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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infinite Arms
    At its best, Arms is a pleasant album, one that sounds good on the surface or as background music. For most bands, that's perfectly acceptable. But for a group like Band Of Horses--whose ambitions have always intersected with being meaningful and transcendent, too--somehow just being acceptable makes Arms fall short.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Walking With The Beggar Boys
    About as riveting as a glass of water. [Jun 2004, p.97]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pyramids
    Pyramids can sound like several songs playing at once, a psychedelic instrumental played backward, or the muffled recording of a session two rooms away. [July 2008, p.155]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hush
    Here, vocalist Yuki Chikudate's stacked, reverberating vocals sparkle like the glint of light off of fresh morning dew. [Apr 2009, p.134]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eleventh Hour
    Del wisely keeps things simple on the audio front, lubricating many of his basic, old-school beats with the good old P-Funk bottom of his early years. [Mar 2008, p.147]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Come Back To The Five & Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee
    It's not bad, but it's no zobie romance, that's for sure. [Mar 2009, p.113]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    VI
    Yeah, they've been putting out pretty much the same album for the last 10 years. [Jun 2007, p.158]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Somewhere Else
    Somewhere Else is only rewarding if you can stay awake. [Feb 2013, p.90]
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      • Posted Jan 23, 2013
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sneak Attack
    The Sneak Attack proves this pioneer and innovator's run is far from over. [Aug 2001, p.90]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Speakers And Tweeters
    Speakers and Tweeters is an admirably varied effort from a band whose Two-Tone jones is just the starting point. [June 2008, p.137]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sleep Forever
    Sleep Forever is a fine album, but you get the sense that if the band focused on their pop sensibilities as much as they do their more seemingly aesthetic inclinations, it would have been a great album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Light the Horizon
    All too often it feels like the band are ignoring the part of their name that gives them carte blanche to experiment and toy with expectations.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occupy This Album
    Despite the obvious problems with continuity and flow (not to mention the general concept of time, as in the amount of actual time it takes to comb through 99 tracks), there's still a lot of good music on Occupy This Album.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Damage
    Contributions from Chuck D... and Dan The Automator... elicit[s] enough blips on the heart monitor to keep the album from flatlining. [Dec 2004, p.158]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
    This doesn't say the labum doesn't have its moments, but when you consider the amount of time and patience it takes to get to tthat point, it's hardly worth the payoff. [Apr 2008, p.153]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow
    It feels safe and too familiar.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not Yet
    It's a great album to have on hand for a wild party, but piping it through your headphones will have you skipping tracks. [Feb 2011, p.89]
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      • Posted Feb 1, 2011
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Will We Be
    Tellingly, 'Angelika' and 'Maria Leonza' only get comfortably loose and silly when halfway finished. With a Strokes-y guitar part and a driving backbeat, the innovative '16th & Valencia, Roxy Music' is hopefully what Banhart will be in the future. [Dec 2009, p.108]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Electrified
    Electrified certainly isn't the most original album you'll hear this year, but crunchy pop like this doesn't have to work very hard to impress the indie set. [Jul 2005, p.176]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Damnesia
    The album's best moment is "You've Got So Far To Go," which is straightforward without sacrificing nuance or energy. If only the rest of Damnesia could have been on that same wavelength. [Aug 2011, p.112]
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      • Posted Jul 8, 2011
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs For Silverman
    Plays out like a sequel to BF5's last album... with one key element missing: humor. [May 2005, p.172]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crooked Doors
    Tori Amos fans will be thrilled, but those hoping to continue on a hard-rock bender will be left puzzled. [May 2015, p.100]
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      • Posted Apr 10, 2015
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Two Fingers
    Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman have created some truly interesting sounds, but the end result is sadly just another trip-hop excursion with lame rapping over the top. [May 2009, p.123]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lost Riots
    A record of bittersweet delights that resonates with the brain and the heart. [Nov 2004, p.149]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Break It Up
    After blowing out of the gate with the blondie-tinted delight 'Ecstatic Appeal,' Pearl ends up coasting on fumes. [Nov 2009, p.114]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All City
    The ladies aren't ready to carry an album by themselves. [Oct 2004, p.146]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow
    Coheed's fourth album simply doesn't deliver on the suspense that's been loaded into it. [Nov 2007, p.155]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Days of Abandon
    For now, it just comes off like an unnecessary retreat.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
    Bull drags on with minimal memorable hooks and far too much guitar feedback. [Jun 2012, p.76]
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      • Posted May 2, 2012
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hello
    Admittedly, this kinder, gentler Half Japanese lack the shambling brilliance of earlier incarnations, but, hey, we all lose a step with age. [#155, p.76]
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