For 2,998 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 5.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
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Positive: 2,597 out of 2998
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Mixed: 376 out of 2998
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Negative: 25 out of 2998
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As bummers go, West is a beautiful one — akin to Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. -
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Moon's two cohesive CDs prove as emotionally powerful as anything in his catalog. [1 Jun 2007, p.68] -
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Despite all the distortion and teeth-shivering riffs, Icky Thump rivals White Blood Cells in accessibility. [22 Jun 2007, p.68] -
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It isn't long before you realize how frickin' right it all sounds, how damn near flawless the tone of the whole set feels. [28 Sep 2007, p.104] -
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Ndegeocello's dreamy vocal styles buttress this boudoir-freindly work. [28 Sep 2007, p.106] -
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Civilians matches Henry's rough croon with a rich, warm sound that instantly draws you into its sonic world. You won't want to leave. -
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Chase This Light is what emo should sound like: big emotions, sure, but also big hooks, big stakes. And big rewards. [19 Oct 2007, p.126] -
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45:33 deftly segues from the smooth funk favored by Levan to synth-pop and Talking Heads-style polyrhythms before opening into serious space-party territory. -
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In Detours' subdued second half, though, Crow lays off the social commentary to address her own recent rough patches, with lyrics that grow more absorbing and intimate as Bottrell's eclecticism simmers down. -
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Hushed and wistful, Foxes evokes the itinerant days of yore...you know, before gas cost four bucks a gallon. -
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The cumulative result is an exhilarating, bone-deep experience--a true album, built for sustained listening. -
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Damn if an already nearly perfect album doesn't, with these bonus tracks, gets a little better itself. [18 Jul 2008, p.64] -
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While these beats keep you hooked without a single word, surely they'd sound phenomenal with the right vocal on top. [15 Aug 2008, p.67] -
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This Austin quintet follows 2007's "The Stage Names" with a second tour de force about the collateral damage of fame. -
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Backed by a galvanizing ensemble of musicians that would make the Funk Brothers proud, Saadiq belts out effervescent love songs with infectious vigor. -
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Excitingly, Tell Tale Signs jumps decades ahead to offer an alternate history of a less leaky period: the creative renaissance that started at the end of the 1980s and has been bearing fruit ever since. -
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We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is full of half-heartfelt, half-hilarious songs that capture the rush of being young in a noisy new century. -
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His music now seems as fresh and necessary an alternative to rap's mainstream as it did when Tribe first arrived. Welcome back, old friend. -
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Many of the unreleased, B-side, and cover tracks here are less immediate, but no less joyful for the Pavement completist. -
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With thrash-and-burn riffs, shout-along rants, E Street Band-style blue-collar blues, and tin-can acoustics, these Jersey boys' debut album The Airing of Grievances burns all the way down from its big mouth to its black liver. -
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Springsteen's topical concerns have subsided for now, washed away by a high tide of positive personal feelings. -
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Actor is a uniquely potent cocktail of sounds and moods that'll get you hooked, fast. -
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Earle, Townes Van Zandt's foremost disciple, gives 15 favorites the kind of carefully considered settings they deserve. -
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Though the album trips lightly from slinky roller-skate jams ('Fences') to near Brit-rocky rave-ups ('Lasso'), the underlying vibe is both retro and somehow outside of time--like a memory made sweeter than the real thing it recalls. -