Dot Music's Scores
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For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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43% 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
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Lowest review score: | United Nations of Sound |
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Positive: 1,005 out of 1511
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Mixed: 449 out of 1511
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Negative: 57 out of 1511
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R.O.O.T.S. is so crushingly flat that it should waft between the cracks unnoticed.- Dot Music
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Curtis doesn't sound like it was much fun to make, and it isn't much fun to listen to.- Dot Music
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Encapsulating just how far Sean has come (if you're a Cash Money CEO, that is) Lil' Jon pops up to do his incomprehensible shouty thing, so ruining, for no reason at all, the only remotely catchy thing here.- Dot Music
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There's so little substance here, it's difficult to engage with the record or its creator.- Dot Music
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Ultimately, D12 have made the fatal mistake of reducing themselves to the pitch that probably won them their deal: "think horrorcore rap, Gravediggaz-style, mixed up with middle-everything baiting lyrics even more extreme than Eminem." And that's not enough.- Dot Music
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An average album over produced, Love? has Lopez throwing everything she's got at relaunching her pop career and coming up shorter than anyone could ever have thought possible.- Dot Music
- Posted May 10, 2011
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His tenuous grasp on reality and good taste slips and he plummets into a tawdry, gratuitous and self-congratulatory flurry of misogyny, expletives and reggae.- Dot Music
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It's more a rescinded lesson in demographics, with disc one seemingly aimed at airbrushing out the last vestiges of Knowles' credibility in favour of a procession of lame pop ballads in a Shakira or even Shania Twain-ish mould.- Dot Music
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For a moment one can hear Mraz's real soul, rather than a factory-assembled version. Sadly, it's too little and too late to save this queasy record.- Dot Music
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In This Light And On This Evening is a weak, ill conceived and uninspiring effort.- Dot Music
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Derulo's desperation to cover all commercial bases is only matched by an inability to stamp his own personality on them.- Dot Music
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It's a well-made, well-polished piece of material. But she ruins it by painting a wacky overcoat over something that was probably fine in the first place.- Dot Music
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A dismal and insipid collection of retrogressive mid-tempo ballads and textbook alt.rock moves.- Dot Music
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What's that sound? That's the sound of a barrel scraping and a career being flushed down a toilet.- Dot Music
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There's nothing raunchy or attitudinal here, just blustering dance-pop numbers and mushy ballads that owe a debt to Lady Gaga, minus all the flesh, spunk and bonkers stilettos.- Dot Music
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Wham, bam, rock and glam, it's Marshall stacks turned up to 11 and Kelly riffing away in the steps of a heap of bands who do it better.- Dot Music
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A knack for woozy melodies is one weapon at Nicholls' disposal; but here they're fatally undermined both by his petulant vocal style and by the rickety, paper-thin production.- Dot Music
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That it'll be her most scrutinised release is a problem, because its stilted, wearying, obsessive concentration on an uncomfortably forced notion of it's creator's sexuality means it's the only album she's made in the last dozen years that doesn't merit such focussed attention.- Dot Music
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If they've kept the good stuff back in the hope of better times, the decision was misguided; but if this is the best they can manage, the portents are, in the original sense of the word, ill.- Dot Music
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Over 11 tracks she fails to pull in a single noteworthy vocal, that's if you can even locate it beneath the waves of effects designed to disguise how very little is actually there.- Dot Music
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Meandering atmospheric intros and outros, with lyrics that often just repeat the same verse ad nauseum, overshadow what could be, at times, shorter, snappier songs.- Dot Music
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Kasabian and their brass-necks have long since appropriated The Music's mantle of anthem-whoring psychedelic horsemen and there's barely a moment over the course of 12 tracks here where they contest that.- Dot Music
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Greater things may well be in the pipeline for The Kooks, but this is sadly lacking in anything to fall - or indeed remain - in love with.- Dot Music
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It's a dubious album whose chief innovation is a guest appearance by Nelly Furtado.- Dot Music
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MSTRKRFT make a racket that's impressive at first but eventually the echoes of it return to bite them.- Dot Music
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For now at least this is the sound of a band trying to do too much at once and sinking under the weight of their heroes.- Dot Music
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With their abilities to self-censure and decide at what's fundamentally good gone seriously awry, the results are more likely to induce a rolling of eyeballs and suppressed sniggers rather than gasps of admiration.- Dot Music
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For the most part, "In Case We Die" tries so hard to be fun it is almost no fun at all.- Dot Music
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One meandering ballad follows another, each one overlong and labouring under the illusion that emotional profundity is more important than a decent tune.- Dot Music
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Music that is designed to smother, to sedate, to lull the listener into a soporific state of boredom.- Dot Music
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Awesomely anodyne, breathtakingly boring and crushingly clichéd, â??Astronautâ? singularly fails to take flight.- Dot Music
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Before I Self Destruct needs as many bells and whistles as it can muster, because the music isn't going to cut it on its own.- Dot Music
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There are moments where Usher's old charm and vocal velvetiness briefly resurface and remind the listener of what a bright talent he once seemed....But these highlights are rare, and Raymond vs Raymond mostly sounds as shallow and unappealing as its singer.- Dot Music
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This collection of shimmering-smooth, synthesiser-led beats and lazy gangsta rap posturing isn't worthy of the once great Snoop.- Dot Music
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Combined with the slick, predominantly live band set-up here it makes for some dreadfully clunky moments.- Dot Music
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Their third, Happiness Ltd, is a sulky teenager, and about as attractive and engaging as that suggests.- Dot Music
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Anyone looking for some spicy R'n'B to follow up Pink's fantastic breakthrough hit, 'Most Girls', will be sorely disappointed.- Dot Music
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Frequently, it sounds like the band have spent most of that time labouring to make their fifth album as monumental as possible. Where once they swung, however ironically, now they plod. Slowly. Ponderously. In expensive lead boots.- Dot Music
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What pulls this album back from being anything but revelatory, however, is not only the typical lazy rock the band are purveyors of, especially 'Fire' and 'Fast Fuse,' but also the diabolical lyrical content that's employed throughout West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum.- Dot Music
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A record that surgically removes all trace of sensuality and replaces it with calculated, mechanical, by-numbers bump'n'grind action.- Dot Music
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Had they imploded in some bizarre gardening accident following the release of 'Danger! High Voltage' all would be forgiven. That single still sounds classic and retains the power to get Aunt Peggy off her seat at the wedding reception..... However, the rest appears to be have been cobbled together in a matter of hours.- Dot Music
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It's a cruel world in which a Nelly sells more records than the Blastmaster KRS but what 'Nellyville' makes abundantly clear is that its creator won't be leaving a fraction of his foe's proud mark on hip-hop once the dust settles on the frantic promotion of this record.- Dot Music
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It's hard to imagine how Hands All Over could have been any more underwhelming. In truth the only exceptional thing about it is just how average it is.- Dot Music
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There just aren't enough ideas or songs to make up for the overwhelmingly mean perspective.- Dot Music
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- Posted Dec 21, 2010
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Driving yet jaunty guitars abound and backing chants fill the required spaces, yet it all comes across too much like a sub-par parody of their former selves.- Dot Music
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This lumpen, bloated, boring album is as much of a let-down as any of Timbaland's other "solo" works.- Dot Music
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This is a pompous, blandly histrionic album, faintly monumental in its drabness.- Dot Music
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For people awaiting that second Jet album, this should prove a welcome distraction from their crayons. For the rest of us it's a look of bemusement and a scratched head.- Dot Music
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Earth To The Dandy Warhols is just vacuous mid-tempo babble and clatter.- Dot Music
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Unfortunately for the oh-so-cleverly named Mongrel are nothing more than a patronising exercise in telling the poor listener what they already know: that governments can be corrupt, war on the whole is not pleasant and we all have a right to freedom.- Dot Music
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The rest of the tracks bop along with various degrees of offensiveness or inoffensiveness, troubling and achieving nothing.- Dot Music
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Represents an ill-advised body swerve from the duo’s idiosyncratic home territory and plunges them deep into the thoroughly becalmed waters of MOR ambient pop, offering up languid, beats-driven, down-tempo tunes that aren’t so much radio-friendly as downright sycophantic.- Dot Music
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The dominant sound is of flickering sequencers and heavy-handed synth-pomp which showcases Linkin Park's keen interest in the work of Depeche Mode, but also often leaves them sounding about as cutting-edge and dangerous as Jesus Jones.- Dot Music
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An album that's desperately hard to listen to, let alone care about.- Dot Music
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To live in their world is like being trapped at an idiot's convention and almost – but only almost - as bad as Limp Bizkit.- Dot Music
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You can forgive Cruz for wondering who he's meant to be for his second album, but we're less indulgent of such wishy-washy nonsense that "Rokstarr" puts across in the name of heartfelt R&B.- Dot Music
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He preens, poses and struts like a self-proclaimed and extremely delusional love god.- Dot Music
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Repeated plays just refuse to reveal hidden depths. There aren‘t any. “Around The Sun” is just a really poor album, probably the first one that this band has ever put out.- Dot Music
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The big-beated momentum of yore is bogged down in McClure's new graceless Gallagher sneer and left to stagnate by a band more interested in re-heating anaemic Kasabian-esque psychedelia than building a plinth from which to preach.- Dot Music
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Beyond the artificiality of this album's every attempt to be loved, what's most surprising is Pharrell's failure to program so much as a decent beat.- Dot Music
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With so much of the joyous, uplifting and just plain life-affirming Motown back catalogue freely available (not to mention the any number of soul all-nighters dotted across the country), Going Back is a redundant exercise into one man's nostalgia.- Dot Music
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Songs that used to bounce and strut with foolhardy glee now amble, lamenting, the stench of booze and self-pity turning Romance At Short Notice into a wake.- Dot Music
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A plodding collection of ballads carefully designed to show-off her jaw-dropping vocal range to the fullest.- Dot Music
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"Christ Illusion" for the most part consists of leaden, grinding sludge devoid of any urgency or malevolence.- Dot Music
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This album is nowhere near as imaginative or as interesting as its maker thinks it is.- Dot Music
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His voice still sounds like it could curdle milk, an anaemic whine with no substance. Song-wise, this is mass-production fodder about which there's very little one can say.- Dot Music
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The Spirit Of Apollo, a record boasting some of the most pioneering musical talent of the last three decades, does not sound "timeless" but nor does it seem an appropriate tonic, voices passing unheralded in a confusion of mediocre, glossy production, guests from the stratosphere reduced to faces in the crowd.- Dot Music
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Therein lies the danger of building an iconic persona on your current obsessions and an unerring belief in everyone else's interest in your thoughts. When it hits gold, it's magnetic; when judgement lapses, the convictions seem tired.- Dot Music
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Track after track in an aimless blur of humming amps, pointless mucking about with effects, dreary jams propelled by meandering guitar interplay, and bleak, endless droning.- Dot Music
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Despite this album's production credits reading like a PhD thesis, Korn's commercial masterplan is fatally undermined by certain glaring weaknesses, the main one being that their singer is a dunderheaded, sexist, self-pitying fool.- Dot Music
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A product so meticulously calculated, so shamelessly designed for the widest possible demographic, so wholeheartedly shallow, you suspect Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell must be dumbstruck in admiration.- Dot Music
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People will tell you Ladyhawke is fresh and exciting. They're wrong. It's horrendous.- Dot Music
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On the evidence of 'Democrazy', the wrong self-indulgent flake got fired from Blur.- Dot Music
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The lumbering, ponderous nature of both music and vocals elsewhere makes you wonder if much of Songs In A&E wasn't actually recorded in hospital.- Dot Music
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The Golden D' is Coxon's second stab at recording the most pointless album of all time and rest assured he's getting there.- Dot Music
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'14 Shades of Grey' features no standout moments or highlights, just a formulaic, plodding, sixty plus moribund minutes that make this album about an hour too long. Avoid at all costs, even if you're a member of Staind's family.- Dot Music
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Because beneath the clownishly self-effacing exterior, there's an artless ambition at work here that's terrible to behold.- Dot Music
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The truth is most of this new record is karaoke, too--it's just that, like their fans, the band are so desperate to mean something that they have the gall to call it 'new'.- Dot Music
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Far from a behind-the-scenes veil-lifting, though, 'Doggumentary' largely ensures that the worst preconceptions of self-indulgent hip-hop remain in place.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 11, 2011
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The suspicion that Mika might have major talent under the plagiarism and cynicism is what makes "Life In Cartoon Motion" so remarkably unlovely.- Dot Music
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Stripped of the rough guitars and eclectic production of the original, two things are exposed - those words and that voice. Neither fare well.- Dot Music
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There's no gentle way of saying this, so let's cut to the chase. This record is, quite simply, useless.- Dot Music
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