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For 4,038 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: 2,752 out of 4038
  2. Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
  3. Negative: 71 out of 4038
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Purple Naked Ladies
    When you boil it down, Purple Naked Ladies' biggest fault is that it's generic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BlackenedWhite
    The reissue of BlackenedWhite comes as a missed opportunity. Odd Future followers will likely have grabbed the expanded (and notably better) version when it was available free online a few months back; newcomers to the collective's output have better entry points elsewhere in their continuously-growing catalog.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Six Cups of Rebel
    [A] superficial lack of organization and purpose.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Based on a T.R.U. Story
    The album is at its best when guests take the microphone and falls short nearly everywhere else.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Information Retrieved
    All Information Retrieved provides is leaking creative inertia.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    North
    It's unclear what the band has been doing during its lengthy hiatus (their last full-length was released in 2002), but keeping up with current music trends was evidently not on the to-do list.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Talk a Good Game
    ["Dirty Laundry" is] so raw and visceral that we finely see her as intended: vulnerable, flawed, and totally real. She tries replicating that authenticity, but there’s only the uber-cliché “I don’t care; we’re over” anthem “Gone” and the album’s superficially enjoyable title track, which Rowland approaches with some intriguing level of nuance.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Because the Internet
    Rather than provide a solution, or even insight into the Internet reality, Gambino simply adds to the frustrations. The big reveal at the album’s conclusion is that he was (likely) trolling all the trolls, but what about the fans?
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Vision
    It's the uninspired and homogenous manner in which Joker goes about ironing out nearly everything that made his tunes memorable to begin with that makes The Vision one of the most disappointing debuts of the year.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This Means War
    A deluge of whining that's lyrically incomprehensible and becomes sonically dull after one song.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Giant Orange
    An album desperate for texture, flavor, and risks, Giant Orange is the aural equivalent of middle-of-the-road musical tragedy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Nina
    Of course, it doesn’t make sense for Stewart to try to stand toe-to-toe with Simone’s vocals, but the close-mic’d, barely there vocal performance offered on Nina is a tragedy for a man who is a talented singer in his own right.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Anarchy, My Dear
    Parts of Anarchy, My Dear feel so unedited that it gets a little embarrassing for the listener, but when Say Anything collects itself, it has something to say.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dogs Eating Dogs [EP]
    DeLonge's forgettable chord progressions feel like an afterthought to lyrics that try too hard to fit into Blink's more morbid adult persona of late.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    POP ETC
    Rather than bursting forth with something new and unique, they wind up rehashing stale sounds and leaving the listener with an entirely unmemorable experience.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Boys and Diamonds
    Boys and Diamonds ends up being hindered by the the same awkward, mock-ethnic yelps the duo seems to feel the need for on every other song they cut and the empty, tinny nonsense they seem to arrive at all too often as they attempt to craft memorable pop.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lulu
    Lulu is essentially a piece of shock art that's littered with vulgarity both lyrical and musical.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Fitz and the Tantrums
    Fitz and the Tantrums is an album that feels, by some bizarre paradox, like both a product of contemporary market forces and a depressing relic of an era of the music industry best forgotten.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Harverd Dropout
    The Florida rapper’s limited strengths and many weaknesses become highly detectable on Harverd Dropout. Under Pump’s control, the album piles up songs without structure, lines without meaning, and hooks without melody; it’s utterly tasteless.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings
    Vinyl is not a good format for Montage of Heck, an album that requires a fair amount of skipping around just to qualify as tolerable. I’m using the word “album” loosely here, because this one fails as an album in almost every conceivable way, jettisoning any sense of unity or context in favor of positioning itself as an aural complement to Morgen’s documentary.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    To The Stars... Demos, Odds And Ends
    To the Stars… is a messy, frantic collection that suffers from a lack of focus and extremely poor sequencing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Government Plates
    The focus is less on total mayhem and more on creating droning dystopian soundscapes that MC Ride might occasionally hop on to yell over.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    High Life
    You can applaud them for chasing a creative high, but from two artists of their caliber, listeners should expect something better than High Life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Teeth Dreams
    From the sloppy production and uninspired arrangements to the fact that Tad Kubler hasn’t written a memorable guitar lead since 2008, Teeth Dreams sounds like the characters in its songs: past its prime and just trying to get by, but with the past creeping back in and not letting anyone forget it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Donker Mag
    Die Antwoord’s bombastic concerts and larger than life stage personas are not to be missed. However, this wild energy and devil may care attitude yield weaker dividends after being bottled and pasteurized in a studio that appears staffed by a cadre of rejected Saturday Night Live sketch writers.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Immortalized
    With Immortalized, Disturbed don’t even try.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    No. 6 Collaborations Project
    On this record, he’s taking a stab at, well, every genre. It doesn’t pay off, though, because this effort results in a sense of emptiness, an abyss of authenticity or real feeling. And that’s the problem: Despite writing “emotional” ballads for a huge part of his career, none of us really have any idea who Ed Sheeran is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    We Are Undone
    We Are Undone, masters the sinking feeling of sharing a sweaty car ride or claustrophobic interrogation room with the bad cop/existential mindfuck cop team of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Medicine
    Despite the occasional glimpse of colorful ingenuity, Medicine is an utterly sour experience.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Are You Falling in Love?
    Unfortunately, "Besides You" is the only song really worth mentioning. Everything else is so awash in a wall of buzzing noises, you'd think you were at the World Cup and surrounded by vuvuzelas.
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