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For 811 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 86% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 13% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 81
Highest review score: 100 Harmlessness
Lowest review score: 5 Fashionably Late
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 757 out of 811
  2. Mixed: 48 out of 811
  3. Negative: 6 out of 811
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dos!
    Aside from a few solid, unspectacular pop-rock songs though, ¡Dos! Has only one thing to offer: it makes ¡Uno! sound a hell of a lot better.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Temper Trap
    Certain songs on The Temper Trap are just not worth listening to more than a couple of times.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Remember My Name
    Lil Durk's first album is lacking in a lot of things, the first being songs. Now, ten tracks is not necessarily too little of a number, but when half of the album is filler, that's when that number starts to work against you.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Everything
    It’s all well and good to deal with tough topics through music, but My Everything puts on a breezy pop face that severely hinders the potential poignancy of Grande’s words, morphing them into a more disquieting figure.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    The New Classic
    There's nothing to really chew on here, nothing to keep you coming back.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    What a Pleasure
    while the 7 or so songs on What A Pleasure have different names, it never really feels like anything ends or begins. It just kind of is, much in the same way that after listening to Beach Fossils, you know something happened but you can't remember why it did so or what it meant.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    The Drug in Me Is You
    For most, the record will be too much--it's messy, it's overdone, it's arrogant, and ultimately it's disappointing – making Radke's return not really worth the wait.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Prism
    An album with too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough good songs to recommend.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Turn Blue
    This record is guaranteed to indiscriminately piss off both kinds of Black Keys fans: the diehard purists yearning for the blues rock halcyon days and the recent devotees primed for another round of hooky singles.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    A Thousand Suns
    In essence, A Thousand Suns is a record with no real character or substance.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    Fever
    As a whole, Bullet show absolutely no progression on Fever, despite this being their third album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rodeo
    Without rising above the sum of the parts brought together, Travis loses control of his own album and it ends up sounding like a collection of tracks from various artists with the loose theme of Travis Scott barely tying it all together.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Paracosm
    On Parocosm, Ernest Greene tips his hand too early, too obviously: there’s not a lot to make you believe that he genuinely finds these sounds beautiful without some sort of winking hipness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Resurrection
    It's under-produced on essentially all aspects of the musicianship, while Jordan Pundik's hyper-nasally vocals are mixed poorly and too sugar-coated.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This Means War
    It's basically the third time Attack Attack! have written the same record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Young New England
    For the most part, Young New England is embarrassingly lost in itself, a superfluous output that floats along at a frustratingly slow pace and lacks even a slight resemblance of direction.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fly by Wire
    Its 10 songs meander by with enough sense to not stick around, and other than the grungy rock-out moments of “Nightwater Girlfriend,” we barely notice anything.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Am I the Enemy?
    The issue is that it's these screams and actual emotion that could have saved parts of Am I The Enemy, rather than the overproduced instrumentation and insipid vocal delivery that replaced The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' edge. Thus, as the record ends, it's clear that third time proves not to be the charm here, unfortunately, as many of us who were fans of DYFI keep hoping for that band to return.
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