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Matski

Correct. Same with Sam's Town . The writer has a penchant for altering the album ratings whenever they take over reviewing an act's discorgraphy. It happened when they started writing the reviews for Beyoncé, Coldplay, Muse and Nine Inch Nails too. EDIT: The same writer also does the reviews for Def...

Matski

Thanks for all the hard work Holden. Quite a few entries I haven't heard yet. Time to listen to some more new music.

Matski

Top work acroamor. Looks exhausting to compile all that data. Regardless, I hope you had as much fun as we did.

Matski

Alright then, just a top ten. Looking at the list, it feels very tentative at this stage. Ask again in a few days and it could look very different. Matski's Top Ten Albums of 2020... ...After the First Six Months: 01 | Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters 02 | Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter 0...

Matski

If you're drawing up a list just for fun, keeping it out of the official AM rankings then that could be interesting. I would be against taking it any further though.

Given half the lists I've read I'd guess that Fiona Apple would storm into first.

Matski

Remember when I ranted that AllMusic needed to upgrade more albums from the 2000s to a five star rating because there wasn't many of them compared to the 2010s? Well... ...The following albums have been upgraded to 5.0 stars on AllMusic: Aaliyah - Aaliyah ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead...

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Matski

Only half way through 2020 and there's already half-a-dozen 90+ rated albums on there. I wonder if critics have been easing up on their usual standards this year?

Matski

The following albums have been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic:

Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

The following albums have been downgraded to 4.0 stars on AllMusic:

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3

Matski

The following albums have been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic:

Beach House - Bloom
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
St. Vincent - St. Vincent

Matski

According to Metacritic , they have given perfect scores right away for (excluding reissues, compilations and classical stuff): ... Most of those early 00s releases have been five-starred for over a decade now. It's hard to find out if they were ever mistakes that were reverted and then upgraded ag...

Matski

Only to classical releases, or very rarely by accident as was the case with Little Simz' Grey Area . It was originally given a full five-star rating (its Metacritic entry corroborates this ) but when AMG's staff realised a mistake was made it was downgraded . It's not that they don't love new releas...

Matski

Nick Cave is hard to pin down - he's so darn consistent. Some love his late 80s Tender Prey era the most, others live for his mid-90s output, etc. His recent albums have received as much praise upon release as he's ever received. And I say that as someone who's slightly ambivalent towards Push the S...

Matski

The following albums have been upgraded to 5.0 stars on AllMusic:

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

The following albums have been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic:

Drive-By Truckers - American Band
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent

Matski

The following albums have been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic: Angel Olsen - My Woman Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior Battles - Mirrored Converge - The Dusk in Us Dan Deacon - America Daniel Avery - Drone Logic Danny Brown - XXX Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolutio...

Matski

^ Pretty funny typo if it was an accident.

Thanks for all the hard work Holden. Titanic Rising is a fantastic album and a well-deserved winner. Great to see Grey Area in the top ten too. Kudos to mileswide for the informed write-up.

Matski

Love Me Back isn't listed on AM. Reality Show is the only Jazmine Sullivan album even close to charting so far. Too bad that AllMusic didn't choose upgrade that latter release instead.

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Matski

Apologies Harold, it seems that they've published two different lists. The one above is a 'local album picks' while the following list covers country albums. 20th Annual Country Music Critics’ Poll: The Results 1. Tanya Tucker, While I’m Livin’ (Fantasy) 2. The Highwomen, The Highwomen (Elektra/Low ...

Matski

Two new downgrades on AllMusic:

Algiers - The Underside of Power is now rated at 4.0 stars.
Bill Fay - Life Is People is also now rated at 4.0 stars.

Matski

Seems like someone at AllMusic has been re-evaluating 00s British rock recently. First Coldplay, now Muse:

Muse - Absolution has been upgraded again, this time to 4.0 stars.
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations has been upgraded to 4.5 stars.

Matski

Really? I wouldn't begrudge any decision to leave Hipersonica off the list next year, if they decide to pull this again.

Matski

KALPORZ AWARDS - The 20 Best Albums of 2019 20. JUNIUS PAUL, “Ism” 19. THE MURDER CAPITAL, “When I Have Fears” 18. TORO Y MOI, “Outer Peace” 17. ANGEL BAT DAWID, “The Oracle” 16. ANGEL OLSEN, “All Mirrors”” 15. SHARON VAN ETTEN, “Remind Me Tomorrow” 14. PURPLE MOUNTAINS, “Purple Mountains” 13. JAME...

Matski

Migliori album 2019 (Best albums 2019) Logos - Imperial Flood Ultramarine - Signals Into Space These New Puritans - Inside The Rose Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride Big Thief - UFOF Big Thief - Two Hands Bill Callahan - Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain dTHEd ...

Matski

No worries, I get it. I'd be tempted to write a note at the bottom of column stating something like: 'We moved entries up to correct their error. If you feel the need to be pedantic and complain about it then get lost - we don't care.'

Matski

Los 51 mejores discos internacionales de 2019 (The 51 best international albums of 2019) Note: They seem to have messed up - there's no #24 on their list. May as well make it a 'Top 50' instead! 51. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rats’ Nest 50. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asle...

Matski

ACL 2019 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year 1. Caterina Barbieri ~ Ecstatic Computation 2. Matana Roberts ~ COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis 3. Black to Comm ~ Seven Horses for Seven Kings 4. The Caretaker ~ Everywhere at the end of time/everywhere, an empty bliss 5. Sunn O))) ~ Life Metal 6. Dominik E...

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MAGNET’s Top 25 Albums Of 2019 1) Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka 2) Fontaines DC - Dogrel 3) Big Thief - U.F.O.F. & Two Hands 4) The Minus 5 - Stroke Manor 5) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 6) Angel Olsen - All Mirrors 7) Guided By Voices - Zeppelin Over China | Warp And Woof | Sweating The Plague 8) Ma...

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Year in Music 2019: Top Local Albums Critics’ Poll 10. Petty - How Low We In 9. Twen - Awestruck 8. Kelsey Waldon - White Noise / White Lines 7. Faux Ferocious - Pretty Groovy 6. Miranda Lambert - Wildcard 5. Adia Victoria - Silences 4. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury 3. Brittany Howard - Jaime 2. ...

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XLR8R's Best of 2019: Releases Teebs - Anicca Mabe Fratti - Pies Sobre La Tierra Loscil - Equivalents James Massiah - Natural Born Killers Mutant Joe - Home Invasion Anthems Barker - Utility Rian Treanor - ATAXIA TNGHT - TNGHT II Shuta Hasunuma - Oa Clever Austi - Pareidolia Ras_G & The Afrikan Spa...

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Gigwise 51 Best Albums of 2019 51. JAWS - The Ceiling 50. Liz Lawrence - Pity Party 49. The S.L.P. - The S.L.P 48. Pip Blom - Boat 47. King Nun - MASS 46. Tyler, The Creator - IGOR 45. Babymetal - Metal Galaxy 44. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - End Of Suffering 43. Rex Orange County - Pony 42. (...

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Hotter than Hell! - 50 Greatest Albums of the Year [2019] (pg.10 / #1083 / 14th December, 2019) 50. Torche - Admission 49. Ithaca - The Language of Injury 48. Press Club - Wasted Energy 47. Perry Farrell - Kind Heaven 46. Gatecreeper - Deserted 45. Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong 44. I Preva...

Matski

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor has been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic.

horacewimp10538 wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:12 pm
Allmusic: Mercury Rev - All Is Dream is upgraded from 4 to 4.5 stars

Welcome to the forum horacewimp10538. Sorry to say but I already beat you to the punch on this one - see above.

Matski

Deerhunter - Microcastle has been upgraded to 4.5 stars on AllMusic.

Matski

A number of changes to album ratings on AllMusic: M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts has been downgraded to 4.0 stars M83 - Saturdays = Youth has been upgraded to 4.5 stars Mercury Rev - All Is Dream has been upgraded to 4.5 stars Sufjan Stevens - Michigan has been upgraded to 4.5 stars Tame ...

Matski

Mentioned this in another thread but End of Year/Decade articles were something AllMusic didn't start doing until 2008 and even then that was as retrospectives . It's taken them many years to embrace it the way outlets like Pitchfork always have. When the end of 2009 rolled around, they never would ...

Matski

AllMusic Best of 2019 | AllMusic 2019 in Review 440 / Juan Luis Guerra / Juan Luis Guerra y 440 - Literal A-Wa - Bayti Fi Rasi Aldous Harding - Designer Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom / Allison Miller - Glitter Wolf Altin Gün - Gece Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet Angel Olsen - All Mirrors Ariana ...

Matski

Seems like they chose Yeezus over My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . That may seem like an odd choice from the outside but AllMusic have never seemed to bow to the zeitgeist surrounding the album. I wonder if their editorial team even noticed it's the only Kanye album their users have given a full ...

Matski

Really disappointed that I missed so many updates off that post last weekend. Some of my favourite albums this decade too! Oh well, here's another update from AllMusic - it seems Coldplay's discography is undergoing a ratings overhaul: Coldplay - X&Y and Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends hav...

Matski

More changes on AllMusic:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In has been upgraded to a full five-stars.

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head has been upgraded to 4.5 stars.

Matski

They don't seem to have a list for the 00s overall. Their staff did upload a series of retrospective annual reviews a while ago, going all the way back to the 50s. You can still find it as part of the 'AllMusic Loves...' series here . The 'Album of the Year' article concept is something I feel AllMu...

Matski

The AllMusic Decade in Review Beach House - Teen Dream Actress - Splazsh Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness Jonathan Nott / Bamberger Symphoniker - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today Kode9 - DJ-Kicks Arcade Fire - The Suburb...

Matski

Seeming as they just upgraded ' Yeezus ', I doubt it will happen for some time. It would also make Kanye the only hip-hop act with more than three five-star studio albums! At best, any upgrade in the next few years would likely involve switching the ratings between MBDTF and one of Kanye's three fiv...

Matski

Ugh, how did I miss those three off... Especially ' Old ', which was the album that initially alerted me to the changes. ' Post ' was upgraded earlier in the year, along with several other 90s releases . That's right, AllMusic have gone on two five-star upgrading sprees in a year! I don't expect it ...

Matski

AllMusic have made another huge change to many of their ratings. All of the following albums were released in the 2010s and have been awarded a full five-star rating. It's a long list so here goes...: Adele - 21 Alvvays - Alvvays Anderson .Paak - Malibu Aphex Twin - Syro Arca - Arca Arctic Monkeys -...

Matski

EricMackAttacks wrote: ↑
Wed May 29, 2019 10:47 am
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The Fragile - now 4 (used to be 3)
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Bad Witch - still 3.5
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Seems like AllMusic were unhappy with those changes:

The Fragile has been further upgraded to 4.5 stars.
Bad Witch has been downgraded to 3 stars. (boo!)

Matski

Monster by R.E.M. has been upgraded to 3.0 stars by AllMusic.

Matski

Some unnecessary changes to Nick Cave's discography:

Your Funeral... My Trial has been upgraded to 4.5 stars
Henry's Dream has been downgraded to 3.5 stars.

Matski

Huh, saw this on indieheads/r earlier today and wondered if it would be elligible. I hope it is. While I may disagree with a few things on it, overall I actually prefer it to Pitchfork's list!

Matski

The Haunted Man by Bat for Lashes has been upgraded to 4.0 stars by AllMusic.

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