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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Orchestra, Sadly, Has Refused
    Sublime and spacey, delicate and dramatic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    American IV: The Man Comes Around
    Cash has once again seen that white light--yet resisted its allure--and written an apocalyptic title track and put his stamp on an eclectic batch of material. [8 Nov 2002, p.106]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Escondida
    Starbucks should replace Norah Jones with Holland as its mood musician of choice; her compositional brew is smooth, with jolts of witty malice.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Ghosts Of The Great Highway
    Honestly isn't too different from Painters. [Listen 2 This supplement, Nov 2003, p.39]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    OST
    Most soundtracks are compilations of the obvious... Almost Famous is the grand exception, avoiding easy choices while meticulously re-creating the feeling of being young, awkward, and in love with music in the early '70s.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rings Around The World
    Unfortunately, that extraordinary core is at times marred by forced eccentricity.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Wind
    If The Wind is unsentimental, it's also happily unhygienic, sounding as ramshackle and energized as you'd hope a nothing-left-to-lose last blast would. [5 Sep 2003, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Pretty Toney Album
    Ghostface... comes off hungrier than ever to produce thrilling hip-hop. [14 May 2004, p.68]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Private Press
    Few approach this style of record making with as much playfulness and gravity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Hour of Bewilderbeast
    A slippery and surprising little record -- an oblique song cycle tracing a relationship from balmy beginning to corrosive end.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bloodflowers
    One of the band's most affecting works.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Full Moon
    Her deep, warm voice now has a scratchy, evocative edge that suggests maturity and the high price that often comes with it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Love Is Here
    As much as you want to tell [James] Walsh to calm down, this stirring debut wouldn't be half as potent without him. [18 Jan 2002, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Wooden Leather
    Represents an enlightened South, where relfections on politics mix with odes to corn bread, where fingerpicked guitars blend with glitchy synths. [5 Sep 2003, p.76]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    In Reverie
    An unexpectedly poppy collection of left-field melodies and twisty song structures that wrap around your brain like a head cold. [19 Sep 2003, p.86]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Let It Come Down
    A big, lumbering, and often uplifting symphonic-rock piece about being a wastrel, it's as if Brian Wilson had made ''Pet Sounds'' a decade later in the midst of his bedridden, drug-addled despondency.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Young Machines
    A soothing swoon. [24 Oct 2003, p.107]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Up In Flames
    These laptop-pop fractals... deliver spectacular hip-hop drum breaks and the sort of mile-deep multi-tracking that makes digital technology so much fun. [Listen 2 This supplement, Apr 2003, p.12]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Since We Last Spoke
    RJ... lets his softer side show to touching effect. [18 Jun 2004, p.84]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
    Her strongest work since 1995's To Bring You My Love.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)
    A genuinely winning collection of sublime, old-school pop.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Renegades
    The group's relatively unheralded musicians (guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk) have developed into such a nimble and cohesive unit that they'd sound pretty exciting even without someone spewing rapid fire invective over their grooves.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Rising
    Springsteen's words may be weighted with the aftershocks of death, but the music, ironically, is animated; unlike ''Joad,'' ''The Rising'' is a pleasure to hear.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Things We Lost In The Fire
    Just plain beautiful... carefully harmonized vocals and pellucid guitar hooks that rarely lapse into merely languid melodies. [2/16/2001, p.98]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Get Ready
    New Order roll out that trademark sound again, and it's never sounded stronger or more vigorous.... A stunning and confident return to form. [19 Oct 2001, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sunny Border Blue
    As usual, the results are exquisitely unsettling... [3/9/2001, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Ugly Organ
    Organ raises the Saddle Creek bar in terms of sheer psychiatric-rock intensity. [Listen 2 This supplement, Mar 2003, p.10]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Virginia Creeper
    Phillips' fragile, tender songs are well suited to his uneasy protagonists. [5 Mar 2004, p.69]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Once In A Lifetime
    Avoid the last disc, groove on the first two, and ruminate on the strange beauty of this sui generis body of work.
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