For 4,084 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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On their journey up and down (and up again) this gamut of human emotion—from anger (“Blowback”) to confusion and disillusion (“Addict,” “Can I Borrow Your Lighter?”) to misery (“Catch A Hot One”) to love and gratitude (“Herbert”)—Spiritual Cramp sound exceptionally tight. This may be the best-sounding record I’ve heard this year.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 15, 2023
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In less capable hands, such a painstaking interpretation would be rendered redundant, but the wounded innocence of Marshall’s voice ensures that her versions remain piercingly evocative—vital, even.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 15, 2023
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Hadsel is the sound of a weary man dealing out his thoughts on a table in a cabin far away, and using extraordinary musicianship to put them in order. The result is a lush, majestic album.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 10, 2023
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Heaven knows has more intricate songwriting and a wider scope [than her 2021 mixtape to hell with it].- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 10, 2023
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Despite Higher’s lyrical shortcomings, Chris Stapleton still reigns high in the country genre and has delivered another admirable album.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2023
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With her viscerally pessimistic, love-hate view of relationships, IAN SWEET steps above the standard moving, moody indie pop. This album hurts in all of the best ways.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 8, 2023
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His latest is a stunner of a record, with songs that are stark in their simplicity, yet emotionally rich in a way that can catch your breath in your throat or leave your eyes suddenly damp.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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It’s a smoother ride than Delaware, for better or for worse, but not without edges. Drop Nineteens have not lost all of their style; if anything, they’ve gained some finesse. It was never supposed to happen, but we should be glad that it has.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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For the most part, bar italia have nonchalantly leveled up on The Twits. The noisy songs are louder, the edginess is more precise and, when bar italia tone down the bite, genuine creativity bubbles from the calm.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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Pound for pound, Stern’s latest offering is as urgent and electrifying as anything she’s managed in the 16 years since her disarming debut.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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Anderson brings along his DIY community for the ride. It’s that bedrock that makes Cartwheel such an expressive and foundational album. And one that’s not just a triumph for Anderson and Hotline TNT, but for shoegaze itself.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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1989 (Taylor’s Version) is a sparkling ode from an artist in her prime to an album that played a significant role in paving her way there.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 30, 2023
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The masterful Spike Field, isn’t just interested in mere questions: It aspires to tear apart time, inspect each shorn fabric and sew up each of its distant stretches to create a new, shimmering collage of the future-past. Within its intricately textured synth patterns, off-tune piano lines and yearning mezzo-soprano are tellings of intimate histories.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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The tone on History Books is less frenetic and more reflective. It’s the work of a band that has arguably outgrown the fiery intensity of youth without losing the passion that made the Gaslight Anthem so compelling in the first place.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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One of this record’s biggest achievements might be building out the character of Jenny while managing to not sacrifice her central mystery.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 25, 2023
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The fact that Hackney Diamonds is this damn good further proves that even the bands who’ve given every bit of themselves to the music still have more left to give.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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The result is an unspooled revelation, a supplicant’s distorted glee—a celebration which Hayter leaves pointedly open-ended.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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While how i’m feeling now is by no means Charli’s most genre-pushing work, nor an indication of the creative potential she has left, it will be remembered as a quintessential 2020 album—not just because of its unique recording constraints, but because of the passion, authenticity and work ethic interwoven in every fuzzy beat and every sprightly, lovelorn lilt of Charli’s most intimate vocal work to date.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Lahai is a transformative album that explores themes like afrofuturism and magical realism across 14 tracks that span a multitude of genres, including soul, rap, jazz, dance, jungle and West African music. And it’s a record that’s as intimate as it is imaginative.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Even with the three original albums alone, Joni Mitchell has left us with such a profound legacy that it didn’t seem possible for anything to come along and reveal more depth to her art. Against all odds, Archives, Vol. 3 does just that and more.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 17, 2023
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It’s clearly a liberating piece of work, and Humberstone’s honesty and alluring delivery is bound to resonate with listeners near and far.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Her third album, Tomorrow’s Fire, is her best work. Leaning in harder than ever to rock music, the roiling catharsis so often found in Williams’ vocal performance now bleeds into the production. Tomorrow’s Fire is lean, clocking in at 34 minutes across 10 tracks, but Williams doesn’t waste a second of it- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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This lush, lustful record contains some of Sivan’s most adventurous work to date, with its global influences and club-ready beats vividly evoking the catharsis of being in touch with yourself and your community.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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I Killed Your Dog dazzles with its musicality, but its emotion is what takes it to the next level.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 12, 2023
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At its peaks, it is capacious, melancholy and beautifully indicative of the human desire for connection and meaning. It is also, at times, simpering and molasses-y, when Savage has proven he knows how to succeed without shackling himself to those tropes. When it burns low, its ashes are suffocating—but when it flares, it blazes high.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 6, 2023
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Fans may feel it’s more of a long slog than they remember, with the slower tempo stretching many of the songs beyond their natural length, and the spoken word passages lending a languorous quality that may induce drowsiness.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 6, 2023
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Despite his quiet voice and instrumentation, his music refuses to recede into the background. It commands your attention in every conceivable way.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 4, 2023
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Whether Creevy’s eking out an epiphany or bent on her own destruction, I Don’t Want You Anymore successfully embodies the private suffering that precedes any semblance of healing.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2023
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Many of the genre’s most popular songs right now resemble its past more than its future (or at least what one would hope constitutes its future). The music of Rustin’ In The Rain is an exception—and best of all, there’s space in its world for all of us.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 2, 2023
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The unconcealed emotion gushing out of Again is stupefying. Where Oneohtrix Point Never takes these sounds may challenge the senses, but the feelings Lopatin is drawing forward are all too familiar.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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