For 2,093 reviews, this publication has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | City of Refuge | |
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Lowest review score: | Lulu |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,670 out of 2093
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Mixed: 412 out of 2093
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Negative: 11 out of 2093
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The reworked M A N I A never coalesces into a satisfying or particularly listenable whole; in spreading themselves between sounds even more disparate than on 2015’s maximalist “American Beauty/American Psycho,” Fall Out Boy have only succeeded in diluting their strengths.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jan 19, 2018
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Songcraft is a problem throughout the album’s 12 bloated tracks, but the fact that they’re long isn’t the issue--Marr can, and has, held our attention before. It’s more that they lack conviction and structure.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 14, 2018
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The ghosts of more well-known recordings hover over “American Standard,” and they’re enough of a distraction to make one think that a better tribute to these compositions might have been a Taylor-curated playlist of the versions that originally captured his imagination all those years ago.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 3, 2020
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For someone who has dazzled with his sonic imagination in the past, Rjd2 sounds very tentative here.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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It’s hard to remember the last time an album so flat and vacuous generated such a buzz.- Boston Globe
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A tired, impotent album for sure, but between dumb and dumber, dumb wins every time.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jan 10, 2012
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He's less dexterous and creative on this interminable 17-song, 73-minute disc as he indulges in all of rap's worst impulses.- Boston Globe
- Posted Dec 12, 2012
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- Boston Globe
- Posted Dec 2, 2013
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The popular rapper’s fifth record is an alarming regression and a head-shaking misfire.- Boston Globe
- Posted Aug 19, 2014
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- Boston Globe
- Posted Dec 9, 2014
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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.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jul 27, 2017
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- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 27, 2012
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- Boston Globe
- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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