E! Online's Scores
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For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
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72% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Okonokos [Live] | |
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Lowest review score: | I Get Wet |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 643 out of 787
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Mixed: 133 out of 787
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Negative: 11 out of 787
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So cool and so good that no one will even notice Meg White has been replaced by a mandolin.- E! Online
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If last year's Under Construction was a little weird, then This Is Not a Test! is barking mad--in the greatest way.- E! Online
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It's quite possibly his best album since 1982's Nebraska.- E! Online
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Gorgeous and intimate, the 14 songs on her debut disc ache with romantic maturity and a smart, slow-jam sexiness that belies the fact that, at 22, Jones is hardly older than Britney.- E! Online
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Tak[es] on the state of global affairs in a way that is both surprisingly direct yet somehow reassuringly weird.- E! Online
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The band's equally impressive second album grooves with both a Detroit hipster sound and some spacey atmosphere.- E! Online
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The duo's collaboration on Van Lear Rose is unexpectedly gripping, a raucous slice of vintage Nashville fuelled by Lynn's down-home wisdom, twangy gee-tars and White's inspired hand at production.- E! Online
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It is the sound of Interpol as reinterpreted by Tom Waits--a breathtaking album with bite.- E! Online
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Injecting the album with plenty of soul, gospel and throwbacks to that old-school Motown sound, producers like the Neptunes, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and guests like Eve help round out what's possibly the best R&B album this year.- E! Online
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The band turns each song up to 11 and lets its rabid hometown fans provide thousand-strong backing vocals. It'll make you want to yell "Woooh!" too.- E! Online
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On bluesy new tracks such as "Stubborn Beast" and "Moonshiner," she conjures a sensual, serious confidence that suggests she's ready to depose Cat Power as the queen of indie teardrop ballads.- E! Online
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A funky, soulful flashback to the works of outspoken jazz and R&B greats like Gil-Scott Heron and Miles Davis.- E! Online
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A warm serving of elegant late-night ballads that infuse acoustic and pedal-steel guitars with back-porch rhythms and arrangements.- E! Online
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Just like the architects behind Kid A, they take all these creepy elements and make something totally excellent.- E! Online
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It's stripped down (and we're not just talking about the jumpsuits), simple and the songwriter's best work in ages.- E! Online
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It's okay, you can believe all of the fawning reviews you're going to read about this album. Because when still-kicking '60s soul legend Solomon Burke puts his earthy baritone to lyrics written by some of today's most critically acclaimed songwriters, it's simply magical.- E! Online
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Now the melodies are sharper, the scissor kicks are higher and the grooves are, er, groovier.- E! Online
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Maxwell's latest finds the steady and seductive soul-provider drawing more from the class of Marvin Gaye than the trash of R. Kelly--with a touch of spirituality thrown in.- E! Online
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Even the geeky ballads will put a smile on your face and a Bic lighter in your hand.- E! Online
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There's nothing quite like the sound of a band at the top of its game.- E! Online
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Following 2002's experimental Phrenology, which featured all manner of drum 'n' bass and techno influences, the real-instrument-playing Philadelphia hip-hop collective ditches the frills on Tipping Point.- E! Online
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