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For 2,093 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 City of Refuge
Lowest review score: 10 Lulu
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,670 out of 2093
  2. Mixed: 412 out of 2093
  3. Negative: 11 out of 2093
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything Now
    It leaves you yearning for an album that would have expanded the mature melodicism of those three tracks [“Electric Blue,” “Put Your Money on Me” and “We Don’t Deserve Love”]. Instead, their presence magnifies the smarmy, sophomoric awfulness of everything else here.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Monuments to an Elegy
    These songs are failed epics in miniature.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Blacc Hollywood
    The popular rapper’s fifth record is an alarming regression and a head-shaking misfire.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Britney Jean
    Nowhere does Britney Jean sound like Britney Spears.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    O.N.I.F.C.
    He's less dexterous and creative on this interminable 17-song, 73-minute disc as he indulges in all of rap's worst impulses.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Duke
    The Duke is an awful, awful record.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BAYTL
    A tired, impotent album for sure, but between dumb and dumber, dumb wins every time.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Lulu
    The godfather of avant-rock and the popular metal band don't click on any level.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Animal
    It’s hard to remember the last time an album so flat and vacuous generated such a buzz.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dumb Luck
    Everyone seems tired on this album: The songs meander, and the guest singers (including Conor Oberst) speak or moan lyrics they don't seem to care about.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Third Hand
    For someone who has dazzled with his sonic imagination in the past, Rjd2 sounds very tentative here.