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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This wouldn't be a Squarepusher record if it didn't flip the bird to listeners at some point. [#10, p.126]- Blender
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Rimes's gigantic soprano never flags, yet remains best in ballads. [#11, p.140]- Blender
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Sentimental post-country tunes knock against acute lyrics about rent, overbearing parents and other aspects of the pre-midlife crisis, as rock-out moments keep grimness at bay. [#11, p.140]- Blender
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If his subject matter is getting stranger, however, his semiacoustic music is comfortingly familiar and expert. [#11, p.135]- Blender
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Much of the material features clamorous, heavy-handed production, and though Xzibit's subject matter ranges from orgies to the benevolence of his mama, his dexterous rhyming style is a little too undifferentiated. [#10, p.132]- Blender
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Sounds like the work of musicians who've spent just half an hour apart, not 20-odd years. [#11, p.143]- Blender
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Miller ups the melodic ante, staking his claim to becoming his generation's answer to Nick Lowe or Marshall Crenshaw. [#10, p.123]- Blender
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Much of Voyage to India is a soporific swath of happy-hour wallpaper. [#11, p.127]- Blender
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The good news is that practically nothing has changed. That's also the bad news. [#10, p.133]- Blender
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They still emphasize meditative atmosphere and near-whispered melody. [#10, p.120]- Blender
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If you buried Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks in a graveyard for 200 years and then dug it up, it would sound like this corroded, bottom-heavy music. [#11, p.134]- Blender
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Osborne clearly believes that her love for this material gives her the right to make it her own--which she does, convincingly. [#10, p.125]- Blender
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Ladytron's doom-laden arrangements feel as accomplished as Radiohead jamming with the Pet Shop Boys. [#10, p.120]- Blender
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A handful of affectionate Neil Young pastiches, a rocked-up hymn, and some tipsily swaying ballads. [#10, p.122]- Blender
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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]- Blender
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Parish is at his best on songs that, for all their avant-garde trappings, are eloquent enough not to need lyrics. [#10, p.125]- Blender
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So low-key that even the amplified instruments sound semi-acoustic. [#10, p.116]- Blender
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May demand close listening compared to the boisterous immediacy of most dance efforts, but it proves utterly entrancing. [#10, p.120]- Blender
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Brilliantly restrained throughout, ESG's sparse, mechanical funk remains unique and vital. [#12, p.142]- Blender
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Most of the tracks don't quite rise above their obvious influences, Radiohead and U2. [#10, p.118]- Blender
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An album that continues their mission of yanking bluegrass into the modern era. [#9, p.149]- Blender
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While cliches abound... this huge music is delivered with panache. [#9, p.154]- Blender