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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Everything All The Time
    Everything All The Time is almost pitifully lacking in soul, and it suffers from a few real snoozers, to boot. [May 2006, p.162]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's All Around You
    A dozy dud. [Jun 2004, p.98]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Red Bedroom
    When Red Bedroom ditches the choppy guitar riffs... the results are as much of a buzzkill to Bedroom's jumpin' vibe as cops busting up a raging house party. [Aug 2004, p.116]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    American Central Dust
    Listening to American Central Dust ultimately feels a bit too much like working on an assembly line. [Aug 2009, p.114]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Roots & Crowns
    There's not a single song that's captivating enough to hold our attention. [Dec 2006, p.188]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sweet Sister [EP]
    This North Carolina sextet's satisfying angst gets replaced with tinny keyboard effects and Guster-ready bongo drums. With every song, vocakist Adam Baker oozes further into an imaginary indie-lite Pixar flick. [May 2010, p.102]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If Not Now, When?
    This is an album aimed at minivan-driving moms who saw Incubus live a decade ago, but the boneheaded lyrical cliches and nap-inducing arrangements are likely to bore even them. [Aug 2011, p.114]
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      • Posted Jul 6, 2011
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Printz
    They lard The Printz with rote Aggressive Rock Radio fodder. [Jul 2004, p.148]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Micah P. Hinson And The Opera Circuit
    It seems like Hinson puts far more energy into conveying some sense of backwoods authenticity than writing songs that inspire any type of real emotion. [Oct 2006, p.200]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When The World Was Our Friend
    Darker, glitchier and garage-punkier... a gamble that doesn't always strike gold. [Jan 2005, p.114]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Welcome Interstate Managers
    Sadly, much of Welcome Interstate Managers is bogged down by forgettable midtempo slush. [Aug 2003, p.104]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    (One)
    The result: a CD without hooks, impressive guitar pyrotechnics, or anything else, really. [Sep 2006, p.226]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    Disappointing--and worse yet, faceless. [Apr 2012, p.99]
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hello Everything
    The songs sound more like a collection of B-sides than a new album. [Dec 2006, p.206]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Baby Blue
    What used to feel timeless now just feels tired. [Jun 2004, p.107]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Civilized
    Shawn Christensen's vocals are buried in the mix, while songs fly by with no memorable structure or hooks. [Aug 2009, p.115]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sam's Town
    A cluttered, derivative mess. [Dec 2006, p.200]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Later...When the TV Turns To Static
    Too much of this collection tries to get by merely on Allan's mumble-to-a-scream vocals and a smothering wall of reverb, leaving the instrumentation dull and the tunes indistinct. [Oct 2013, p.86]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Aug 30, 2013
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Boomslang
    The problem: Semi-masked in the Healers, he's short an originality chromosone. [Feb 2003, p.70]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Cover Up
    They make OMD sound like Joy Division. [Aug 2004, p.124]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Forget Yourself
    The Church's languid melancholy sedates rather than seduces. [Feb 2004, p.88]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's a Corporate World
    The majority of the tracks are watered down reminders of their indie big brothers. [Jul 2011, p.107]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jun 3, 2011
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Spelled In Bones
    Second-rate Shins. [Aug 2005, p.164]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dark Touches
    Dark Touches has its catchy moments, but sticking a song in the listener's head is not the same thing as creating important music. [Nov 2009, p.109]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let Us Never Speak Of It Again
    Sounds anemic. [May 2005, p.138]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reformation Post T.L.C.
    A dispirited, half-baked record. [Jun 2007, p.156]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    The Nirvana box set isn't the Holy Grail. The Nirvana box set isn't even Incesticide. [Jan 2005, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Before The Dawn Heals Us
    Although M83's ambitions are often great, there is a problem here: Before The Dawn often drags its feet. [Mar 2005, p.138]
    • Alternative Press
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    God Bless Your Black Heart
    At times, borders on unlistenable. [Nov 2004, p.146]
    • Alternative Press
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lightning
    The other songs beg for remixes, guest vocalists or anything to give them more depth. [Nov 2012, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Oct 19, 2012
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