Metacritic 75 (best rated 2002 new albums)

Info:  «Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged» (from Wikipedia). Metacritic 75 is a series of playlists collecting all new albums (no reissues, anthologies, live albums) that get a 75+ aggregated score generated by at least 15 reviews. On running years, the playlist is periodically updated and closed on January of the following year. This playlist collects new albums published in 2002.

Source: Metacritic
Date of publication: 2002
Spotify playlist latest update: 17th August 2016
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Full list

Strikethrough albums (4/54) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

Elbow - Asleep in the Back (82)
Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and the Glitz (78)
Cornelius - Point (82)
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (84)
Lambchop - Is a Woman (79)
... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (85)
Clinic - Walking With Thee (79)
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (Second Version) (80)
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (86)
Cornershop - Handcream For A Generation (78)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (87)
Paul Westerberg - Stereo (76)
Luna - Romantica (76)
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel (76)
Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy (Soundtrack) (79)
Tom Waits - Blood Money (84)
Tom Waits - Alice (90)
Bryan Ferry - Frantic (77)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (75)
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (81)
Doves - The Last Broadcast (85)
Guided By Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles (76)
Sonic Youth - Murray Street (82)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (84)
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band - The Rising (82)
Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (77)
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (85)
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (81)
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (88)
Liars - They Threw Us In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (77)
Neko Case - Blacklisted (82)
Pulp - We Love Life (84)
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (80)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (89)
Steve Earle - Jerusalem (78)
Beck - Sea Change (79)
The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland (79)
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (76)
Röyksopp - Melody A.M. (81)
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (75)
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (90)
Foo Fighters - One By One (75)
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (76)
Sigur Ros - () (82)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (80)
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish? (77)
Missy Elliott - Under Construction (81)
Talib Qweli - Quality (79)
FC/Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (77)
Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (84)
George Harrison - Brainwashed (77)
The Roots - Phrenology (87)
Common - Electric Circus (80)
Nas - God's Son (81)

Pitchfork Best New Music of 2010 (and 2003)

 Joanna Newsom look at the day she will enter the Spotify world...

Pitchfork's Best New Albums page is a useful archive of the best reviewed new albums by the webzine. The archive goes back to 2002. Here you find a spotiplaylist of the best music of the first half of 2010 and - bonus - one that will help you to see if you missed something great in 2002/2003. Three songs each album: just to taste the records. I will update it on a monthly basis. If you want more frequent updates, take a look at this other blog: Pitchify. They're doing a great job, posting Spotify links for every new (and well reviewed) album.

The Playlists


Pitchfork Best Music of 2010
(72 tracks, 24 albums out of 33, 72,72%, about 5 hours)

Featuring three songs each from:

Contra (Vampire Weekend), Heartland (Owen Pallett), Astro Coast (Surfer Blood), There Is Love in You (Four Tet), Teen Dream (Beach House), IRM (Charlotte Gainsbourg), One Life Stand (Hot Chip), I'm New Here (Gil Scott-Heron), Gorilla Manor (Local Natives), Black Noise (Pantha du Prince), Sisterworld (Liars), Plastic Beach (Gorillaz), The Monitor (Titus Andronicus), Fang Island (Fang Island), The Wild Hunt (The Tallest Man on Earth), Swim (Caribou), Subiza (Delorean), Crystal Castles II (Crystal Castles), Forgiveness Rock Record (Broken Social Scene), High Violet (The National), Treats (Sleigh Bells), This Is Happening (LCD Soundsystem), CMYK EP (James Blake), Gemini (Wild Nothing). 

Missing:

Have One On Me (Joanna Newsom), A Sufi and a Killer (Gonjasufi), Big Echo (The Morning Benders), Clinging To a Scheme (The Radio Dept.), Cosmogramma (Flying Lotus), Nothing Hurts (Male Bonding), The ArchAndroid (Janelle Monae), Innerspeaker (Tame Impala), Body Talk Pt.1 (Robyn)

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP Link, URI. (SR0182)




Pitchfork Best Music of 2003
(87 tracks, 29 albums out of 54, 53,70%, about 6 hours)


Featuring three songs each from:

No P. or D. (Ms. John Soda), Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Angels of Light), Hearts of Oak (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists), Make It Pop (Giddy Motors), You Are Free (Cat Power), Beauty Party (The Majesticons), Wonderful Rainbow (Lightning Bolt), Englaborn (Johann Johannsson), The Magnolia Electric Co. (Songs: Ohia), Burn, Piano Island, Burn (Blood Brothers), Apple O' (Deerhoof), Let's Get Serious (Panthers), Rounds (Four Tet), Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (M83), Ether Teeth (Fog), Sumday (Grandaddy), Hail To the Thief (Radiohead), Cedars (Clearlake), Oaklandazulasylum (Why?), Boy in da Corner (Dizzee Rascal), Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State (Sufjan Stevens), Echoes (The Rapture), It Still Moves (My Morning Jacket), Ode To Joy (The Deadly Snakes), UFO (Need New Body), The Meadowlands (The Wrens), The Lemon of Pink (The Books), Kish Kash (Basement Jaxx), Berlinette (Ellen Allien). 

Missing:

S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. (Out Hud), Mount Eerie (The Microphones), You Forgot It In People (Broken Social Scene), Do You Party? (The Soft Pink Truth), 6 (Supersilent), A Promise (Xiu Xiu), Castaways and Cutouts (The Decemberists), Up In Flames (Manitoba), Guitar Romantic (The Exploding Hears), Headdress (Sunburned Hand of the Man), One Word Extinguisher (Prefuse 73), Wetheads Come Running (Single Frame), Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) (!!!), Young Liars EP (TV on the Radio), Shine a Light (Constantines), Neu (Polysics), Her Majesty the Decemberists (The Decemberists), Vaudeville Villain (Viktor Vaughn), Spring (Cyann & Ben), Hope (Non-Prophets), Chutes Too Narrow (The Shins), I Am the Fun Blame Monster (Menomena), Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (The Unicorns), The Black Album (Jay-Z), Afro Finger and Gel (Mu).

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP Link, URI. (SR0183)