Their favorites

1. Foo FightersWasting Light 91 Entertainment Weekly
2. Fleet FoxesHelplessness Blues 90 Spin
3. PJ HarveyLet England Shake 90 Spin
4. Sheryl CrowDetours 85 The A.V. Club
5. Bruce SpringsteenWe Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions 85 Pitchfork

Artists they keep coming back to

Their scores for each artist, in release order.

• Tom Waits 2 reviews80Real Gone81Bad as Me

A-Sides they reviewed

1 album that earned an A-Side, the critics’ top tier; they scored 1 of them 75 or higher.

• PJ HarveyLet England Shake 90

Every review

Album	Outlet	Their score	Breakdown	Published
Lady GagaJoanne“Now that her peers have caught up to her visual provocations, Lady Gaga seems less like an audacious pioneer than one among many, and Joanne feels tentative, an affront to…”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	69 6.9/10	68	2016
Bob DylanTempest“For all its detours toward sadness and alienation, death is the real story on Bob Dylan's latest album, very much a record about The End. He's learned, at 71, that…”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	68 6.8/10	84	2012
Fleet FoxesHelplessness Blues“9SPIN Rating: 9 of 10Release Date: May 03, 2011Label: Sub Pop"So now I am older," Robin Pecknold states in the opening moments of Helplessness Blues,”	Spin via Wikipedia	90 9/10	82	2011
PJ HarveyLet England Shake“9SPIN Rating: 9 of 10Release Date: February 15, 2011Label: VagrantPJ Harvey is beloved for a cornucopia of reasons — her ferocity, her frankness, that”	Spin	90 9/10	91	2011
Sheryl CrowDetours	The A.V. Club via Wikipedia	85 B	78	2008
Sigur RósTakk…	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	78 7.8/10	78	2005
Queens of the Stone AgeLullabies to Paralyze“On their first record since the departure of Nick Oliveri, Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age sound… like they always have: droning, riff-heavy rock peppered with vaguely cosmic flourishes.”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	75 7.5/10	75	2005
U2How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb“After a four-year absence, U2 are once again re-applying for the position of World's Biggest Rock Band with their brash, grungy 11th proper full-length (and 14th overall).”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	69 6.9/10	77	2004
Adele25“Adele is still young by any sensible metric, but much of 25, her third album, concerns itself with the passage of time: the inevitable accumulation of both years and vantages.…”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	73 7.3/10	79
RihannaAnti	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	77 7.7/10	72
Tom WaitsBad as Me“Featuring contributions from longtime bandleader Marc Ribot, Keith Richards, and Flea, among others, Bad as Me is Tom Waits' first proper collection of studio material since 2004's Real Gone. He…”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	81 8.1/10	84
DuffyEndlessly	Spin via Wikipedia	70 7/10	61
Jolie HollandEscondida“Texan songstress Jolie Holland regularly wrangles comparisons to the Cowboy Junkies and Gillian Welch, but her more formidable likeness is …”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	70 7.0/10	77
Tom WaitsReal Gone“18th proper studio album from the gruff-voiced singer/songwriter serves marks a departure from 2002's Alice and Blood Money, with an emphasis on mouth-made percussion. Avant-garde guitarist Marc Ribot guests for…”	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	80 8.0/10	71
Foo FightersWasting Light	Entertainment Weekly via Wikipedia	91 A-	79
Bruce SpringsteenWe Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions	Pitchfork via Wikipedia	85 8.5/10	84