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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
    Call it emo for adults.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cost
    The album is sophisticated and layered with deft orchestration. And yet, the band's songwriting and delivery display an earnestness and lack of pretension that's pure rock.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ash Wednesday
    The touchstones (Cohen, Dylan, Morrison, Yorke, Brion, "Hunky Dory"-era Bowie) are obvious as the album progresses, too obvious at times, but Perkins has his own stories to tell, and he often does so in a mesmerizing fashion.
    • 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.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    West
    Fortunately, the alt-country singer-songwriter’s gifts of soul mining are so acute that the songs — inspired by her mother’s passing and a wrenching breakup — enrich as well as exhaust, and engender cautious optimism.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vieux Farka Toure
    He enjoys modern arrangements and judicious cross-genre excursions that edge up on reggae and rock, and when he lets go, his guitar lines possess the playful muscularity of a tussle among rambunctious friends.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phantom Punch
    Unlike previous efforts at stylistic hop-scotch, "Phantom Punch" is Lerche's most comfortable album since "Faces Down."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loney, Noir
    Twee or not, there is a brilliant simplicity to Svanangen's music, though the tunes are never sparse.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Children Running Through
    Suffice to say that if you have enjoyed Griffin's repertoire of considered and emotionally precise songs -- as fans from the Dixie Chicks to Solomon Burke to Jessica Simpson have -- you will find your life enriched by "Children Running Through."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
    The overall hush of "Sermon" occasionally leads down some sleepy roads. But with a real sense of creative spark at its heart, "Sermon" is a worthy entry into the Book of Rickie Lee.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's No 666 In Outer Space
    This is a challenging album that Frank Zappa, Rush, Miles Davis, or Slayer could each call their own.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Friend And Foe
    It sounds like a campfire sing-along at the most evil band camp in the underworld.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ce
    Veloso's voice and songs are newly elastic, inspired by the economy and daring of the trio of electric guitar, bass, and drums that accompanies his acoustic pluck.
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