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For 68 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Handcream For A Generation
Lowest review score: 10 Everybody Hertz [EP]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 68
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 68
  3. Negative: 3 out of 68
68 music reviews
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boy In Da Corner
    On a level of pure listening enjoyment, Boy In Da Corner isn't quite an Original Pirate Material; but it does succeed in establishing that Dizzee Rascal deserves a place right at the forefront of the UK Urban movement.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Original Pirate Material
    An album whose scope, diversity, wit and heart make it instantly the best album of 2002.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alice
    While there is nothing new on Alice, the songs he develops are well-structured, elegant and as bawl-worthy as ever.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon Golden
    The Notwist are, for me, the band New Order never had a good enough singer, or a creative enough programmer, to be.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chutes Too Narrow
    Shins fans will find this a solidly enjoyable album.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Decoration Day
    Sure it's a stereotype of all the things the South is. At the same time, it is a clearer-eyed view than has been offered before.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Rarely has a record balanced such quality lyrics with such pretty music; it is also a rare occasion when a record can be both deeply sad and uplifting at the same time.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome Interstate Managers
    For people friendly to western pop traditions, there is little or nothing in the music to dislike, and lots to sing along with.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Wind
    This is a magnificent album.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Don't Give Up On Me
    Even at its worst, Don't Give Up On Me is never anything less than elegant.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No!
    The whole album is as musically stirring and creative as anything TMBG have ever done, and that’s saying a lot.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blood Money
    If the young, brooding Waits had done this score it would have been too much--too miserable--but our older, wiser Waits possesses the perfect combination of cynicism and idealism to pull it off.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    Where The Soft Bulletin was an intricate assessment of rock's potential, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is merely a rough sketch of a new musical direction.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We Love Life
    “Weeds,” an excellent tune which compares the English working class to this type of plants, is only one of the various epic, melodramatic tunes in the key of Scott Walker (who produced the record) present here that use elements of nature to symbolise aspects of modern society and the human condition itself.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bright Yellow Bright Orange
    A summery pop journey, complete with mellow melodies and gentle guitars.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Murray Street
    For the first time in their careers, Sonic Youth are willing to stand for something and give it to you, no frills. No more hiding behind black shades and pretending you're Lou Reed, no more “let's try to make the scariest noises possible from our guitars” sessions, no more poses. Sonic Youth have grown up.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sharpen Your Teeth
    The same studio experimentation that makes much of Ugly Casanova's music interesting also results in a handful of throwaway tracks enough to prevent Sharpen Your Teeth from becoming a wholly cohesive album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sea Change
    Sea Change is different (and, in a way, less interesting) than everything Beck has previously done, but he has a rare gift that he shares with precious few artists, Prince and Bob Dylan amongst them: no matter what he does, Beck will always be interesting.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    About A Boy [Soundtrack]
    Somewhere within the radio-friendly, xylophone-banging tracks, Badly Drawn Boy finds space for artistic experimentation and growth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Bedroom
    With The Sea and Cake, the question is never whether the album is good or bad, but whether the album is good or excellent. One Bedroom then is a good album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Permission To Land
    There's no way you won't be listening to this CD on repeat for anything less than two weeks straight.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Handcream For A Generation
    Having covered so much territory, the album leaves you completely fulfilled--like any nightclub act--but ready to do it all over again the next night.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Summer Sun
    Summer Sun is full of beautiful melodies that fail to excite for the sole reason that, for the already initiated, it seems like old hat.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Magic & Medicine
    Magic & Medicine is hardly a record that will catapult The Coral to the next level; but at the same time, it's also far from being an embarrassment.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mount Eerie
    Mount Eerie doesn't work outside of its concept and, to the detriment of the songs, the album is so intensely personal that melody and song structure give way to abstract conceptualism.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When I Was Cruel
    It’s a confectionary delight, from start to finish: sometimes intelligent, sometimes emotional, always likeable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Eminem Show
    With each successive album Eminem finds new depth and excitement within the same themes and structures he used way back on The Slim Shady LP, so even if new songs contain earmarks of Eminem classics, they still feel reinvigorated.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Magnificent
    With this album, the deejay only adds to his rep and further solidifies his place amongst Hip-Hop's elite producers and turntablists.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nocturama
    Nocturama is as slight and as pretty as a walk through the snow on a sunny Winter day.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    If 2001’s Weezer was a second-rate Blink-182, almost every composition on Maladroit is more strongly developed, whether it is the tight drumming to the point of showboating on the album’s first single, “Dope Nose,” the surprisingly successful intricate guitar work on the crunchy “Take Control,” or the band’s return to form, producing some of the best pop songs since their 1994 debut.
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