars, with off-kilter songs that nod towards Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine and are full of fizzing synths and weeping accordions confirming their status as one of alternative pop’s finest acts.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Road, Vol. 1
    Like the sprawling city it celebrates, The Road: Part One is endlessly eclectic.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Onism
    Tension comes through not only in the album’s titles--‘Storms’, ‘Screens’ and ‘Eco Friend’--but in the tone of the tracks, where at one moment a song delves deep into an urgent, synthetic cadence, and then expands into an ambient sense of the vast beauty of the physical world.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bicep
    It’s surprisingly dreamy and thoughtful at times (see lead single ‘Aura’, which radiates pure white light) and full of the yearning and bittersweetness of the best post-rave sunrise moments. Most of all, it’s laser-focused in the pursuit of pleasure, and makes absolute sense as a complete album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Omnion
    They haven’t lost the ability to party, as proven by the grinding disco-funk of ‘Rejoice’, but Omnion is a serious, grown-up dance record for serious times.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Dream
    Well, the good news is American Dream rocks, rolls, pops, fizzes and snaps. The energy is still there, no two songs sound the same and the ambition is somehow even more future-retro than before.
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