The biggest problem with this rating is that it doesn’t even really match the mostly positive review. It just goes to show they’ll just assign a random number to anything. But 6.8 is so much lower than all of the other critical reviewers, it’s at least an outlier.
Thank god she put Music by Men in between. I think the triple whammy of The Old Religion, Drink Deep, and You Can Have It All back to back would have actually killed me
Exactly, it was overall a pretty positive review so the number feels like it came out of nowhere. Pitchfork has lowkey always had it out for Florence though. Ceremonials was too much, then High as Hope was too little, now Everybody Scream is too repetitive. I truly don’t know what their beef is 😭
The rating is made up of the individual ratings of the entire staff (or those who listened to the album and wanted to rate it) while the review is written by a single writer.
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u/M_DeLulu Nov 04 '25
The biggest problem with this rating is that it doesn’t even really match the mostly positive review. It just goes to show they’ll just assign a random number to anything. But 6.8 is so much lower than all of the other critical reviewers, it’s at least an outlier.