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For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Together Through Life
Lowest review score: 10 Folker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 957 out of 1854
  2. Mixed: 862 out of 1854
  3. Negative: 35 out of 1854
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rooney
    Simple, charming and surprisingly innocent. [#17, p.143]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Anthem
    Stylistic attention-deficit disorder dilutes the focus and also dates it. [#17, p.137]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deftones
    Its densest aural jungle so far. [#17, p.136]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Birds Of Pray
    Every chorus is a rousing tribute to overstatement. [#17, p.137]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Golden Age Of Grotesque
    His campiest, and skimpiest, since his debut. [#17, p.138]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Out Of The Vein
    The group's lite grooves, awful raps and wide-screen choruses are beginning to sound desperate. [#17, p.144]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good Mourning
    The mean-spirited sounds of Good Mourning are easy to listen to, but hard to forget. [#17, p.132]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Politics Of The Business
    The joke isn't well-conceived or funny enough to sustain over an hour. [#16, p.123]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Being Ridden
    He orchestrates IDM glitch, acoustic guitars, strings, hip-hop beats, witty rhymes and emo candor with casual, genre-blending assurance. [#17, p.133]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Easy Listening
    Cobra Verde embrace classic-rock posturing with all of its messy emotional overreach, wanky-yet-tasteful guitar solos and bombastic songcraft.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rounds
    Hebden treats software as a rocky road to hummable compositions of seductively intricate invention. [#17, p.135]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Old Kit Bag
    Of the nearly 59 minutes of music here, about 40 induce deep pleasure. [#16, p.125]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electric Version
    New Porn songs gush eagerness and surge like the front car of a roller coaster. [May 2003, p.122]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When I Pretend To Fall
    Brainy, brooding, classically "indie" guitar music. [#16, p.121]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Cherry
    Although a few tracks retain Felt Mountain's eerie beauty, Black Cherry's natural habitat is less supper club than strip club, and Goldfrapp sound right at home. [May 2003, p.119]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On And On
    With On and On, Johnson pushes past those folk- and root-distressed interiors and glides into cool new musical areas. [#16, p.122]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Smell Of Our Own
    The Cameras mix sex and spirituality over a gorgeous bed of organs, harps and 12-part harmonies. [May 2003, p.120]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    The Coxon-less Blur seem half a band, adrift in a loopy, moody head cold. [May 2003, p.115]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Counterfeit 2
    The musical treatment is Depeche Mode-lite, setting generally passionate songs in an antiseptic electronic context, and Gore's over-earnest voice lacks the presence to reinvigorate them. [May 2003, p.120]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fever To Tell
    The songs on Fever to Tell swerve like they're being followed by the police, constantly changing and transforming. [May 2003, p.124]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night On My Side
    Offers a twisted melancholy David Lynch would applaud. [May 2003, p.120]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    High Dive
    Some of her material still has an emotional earnestness that would make Bono blush. [#16, p.121]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shine
    Only the fuzzy reggae of "Power of One" is lively enough to rouse a dozing listener and hint at what the record might have been with a little less midnight meditation. [May 2003, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I'm Staying Out
    This new material could benefit from the kind of friction that kept Whiskeytown from being stable for more than a few months. [May 2003, p.115]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monday At The Hug & Pint
    [Moffat's] monotone is offset by colorful arrangements. [May 2003, p.114]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baby I'm Bored
    Shambling and confessional. [May 2003, p.116]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Life
    That's both the best and the worst thing about this album: The music is much more eloquent than the lyrics. [May 2003, p.112]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Day I Forgot
    A whiz-bang jukebox of state-of-the-art West Coast scruff-rock. [May 2003, p.126]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lullaby For Liquid Pig
    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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Do Rabbits Wonder
    Give Whirlwind Heat this: The first time out, they've managed to sound exactly like the worst bands downtown New York coughed up in 1982. [May 2003, p.125]
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