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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Just Go
    On his ninth studio album, undifferentiated swaths of midtempo digital groove leave one longing for the (relative) analog authenticity of vintage Lionel.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Scorpion
    Although it picks up a little towards the end, Scorpion‘s second half is often a joyless slog, a prioritizing of vibe over structure that results in some of Drake’s most unfocused songwriting to date.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Exit Strategy Of The Soul
    Sexsmith unwisely attacks some notes above his comfortable register on 'Impossible World,' which is just one of the several numbers that are nothing more than blandly forgettable. [11 Jul 2008, p.72]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Hard Way
    Serviceable g-funk for gin-and-juice-swilling house parties. [10 Sep 2004, p.164]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Untitled
    Untitled's titles-- 'Pregnant,' 'Whole Lotta Kisses,' and (yes) 'Bangin' the Headboard'--don't do much to flip the script, or even write a new page.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Wildflower
    Her fondness for overblown L.A.-rock cliches undercuts the intimacy she's after; the music sounds homogenized. [7 Oct 2005, p.77]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Level II
    A little humdrum. [4 Apr 2003, p.100]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Under Rug Swept
    The album's garbled title is preparation for some of the clumsiest lyrics to be heard on a pop record in years.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Overexposed
    On much of the album, which never quite finds a balance between rock grit and dance-pop glitz, Maroon 5 barely sound like a band at all.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Odyssey
    What it doesn't have is much in the way of songs, or sincerity. [8 Apr 2005, p.66]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mr. A-Z
    But if many of his overheated lyrics crash, let the black box show that even his most banal efforts are ridiculously hummable. [29 Jul 2005, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Limbo
    The record falls off during its latter half as the melodic R&B cuts begin to blend together. And in lieu of a clear-cut concept, the random spoken-word tidbits that appear throughout the tracklist feel frivolous compared to how Blood Orange and Frank Ocean used them on their last albums.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Testify
    Adds a few improved grooves and hooks to their usual numbing pummel. [3 Feb 2006, p.70]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Palookaville
    His party jams... feel half-cocked, like Cook can't quite commit to the moment. [8 Oct 2004, p.114]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Unleashed
    What this needs is a shot of Keith's humor, largely MIA here. [26 July 2002, p.69]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Doll Domination
    After a while, listening to this CD feels like a one-way conversation with a vapid hot chick who's in love with the sound of her own voice.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Reality
    Reality's core flaw is the same on e that has marred Bowie's work since 1993's Black Tie White Noise: studio-slick production that drowns even the best musical ideas in digitally processed canola oil. [19 Sep 2003, p.85]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Welcome To The North
    The mix of loopy, Jane's Addiction-style psychedelia and old-fashioned stadium rock is galvanizing at first... but by midpoint, it's merely exhausting. [22 Oct 2004, p.96]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Lessons In Love
    For the most part, this is a bland blur of midtempo grooves and sub-R. Kelly metaphors. [8 Aug 2008]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Bronx III
    Several songs will get your blood pumping; the rest will let you practice your Bronx cheer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tha Last Meal
    Like everything he's done since 1993's ''Doggystyle,'' ''Tha Last Meal,'' starting with its tacky cartoon cover art, feels cut rate -- yet another minor album from a major talent.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Blood Sport
    Once a trip-hop outfit with a female singer, [Sneaker Pimps are] now a mopey synth-pop quartet aimed at everyone's hidden goth teen. [3 May 2002, p.88]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Marshall Mathers LP 2
    While Bad Guy"--which recognizes that he's no better than the bullies who damaged him--might be the closest Em's come to a mea culpa, it still fails to justify his cranking the cycle back up again.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Front Parlour Ballads
    Bogs down in stillborn ballads, vague metaphors, and fusty arrangements that sound too Olde English, even for him.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Alive & Amplified
    Unfortunately, the Mooneys' concept of mass appeal... includes embarrassing homages to the glory of rock (and groupies) and a Bic-lighter ballad that's pure Hootie. [20/27 Aug 2004, p.126]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Right About Now
    Seems like this MC's best days may be right about then. [2 Dec 2005, p.83]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Soulbook
    There's no doubting the love in that old heart of his, but Soulbook could've cut much deeper.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Fragile Future
    It's somewhat disappointing, that the disc's sound and content hew so closely to the standard emo/screamo/hardcore formula. [8 Aug 2008, p.68]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Group Sounds
    After 10 years, RFTC have perfected their mix of muscular guitar riffs and bristling horns; it's the songwriting that's hit a dead end. [3/9/2001, p.82]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Picture Show
    Picture Show's mixed bag of angular post-punk, moody synths, and blasts of mainstream rock (see ''Everybody Talks'') doesn't quite have the wit, charm, or cool of its aughties touchstones.
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