Expert Witness (MSN Music)'s Scores
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For 232 reviews, this publication has graded:
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98% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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2% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 17.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 91
Score distribution:
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Positive: 232 out of 232
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Mixed: 0 out of 232
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Negative: 0 out of 232
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Not terribly beaty and almost never fast. Just the kind of weird background music that's guaranteed to engross whenever you lend it both ears.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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Part of its delight is how naturally the disparate parts fit together, but another part is how they add up to phantasmagoria if you let your attention wander.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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Conceive it as DJ electronica that makes its point, starting all partial and halting before gathering itself to a properly modest climax. Except that it's played by a live band. And has OK lyrics. Smart, nothing‑-pretty darned intelligent.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 14, 2011
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The catch is that through all her generalizations it soon becomes clear that she needs that guy much more than a postmodern girl is supposed to. Too bad she can't pin it down and also can't pin him down. I blame the weed.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 14, 2011
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Yet as mere listening the best songs here‑-especially "Fish Paste" and the signature "Enter the Ninja"‑-convey the disturbing comic character Watkin Tudor "Waddy" Jones has created.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 11, 2011
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Seth Lorinczi provides the right shades of darkness‑-sometimes enticing, sometimes engulfing‑-as Sleater-Kinney fans long for a bright and cleansing breakout. They get one as "Handed Love" goes out, when Corin shouts her desperation and rips off a riff, then tops the outburst with the even more rousing "Doubt."- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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From "Don't F***ing Tell Me What to Do" to "We Dance to the Beat," her songwriting in that vein is as strong as anybody's. Scattered across her three 2010 CDs is one great album. How I wish this was it.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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No matter how cleverly he's rhyming, which varies, he could use subject matter beyond married-to-the-game and his traditional obsessions. But with Shady in the shadows, rarely are these themes lifted by Em's long-recessive sense of play.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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A succession of enjoyable songs with plenty to offer.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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Half rapping and half singing, half bragging and half kowtowing, brazening a "punt" rhyme here and proclaiming commonality with "girls that never thought they could win" there, she's proud to be shameless, with the hooks to back it up.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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That their most charming song by far is the straight George Clinton rip "Rill Rill," which leaves open the question of what they can do for an encore. I'll grant that minimalist bands always leave that question open if you'll grant that too often the answer is repeat themselves.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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Some will surely find this preachy, yucky, or technologically compromised. I'm just happy I can say amen.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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Despair is very much with us. It'll blow up before it recedes. And this music is intensely committed to escaping it.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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I love sampled beats. But 90 percent of the time I'd rather ride Ahmir Thompson's hand, feet, and brain.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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Cataloguing the perks of power he sounds as geeky as Mark Zuckerberg, and because grandiosity doesn't suit him deep down, the sonic luxuries of this world-beating return to form have no shot at the grace of The Collede Dropout or Late Registration. But because he's shrewd and large, he knows how to use his profits profits to induce Jay-Z, Pusha T, the RZA, Swizz Beats, and his boy Prince CyHi to admit and indeed complain that the whole deal is "f***in' ridiculous."- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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The thematic attack here is pretty surgical, cutting most of the time to the gangsta life he's so glad he sidestepped as a youth. The individual pieces are well-defined by his muzzy standards.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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Just play it a few more times than the fools who clocked dollars for the job and you'll get your money's worth. And I do mean on all 16 new songs‑-three of the four bonus tracks are upper 50th percentile for sure.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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With beats this straight and stolid, you'd better keep the anthems coming, and they do, almost.- Expert Witness (MSN Music)
- Posted Jan 5, 2011
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