Blender's Scores
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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 demo versions... sound like an incompetent Clash cover band rehearsing in a sock.... If you're considering buying this glorious record for the first time, save 20 bucks and go for the basic version. [Oct 2004, p.136]- Blender
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Despite Wilson's wrecked voice, it's surprisingly grand and moving. [Nov 2004, p.146]- Blender
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Some of the most gripping singing you're going to hear all year.... A brave, unrepeatable record that speaks to her whole life. [May 2004, p.123]- Blender
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Lush and languorous, velvet-robe decadent and soft-focus steamy, Histoire is a make-out record and a gross-out record.- Blender
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A torrid album that marries old-school rap aesthetics to punk-rock concision. [May 2004, p.127]- Blender
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Not since 1966's Blonde on Blonde has Dylan sounded so happy and alert. [Oct/Nov 2001, p.102]- Blender
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The momentous band [on the 1980-81 disc] stretches out and jams, both celebrating and escaping the band's trademark anxiety. [Sep 2004, p.158]- Blender
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The jumble of stuff that spills out -- from Delta blues to nineteenth-century ballads to spoken-word rambles -- is surprisingly consistent, at times transcendent, and not just for people intimately acquainted with Waits’s honeyed craziness.- Blender
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His hard-edged, dance-inflected debut makes East London sound like the new Dirty South. [Jan 2004, p.108]- Blender
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They break their own rules, even adding expansive guitar solos, to keep themselves interested and fans off-balance. [May 2003, p.123]- Blender
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This 'boxxx holds an explosion of creativity that couldn't have been contained in just one LP. [Nov 2003, p.118]- Blender
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The exact opposite of background music, A Grand Don’t Come for Free demands the same attention as a movie, and that’s why some people will hate it while others will find it uniquely riveting.- Blender
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The biggest draw is the Iggy-Jagger sexual charisma of 22-year-old singer Julian Casablancas, whose self-possessed cool is astonishing. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.130]- Blender
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The most distinctive producer-rapper Britain has coughed up since Tricky. [#11, p.143]- Blender
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After decades, Waits's theater of musical cruelty is familiar stuff. But the old dog's tricks still have bite. [Applies to both Alice and Blood Money, Jun/Jul 2002, p.111]- Blender
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The album works as an ambient whole, its fog-bank synths, yearning vocal slivers and stoic basslines filling the room with melancholy.- Blender
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The band's warm way with weirdness remains; it's just flashier now. [Oct 2005, p.140]- Blender
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Hebden treats software as a rocky road to hummable compositions of seductively intricate invention. [#17, p.135]- Blender
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It radiates the observant calm of old masters who have seen enough life to be ready for anything--Yeats, Matisse, Sonny Rollins. [Sep 2006, p.139]- Blender
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"Get Ur Freak On," the frenetic lead single, relies on boilerplate hip-hop braggadocio, but the beats are something else: head-snapping electro-funk spiced with tablas that herald Missy and [Timbaland's] return as the rulers of the hip-hop avant-garde. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.106]- Blender
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He is clearly invigorated by the tensions between pretty and ugly, simplicity and chaos. [Nov 2004, p.130]- Blender
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This is their sunniest, most likeable record, leavened by hints of light-footed dance music.- Blender
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While cliches abound... this huge music is delivered with panache. [#9, p.154]- Blender
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It's ghetto viciousness as literary exercise--an episode of The Wire with a better soundtrack. [Nov 2006, p.142]- Blender
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They've been compiled to death, but this two-disc set is the most comprehensive survey yet of the Mancunians' brief, tear-stained blaze through the mid-'80s indie-pop firmament. [Feb 2009, p.67]- Blender
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Their second album is equally charming and more consistent. [Nov 2003, p.120]- Blender