For 2,986 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 5.2 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 77
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Positive: 2,585 out of 2986
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Critic Score 91
She pulls it off, magnificently, thanks to her spectacular trill of a soprano and earnest approach. -
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Critic Score 91
They've made a dreamy set suffused with synth bleeps and strings, nodding to Eno, Abba, and U.K. electro-soul peers Everything but the Girl. -
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Critic Score 91
To call Macy Gray's new album, The Trouble With Being Myself, delightful is to minimize its sensual intelligence and considerable emotional depth. -
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Critic Score 91
If Sondheim had been reared on old Van Dyke Parks records, he might sound like this. [26 Sep 2003, p.94] -
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Critic Score 91
Like the great college radio station that never was. [29 Oct 2004, p.69] -
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Critic Score 91
He's backed by the best production he's had since his Dr. Dre-helmed debut. -
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Critic Score 91
It's always urgent, heartfelt, fearlessly fiery, utterly sincere. [30 Jul 2004, p.70] -
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Critic Score 91
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. -
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Critic Score 91
[An] especially forceful and cohesive album. [12 Nov 2004, p.120] -
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Critic Score 91
Parkway didn't take Fountains of Wayne to the charts, but let's hope the Interstate will. [13 Jun 2003, p.92] -
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Critic Score 91
The writing is just as rueful, darkly romantic, and exuberant as it's ever been. [16 May 2003, p.72] -
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Critic Score 91
The songs explode with creativity, fusing jazz riffs, tribal rhythms, hardcore bursts of noise, and addictive rock hooks into one of the most compelling discs of the year. [18 July 2003, p.73] -
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Critic Score 91
Gibbard finds the near-perfect pop record that's eluded his main group. [Listen 2 This supplement, Mar 2003, p.12] -
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Critic Score 91
This is such a fascinatingly different take on (mostly) the same material that it almost whets your appetite for a third rendering. -
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Critic Score 91
Her smoky Appalachian porch moan has never sounded deeper, realer or sexier. [6 June 2003, p.79] -
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Critic Score 91
In this trans-American setting, Case emerges as a roots powerhouse. [13 Sep 2002, p.156] -
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Critic Score 91
Ealom is one cool customer, and her bandmates know their best music arises from showcasing her in all her multitracked glory. [22/29 Aug 2003, p.133] -
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Critic Score 91
Lynne is so in her element... that you have to believe the title's a deliberate misnomer. [26 Sep 2003, p.94] -
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Critic Score 91
The CD hits a high point with the churning, turboed bluegrass of ''Caroline.'' But it's all just a warm-up for the title track, in which the pair's recollections of rites of passage form a gutsy account of the terrible beauty of coming of age. -
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Critic Score 91
'Winning'' is a winner, offering ample reason for connoisseurs of great pop to rejoice, whatever their age. Alternately wistful and witty, introspective and invigorating, it's arguably even better than ''The Ego Has Landed,'' Williams' 1999 Stateside calling card. -
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Critic Score 91
A fetching collection of pop confections.... ''M!ssundaztood'' captures girlish confusion with greater accuracy and delight than Alanis Morissette's supposed bible of the form, ''Jagged Little Pill." -
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Critic Score 91
The band reaffirms a gift for creating melancholic melodies that are surprisingly sturdy and self-assured. [13 Jun 2003, p.96] -
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