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For 787 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Okonokos [Live]
Lowest review score: 0 I Get Wet
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 643 out of 787
  2. Mixed: 133 out of 787
  3. Negative: 11 out of 787
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Way It Is
    Sadly, The Way It Is never quite lives up to the album it could have been.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Talkie Walkie
    A welcome return to the group's down-tempo beginnings.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Inside Out
    This feather-light affair simply lacks any real memorable tunes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Chicken & Beer
    When Ludacris promised his new album would cover all bases, he wasn't kidding.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live In New York City
    Deeper Bruce fans will go ga-ga over the dearth of hits on this collection and twists like "Born in the U.S.A." getting a Nebraska-esque treatment and a great version of "Jungleland." Everyone else will simply love it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Be Your Own Pet
    A blur of shouted vocals, tribal drums and scattershot riffs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bavarian Fruit Bread
    A warm serving of elegant late-night ballads that infuse acoustic and pedal-steel guitars with back-porch rhythms and arrangements.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Amnesiac
    While this sounds mostly like incomplete leftovers, there are a few tasty treats: The lonely guitar of "Knives Out," that dirty beat pulsating under "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" and the hypnotic body-ponging of "I Might Be Wrong."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Louden Up Now
    Sounds like a funky offshoot of the Stone Roses, mining blissed-out acid grooves, hypnotic rhythms and the kind of distant, detached vocals that don't sound like vocals at all.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Frances The Mute
    If you've got the time to dig in, Frances the Mute proves a cohesive, intricate and expertly layered experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fundamental
    Fundamental is the group's most inspired album in nearly a decade.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Home
    Home is a raucous acoustic album that mows through bluegrass and traditional country with a vengeance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Driving Rain
    While [Linda's] death hangs over much of Driving Rain, Macca's knack for taking a sad song and making it better means tracks like "Lonely Road," "It Must Have Been Magic," "Your Way" and "Back in the Sunshine" are redemption songs, not exercises in self-pity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Eminem Show
    He often riffs for too long, so by the time he's singing to his daughter on "Hailie's Song," you feel the album's nearly 80-minute length.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    More Adventurous
    Part new-wave keyboards, part folky acoustic guitars, the music on More Adventurous is unexpectedly beautiful.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Pay The Devil
    At the end of the day, it's really hard to screw up these songs with that voice--try as he might.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Vapor Trails
    A welcome return.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cure
    It's hard to imagine a set of songs that better reflects every phase the group has navigated through its turbulent career.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Strays
    This is carefully architected to pack arenas.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I Sold Gold
    One man has made a beautifully subtle magic in his bedroom studio--and it will be heard on The O.C. in no time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    Sounds like they had as much fun making it as you're going to have listening to it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    These tunes find him not only reconnecting with his sense of melodic urgency but with his loins, as well.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    New Favorite
    Krauss is blessed with one of the most coolly beautiful voices on record, and she's often better than her material, which is once again the case here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Diamonds On The Inside
    At times, he's guilty of doing his best Lenny Kravitz impersonation.... But those moments pass relatively quickly, and he slips back into his stripped-down, socially conscious self--and that's when Harper truly shines.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    One By One
    Here, Grohl consistently puts forth straightforward, stripped-down rock that is neither ironic nor pandering--a fine line between Cheap Trick and cheap tricks.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Does This Look Infected?
    This disc has a clutch of songs that mix chord-y abandon with raging rock riffs--and a heck of a lot of good times.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Black Foliage: Animation Music
    So maybe Black Foliage can be a bit self-indulgent and uneven at times (the short connecting tracks that recur throughout the album, for example), but such missteps go along with a brimming imagination that boldly explores the outer limits of rock's subconscious.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    100th Window
    Less immediate than their brilliantly untouchable 1998 album Mezzanine, this project is unsettling, uneasy and, okay, sometimes unbearably depressing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    lovehatetragedy
    Precise? Yes. But does it work your frustrations out? Only a little.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lateralus
    Lateralus takes the L.A. band over the edge with elongated musical movements that simmer under heavy-duty distortion, Middle Eastern percussion and freakish guitar-and-drum time signatures that will make musical mathematicians (i.e., prog-rock dorks) as excited as the kids in the mosh pit.
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