Blender's Scores
- Music
For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
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39% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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58% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
| Highest review score: | Together Through Life | |
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| Lowest review score: | Folker |
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Positive: 957 out of 1854
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Mixed: 862 out of 1854
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Negative: 35 out of 1854
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He's labored, bombastic and pitch-challenged.... The lyrics are embarrassing. [Aug 2004, p.143]- Blender
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Thomas's songs derive power from being derivative. [#13, p.98]- Blender
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On their self-titled fourth album, one colon-blowing mid-tempo after another shows the strain.- Blender
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The stiff, weirdly disengaged, single-note guitar solos and Kidman’s monochromatic death screams don’t make you want to keep dragging yourself through the record.- Blender
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So while there's no lack of diversity over Shaman's 70-plus minutes, that's also its undoing: it doesn't hang together. [#12, p.152]- Blender
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Stylistic attention-deficit disorder dilutes the focus and also dates it. [#17, p.137]- Blender
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Again, the results are a mutant virus of gorgeous and bland, grainy and slick. [Mar 2007, p.135]- Blender
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What's the point of a cheesy goth-pop record that isn't any fun? [May 2006, p.105]- Blender
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Producer Desmond Child trips up the Meatman by valuing metal flash over the altruism of want-you-need-you humanity.- Blender
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In their desperate eagerness to please, HHH offer a few modest pleasures. [#12, p.143]- Blender
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The Coxon-less Blur seem half a band, adrift in a loopy, moody head cold. [May 2003, p.115]- Blender
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Too often... the results sound messy and carry a hint of prog-rock pomposity. [Mar 2004, p.115]- Blender
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There's something forgettable and half-finished about a lot of it. [#11, p.124]- Blender
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Its penitent but hopeful mood still suggests a Catholic equivalent of corporate Christian rock- Blender
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They’ve buried those strengths deep to make way for a humorless new approach that borrows the turgid bleariness of Oasis (“Living’s much too easy and dying will be some kind of bore”) but misses the Gallaghers’ pomp and glory.- Blender
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If she's trying to skewer empty luxuries, her delivery is too disengaged to register as ironic or feisty. [Apr 2009, p.63]- Blender
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'Up' sounded like the work of a band getting its bearings. On 'Reveal,' they're still finding their way. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.110]- Blender
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We're left with the immutable Corgan sans ambition: his narrow whine, melodies not quite predictable but dull anyway and a misty worldview with collegiate airs. [Jul 2005, p.116]- Blender
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The utterly flavorless repertoire she sings here... steers her toward Lite FM. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.106]- Blender