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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
    • 91 Critic Score
    Look Into The Eyeball
    His Great Solo Album, folding his obsessions with Afro-Cuban rhythms, Brazilian art song, American soul-funk, and workaday surrealism into perhaps his sweetest melodies ever. [11 May 2001, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Make Do With What You Got
    Don Was' appreciative arrangements leave room for the big man's vocal majesty. [11 Mar 2005, p.104]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 93 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Love And Theft
    It may not be a better album than ''Time Out of Mind,'' but it glides from genre to genre with a sprightly glee, as if Dylan were traversing the American musical landscape in search of thrills, revenge, and reparation.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Best Of Blur
    The band has quietly crafted some of the best singles of the '90s...
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Depression Cherry
    Singer Victoria Legrand has a refreshingly unshowy croon that’s one of the most seductive in pop, and her gorgeous synth drones and guitarist Alex Scally’s effects-laden riffs are exquisite.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Harry's House
    Styles has put together an album that's so solid, even moments that would be cringeworthy when handled by lesser pop stars feel earned. ... Harry's House is also emotionally heavy at times, with Styles' understated delivery adding power to his plainspoken lyrics.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    New View
    The result is Friedberger’s most conventional-sounding rock record, and that’s a compliment: without any high-concept noise to distract her, New View focuses on her rich voice and her remarkable ability to turn a phrase.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    SVIIB
    It’s a fully-realized vision of the dreamy shoegaze-pop they’d sought to prefect for years.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lovebox
    Lovebox rarely disappoints. [24/31 Jan 2003, p.100]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Poison Season
    His follow-up is his most adventurous collection yet. Over 13 tracks, he unspools anthemic power chords, swaggering horns, and gimlet-eyed tales of his journeys around the world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    36 Seasons
    For Ghostface aficionados, Seasons is easily superior to the new Wu-Tang joint, A Better Tomorrow. [5 Dec 20014, p.78]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Dec 5, 2014
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    My Ride's Here
    Call him Tenacious Z. [31 May 2002, p.108]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    An honestly fun summer disc. [Jun 27/Jul 4 2003, p.136]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hidden Vagenda
    Achieve[s] the rare bliss of adult pop wisdom. [8 Oct 2004, p.114]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    What Went Down
    With a summer that’s been light on rock thrills, What Went Down is a welcome savior.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Marshall Mathers LP
    ''The Marshall Mathers LP'' is indefensible and critic-proof, hypocritical and heartbreaking, unlistenable and undeniable; it's a disposable shock-rap session, and the first great pop record of the 21st century.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Jim Noir
    Thanks to instantly addictive compositions, Noir's aural power is n o longer a secret. [25 Apr/02 May 2008, p.117]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Crying Light
    The Crying Light--a haunting collection of ballads that play like transmissions from a mournful, elegant alien--nearly equals its predecessor.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Dirty Computer
    As a whole, Dirty Computer strikes the perfect balance between joy and sadness, offering a deeply resonant account of Monáe’s personal experiences as a black woman. Some of these experiences are unquestionably difficult. Yet in relaying them to us, Monáe never deprives herself (or the listener) of pride, joy, or autonomy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Screen Violence
    Even amid all the worrying, their defiant, quivering music vibrates with possibility in a way that plainly and passionately refutes even the darkest moments of despair their lyrics express. [Sep 2021, p.107]
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bad as Me
    Without abandoning his classic formula--junkyard percussion, loose-limbed blues licks, and that unmistakable mouth-of-hell baritone--Waits keeps pulling switcheroos out of his porkpie hat on his 20th album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Alone II: The Home Recordings
    Cuomo pinpoints melodies as crucial outlets for depression, guilt, ecstasy. He even turns a seemingly facile collaboration with Jermaine Dupri (who knew?) into an autumnal catharsis--the best Weezer song you never heard.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse
    No big revelations, but plenty of rewards. [11 Jun 2004, p.123]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Alligator
    The twilit melodies and Matt Berninger's gossamer vocals will haunt your troubled dreams. [22 Apr 2005, p.64]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    AM
    Five albums in, they may not be a buzz band anymore, but they've become something much more interesting: a good band.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Human Performance
    Nearly every cut on Human Performance--from the quaking paranoia of the album opener “Dust” to the brooding resignation of the closer “It’s Gonna Happen”--finds Parquet Courts exploring fresh sounds and reaching new heights in the process.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Happenstance
    She proves she can hold her own with the best of the distressed songstresses. [11 Jun 2004, p.123]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 65 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Up All Night
    Eclectic, combustible tunes. [3 Dec 2004, p.85]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Psychedelic Pill
    Psychedelic Pill allows pretty haunted melodies like "She's Always Dancing" to seep into the gaps between the jagged solos. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rockin' The Suburbs
    But for all of its snickers, ''Suburbs'' is serious business -- a pop fantasia that seals Folds' rep as the Cole Porter of underclass underdogs.
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