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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    LotusFlow3r
    LOtUSFLOW3R, is less narcoleptic than merely sleepy.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    TP.3 Reloaded
    Listen at your own peril. [8 Jul 2005, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A Crow Left Of The Murder
    Tuneless, torturously knotty prog-metal. [13 Feb 2004, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    J. Lo
    Consistently aims for the lowest common denominator...
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Sea of Memories
    The Sea adds exactly zero entries to the totally awesome Bush greatest-hits album that doesn't exist yet. [23 Sep 2011, p.79]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 6, 2011
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    MPLSound
    Third disc MPLSoUND is the strongest of the bunch, though that's faint praise; even standouts like the teasing, breathy 'Chocolate Box' and the bedroom-ready 'U're Gonna C Me' feel, at best, like pale lavender imitations of better times.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Dynamite
    [Jay Kay's] blue-eyed disco funk has definitely had its highlights, but they're pretty hard to find here. [23 Sep 2005, p.90]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Rehearsing My Choir
    [The Grandmother's] spoken-word soliloquies only deepen Choir's too-clever-for-its-own-good impenetrability. [28 Oct 2005, p.89]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Elixer
    Her 10 strenuously generic tracks are pure R&B Ambien, and the lady is no Sheila E.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Simple Plan
    All things considered, this Plan to update their sound winds up being too Simple.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Freedom
    Akon's philosophy of liberty also includes the freedom to reuse nearly identical hooks for 13 songs straight. That approach may bring him plenty money, but it yields only a few legitimately fun tracks, buried beneath a pile of boring retreads.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    SelmaSongs: Music from the Motion Picture Dancer in the Dark
    Something here brings out the most precious and irritating aspects of Björk's elfin voice.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Devil You Know
    There is a small group of Black Sabbath fans who believe the band produced its best work after singer Ronnie James Dio replaced Lord of Darkness/future variety-show host Ozzy Osbourne in the late '70s. Alas, their case will not be aided by their new album.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Born Here Live Here Die Here
    He's content to remain firmly within the bounds of where he's always been. The album title may as well be referring to Bryan's artistic development.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Fortune
    Almost nothing here swerves out of Fortune's featherweight club-funk cruising lane.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    No More Shall We Part
    Cave's songs once conjured eternity. Now they just feel like one. [13 Apr 2001, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    MGMT
    Their cavalcade of goopy dross and hippie-dippy navel-gazing takes a left at transcendence and eventually just lets this bloated trip sputter out altogether. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.152]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Sep 18, 2013
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    My Favorite Headache
    Is it any surprise that the first solo album from Rush bassist-vocalist Lee contains all the elements that make his band the most annoying power trio in rock? [11/17/2000, p.127]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 70 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    What A Time To Be Alive [Mixtape]
    There’s very little evidence here that makes the case for either as the game-changing superstar he actually is. Future comes off particularly blasé, falling repeatedly into the cliché version of himself that is all mealy-mouthed strip-club crooning.... Drake sounds only slightly more engaged.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Discipline
    Despite a couple of promising tracks the music generally befits the absurd lyrics.... Dupri, Ne-Yo, Rodney Jerkins, The-Dream, and StarGate often drown out Jackson's breathy vocals with soulless beats.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Chapter 1: Snake Oil
    Diplo's second album might be a cheeky bid to stake out a spot in Nashville, but the end result is largely a bummer, a collection of dourly self-conscious "chill" accessorized with the kind of cheap cowboy hat that gets left behind on the way to the festival parking lot.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Wild Ones
    On his fourth album, Wild Ones, there's a distinct Flo Rida-shaped hole where his personality once was--and it's been filled with other people's songs.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    OK Human
    The problem with OK Human isn't that Cuomo makes a facepalm-inducing Kim Jong-un reference and rhymes sad with bad, it's that there's not enough genuine pathos to outweigh the places where he can't help himself. Instead, the fleeting moments of authenticity are hidden beneath a pile of hokey one-liners, spotty vocal performances, and awkward arrangements that rely on the accompanying orchestra to provide all of the emotional depth.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Greendale
    About the time an FBI agent shoots the heroine's cat, prior to a Hair-style love-in finale, you'll know you and Young have weathered his career low point together. [19 Sep 2003, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Encore
    On an album that sags with filler and trite rehashes, he sacrifices the rich, multi-textured productions of The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show for thug-life monotony, cultural zingers for petty music-biz score-settling, and probing self-analysis for juvenile humor. [19 Nov 2004, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Invincible
    For all of the energy and money that went into it, ''Invincible'' is curiously lacking in excitement or thrills, cheap or otherwise.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
    After their vaguely successful '04 covers album, "Throwback," the Boyz return with another throwback, this time sleepwalking through classics. [16 Nov 2007, p.79]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Comedown Machine
    The band vacillates between rudderless tone poems ("'80s Comedown Machine"), exhausting rave-ups (the screeching "50/50"), and bizarre A-ha biting ("One Way Trigger"), all of which overflow with incomplete ideas.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Lions
    Chris Robinson and crew get artier with their arrangements, but sacrifice the lived-in feel of previous work. [11 May 2001, p.81]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Eye Legacy
    Eye Legacy is but another posthumous compilation matching a much-missed talent's unused vocals (many from an eight-year-old solo album that only came out overseas) with tinny new beats and random guests.
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