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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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Boomslang
    The album's arrangements are limp and unimaginative. [28 Feb 2003, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head
    His eighth album exhausts with pointless proclamations of hardness, only occasionally turning inward to contemplate actual heavy issues. [21 Dec 2012, p.67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Dec 18, 2012
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Fragile Army
    There's now an almost garish cast to the proceedings. [22 Jun 2007, p.71]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    #willpower
    His milk-snortingly inept lyrical flow too often hijacks #will's beat-addled moneymaker shakers. [3 May 2013, p.63]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Apr 26, 2013
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tical 0: The Prequel
    Meth's rugged rhymes still flow with effortless finesse, but for the first time, he loses his identity. [14 May 2004, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Burn The Maps
    These Irishmen have a way of merging lush Celtic melancholy with inspired Morse-code guitar noise... Alas, they also have a way with misogyny. [4 Feb 2005, p.135]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Emotional Technology
    He's too reserved as a solo performer to keep things interesting. [5 Sep 2003, p.77]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Everyday
    A bumpy ride that finds [producer Glen] Ballard attempting to rein in Matthews' self-indulgent tendencies, with varying degrees of success, to ditch his jam-band image for a sleeker sound.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Unbroken
    The Idolrunner-up's pleasant-but-unremarkable vocals can't elevate this tepid collection.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sunshine Lies
    Frankly, we'd rather he went back to the past--specifically 1991, when the psychedelically inclined Nebraskan released his classic "Girlfriend." [5 Sep 2008, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Rainbow Children
    The album's light jazz-funk grooves sink under the weight of his sanctimony. [23 Nov 2001, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Declaration
    The Declaration simply doesn't make much of a statement, and its high point isn't enough to unseat the Beyonces and Mary J.'s of the world. [20 June 2008, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Damita Jo
    For the most part, the songs are stylized set pieces--the furthest thing from steamy R&B--and they evaporate as you listen to them. [9 Apr 2004, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Destiny Fulfilled
    Often moves at a molasses-like pace, weighted down with a preponderance of exquisitely executed but ultimately dull ballads. [26 Nov 2004, p.117]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Donkey
    Despite momentary highs like ''Rat Is Dead (Rage)'' and ''Move,'' the entire album feels muffled by standard dance-punk grooves and generic call-to-party lyrics.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Todd Smith
    Too bad LL Cool J feels he needs the extra wattage, because Todd Smith's best moments come when he raps alone, letting his inimitably confident flow shine.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Nine Track Mind
    Much of the album is G-Rated tales of love (songs about beautiful girls and boys who love them) drowning in an ocean of power-pop gloss.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dark Horse
    The band's Beavis- like embrace of rock & roll debauchery is a sort of marvel of low art.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Stripped
    Nearly every second of this overlong, 20-track workshop communicates the overwhelming struggles she endured -- while trying to become a superstar by age 18.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Sixes & Sevens
    He hits a campy sweet spot from time to time, but at a seemingly endless 20-track length, this is one tiresome gag. [21 Mar 2008, p.57]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Glass Passenger
    Jack's Mannequin frontman Andrew McMahon sticks to his formula of friendly piano and new-wave-influenced beats on his second album.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Welcoming Home The Astronauts
    Their reliance on slight lyricism and meandering is painfully evident. [9 Nov 2001, p.110]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Idlewild
    OutKast have stretched rap's boundaries to the breaking point before, but this time their experiments come across as gimmicky or strained.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Born In The U.K.
    For every catchy valentine, there are three groan-inducing Big Statements. [20 Oct 2006, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Goddess In The Doorway
    Precision-tooled modern rock that aims for radio, not revelation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Peanut Butter And Jelly Live At The Ginger Minge
    The band's brand of anti-melody, two-chord thrash... is starting to feel punishingly stale. [28 Jan 2005, p.84]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
    Bleak and despairing... gloomy and numbing. [23 Sep 2005, p.86]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Twisted Angel
    Years as a teen country grinner, though, do not a dancetastic siren (''Trouble With Goodbye''), pop kiss-off queen (''Life Goes On''), or sex kitten (''Tic Toc'') make.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Echo
    Too much of Echo is mired in soppy balladry and standard-issue dancery that seem meant to be consumed with a box of drugstore Chablis.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    David Archuleta
    On "American Idol's" seventh season, David Archuleta had some personality--something you'll struggle to remember while taking in this bland, amnesia-inducing collection.
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