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For 4,040 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Channel Orange
Lowest review score: 0 Revival
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,754 out of 4040
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4040
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    • 77 Metascore
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    Every Open Eye
    Every Open Eye goes down smooth, but it’s hard not to miss the moments of exhilaration that used to power the band.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Diploid Love
    Dalle’s return performance, no matter how energetic and strong musically, lacks the lyrical details to latch onto.
    • 57 Metascore
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    Evinspacey
    The reality is the bulk of the album falls short of offering anything to write home about.
    • 64 Metascore
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    Art History
    The disc steadily loses steam after its first two tracks.
    • 73 Metascore
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    Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
    All of its 12 tracks are reckless trials in largely unrelated genres, and most end up errors.
    • 68 Metascore
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    Rebel Heart
    Rebel Heart leans too steeply into too many trends at once, making it a scattered affair that flashes between drudgery and brilliance.
    • 65 Metascore
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    Pagans in Vegas
    At best, Pagans in Vegas recalls the heights that Metric once reached. Back then, they made it look easy, foreshadowing mainstream pop years in advance. They no longer sound like they can see the future, and even sometimes sound stuck in the past.
    • 63 Metascore
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    Drones
    Drones stumbles when it strays from Muse’s self-created universe and tries to be topical; it’s like watching Superman stuck in the guise of a floundering (albeit well-intentioned) Clark Kent.
    • 69 Metascore
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    Ruff
    If they want to pursue content, chipper, marshmallow song structures, then that’s fine, but it’s nearly impossible not to think they do hope, deep down, to make something more than that. If so, RUFF doesn’t lead them any closer.
    • 71 Metascore
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    A Coliseum Complex Museum
    The Montreal outfit sounds like they’ve run out of ideas and are starting to repeat their already expansive catalogue.
    • 83 Metascore
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    Nikki Nack
    Parts of Nikki Nack are interesting, deeply beautiful, and insanely catchy. Other parts are painful to listen to given their overt blindness to the nuances of holding conversations like the ones she attempts to initiate.
    • 65 Metascore
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    United We Stand
    Unfortunately, little of what makes this record so rewarding from the get-go surfaces on the back half.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Over Me
    The pleasant sounds of Over Me deserve to be heard, but you’ve probably heard them in some form before.
    • 75 Metascore
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    Held
    Between the Held's strong opening and closing acts, it's apparent that Holy Other is still working in the world of the EP and may have jumped the gun on a full-length release.
    • 66 Metascore
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    It's Only Me
    The final product is an exercise in meh as he tries blending who he is with who he used to be, along with his more significant commercial responsibilities.
    • 60 Metascore
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    Daybreak
    There's very little sonic or lyrical difference between this and any other of STD's recent recordings.
    • 59 Metascore
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    Education, Education, Education & War
    The rigid, suited precision with which they approach their craft makes the band good at their jobs, but combined with the lack of musical distance from their contemporaries, it also dims the album’s luster.
    • 69 Metascore
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    Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
    The problem with this EP is that the rest of the songs draw too much from the past, trying to fit into the early rock feel.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Coastal Grooves
    Blood Orange is a unique new identity for Hynes, but it doesn't feel finished. Coastal Grooves is a splash of ideas and potential that never really comes together.
    • 76 Metascore
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    Wonderful, Glorious
    Wonderful, Glorious isn’t the sort of reinvention that Everett wants it to be. It’s just another loop around the road that E and his pathos have been treading for years.
    • 70 Metascore
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    Rad Times Xpress IV
    Where they strive to pioneer a new sound stemming from everything from 80s hair metal to industrial to funk, they ultimately come off sounding confused and even a touch pretentious.
    • 67 Metascore
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    No World
    None [of the tracks], however, are particularly distinctive from the rest, and while that’s not always a bad thing, it can get frustrating fast when an artist’s single weapon is a certain narrow, half-awake affect.
    • 74 Metascore
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    Summer 08
    After starting strong, Summer 08 fizzles out, much like a failed night on the town.
    • 67 Metascore
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    Green Language
    Not all DJs can be producers and vice versa. Rustie’s trendsetting ability is rivaled by few, but that hasn’t translated into an equally challenging full-length endeavor.
    • 71 Metascore
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    You Know Who You Are
    You Know Who You Are, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of thing we’ve come to expect from Nada Surf. Unfortunately, sometimes being reliable just isn’t enough.
    • 74 Metascore
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    Creep On Creepin' On
    After listening to the Creep On Creepin' On, it's recommended that the listeners get some as well--the constant bleakness and nightmare-inducing weirdness warrant some immediate remedy.
    • 68 Metascore
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    Time Is Over One Day Old
    In the Grace of Your Love was the sound of a forgotten band pleading for your interest and affection as if life itself depended on it. Time Is Over One Day Old may possess the same lineage as that record, but despite all of its attempts at being similarly organic, it couldn’t be colder or more distant.
    • 61 Metascore
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    ARTPOP
    That refusal to experiment as wildly as she once did reads as fear, and a pop star who’s afraid ends up sounding like the once-weird Lady Gaga does on ARTPOP: boring and normal.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Valley Tangents
    Valley Tangents plays more like an exercise or experiment than a fully-realized album.
    • 68 Metascore
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    Naomi
    The varying topics and often-indistinct lyrics miscommunicate, making this record better suited for easy listening than deep delving.
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