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For 1,720 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 71% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Boxing Mirror
Lowest review score: 10 Hefty Fine
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,457 out of 1720
  2. Mixed: 240 out of 1720
  3. Negative: 23 out of 1720
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    • 59 Metascore
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    Now in his 30s, he doesn't surf the beat so much as box with it, with both brutality and no small degree of grace. That a rapper of this much verbal gymnastic ability is still making Perez Hilton cracks is too bad, but the bigger problem is that Eminem's recipe of gore and gay jokes sounds like the past.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Killswitch Engage [2009]
    Aside from a few unique moments ("The Return," "Take Me Away"), there's not much new to report here.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Idlewild
    Film-specific songs like "Make No Sense at All" and "Call the Law" fall flat out of context.
    • 75 Metascore
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    Black Holes & Revelations
    Though the album grows stronger as it lurches on, the trio's pursuit of bombast leaves the killer melodies lost in outer space.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Revelations
    Once again, the results feel too spotty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sound Mirrors
    [An] uneven set.
    • 57 Metascore
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    Born In The U.K.
    "Born" loses its focus amid unabashed nods to Burt Bacharach and songs that are just not done yet, despite smart tempo changes and pretty melodies.
    • 60 Metascore
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    Patience
    Primarily lackluster.
    • 56 Metascore
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    Street Sweeper Social Club
    Though a floundering economy, bombed-out GOP and a season or two of corporate bailouts have provided them with a fat barrel of fish to shoot, this rap-rock hybrid simmers instead of seethes, never quite mustering the blood-boiling rage of its principals' previous material.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second
    "Per Second..." finds Wheat in the midst of an identity crisis, attempting to balance largely superb songs with an exasperating presentation.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Scream
    Sometimes it's good bizarre. Other times it's bad bizarre.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Finisterre
    Missteps more than it hits.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mo'Mega
    Seem[s] like a missed opportunity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cripple Crow
    What has become increasingly clear is that Devendra Banhart needs an editor.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Block
    Most of The Block is a reasonable enough approximation of faceless club pop, complete with standard-issue guest stars (the Pussycat Dolls, Timbaland) and out-of-left-field rap bridges.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Garden Ruin
    This new set fills in the spaces with sweeter, fuller arrangements, but the songs are hit and miss.
    • 63 Metascore
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    Eat Me, Drink Me
    There are only a couple of songs with enough impact to avoid boring people who catch the band on tour this summer. [9 Jun 2007]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blackout
    It's defiant like a bad drunk, uncomfortably oversexed and more at home in a seedy after-hours club than a celebrity ultra-lounge.
    • 57 Metascore
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    Welcome Back
    Songs like "Do You Remember" and "Wasting My Time" are tolerable but don't require repeated listening.
    • 45 Metascore
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    All That I Am
    Too often Santana sounds like a guest on his own show.
    • Billboard
    • 77 Metascore
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    Margerine Eclipse
    While by no means disastrous musically, it's a pale imitation of much better Stereolab albums, and in the end altogether dispensable.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    4:21 ... The Day After
    Despite having nowhere to go lyrically, he remains a remarkably potent presence.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Continuum
    It's still hard to tell if he's a bluesman in a soft-rocker's body or vice versa, and "Continuum" is the sound of him trying to figure it out too.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Down In Albion
    An erratic mix of messy ambition and indifferent sloppiness that sounds like it's falling apart even before it really has a chance to get it together. [11 Feb 2006]
    • Billboard
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cosmos Rocks
    It's a shame that the end result, the first under the Queen name in 13 years, is not very memorable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Powerballin'
    The constant talk of expensive cars, gyrating women and endless parties quickly becomes redundant--and boring.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shine On
    Volume and snappy nods to '70s arena rock cannot obscure empty angst and lazy rhymes.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Modulate
    A largely frustrating set of Saturday morning cartoon electronics.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Devil's Playground
    An uneven and ultimately unsatisfying return.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lost And Found
    The album is, while not terrible, not very memorable, either.
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