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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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    • 72 Metascore
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    American Beauty/American Psycho
    American Beauty/American Psycho, the quartet's seventh studio album, is even better [than 2013's Save Rock and Roll], and reveals them as perhaps the only current mainstream rock combo capable of making big-venue sing-alongs that also reward deep headphone analysis.
    • 88 Metascore
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    69 Love Songs
    69 elegant observations by a pop master.
    • 84 Metascore
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    The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams
    Ndegeocello's dreamy vocal styles buttress this boudoir-freindly work. [28 Sep 2007, p.106]
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    • 93 Metascore
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    The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version]
    Captures the punk attitude, brittle R&B vamps, and quirky lyrical trips of their early years. [20/27 Aug 2004, p.123]
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    • 79 Metascore
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    Nothing Was the Same
    This lush, un-hurried album reveals a surer character, rebuking other rappers who talk smack "just to get a reaction" and even relatives diminished by easy money and proximity to fame.
    • 77 Metascore
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    Two Against Nature
    Their ensemble sound remains sharp and inimitable.
    • 85 Metascore
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    Twin Cinema
    It's their trademark boisterous hyper-melodies... that will have you involuntarily humming their praises for weeks (months!) to come. [26 Aug 2005, p.59]
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    • 67 Metascore
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    Evil Urges
    The cumulative result is an exhilarating, bone-deep experience--a true album, built for sustained listening.
    • 72 Metascore
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    Realism
    The delicate melodies--sung by Merritt and various innocents, including longtime collaborator Claudia Gonson--make all the psychic mayhem go down smoothly, barely leaving a trace of blood on the floor.
    • 89 Metascore
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    A Seat at the Table
    The album radiates universal beauty and truth in the tradition of Stevie Wonder and Minnie Ripperton--and the whole world could simply use more of that.
    • 95 Metascore
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    DAMN.
    After delving into the personal on 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city and going broader on Butterfly, Lamar has found a middle ground on DAMN. that yields some of his most emotionally resonant music yet.
    • 81 Metascore
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    Post-War
    Ward's talents have never been more persuasively showcased. [1 Sep 2006, p.77]
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    • 68 Metascore
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    Bazooka!!!
    A glorious blend of punk and power pop straight outta '78. [22/29 Aug 2003, p.133]
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    • 75 Metascore
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    Home
    A magisterial album.... If the group has cast off some of the youthful eclecticism, the three Chicks have pulled off something more difficult: refined their trademark sound without allowing it to turn into a copyrighted formula.
    • 83 Metascore
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    Love
    You could figure it as a sop to today's interactive mash-up culture. Or you could say it's just extending the medley-ish, segue-happy ethos of Abbey Road to the band's entire catalog. Really, it's both, and it's bliss.
    • 62 Metascore
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    In Your Dreams
    In Your Dreams, Nicks' first studio album since 2001, is also streaked with the witchy-woman weirdness only she can bring.
    • 82 Metascore
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    Cookie: The Anthropological Mix Tape
    Another set of songs that are political and unflinchingly personal, but still manage to entertain. [7 June 2002, p. 76]
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    • 80 Metascore
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    A Rush Of Blood To The Head
    Displaying a cohesion rarely heard in albums these days, ''A Rush of Blood'' bobs from one majestic little high to another.
    • 78 Metascore
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    Under Great White Northern Lights [Live]
    This concert CD/DVD does a great job of highlighting both sides of The White Stripes' carefully controlled public persona.
    • 72 Metascore
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    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
    Their [the guest artists'] fresh influx of ideas on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends creates new flavor profiles for the band's loopy psychedelic slurry.
    • 95 Metascore
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    Stankonia
    Stankonia reeks of artful ambition rendered with impeccable skill -- or as one song title so concisely has it, ''So Fresh, So Clean.''
    • 80 Metascore
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    Songs For Christmas
    The season's most thrilling holiday release. [1 Dec 2006, p.85]
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    • 94 Metascore
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    My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    He samples atmospheric noodling from Aphex Twin and bombastic nuggets from Black Sabbath and King Crimson, and he gets help from some of the biggest names in pop, rap, and indie rock. West crafts these influences into a fever dream with a crescendo around every corner - the Beautiful Fantasy of the album's title.
    • 70 Metascore
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    Scorpion
    From start to powerful finish 16 tracks later, Scorpion pumps up the volume, the rhythms, everything.
    • 87 Metascore
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    Stumble Into Grace
    Lovely, heartbreaking, and just diffident enough to get perspective on this bittersweet old world. [26 Sep 2003, p.94]
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    • 85 Metascore
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    Bubblegum
    Alt-rock blues darker and scarier than Jon Spencer or even Jack White ever imagined. [24 Dec 2004, p.66]
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    • 89 Metascore
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    When I Get Home
    A stunning effort. Solange creates such fully realized art that even when she may be expressing uncertainty and doubt, she’s charging herself--and her audience--with finding possibility.
    • 75 Metascore
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    Long.Live.A$AP
    His major-label debut proves he's more than a magnetic hedonist.
    • 73 Metascore
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    Magic
    Magic, his best record since "The River" in 1980. [5 Oct 2007, p.68]
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    • 86 Metascore
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    The Decline Of British Sea Power
    It's not all darkness: The Brighton, England-based quintet offers enough straight-ahead rockers to keep the CD from turning into dirge overkill. [Oct 2003, p.95]
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