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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Celebration Day [Live]
    This vanilla artifact from Zep's massive 2007 reunion concert falls into all of the typical traps associated with live albums. [30 Nov 2012, p.73]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 21, 2012
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Girl on Fire
    Some of Girl on Fire's best moments come down to just Keys and her piano.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Global Warming
    Global Warming re-ups Mr. Worldwide's booming brand with border-crossing dance-floor thumpers, swag-embedded journalism and duets with globally bankable artists.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    World From the Side of the Moon
    The most relevant debut album the Idol machine has cranked out in years, and it nicely justifies this particular WGWG's [White Guy With Guitar's] burgeoning career.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Rebel Soul
    Rebel Soul lives and dies by his yarn-spinning.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Unapologetic
    The album is far less defiant than its title suggests, with just as many lovely moments by the piano as there are dubstep-warped bangers.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    18 Months
    His new album is called 18 Months, but it doesn't sound like it took anywhere near that long to make.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2 [OST]
    There's one grand-ballroom epic after another in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 2 Soundtrack, ranging from ethereal (''Bittersweet'' from Ellie Goulding, above) to awesomely sludgy (St. Vincent's ''The Antidote'').
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dos!
    Scratch the party-till-you-puke surface and there's plenty of minor-key darkness lurking below.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Lotus
    Occasionally she can still power through a chorus like a Russian weight lifter (see: ''Sing for Me''). Too bad most of these tracks digitally smother her voice, draining all the emotion until she just sounds bitter.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Take Me Home
    Most of Take Me Home is filler with barely enough zip to keep the kids up past dinner.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    King Animal
    [Skip tepid "Been Away Too Long"] to the latter half, home of the Stonesian psych flourishes ("Attrition")and a bluesy power ballad. [9/16 Nov 2012, p.98]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 8, 2012
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    R.E.D.
    The rawer lyrics showcase a man who's maturing without making a fuss about it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Until Now
    [Until Now] delivers a perfectly serviceable hi-hat frenzy. [26 Oct 2012, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Music From Another Dimension!
    The effortlessly supple brand of bar-stool blues dances equally well with the soul-drenched hip-shaker ''Out Go the Lights'' and the punked-up juggernaut ''Street Jesus.'
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Banks
    He's still an undisputed expert at cannily spinning his joy-divided spiderwebs. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 91 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    This Dr. Dre-endorsed phenom delivers on the promise of his rabidly beloved mixtape Section.80. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lost Songs
    Luckily, the melodic wall of noise crashes through the more heavy-handed moments. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Nov 1, 2012
    • 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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran
    Johnson occasionally lacks the depth of Cochran's bloodshot despair, but with guests like Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard, you can't blame him for not sounding sad in Living for a Song.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Blak and Blu
    Though Clark can occasionally get self-indulgent (some of the jammier songs here drift past the six-minute mark), his casual charisma is powerful enough to consistently hold together Blak and Blu's eclecticism.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Red
    One gets the feeling that it's not this guy's love she's after. She's just using him for the breakup songs. This time around, it's getting harder to feel sorry for Swift.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Two Eleven
    Brandy scores when her raspy-sweet voice soars during ballads and slow jams, and that's what stands out on this intimate, often ethereal collection, Two Eleven.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Night Train
    There's an urgency in his voice that gives every driving chorus added heat, whether he's singing about a woman (''I Don't Do Lonely Well,'' ''Staring at the Sun''), his country-boy work ethic (''The Only Way I Know,'' with Luke Bryan and Eric Church), or a water tower (literally, ''Water Tower''). And man, does he know how to turn a simple date-night drive into something epic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Former Lives
    His earnest songwriting still skews saccharine, but more often than not, Former Lives is lovely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Release Me
    "Home" and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" will thrill fans of The Broadway Album, and "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" is flawless.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Beacon
    The sleek album from the Irish trio tempers its galloping pop gait with frontman Alex Trimble's Ben Gibbard-y confessionals. [7 Sep 2012, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Oct 10, 2012
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Walk the Moon
    Individually, the songs are strong enough to hold their own, but after 11 tracks in a row, things get pretty samey.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Halcyon
    Halcyon could have gone for easy crossovers. But the album is slightly too weird for that--and that's what makes it good.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sticks + Stones
    With her manic lowbrow sass - tiresome at length but lovable on singles like "Want U Back"--she makes these street-laced pop tracks her own
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