Alternative Press' Scores
- Music
For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
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| Lowest review score: | Results May Vary |
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Positive: 2,331 out of 3071
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Mixed: 695 out of 3071
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Negative: 45 out of 3071
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The jarring stylistic shifts sometimes make listening to RNR feel more like scanning the radio dial than listening to a CD. [Jan 2004, p.106]- Alternative Press
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Amazing. [Jan 2004, p.108]- Alternative Press
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Moody music that avoids settling on any one sound for more than half a song. [Feb 2004, p.78]- Alternative Press
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The Stills succeed where other time-travelers fail by emphasizing substance over style. [Jan 2004, p.108]- Alternative Press
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Mescaleros Martin Slattery and Scott Shields have yielded a remarkably cohesive set of songs with arrangements that Strummer would have approved of. [Dec 2003, p.135]- Alternative Press
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[They] satisfy largely by serving up more of what made their debut so good. [Dec 2003, p.142]- Alternative Press
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[Travis have] set aside the drifting atmospherics iin favor of complex arrangements. [Dec 2003, p.154]- Alternative Press
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The rare sort of album that convinces you original music still exists. [Jan 2004, p.110]- Alternative Press
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Perhaps the strangest and most successful finale ever. [Nov 2003, p.116]- Alternative Press
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Rachel's create classical music for people who listen to bands like Boards Of Canada. [Nov 2003, p.100]- Alternative Press
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There's little sign of life here, only gently unassuming arpeggios and blanketing softness. [Jan 2004, p.98]- Alternative Press
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Koala contours his cuddly cuts for the ADD set. [Nov 2003, p.118]- Alternative Press
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Deliciously out of touch, Ladybug Transistor are sly, simpering and irresistible. [Nov 2003, p.99]- Alternative Press
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Jet storm the new rock pack with the diverse appeal and catchy compositions. [Nov 2003, p.112]- Alternative Press
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It's Death Cab's slowest and most mature recording, and over time, hidden bits of magic reveal themselves brilliantly. [Nov 2003, p.98]- Alternative Press
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You'd be hard pressed to find a more confessional album released this year. [Dec 2003, p.142]- Alternative Press
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Equally adept with paradiddles and software plugins, these digital-age surrealists have birthed a musical hybrid all their own. [Nov 2003, p.100]- Alternative Press
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LFO executes these retro moves with flamboyance and subtlety, so we can forgive Bell his derivativeness. [Nov 2003, p.118]- Alternative Press
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Though it has a couple great cuts that are in the running for Britpop song of the year, With The Tides lacks definition, making South more a group in the midst of a movement than one defining it. [Oct 2003, p.138]- Alternative Press
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Seven's Travels ultimately nods to the mainstream as much as to the underground. [Nov 2003, p.116]- Alternative Press
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Unfortunately, the tinny stutters and retro keyboards... drag when they're not amped up on desire. [Dec 2003, p.158]- Alternative Press
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An album as dense and uncompromising as his native New York. [Nov 2003, p.116]- Alternative Press
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