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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The sonic and theatrical muscle it takes to project to 50,000 people who've paid to see another band adds a sense iof purpose that can't transfigure the superb material but does give the music its own charater. [Nov 2008, p.81]- Blender
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On his solo debut, Bradford Cox sinks, phantomlike, into lush, highly processed arrangements of organ, drum machine and (evidently) whatever instrument is laying around. The disappearing act really can be magical.- Blender
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Handled with less love, this could feel like a smug wander through an ironic record collection. Here, it becomes sexy, life-affirming pop. [Aug 2004, p.141]- Blender
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Conjuring doubts and tenderness, Forster's writing has never been surer. [May 2008, p.76]- 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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Of the nearly 59 minutes of music here, about 40 induce deep pleasure. [#16, p.125]- Blender
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Not as revelatory as Deserter's Songs, but a worthy (and lovely) companion piece. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.125]- Blender
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It's the sound of a band not stretching out so much as digging in: burrowing deeper into loamy soil they know well. [Jul 2007, p.109]- Blender
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Campbell and Millan use boy-girl harmonies to make a mockery of romance. [Jan 2004, p.109]- Blender
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This wistful, road-trip nostalgia-pop is the sound of alt-rock after the gold rush. [#14, p.141]- Blender
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Keeps the orchestral Americana on an ambient, after-hours simmer. [Mar 2004, p.123]- Blender
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[Case] settles into a relaxed dive-bar groove. [Nov 2004, p.130]- Blender
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For her to pull off something as ambitious, gritty and accomplished as this at age 21 is flat-out amazing. [#15, p.127]- Blender
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It's a declaration of independence, and she pulls it off stunningly. [Jan 2004, p.105]- Blender
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The songs have as much personality as ever, reviving bygone styles, from falsetto lite-funk to electro proto-rap, with goofball energy and a music geek’s careful ear.- Blender
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Unlike other current heart-on-sleeve troubadours, Lekman uses his tender touch to brilliantly tease out the bumbling awkwardness that defines modern love.- Blender
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Dangerous Magical Noise is a great Friday night, and your ears will ring through Sunday. [Nov 2003, p.112]- Blender
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A casual, mostly charming sketchbook of diffident alt-country laments. [Mar 2004, p.116]- Blender
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The dramatic arc of these songs is built around the way instruments lurch into place and dance drunkenly around one another before staggering off once again.- Blender
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She's just as acute as [Rufus] is, as centered on the poetry within the profane, as able to write songs whose meanings stay kept behind doors within doors. [May 2005, p.125]- Blender
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They've made a great record of choogling and--surprisingly for the wonky Malkmus--tender tunes. [Apr 2003, p.125]- 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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