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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
2093 music reviews
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My December
    "My December" offers an appealing if uneven snapshot of a girl with a big voice and big emotions who's in transition.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lost Highway
    The band does little more than take the easiest trappings of country and plug them in.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Memory Almost Full
    This collection is filled with half-baked ideas and shallow reminiscences, a pair of dated rockers, and one meditation on mortality that manages to be maudlin and bubble-headed at the same time. It smacks of Wings at its goofiest.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eat Me, Drink Me
    It's not his best effort, but it's the perfect mood setter for your midnight absinthe and auto-erotic asphyxiation party.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Release The Stars
    It's an ornate, dizzying affair, where all his interests and talents collide in one brazen gesture. It's impressive in scope, but where does that leave the listener? Possibly with a headache.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Minutes To Midnight
    We've heard a lot of this despair before.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Of The Boys
    A pleasant-enough escapist soundtrack for the summer.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Volta
    "Volta," much like "Medulla," is an appealing series of collaborations and musical ideas that do not quite jell in their final, recorded versions.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Snakes & Arrows
    "Snakes & Arrows" is several steps ahead of more recent efforts.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Best Damn Thing
    The songs are furiously bouncy and unbelievably vapid.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let's Just Be
    A wildly uneven record.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
    The production is cleaner this time around, a mixed blessing that steals some of the band's messy, homemade charm in favor of a richer, atmospheric effect.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Timbaland Presents Shock Value
    Solid if unspectacular.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Como Ama Una Mujer
    A sincere album, organic in its instrumentation and introspective in its lyrics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I'll Sleep When You're Dead
    "I'll Sleep" isn't supposed to be easy listening, but it shouldn't be this hard, either.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out Of The Woods
    Too many bleak ballads about lost love and runaways bring down the fun.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pocket Symphony
    Where "Pocket Symphony" springs to life are tracks when Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel dabble with 1960s-influenced folk-pop.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    "The Weirdness" is raw, but where's the power?
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In Advance Of The Broken Arm
    Ultimately, "Broken Arm" is more about indulging a massively skewed sonic perspective than a collection of songs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infinity On High
    Anthems are plenty on "Infinity on High," and odds are good the fans are so well versed in bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz's pun-saturated, self-referential verbiage that they'll simply surrender -- as they should -- to the familiar burly riffs and candied hooks.
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