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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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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Strangers to Ourselves
    The album’s real heart, though, is in the spots where Brock lets his eccentricities run wild. “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)” is named for the man who murdered Gianni Versace, and is as deeply creepy as its subject matter. It’s as strange as “Lampshades” is accessible, a tricky move pulled off expertly, and proof that the band’s found a vital second wind.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Breakfast
    They've made the most exciting debut of 2012 so far.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hive Mind
    There’s something enjoyably old-school about Syd’s leisurely approach.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You Are The Quarry
    A set of irresistible tracks both danceable and desolate. [28 May 2004, p.124]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Fonotone Years, 1958-1965
    A rich exploration of Appalachian roots. [25 Nov 2011, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 23, 2011
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    It's de-lovely.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Guitar Slinger
    A concise set of soul-kissed tunes. [28 Oct 2011, p.73]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 15, 2011
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Night On My Side
    The sweetly pained vocals sound darn similar to Beth Orton's. [25 Apr 2003, p.151]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sale el Sol
    Sale el Sol still demonstrates Shakira's boldly global mindset.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Faith: Special Edition
    He wants our sex, and he can have it.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Beatles [White Album] [50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]
    It peels back the layers of a group diligently working to produce something special. [30 Nov 2018, p.51]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2018
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No More Drama
    The multiproducer arrangements are expansive yet warm, and Blige's pushy rasp has never sounded better.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Springtime Can Kill You
    Proof folk music shouldn't just conjure the past, but also sit down and have a drink with it in the present. [12 May 2006, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Truth About Love
    The storytelling on The Truth About Love, Pink's sixth album and first full-length since 2008's Funhouse, is unfalteringly vibrant, loaded with righteous anger, irreverence, and a clear eye for the darker side.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
    [The album's] ambition flies so far beyond that of anyone doing rap right now (or pop, or rock, or R&B), awards shows may need to create a special category for it. [19 Sep 2003, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Platinum
    On Platinum, an old-school country wisecracker that's one of her all-time bests, she's funny as hell.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Human Conditions
    Though elaborately orchestrated, the songs retain their intimacy, communicated in Ashcroft's vocals, which, over the years, keep getting warmer. [7 Mar 2003, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Congotronics 2: Buzz'N'Rumble From The Urb'N'Jungle
    More diverse than the series debut. [3 Mar 2006, p.102]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Revolution
    Revolution is a portrait of an artist in full possession of her powers, and the best mainstream-country album so far this year.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    12 Songs
    [The] tension between Rubin's desire to pare it down and Diamond's tendency to amp it up makes for the best musical checks and balances; nothing gets too unplugged or too bombastic. [11 Nov 2005, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    45/45 [EP]
    Betke masterfully manipulates space and echo. [25 Apr 2003, p.151]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Point
    11 irresistible sound collages that feature driving beats, amiable guitar acoustics, and a quadraphonic sense of aural play that encourages rampant headphone abuse. [15 Feb 2002, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Reprieve
    It's beautifully committed music--the kind that's as essential now as it has ever been. [11 Aug 2006, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
    They embellish what they long ago mastered: making shaggy, dreamy, cuddly, explosive indie rock. [15 Sep 2006, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    EP
    Four hypnotic, Madge-tinged dance tracks. [1 Apr 2011, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 8, 2011
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Widow City
    A gas, a blast. [12 Oct 2007, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Melodrama
    It’s Lorde’s own storytelling that offers Melodrama‘s most rewarding twists.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Don't Give Up On Me
    The results are astonishing. [26 July 2002, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live At Reading
    Live at Reading presents the band at its post-Nevermind peak. Watching Kurt Cobain radiate so much life is bound to trigger some tears.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    The catalog of touchstones, samples, and cameos on Renaissance could double as a syllabus for a master class on the evolution of dance music as it has unfolded during Beyoncé's lifetime.
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