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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Beautiful Trauma
    Pink reunites with trusted collaborators like Max Martin, Shellback, Greg Kurstin and Billy Mann on Beautiful Trauma. They help make the record sound both fresh and familiar, with occasional curves like the gospelized rave-up “I Am Here.”
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Masseduction
    Five studio albums in, it feels more like another new beginning, and pretty close to a masterpiece.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Colors
    The glossy production here sometimes neuters Beck's wilder inclinations. ... Still, as his first upbeat album in nearly a decade, Colors proves that Beck is still one of rock's most intrepid inventors. [13 Oct 2017, p.58]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tell Me You Love Me
    The best parts of the album are on the first half and showcase Lovato’s swagger, especially the standout gospel-tinged title track.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Now
    Those who would disparage her for not sounding like the “old Shania” are missing the point of this album--and with songs this good, they’re missing out, too.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Younger Now
    On Younger Now she is fully her father Billy Ray’s daughter, leaning into the echoey twang of spaghetti-Western stomper “Bad Mood,” rhapsodizing about dirty feet and backyard creeks on “Inspired,” and duetting blithely with godmother Dolly Parton on the summer-­camp jamboree “Rainbowland.”
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Gemini
    It’s a sprawling set that displays many different sides of his personality, from party boy (the old-school groove “Levitate”) to spiritual dad (the gospel-charged “Church”). Although it is uneven and feels longer than its 60 minutes, Gemini is held together by Macklemore’s Everydudeness and a loose mixtape quality.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wonderful Wonderful
    Although the new album doesn’t live up to its effusive title by recapturing the glory of Sam’s Town--there’s no “When You Were Young” here--it affirms that the Killers are far from dead yet.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    American Dream
    As gratifying familiar as much of American Dream will be to longtime fans, it also feels like exactly the album 2017 needs--urgent, angry, achingly self-aware. And catchy as hell, too. [1 Sep 2017, p.53]
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fifth Harmony
    Fifth Harmony’s pop-by-committee could have fared fabulously well had it risen in the heat earlier this year; instead it’s a harmless record that doesn’t quite demand a second listen.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rainbow
    Rainbow, her rich, masterful third LP, is far more than a kiss-off to old demons--it’s an artistic feat, as Kesha unites stylistic forays with her sharp, weathered lyricism.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Everything Now
    Like Everything Now‘s subject matter, Arcade Fire gets a bit excessive--yet their fearlessness has resulted in some of the most ambitious music of their career.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Something To Tell You
    Mostly HAIM zero in on what they do best, and the result is a simple and staggering ode to the joy and craftsmanship of American pop.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    TLC
    If the new songs are likable enough, none eclipse those of their peak. Luckily, TLC has always had as much to do with an emotional connection as with the music. Here, they stoke it in ways likely to give longtime fans a nice glow.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Grateful
    With so much talent and so much content, it’s frustrating that he couldn’t deliver a higher-quality product.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Big Fish Theory
    The full-length follow-up to his 2015 debut, Summertime ’06, surpasses expectations, with incisive lyrics and beats that spurn current trends for a set that sounds unlike anything else in hip-hop right now.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    It’s Lorde’s own storytelling that offers Melodrama‘s most rewarding twists.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Crack-Up
    On their latest, the band’s melodies are crisper and sonic dynamics and tempo-shifts are employed to greater effect.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Witness
    Chilly melodies meshes well with Perry’s diary of reflection and self-enlightenment. In fact, many of these songs are written in sad-sounding minor keys as opposed to cheery major ones. It’s a smart trick. ... If there were a few more pure pop moments like those songs [[Bon Appétit and Swish Swish], Perry would’ve made something truly worth witnessing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Gone Now
    His most accomplished to date. On the proper follow-up to Strange Desire, Antonoff is more sonically self-assured and conceptually mission-driven, weaving together a 12-song cycle--inspired by the heartbreaking death of his sister, Sarah, from brain cancer when he was 18.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Harry Styles
    Reconciling the folkie and the rogue hardly seems like Harry’s priority; instead, the 23-year-old basks in the privilege of paying tribute to his many musical heroes, and trying on all the styles that fit.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pollinator
    If songs like these paint Pollinator as Blondie’s self-tribute album, who cares. They deserve it after all these years.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pleasure
    Many of the songs are slow-building numbers that gradually swell to a heightened moment of release. But Feist is too gifted a songwriter to ever need to rely on a mere formula; each time, the payoff is delightfully unexpected.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Strength of a Woman
    The LP is missing a killer cut or two; the empowering title track is the closest thing to a classic MJB anthem. ... Blige fares better with the spiritual uplift that bookends Strength: the Kanye West-assisted “Love Yourself” and the straight-up gospel “Hello Father,” which riffs on Stevie Wonder’s “Jesus Children of America.”
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    DAMN.
    After delving into the personal on 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city and going broader on Butterfly, Lamar has found a middle ground on DAMN. that yields some of his most emotionally resonant music yet.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Search for Everything
    The most deeply personal album Mayer has ever released. At the same time, the slickness of the music blunts some of the impact. To nearly the same degree that Mayer’s lyrics explore the limits of control, his music seeks to enforce it.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Memories: Do Not Open
    [“Break Up Every Night” is] an actual dance cut. The other cuts are basically ballads with beats--modernized Moby without the soul-searching or gospel samples.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Hopeless Romantic
    Branch’s commitment sells the project as a whole. And for all that’s different, Branch’s longtime lyrical preoccupation, the intense dissection of love lost and found, remains intact.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pure Comedy
    On Pure Comedy, Father John Misty is just about clever enough to glide entirely on his intellectualism, but by emotionally removing himself from his own narratives, he’s ended up making a record that’s smarter than it is affecting.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Climate Change
    He presides over the festivities like the affable if occasionally annoying host, relentlessly pumping up you and his many guests--ranging from fellow Miami MC Flo Rida to usual suspects Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias--even when the track is tired.
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