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For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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
Highest review score: 100 Major/Minor
Lowest review score: 0 Results May Vary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,331 out of 3071
  2. Mixed: 695 out of 3071
  3. Negative: 45 out of 3071
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mouthfuls
    A collection of delicate love songs with a back-porch feel, but the electronic warbles add enough texture for a new generation of stoners to space out on. [June 2003, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Summer Of The Shark
    It's the beautifully austere, grown-up pop album we've been waiting years for Mac McCaughan to record. [Jun 2003, p.97]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Faceless
    Unflinchingly heavy, this midtempo metal won't disappoint believers. [June 2003, p.101]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Summer Sun
    Their most challenging album to date. [June 2003, p.98]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Up In Flames
    There hasn't been a song-oriented psychedelic album that's had this sort of life-affirming, full-bodied roar since Mercury Rev's 1993 classic, Boces. [June 2003, p.110]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    thickfreakness
    What you hear on Thickfreakness is no less faithful than what old black guys on porches on the Delta have churned out for the last hundred years. [June 2003, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Secret Of Elena's Tomb [EP]
    These five songs show the band branching off into some surprising directions. [Jun 2003, p.103]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fear Yourself
    Fans will enjoy his latest installment of heartbreak set to piano. [Mar 2003, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    6Twenty
    A crank-it-up-Friday-night blowout that's pure exuberance. [Apr 2003, p.74]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangest Things
    Longwave aren't so much groundbreakers as they are purveyors of haunting, earnest pop. [Apr 2003, p.80]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Where Shall You Take Me
    [Jurado] may be our generation's Neil Young. [Apr 2003, p.78]
    • Alternative Press
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pig Lib
    Finally makes good on Malkmus' claims of musical maturity. [Apr 2003, p.80]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buzzcocks [2003]
    A smart, slashing set of B-plus-level pop-punk. [Apr 2003, p.78]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
    It's roots music that hums and rattles, hearing the dissonant sound of America singing and finding beauty in the collision of opposites. [Apr 2003, p.73]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Antenna
    This should be in everyone's stereo this spring, as it may go down in the history books as the Pet Sounds for the aggressive-rock world. [Apr 2003, p.82]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Burn Piano Island, Burn
    The quintet's Molotov mixture of suburb surrealism and sonic extremity is the perfect scrub for everything you've been subjected to in culture and daily life. [Apr 2003, p.73]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transfiguration Of Vincent
    M. Ward's creations have the fragility of drawings made in the dust that's settled on a china cabinet. [Apr 2003, p.87]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Up The Bracket
    While their occasional reliance on wide-eyed sloppiness isn't endearing, when the band clean up, they have some irresistible pop nuggest in them. [Apr 2003, p.80]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Log 22
    Their music is just too smart. [June 2003, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dust
    Much of Dust is nearly indistinguishable from the British trip hop Muggs' tripped-out productions helped inspire. [Apr 2003, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sing The Sorrow
    Sing The Sorrow soars with the kind of melodies hit singles are made of, yet it somehow persists with AFI's esoteric darkness. [Apr 2003, p.69]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The New Folk Implosion
    A rock record that sounds a lot like Sebadoh with an aspiring guitar hero. [Mar 2003, p.94]
    • Alternative Press
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magnolia Electric Co.
    Feels a bit like Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home--a record where bravery is found with volume. [Apr 2003, p.85]
    • Alternative Press
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So Long, Astoria
    Asstoria radiates a childlike glee and naivete you'll wish you still had. [Apr 2003, p.70]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Parts Per Million
    The sound is a little too consistent, as every spastic outburst starts to sound like the last midway through the album. [Apr 2003, p.86]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Ugly Organ
    An enthralling emotional powerhouse propped up by fantastic post-punk that rips your head off and then gently sews it back in place. [Apr 2003, p.74]
    • Alternative Press
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Coral
    The Coral blow through genres like Top 40 radio does flavors of the week. [Apr 2003, p.74]
    • Alternative Press
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Noise
    A hint of what Pet Shop Boys would sound like with guitars. [Apr 2003, p.72]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Down With Wilco
    A solid album, but a must-have only for Tweedy completists. [Apr 2003, p.82]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lost Planets & Phantom Voices
    Sprout is doing a fine job of keeping his legacy untarnished. [Apr 2003, p.73]
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