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For 2,469 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% 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: 72
Highest review score:
Me First
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Results May Vary
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,788 out of 2469
  2. Mixed: 640 out of 2469
  3. Negative: 41 out of 2469
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    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    Optometry
    A cohesive, 100-percent successful record. [Oct 2002, p.95]
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 90
    Mind Elevation
    A blissed-out menagerie of subtly morphing beats and elegant melodies within a dub framework. [Oct 2002, p.88]
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 90
    Cold House
    With Cold House, Hood provide evidence that their time in the sun is long overdue. [Dec 2001, p.84]
    • Metascore: 72
    • Critic Score 90
    Future Songs
    Their best album to date. [Apr 2002, p.70]
    • Metascore: 71
    • Critic Score 90
    Playgroup
    May be Jackson's best work to date.... Playgroup is effortlessly retro, without sounding dated. [Apr 2002, p.80]
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 90
    Toxicity
    The fast parts are faster, the hard parts are harder, and the melodic sections are more memorable. [Oct 2001, p.102]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    The Last Broadcast
    This is a dazzling and haunting disc. [Aug 2002, p.74]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    Didn't It Rain
    Didn't It Rain may be simplistic compared to its more eclectic and haunting predecessor ['Ghost Tropic'], but it evokes the world-weary tones of Neil Young's 1970 masterpiece After The Gold Rush. [Jun 2002, p.86]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Secret Wars
    A frenetic, opaque masterpiece that ranks in the upper echelons of post-rock primacy. [Apr 2004, p.96]
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 90
    Go Plastic
    Go Plastic fuses the insanely intricate beat programming of Feed Me Weird Things and Daddy with the abstruse experimentation of 1998's Music is Rotted One Note. It's the best of both worlds. [Aug 2001, p.98]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 90
    Creatures
    Creatures has a medieval majesty.... Yet such pastoral conjuring doesn't mean the band can't rock. [Aug 2002, p.82]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 90
    Have You Fed the Fish?
    Unlike most of his contemporaries, singer-songwriter Gough is willing to explore all sorts of styles while allowing himself to be as playful or serious as he wants. [Dec 2002, p.74]
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    Bavarian Fruit Bread
    Consistently intriguing, haunting and above all, very good. [Dec 2001, p.94]
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    Amnesiac
    More often than not, Amnesiac finds a balance between twiddling and transcendence. [Jul 2001, p.79]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 90
    Gotham!
    Radio 4 evoke the Clash, Wire, Les Savy Fav and neo-new wave, jamming epileptic rhythms with chunks of white noise to get a restlessly eclectic sound. [Jun 2002, p.82]
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    God Hates Us All
    The most powerful, viscerally brutal album the quartet have released to date. [Sep 2001, p.100]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 90
    Commencement
    Deadsy's mix of electronics, death-metal distortion and lugubrious vocals offers something magnificently alien, yet familiar. [Jun 2002, p.69]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 90
    Room On Fire
    Better than its predecessor. [Dec 2003, p.150]
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 90
    Is This It?
    Delivers the goods in spades. [Nov 2001, p.94]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    Italian Platinum
    This Steve Albini-engineered masterpiece is destined to establish these 15-year vets as one of underground's strongest songwriting forces. [Aug 2002, p.83]
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 90
    Alice
    Alice is unique within Waits' unique discography, and it may be his most fully realized work. [Jul 2002, p.96]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    Walking With Thee
    Clinic have evolved from a set of brilliantly mixed parts into a distinctive whole to be reckoned with. [Apr 2002, p.71]
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 90
    TA
    This, more than any of their releases to date, is an actual album. [Jun 2002, p.90]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 90
    Travistan
    A rewarding art-pop risk. [Dec 2004, p.148]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Yoko
    A melodic masterpiece of regret. [Oct 2003, p.122]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 90
    Spend The Night
    A great party record, pop-metal to a splendid degree. [Jan 2003, p.84]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 90
    Steal This Album
    The tracks on Steal come off as much more assured and comfortable than those on Toxicity. [Jan 2003, p.81]
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    Let Go
    Nears indie-pop perfection. [Feb 2003, p.70]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    Smartly packaged pop that's as slick as Stereolab, but human enough--thanks to Coyne's earnestness and sincerity--to malfunction in all the right places. [Sep 2002, p.77]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    Transatlanticism
    It's Death Cab's slowest and most mature recording, and over time, hidden bits of magic reveal themselves brilliantly. [Nov 2003, p.98]
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