For 1,320 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,057 out of 1320
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Mixed: 256 out of 1320
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Negative: 7 out of 1320
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Critic Score 80
Together, the EPs form a beautiful post-rock symphony, topped by singer and guitarist Jonsi Birgisson's simultaneously naive and profound singing. -
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Critic Score 80
If there was ever a record created to turn a pop singer into a star, it's Brown's sophomore effort. -
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Critic Score 80
His dance-pop tunes are surprisingly fresh and emotionally meaty, without a hint of complacency. -
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Critic Score 80
The band is clearly comfortable with the medium that it occupies between aggressive and technical post-hardcore yet is beginning to tread new territory. -
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Critic Score 80
Save the Four Tops medley there has yet to be a match for Levi Stubbs--the Boyz sound as strong and harmonious as ever. -
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Critic Score 80
This isn't new territory for Ghostface, and it's something of a marvel that his signature narrative style still feels fresh on his seventh solo outing. -
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Critic Score 80
The tracks are impeccably manicured, super-tuneful, and offer lyrics about the various agonies and ecstasies of love that are unremarkable in and of themselves but reach nuclear-threat levels of desperation thanks to Lewis's voice. -
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Critic Score 80
Fiasco builds on that promise [in "Food & Liquuor"] exponentially with the triumphant Cool, which gets extra style points for bringing back the idea of the headphones hip-hop album. -
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Critic Score 80
Distortion isn't an easy listen, with its strict, difficult palette. But it's an endlessly fascinating and provocative one. -
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Critic Score 80
Some People Have Real Problems reveals the other Sia: plucky, bubbly, and growling purposefully through assertive pop songs. -
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Critic Score 80
BSP has backed up its postured oddities and idiosyncrasies with a new raison d'être: to deliver the true stuff of rock 'n' roll. -
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Critic Score 80
A tender fragility still touches her music, effectively so, but these strong interpretations feel like another step toward strengthening her own foundations. -
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Critic Score 80
It is vintage Truckers for the stories it tells: portrayals, in the first person or the third, of lives far too achingly real and imprinted by such forces as crystal meth, the manufacturing recession, and the Iraq war to warrant the distancing moniker Gothic. -
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Critic Score 80
At its best, Vampire Weekend takes the exceedingly familiar template of indie rock and invigorates it with a chiming guitar sound that suggests the band has been spending its downtime browsing afropop.org. -
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Critic Score 80
Made in the Dark announces its intent early: it's straight electro, with a naked disdain for the minor key. -
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Critic Score 80
Their fourth record, the stunning Lust Lust Lust, retains the Danish duo’s fetish for early pop harmony and surf guitar, not to mention shoe-gaze buzz in their concise, fuzzy bursts of tragic romance. -
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Critic Score 80
Crow's strong, eclectic new album, "Detours," is filled with optimism about finding a way to correct her course. -
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Critic Score 80
The mellifluous melodies and tasteful instrumentation fall in line with the adult-contemporary pop of previous albums such as "Ingenue" and "Invincible Summer." -
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Critic Score 80
After his 2005 debut, DeVaughn ups the ante with a sprawling effort that works as a showcase for his lush vocals. -
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Critic Score 80
What keeps Seventh Tree from lapsing into music for looming by is Goldfrapp and Gregory's inventive instrumentation, which harvests the warmth of electronic pop and marries it organically to acoustic instruments. -
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Critic Score 80
It's transfixing in the moment and even more so once you've stopped listening. -
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Critic Score 80
Real Emotional Trash isn't "Slanted and Enchanted" or "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain," but hey, you can't have a perfect sound forever. Besides, there are more than enough old-school indie touches here to flash you back to the halcyon daze of '94, or give you an idea what your older sis had on her headphones. -
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Critic Score 80
Red, Yellow & Blue delivers a splash of color to a vibrant indie soundscape. -
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Critic Score 80
Edwards brings on none of the filler that watered down her earlier albums as she moves steadily from scathing to soothing, from rocking country to Gothic sketches, from strength to strength. -
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Critic Score 80
'We Call Upon the Author to Explain' goes the title of one song, but Cave offers no explanations and no justifications merely another lean, assured set of glamorously gloomy songs. -
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Critic Score 80
Luckily for him, his band Destroyer more than makes up for his occasionally strained croak, and "Trouble in Dreams," their follow-up to 2006's acclaimed "Destroyer's Rubies," is an unqualified triumph. -
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Critic Score 80
A welcome throwback to the raw energy of early Kill Rock Star bands, this delirious debut still boasts enough cheeky vigor to sound fresh and new. -