For 4,084 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version] | |
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Lowest review score: | Songs From Black Mountain |
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Positive: 3,648 out of 4084
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Mixed: 400 out of 4084
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Negative: 36 out of 4084
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They are not a band that’s trying to sound weird or abrasive, they just are weird and abrasive. Perhaps that’s the key to Hex Dealer’s greatness—it’s a record that just is.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2024
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AMAMA is a record that reminds me that music is supposed to be fun—it doesn’t need some greater cultural indication or grand artistic statement to be good or worthwhile. Sometimes Crumb’s transient musings about strawberry seeds and deceased reptiles will do the trick.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2024
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Arriving at just under 40 minutes, Neon Pill is some of Cage the Elephant’s most polished work to date—an emblem of the delicate care for their craft, healing and the community all funneled into its making.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2024
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Their new self-titled album sounds more like the Avett of old than the previous two. .... The singing falters only when the group attempts to weave broad political grievances with the real threads of the music: love, family and faith.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 16, 2024
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Britpop at its best turns Cook’s sometimes inscrutable playbook into a public playground, accessible to the greenest of heads and the most brain-fried of hyperpop vets.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 14, 2024
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They have still remained true to their calling card and brave—and talented—enough to try new things. So while Poetry might not be an avid Dehd-head’s favorite album, I have a feeling it will attract a wider audience. It’s a relatable album, too, one that, for better or for worse, is easily digestible.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 10, 2024
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If you’re looking for tidy metaphors, you’ve got the wrong band. If it’s a brew of briny bass lines and funky dumb melodies that you seek, however, you’re seated at the right bar. Perhaps these tracks aren’t revelatory, but they’re worth reveling in.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2024
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What it is is 64 minutes of blistering, heart-racing rock ‘n’ roll that, somehow, digs its claws deeper into the heaviness of Ragged Glory’s original piercing, head-splitting distortion.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Radical Optimism appears more as a series of vignettes than a fully fleshed-out record.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 6, 2024
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It turns out that subtlety suits them, and if Look to the East, Look to the West isn’t as immediately grabby as past albums were, these songs are nonetheless built to last.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 3, 2024
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The yearning, sometimes ghostly loveliness of her voice and her swirling synth-string arrangements better parallel Bat For Lashes, Soccer Mommy, Cat Power or—most befittingly—the gloomily romantic, synth-pop of Japanese Breakfast. Trying to classify Hana Vu, or to judge her at all, though, feels almost like a violation of sorts.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2024
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Here in the Pitch is a serenade of our own unique endtimes, packed with rollicking, sugar-sweet verses and vocalizations you can twirl your body to and curl up and anguish over all the same. And, at a mere 27 minutes in length, Pratt wastes no time with us. The whole project is tight as a wire.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2024
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Both harmonically and melodically, Light Verse is more expansive, yet its arrangements are tighter. No longer the lone troubadour, Beam is backed by a group of LA musicians whose expert subtlety bolsters Beam’s magnetic quietude—even when Hollywood strings swell or the accompaniment reaches near cacophony.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 30, 2024
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The album sounds remarkably warm and alive and real; it feels like you can step on the bass lines, put the twinkling piano notes in your pocket or reach out and touch the pedal steel guitar parts.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2024
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Martin and Taylor thoughtfully trace their own familial inroads on Hovvdy, and it never sounds less than courageous, not to mention so damn listenable.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Clark has said she had to take over production because she couldn’t figure out how to articulate the sounds in her head to somebody else. Listening to the finished product, it’s easy to see what she means. The surreal, slippery “Hell Is Near” is unlike anything Clark has done before—and particularly difficult to fully capture with words. Broadly psychedelic, a collage of 12-string guitar, piano and hydra-synth creates a song that feels like its own pocket dimension.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2024
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When it comes to Aaron West, it’s easy for the plot mechanics to consume much of the conversation. But In Lieu of Flowers contains some of Campbell’s best melodies and soaring choruses.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 25, 2024
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All that hard work has culminated into a gorgeous, career-long debut. Chanel Beads’ day is finally here, now.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2024
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It is when the band—and Watt—evoke Pearl Jam’s stunning capacity to rage at the injustices of the world, invoking personal grievances in equal measure, that Dark Matter is at its best (see “React, Respond” and “Waiting For Stevie”), while less on-brand tracks like “Upper Hand,” which enters on a synthesizer intro, embrace novelty with mixed results.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 19, 2024
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This isn’t a nihilistic record, especially with the wistful but bright closing sentiment of “Common Mistake”—where Baldi sings “You’ll be alright, just give more than you take.” But most of the talking is done by Gerycz’s sledgehammer drumming and Baldi’s layered guitars, a hallmark of all great Cloud Nothings songs.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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angeltape presents a darkened canvas of experimental rock, showcasing Drahla plunging into the depths of their elaborate and existential craft.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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One Million Love Songs delivers exactly what it promises—an unflinching look into the seemingly endless ways that love (and loss) leaves its fingerprints on us.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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sentiment is the work of someone who understands that emotions are a full-body experience, and rousay’s work responds with a sensory palette beyond what a typical song can muster. Does it devastate? Sometimes. Above all else, this little archive of rousay’s emotions cancels the distractions outside and sinks you in a bath of feeling. The best response is to ease in.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Whether they are looking backwards or forwards, you can rest assured that BODEGA will remain wholly themselves—but Our Brand Could Be Yr Life shows just how flexible all of that can be.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 16, 2024
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Ultimately, English Teacher are a band that fare best when they stop conforming to boundaries—even the ones they set for themselves.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 16, 2024
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Ramona can be overwhelming when taken in as a whole, and that’s something that might ultimately keep many at arm’s length from the album. But, if you let Grace Cummings in, Ramona might just surprise you yet.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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A 36-minute story, Don’t Forget Me is Rogers’ shortest project thus far. It is also her most sonically and lyrically cohesive, featuring some of her most captivating, folkloric songcraft yet. Allowing the listeners to create a world around her words and sounds, Rogers is at her best when she keeps it simple and sweet.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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At times, Houck’s revelations can get lost into an aimless fog of luscious sounds created by these music industry veterans—especially evident on “Fences,” where Phosphorescent’s meditations on a relationship in decay get obscured by a samesy blur of pedal steel and organ. .... But the upside of Revelator’s polished and highly cohesive sound is that even relatively minor switch-ups can prove thrilling by comparison.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2024
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While it hardly comes across as careless, The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions flaunts a genre-averse attitude that allows his range to shine. The album draws a throughline between the aspects of Thornalley’s sound geared towards the warehouse and those better suited for festival crowds.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2024
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On these nine songs, Mount Kimbie pulls off sonic and structural changes in a seamless way.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 5, 2024
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