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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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    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    Renaissance finds Richie in an oh-so-contemporary setting, encompassing uptempo dance, Latin-hued and funky pop, and power ballads. It also finds him working with such hitmaking producers as Rodney Jerkins, Walter Afanasieff, and Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor. While this may sound like a farfetched concept on paper, it works surprisingly well on disc -- albeit without breaking any new ground.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Battle For Everything
    Different from the touching--but too sleepy--"America Town," "Battle" impressively tackles new territory.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Of The Boys
    Engineered for short attention spans at just 44 minutes, One of the Boys is still more than enough to make this one long, hot summer for Perry.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Metamorphosis
    Metamorphosis, which follows 2006's commercially stillborn "The Paramour Sessions," is the most polished and wide-ranging of Papa Roach's six releases.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Forever
    The set oozes with timely funk beats and the kind of well-crafted songs that No. 1 hits are made of.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    T.O.S. (Terminate On Sight)
    Ultimately, G-Unit has returned to its aggressive roots, but it would've been wonderful to hear it rap over a more varied assortment of beats.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Como Ama Una Mujer
    Dovetailing with her choice of sound and arrangements that straddle convention and invention, Lopez mines new emotional depths. [31 Mar 2007]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good Morning Revival
    An album that proves being rich and famous doesn't always blunt a band's creative appetite. [31 Mar 2007]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    It's a tightly woven scheme whose anthemic simplicity is deceptive and leaves room for sophisticated (but still fierce) arrangements. [10 Mar 2007]
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Charmbracelet
    While fans of her early-'90s material will find much to embrace here, those that rallied 'round the singer during her hip-hop days may feel lost and abandoned.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Me
    With constant acknowledgement of imperfections, Simpson separates herself from the peppy Lindsay Lohans and Hilary Duffs. [22 Oct 2005]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook
    But after moving past those first moments of seeming artist/song incongruity, the listener will discover an album full of pleasant surprises and vocals that show Stewart in a most flattering light.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All The Right Reasons
    Less polish and more attitude are welcome changes that fire up the rock numbers and give them more snap. [8 Oct 2005]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Day Without Rain
    Enya keeps the comfort factor high with several compositions that are arguably descendants of her 1989 pop hit, "Orinoco Flow." She steps outside of that zone on the first single, "Only Time," an elegant effort that is wrapped in soothing harmonics fondly reminiscent of vintage Beach Boys tunes...
    • 39 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces
    Morgan simply lets his rage rock, infusing the album with the same kind of active/ alt-rock straddling approach that's vaulted Seether's previous releases to gold status.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Pru
    Picking up the lyrical gauntlet thrown down by such neo-soul sistahs as Angie Stone, Jill Scott, and musical influence/labelmate Rachelle Ferrell, this Houston-bred singer/songwriter sparkles with colorfully imaged songs about love won, lost, and anticipated -- laid against an R&B backdrop rhythmically punctuated with hip-hop, Latin, pop, jazz, rock, and country.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peggy's Blue Skylight
    The former Police guitar whiz surpasses himself with this survey of Charles Mingus as he gives the great man's compositions an utterly individual spin.
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