For 4,084 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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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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Jackson is communicating her message with precise orchestration for optimal impact. As a listener, you may feel exposed, maybe even singled out.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Romantic Piano is an endless reliquary of devotion, self-kindness and wonder; an impressive, beautiful third act for one of our most-daring and interesting songwriters.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Underlining their strengths and achieving the purest zenith of their eccentric stylings. Everyone’s Crushed shines an incandescent limelight on Water From Your Eyes at the absolute height of their powers; it’s their best work yet.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 26, 2023
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As painstakingly beautiful as her more inscrutable records have been, to witness Mega Bog in crystalline electronica is to witness an artist reclaim and represent her consciousness with unsettling clarity.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 18, 2023
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It’s the work of a singer and songwriter with nothing left to prove, which means that Crowell can simply enjoy himself.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 5, 2023
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One of the acest efforts of 2023 so far. ... Museum performs like a meticulous, well-crafted ballet where JFDR’s crew of players are the ballerinas. Across nine songs, she deftly hypothesizes what emotional boundaries exist in and beyond her world.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 4, 2023
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That! Feels Good! is a record of sterling, mirrorball-lit songs and bawdy lyricism. It’s Ware’s finest collection of work to date.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Her bandmates act as a support system, pushing these songs to new heights, ready to catch her when she stares at the unknown. All of This Will End is triumphant, despite the emotional terrain it navigates.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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It’s a taut, focused collection that reins in the sprawl of the group’s 2019 release I Am Easy to Find and re-centers the band on their most emotionally complete effort since Boxer.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Neale has placed her trust in life’s meanders—and in its source—and the result is her best work yet: a golden mean between experimentation and pop, lo-fi and hi-fi, vitality and rest.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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72 Seasons is the sound of Metallica celebrating the past while simultaneously liberating themselves from the impossible burden of living up to their former excellence. They could have done a lot worse.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Big Picture is a successful meditation on tension, an act of sitting in the discomfort. Fenne Lily has become a veritable expert on the subject, and her approach to narrating that process is engaging and novel.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Lyrical precision is what makes the record shine, the fact that Hartzman can recall the exact video game, in this case, Mortal Kombat, that someone was playing when her nose started bleeding at a New Year’s Eve party she didn’t even want to be at.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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The Hold Steady’s most musically adventurous collection of songs so far, pairing singer Craig Finn’s vivid storytelling with arrangements that go in some unexpected directions.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2023
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While the record delivers on the promise of those talents united—exceptional rock music by three sad-song experts—it doesn’t always sound more timeless than topical. But when it does thrive at the former, the record is exploring more rudimentary feelings rather than emotional coalescence.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Caroline Rose’s portrayal of a new beginning during the first three tracks of The Art of Forgetting is visceral and guttural. ... The tracks remarkably set the pace and atmosphere for the entirety of the record.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 29, 2023
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Each song feels like its own powerful, strange dream—the worlds described are vague yet familiar, tugging at something in your gut that instinctively pulls towards the characters and loves described.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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Aly & AJ are releasing career-defining music (and have been for the past six years), and With Love From might top a touch of the beat as their best album to date.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 22, 2023
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Say What You Like delivers more of the same qualities that made Paisley your Riding A Bike Friend.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Like any artist following up a successful record, 10000 gecs was always going to suffer from great expectations. While it keeps the duo’s cocky, chaotic spirit at its core, the material never feels like a step forward, nor does it ever capture the magic of their debut.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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V is a fun, water-glistening record that waves hi to the palm trees and lies down to take a sun-nap with the sleepy sand dunes. Neilson’s reclamation of his identity in the context of space, sound and story is executed beautifully and is heard with authenticity and keenness.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Though the album contains some of the most straightforward rock songs of Bowie’s career so far, their search for a savior still scales to grandiose heights.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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Oddly enough, it’s in the moments where the duo get separated—or neither appears at all—that we get to hear just how fruitful their creative bond actually was. ... There’s no denying the effort that went into this material, and the elegant presentation of this box matches the music’s tone and character perfectly.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
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What makes Radical Romantics, like the best of Dreijer’s work, a cut above merely great pop is its subversive streak.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 9, 2023
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To give oneself over to the world of colorful unpredictability is easier said than done, but it makes for a rewarding experience that leaves one grinning ear to ear.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 2, 2023
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The opening half of Food for Worms is split between exhausting punk ragers and introspective indie-rock numbers. ... With Food for Worms, Shame does manage to reach new heights on the closer, a winding, Glastonbury-sized anthem entitled “All the People.”- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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That Lucero often focuses on guys like that [screw-ups] doesn’t diminish the power of those songs, but it makes it harder for any one of them to stand out when there are so many solid options. On the other hand, the fact that Lucero has made it 25 years singing about bad luck and worse choices is, in its own counterintuitive way, something worth celebrating.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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That’s what makes the sonic pivot on All Fiction feel so special; the band changed because they wanted to, not because they had to.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Its arrangements are intricate and densely layered so that every song reveals itself to you more and more upon revisiting.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Here, they sound self-assured and steady, like a group that understands what they have and makes the most of it.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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