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.
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Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: | City of Refuge | |
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Lowest review score: | Lulu |
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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 album casts the duo in a new light that may not quite eclipse their former work, but it has set them well on their way.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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Unlike previous efforts at stylistic hop-scotch, "Phantom Punch" is Lerche's most comfortable album since "Faces Down."- Boston Globe
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Twee or not, there is a brilliant simplicity to Svanangen's music, though the tunes are never sparse.- Boston Globe
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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."- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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This is a challenging album that Frank Zappa, Rush, Miles Davis, or Slayer could each call their own.- Boston Globe
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It sounds like a campfire sing-along at the most evil band camp in the underworld.- Boston Globe
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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.- Boston Globe
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