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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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    • 82 Metascore
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    Poses
    With Broadway-worthy new standards, and a strong supporting cast, Wainwright delivers a flawless, flip-flopless performance. [8 June 2001, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
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    Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
    Excitingly, Tell Tale Signs jumps decades ahead to offer an alternate history of a less leaky period: the creative renaissance that started at the end of the 1980s and has been bearing fruit ever since.
    • 63 Metascore
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    Paper Tigers
    All retro rock should sound this good. [22 Apr 2005, p.62]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
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    LP1
    She exerts enough of a magnetic pull to lure listeners into some challenging territory.
    • 81 Metascore
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    Actor
    Actor is a uniquely potent cocktail of sounds and moods that'll get you hooked, fast.
    • 82 Metascore
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
    Though the album trips lightly from slinky roller-skate jams ('Fences') to near Brit-rocky rave-ups ('Lasso'), the underlying vibe is both retro and somehow outside of time--like a memory made sweeter than the real thing it recalls.
    • 85 Metascore
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    evermore
    Swift's lyric-writing abilities feel leveled-up on Evermore, its characters drawn in pointillistic detail. ... Similarly, the musical risks on Evermore are bigger, both in scope and in payoff. ... Freedom from expectations has, both with this album and its predecessor, led to Swift's leaps giving new heights to her already-pretty-skyscraping career.
    • 89 Metascore
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    Hell Hath No Fury
    The best hip-hop album of 2006.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ancient Melodies Of The Future
    A lovely surprise. [17 Aug 2001, p.72]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 82 Metascore
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    Gaslighter
    By blending early-21st-century pop savvy with the storytelling that made country music so crucial to the American canon, Gaslighter is all fire and nerve, performed by three women whose musical bona fides are rivaled only by their rock-solid backbones.
    • 79 Metascore
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    Soldier Of Love
    On songs like the space-folky ''Long Hard Road'' and the reggae-scented ''Babyfather,'' Sade exhales peerlessly while the boys behind her fluff one heck of a sonic pillow. Weary bones, rest here.
    • 78 Metascore
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    The Stand Ins
    This Austin quintet follows 2007's "The Stage Names" with a second tour de force about the collateral damage of fame.
    • 66 Metascore
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    VH1 Storytellers
    Whether singing or speaking, he does it all with a sort of messy, testifying fervor: There are many congregants in the Church of Kanye, but none so devout as the man himself.
    • 85 Metascore
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    Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
    Everett finally delivers the absolute stone masterpiece fans have always known lurked inside his dour heart. [29 Apr 2005, p.147]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
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    Atom Bomb
    The vibe isn't far removed from the funky frathouse spirit of a vintage Leon Russell album (note: That's a good thing). [18 Mar 2005, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 86 Metascore
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    Body Talk
    Spectacular Swedish import Robyn continues to languish in the cult-act remainder bin, but these 15 excellently curated tracks (culled from three 2010 EPs) deserve to change that.
    • 70 Metascore
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    The Twilight Saga: New Moon [OST]
    Think of New Moon as a sort of survey course in new-now-next rock: a mixtape with teeth.
    • 80 Metascore
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    Blue Boy
    The disc's gritter sound, courtesy of producer Steve Earle, is a perfect complement to Sexsmith's "Waterloo Sunset" croon... [6/8/2001, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 87 Metascore
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    World Without Tears
    A perfectly imperfect set, it's looser, blowsier, and more what-the-hell? than anything she's done.
    • 79 Metascore
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    Beaucoup Fish
    Wipe away its dusting of frost and you'll encounter mystery, beauty, and alluring rhapsodies, with the warm, pulsating beats serving as the music's heart.
    • 82 Metascore
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    We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
    We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is full of half-heartfelt, half-hilarious songs that capture the rush of being young in a noisy new century.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Electric Circus
    Although he can be self-righteous, scattered, and grim, a team of truly youthful-minded producers is there to color the gray.
    • 79 Metascore
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    Get Away From Me
    Sophisticated stuff even for a music vet; truly stunning considering McKay is only 19.
    • 85 Metascore
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    The Airing Of Grievances
    With thrash-and-burn riffs, shout-along rants, E Street Band-style blue-collar blues, and tin-can acoustics, these Jersey boys' debut album The Airing of Grievances burns all the way down from its big mouth to its black liver.
    • 88 Metascore
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    folklore
    Swift explodes the expectations of anyone preparing to call her music "diaristic," writing songs from different perspectives while putting her already-detailed work under a microscope. ... A content smile of an album on which one of the world's biggest pop stars, charts be damned, forges her own path and dares listeners to come along for the ride.
    • 82 Metascore
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    The Renaissance
    His music now seems as fresh and necessary an alternative to rap's mainstream as it did when Tribe first arrived. Welcome back, old friend.
    • 89 Metascore
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    Songs For The Deaf
    The year's best hard-rock album. [6 Sep 2002, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
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    Cobblestone Runway
    His encouraging lyrics are creatively conceived and cliche-free, while his music has a folky, redemptive grace. [11 Oct 2002, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
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    New Moon
    Moon's two cohesive CDs prove as emotionally powerful as anything in his catalog. [1 Jun 2007, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 69 Metascore
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    West
    As bummers go, West is a beautiful one — akin to Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind.
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