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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Smoke + Mirrors
    Imagine Dragons will probably always sound too blustery to those allergic to stadium tricks, but Smoke’s big-tent charm makes stock rock-playbook moves feel refreshingly new.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Fifty Shades of Grey [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    Aside from throwback cuts from Sinatra and the Stones, it's all woozy, vampirically nocturnal reports from the leading edge of pop and R&B. [13 Feb 2015, p.65]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Feb 10, 2015
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shadows in the Night
    Shadows doesn’t so much reimagine these songs as Dylan-ize them in exactly the way you’d expect.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Non-Fiction
    On his gleefully carnal sixth LP he shows off a flexibility that few performers can match.[30 Jan-6 Feb 2015,p.120]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Jan 27, 2015
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Pale Emperor
    It's about as close to aging gracefully as you could ever hope to get from a dude who used to call himself the Antichrist Superstar. [23 Jan 2015, p.69]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Jan 16, 2015
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No Cities to Love
    Even though they're no longer underdogs—their last album, 2005's The Woods, cemented their rep as one of the all-time great groups—that hasn't changed on their triumphant return.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    Murdoch's acute storytelling eye remains laser-focused.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Uptown Special
    The cumulative effect of Special's contagious cool will keep hands up and bad vibes down--and if all else fails, just put "Feel Right" on repeat.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Title
    This is real-girl pop with massive charm.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Pinkprint
    Pinkprint slogs through too many ponderous piano ballads, and it's a shame, because there are moments here that give flashes of that mad brilliance.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sucker
    Sucker is pop-punk, radically redefined and dragged, middle fingers waving, into the future.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    VII
    VII lacks his [Kanye West's] boundary-warping weirdness, but she has a strong grasp on lush '90s-kissed R&B.
    • 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
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The London Sessions
    Though Sessions' ballads aren't nearly as bracing, Emile Sande-assisted "Whole Damn Year" and the minimalist closer "Worth My Time" tap smartly into Blige's endless well of world-weary pathos, which keeps all the icy production from becoming bloodless. [5 Dec 2014, p.69]
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shady XV
    Shady's first half is, like most new Eminem material, more problematic but also more rewarding. [5 Dec 2014, p.70]
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Way
    This sharp, addictive collection winks at the past in ways the already devoted will love.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Seeds
    A jittery intensity powers Seeds, the band's fifth album.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Four
    [On album's first half] the melodies are sturdy and the lyrics catch. Later, the titles get sillier (''Stockholm Syndrome''), and the guitar-jam vibe turns as dull as every real-life guitar jam. But when Four ends, your ears are guilt-free.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nick Jonas
    As long as you forget that you're listening to the star of Camp rock 2: The Final Jam, it actually sounds pretty cool. [14/21 Nov 2014, p.105]
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Man Against Machine
    An album brimming with arena-sized anthems, glossy production, and intimate storytelling. [14/21 Nov 2014, p.105]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Inevitable End
    The self-proclaimed final album showcases the best of the duo's trance-y instrumentals, propulsive hooks, and bubbling beats. [14/21 Nov 2014, p.105]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    La Isla Bonita
    The foursome pack as many ideas as possible into each delirious minute. [14/21 Nov 2014, p.105]
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sonic Highways
    As solid as Sonic Highways is, the entertaining making-of stories may ultimately overshadow the album.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Motion
    His largely straight-ahead approach will rankle EDM devotees who are searching for boundary-busting beats, but he's taking his chances with the most unpredictable technology of all: the human voice.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sings the Great Diva Classics
    The Queen of Soul delivers a rollicking take on Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," but covers of other lady icons--Chaka, Barbra, Etta--feel dated or ill conceived. [24 Oct 2014, p.63]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 29, 2014
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Tough Love
    Pensive, silken R&B. [24 Oct 2014, p.63]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 29, 2014
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    1989
    In some small-minded circles, country has a junior-varsity rep, while pop is the Olympics. And Swift wants us to know she’s ready for her shot at an all-around gold medal. With 1989, she should earn at least a silver.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sweet Talker
    Sweet may not be her best release, but her attitude is so much looser this time around that even the filler gets elevated.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Everything Will Be Alright in the End
    The killer hooks of Weezer's '90s zenith aren't here, but Cuomo's endearingly dorky lyrics still are. [6 Oct 2014, p.62]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 9, 2014
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