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 7.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
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10
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Score distribution:
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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
1,854
music reviews
- By critic score
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Critic Score 80
Taking sound collage to seamless, organic perfection, Tobin arranges his samples like he's conducting a living orchestra. [#11, p.144] -
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Critic Score 80
They've made a great record of choogling and--surprisingly for the wonky Malkmus--tender tunes. [Apr 2003, p.125] -
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Critic Score 80
Far from the usual collision of greatest hits and "Hello, Cleveland"-type bluster. [#4, p.122] -
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Critic Score 80
The songs on Cuttin' Heads are his strongest since 1993's Human Wheels. [#4, p.120] -
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Critic Score 80
Calla's tension-filled deliberations are similar to the calibrated push-and-pull of SIgur Ros, but not nearly as pristine. [#14, p.133] -
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Critic Score 80
He's a full-fledged alternative auteur, skipping effortlessly from hypnotic electronics to refracted torch songs to balls-out alt-rock. [Aug 2003, p.134] -
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Critic Score 80
Young sounds fresher here than he has in nearly a decade. [Apr/May 2002, p.110] -
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Critic Score 80
Offers a twisted melancholy David Lynch would applaud. [May 2003, p.120] -
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Critic Score 80
And if he occasionally errs on the side of self-indulgence... so be it; for every moment of youthful overreach, there's another that shows a promising new talent in first bloom. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.121] -
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Critic Score 80
Miller ups the melodic ante, staking his claim to becoming his generation's answer to Nick Lowe or Marshall Crenshaw. [#10, p.123] -
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Critic Score 80
Imperial Teen deploy the familiar language of pop-rock, then subvert it with strange, chewy tales, making music that wraps arsenic in a candy coating. [Apr/May 2002, p.114] -
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Critic Score 80
Tuneful, kinky and deeply rooted in groove--a combination that evokes the best of both Prince and Macy Gray. [Feb/Mar 2002, p.112] -
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Critic Score 80
The Clan's lyricists remain as aggressively word-drunk as ever, balancing the music's pop conciseness with oblique rhymes that compel repeated listening. [Feb/Mar 2002, p.116] -
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Critic Score 80
It's the group's continued synchronicity that makes puns like "Kissing Asphalt" both chat-room hip and roller-rink authentic. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.110] -
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Critic Score 80
With innovative, funk-influenced beats and engaging rhymes, Lif brilliantly avoids the pitfalls of vacuous bling-drones and 'real hip-hop" whiners alike. [#10, p.124] -
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Critic Score 80
Unashamed candor often spells dreary self-indulgence. In Germano's insightful hands, it's fascinating and strangely exhilarating. [May 2003, p.119] -
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Critic Score 80
If this collection has a coherent theme, it's the cautious joy of a man making his emotional recovery. [#4, p.119] -
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Critic Score 80
The music makes her giddiness contagious. [#16, p.114] -
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Critic Score 80
Aside from disposable ballads and the sappy "Perfect Man," Survivor blasts haters, child molesters, and "been-around-the-block-females," keeping the blood up as they whup ass. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.108] -
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Critic Score 80
At times, i turns dangerously slow and arty.... But for the first time, [Merritt's] lethargic croak also emits a few degrees of human warmth. [May 2004, p.124] -
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Critic Score 80
Lavigne splices the angst of Alanis Morissette and the snarl of Courtney Love into a debut full of sunny guitar pop. [#8, p.115] -
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Critic Score 80
Immediately transforms VHS or Beta from disco revivalists into one of rock's best new bands. [Oct 2004, p.130] -