For 566 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | I Like to Keep Myself in Pain | |
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Lowest review score: | Graffiti |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 456 out of 566
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Mixed: 97 out of 566
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Negative: 13 out of 566
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The voices and the hooks can’t easily be denied, and Shires injects some playful sassiness on “Don’t Call Me.” But the potential for what could’ve been a harder-hitting roadhouse-style album largely goes unrealized.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Oct 9, 2019
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It's another strong entry in his fuzz-garage/acid-punk free-for-all, if not quite as ferociously relentless as its predecessor, "Slaughterhouse" (In the Red).- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Oct 9, 2012
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In a sparser framework, the singer and his songs flourish. Eitzel's spite and self-deprecating humor rub shoulders on "The Road" and "In my Role as Professional Singer and Ham."- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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ather than reinventing himself, Hitchcock has made an album that underlines his strengths.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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It's only when White breaks through the more familiar framework that the album sparks.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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The trio again puts a premium on space and intimacy in the arrangements, which works especially well this time because of the uniformally high quality of the melodies.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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There's no rage in this music, but it feels unsettling all the same, and that's a major step for a young artist as he starts to find his voice.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Aug 12, 2016
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Greenberg again contributes a handful of songs to the toughest sounding Savages recording yet.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Aug 21, 2015
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Distortion-saturated guitars, synthesizers squealing like tea kettles and tribal drums give country tradition a swift kick in the back side. This carnage doesn’t belong to a genre, it’s more like a feeling: Side 2 of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s “Rust Never Sleeps,” ZZ Top demos after three cases of Tequila in a Texas roadhouse, a hurricane.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Sep 27, 2019
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On Swanlights, Hegarty's fourth album under the Antony and the Johnsons moniker, the darkness lifts, and the singer sounds almost buoyant.- Chicago Tribune
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The songs marinate in sexual imagery, but it's more sensual than explicit.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted May 18, 2015
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An album that has few direct antecedents in his vast discography and arrives as a late-career landmark.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted May 3, 2016
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At its best, "Wild Heart of Life" approaches that recording's [2012's "Celebration Rock"] peak moments, but it too often undercuts them by trying to pull the duo out of its minimalist arena-punk corner.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Jan 20, 2017
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Brill Bruisers sounds like a bunch of friends reuniting for a long-overdue blow-out.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Aug 25, 2014
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Only "Virus" connects in the way Bjork's best work can, uniting the fundamental optimism and wonder underlining this project with music that sounds otherworldly yet welcoming.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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It all builds masterfully to a powerful, closing one-two punch.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Apr 8, 2016
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At times in the past, Gunn’s songs felt like they were skimming the surface of multiple genres. On The Unseen in Between, the guitarist more fully submerges himself--and by extension, his listeners--in his most personal songs yet.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Jan 22, 2019
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The melodies aren't quite as immediate as the best songs from the debut, but Coexist functions as a near-perfect mood piece.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Sep 28, 2012
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Dirty Pictures (Part 1) (Contender) comes close enough often enough to qualify as a worthy substitute for one of the Philadelphia quintet's bar-room blowouts.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted May 19, 2017
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For all of Pop's well-earned reputation as a bare-chested banshee in concert, he has an expressive, even sonorous baritone voice, and a pithiness as a lyricist. His words brim with battle-scarred imagery and humor.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Mar 14, 2016
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Wilco has made a weird little folk record. It not only sounds different than the band's previous album, but slightly out of step with the rest of its discography.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Sep 2, 2016
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Torche perfects its volatile mix, a work that at least matches the potent Meanderthal (2008) as a career peak.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Feb 23, 2015
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The music casts long shadows, packed with foreboding. But Cash's voice isn't particularly morbid or self-pitying. Instead, it's tinged by longing--not for what he's leaving behind, but for what's next.- Chicago Tribune
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Williams lets the songs burn slowly and sensually until there's nothing left but smoke and ash.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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The foursome may be interrupted by time and circumstance, but whenever they find themselves in a room together with their instruments they pick up the conversation exactly where they left off.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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- Posted Feb 11, 2019
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Drake’s increasing mastery of not just rhyme, but tone and inflection is readily apparent.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Sep 23, 2013
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As with many of his releases the last decade, National Ransom is kind of a mess, with enough scattered gems to reward deeper investigation.- Chicago Tribune
- Posted Nov 1, 2010
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Producer Peter Katis (who has worked with The National and Interpol) ornaments the duo’s foundation--Hansard’s battered acoustic guitar, Irglova’s piano, co-ed harmonies--with nuanced orchestration and a spacious mix that flatters the singers’ interplay.- Chicago Tribune
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But mostly “Soldier of Love” presents Sade as a genre unto herself; after 25 years, she remains alluring and subtly rewarding, while still keeping the listener at a safe distance, as if she had even deeper secrets to guard.- Chicago Tribune
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