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.
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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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Linkin gain from their hip-hop daring, and the dance domos get to wedge a foot in the crossover door. [#9, p.151]- Blender
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Beginning with "Further On (Up The Road)," Springsteen finds his footing and rides out the album on a stirring high note. [#9, p.140]- Blender
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Thompson's pure, effortlessly soaring vocals feel undimmed by time. [#9, p.156]- Blender
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The gorgeous arrangements are still firmly in place, and the wavery vocals more earnest than ever. [#9, p.143]- Blender
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"Beer for My Horses," a rangy duet with Willie Nelson, and easy grooves like "Ain't It Just Like You" don't chase away the overbearing taste of "Red, White and Blue," the album's centerpiece first single. [#9, p.150]- Blender
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Successful imitation requires a kind of talent, too. [#9, p.156]- Blender
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This is simply a useful rampage through the best and worst impulses of the most important group in hip-hop history. [#9, p.153]- Blender
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For the tunnel-visioned Zeppelin fan, there's enough vintage Plant here to hold interest. [#8, p.121]- Blender
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A gently involving and moving album, Yoshimi could be the negative image of Radiohead's Kid A: the sound of a rock band using electronica to make music that's inclusive and warm instead of icy and aloof. [#8, p.114]- Blender
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YYY cram their furious music full of twists and spasmic enthusiasm, filling every second with motion. [#8. p.127]- Blender
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She spices mountain purism with rich instrumental and vocal harmony. [#9, p.153]- Blender
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The material sinks or swims on the quality of [Duritz's] brooding. [#8, p.116]- Blender
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Loewenstein manages a decent impersonation of, well, Sebadoh, undercutting his bright melodies and morose shrugs with caustic bass lines. [#8, p.118]- Blender
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What makes this more than just efficient dance-floor fodder are the guest vocalists. [#9, p.158]- Blender
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Sure, it's commercial, but Rosey's expert melding of dance beats and hippie dippiness adds up to a debut slick with beatnik cool. [#8, p.122]- Blender
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Nellyville will be the year's only record with a bigger-than-life number with Justin Timberlake, a capable ballad with Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland, an acute dis of preachy rap veteran KRS-One, and an ode to the hip-hop footwear of choice. [#8, p.120]- Blender
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The best songs have concise melodies and a likeable punch. The worst just sound like sketches, riffs a more traditionally ambitious group would have discarded. [#8, p.116]- Blender
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