For 4,040 reviews, this publication has graded:
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44% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: | Channel Orange | |
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Lowest review score: | Revival |
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Positive: 2,754 out of 4040
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Mixed: 1,215 out of 4040
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Negative: 71 out of 4040
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- Consequence
- Posted Jan 29, 2016
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It’s political without being overt, the production is strikingly heavy, and the good tracks outweigh the bad. At this point in his career, it’s as strong an album as anyone can expect from Mustaine and his revolving door of performers and should pull Megadeth out of has-been status.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 25, 2016
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The Montreal outfit sounds like they’ve run out of ideas and are starting to repeat their already expansive catalogue.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 20, 2016
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The album’s weaknesses aren’t unforgivable; they just too frequently sound limp and over-saturated in storied traditions. The verve and unpredictability that so frequently fueled her songs are lost and sorely missed.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 15, 2016
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Death may be messy, but it’s not necessarily the end, just another explosive event.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 14, 2016
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While Prince is raging against the dying of the light, there exists no graceful innovation on HITNRUN Phase Two. Instead, Prince presents only an aped version of his one-time vitality.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 18, 2015
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This is music created under the role of the supportive brother, and for much of it, he’s too focused on his sibling’s creations to fully flesh out his own work.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 11, 2015
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Skeletons’ canned production is tolerable up to this point, with the riffs and drums serving as background noise to Danzig’s trademark voice, but it only dilutes a track like “N.I.B.”.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 10, 2015
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No matter how overblown or nonsensical Coldplay have progressively gotten since 2002’s watermark A Rush of Blood to the Head, as long as they deliver one gobsmacking single per album, they’re kings--and rightfully so. That’s how you build a career. A Head Full of Dreams follows suit with first single “Adventure of a Lifetime”.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 4, 2015
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The music never threatens to eclipse the message. If anything--and this might sound like a strange criticism of a Christian rock album--it’s too reverential.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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The end result plays like a record for the band much more so than the fans, who might be hard pressed to hang in there with it for repeated listens after the curiosity factor wears off.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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While AQUARIA is uniquely Asher’s and probably unlike anything else you’ll hear this year--a mix of heavy, grinding industrial beats and quick, nimble lyrics that whiz by like the view of the landscape from a train window--the truth buried at the bottom of the bass drop is that Asher himself isn’t yet magnetic enough to make his own material shine.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 13, 2015
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The best things Soldiers of Fortune have going for them are a palpable sense of energy and camaraderie. But after that ["Campus Swagger"], Early Risers gets a little too loose, a little too freewheeling to stay interesting as an LP.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 9, 2015
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Ultimately, chunks of Delirium cement Goulding’s place in our current pop soundscape. However, the album doesn’t fit together as well as, say, 1989 or E-MO-TION.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 6, 2015
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Music saves the misfit kids, but not every pain can be walloped into submission. Beach Slang sound less interested in ripping that pain open and exposing its insides than they are in shouting over it, and The Things We Do can start to sound like an exercise in emotional extremes.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 29, 2015
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Now I’m Ready plays like a collection of tracks that didn’t quite make the cut on the season’s coolest synthpop albums, familiar despite its unfamiliarity, pleasant if not exciting.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 26, 2015
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The finished product is still strong and consistent, to be sure, but with the lack of variety, Pylon is likely to be remembered as an album that just kept a constant rhythm for 56 minutes.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 26, 2015
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It’s undoubtedly healthy for musicians to step outside of their main project to spread their wings and create something new. But in the end, the project reads as only a slight tweak on Berninger and Knopf’s established voices.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 23, 2015
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Raury’s simple, yet passionate rap delivery doesn’t fare all that well when forced into shared space with established stars of the genre.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 20, 2015
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When listened to as ambient noise, the album adds a layer of elegiac beauty to its surrounding environment, but when listened to intently, it presents a frustrating experiment, a Möbius strip of perpetual return.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 16, 2015
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The middle section of the album is stellar, and for a few fleeting moments, it all seems to work. Unfortunately, the rest of As If is much less engaging.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 15, 2015
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While many of the songs on The Color Before the Sun do fall into a certain post-hardcore formula that’s used over and over again throughout the album, the journey presented therein makes the difference.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 13, 2015
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Fans of Sult’s style and metallic blues riffs will find a few gems among these tracks, but this is merely par for a Clutch album.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 9, 2015
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It’ll satisfy the crowdfunders who have already paid for it, and if it helps the band bring their classic albums to more live ears, then it has done its job. As a work on its own, though, the Zombies’ sixth studio album comes off more polite than hungry.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 9, 2015
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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.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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Active fans may be left underwhelmed and wanting more. So, while you’ll likely be tapping your foot and nodding your head, you might also be wrestling with the fact that none of this is new.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 30, 2015
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Lee may be an expert when it comes to lush atmospherics, but he’s simply not interested in pursuing the small mistakes that give a song its personality.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 29, 2015
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1000 Days sounds like a Cory Hanson solo album and a stagnant development for Wand, who, instead of progressing toward a heavy psych sound patently their own, settle for a gentler, safer pop record.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 28, 2015
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Every Open Eye goes down smooth, but it’s hard not to miss the moments of exhilaration that used to power the band.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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Heartfelt, if not always inspired musings are scattered throughout the record.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 21, 2015
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