Filter's Scores
- Music
For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
-
71% higher than the average critic
-
3% same as the average critic
-
26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Complete | |
---|---|---|
Lowest review score: | Drum's Not Dead |
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 1,648 out of 1801
-
Mixed: 137 out of 1801
-
Negative: 16 out of 1801
1801
music
reviews
-
- Critic Score
This new Air CD bcomes their decade-in, it's-all-about-your-collaborations inevitability. Genuine fans will hardly be shocked that they pull it off with style and grace. [#24, p.89]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
The album's tracks combine heavy electro with underlying roots of hip-hop and vocals similar to that of The Faint to create a solid offering from start to finish.- Filter
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Though this may be considered a good album due to its proper rock anthems and memorable melodies, the style goes awry one too many times for the disc to be considered novel. [Holiday 2008, p.92]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
After the jarring synthetic combo of “Rope Burn” and “Eggs At Night,” Hubba Bubba hits its stride with tracks like “Sic Bay Surprise” and “Photograph,” which contain flashes of Dwyer’s high-pitched breathy signature vocals and a few bars of guitar shredding in between the machine blips.- Filter
- Posted Feb 27, 2014
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
If you're a grown-up who harbors a playful streak of rebellion, here's your new soundtrack.- Filter
- Posted Oct 10, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The Head and the Heart deliver plenty of both [Americana and chamber pop] when it comes to sing-along meditations and winding Appalachian roads.- Filter
- Posted May 25, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The record contains many great spontaneous details and nearly as many backing vocal tricks as an Eminem disc. For these among other reasons, even when Way To Normal is annoying, Folds sounds very ispired. [Fall 2008, p.92]- Filter
-
- Filter
- Posted Sep 17, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Other than a few missteps, Sidewalks displays a calmer, more self-assured band that seems to have graduated from a one-note "new-wave White Stripes" shtick.- Filter
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The album as a whole is neither as crazy nor as clownish as fans would hope.- Filter
- Posted Nov 15, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Sadly, nearly half the songs on the album are bland, boring, and, quite unabashedly, one-dimensional.- Filter
- Posted Oct 22, 2010
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
[Van Dyke] Parks' masterful touch transforms the Thrills from barroom favorites to starry-eyed chancers with a shot at the big time. [#12, p.105]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
Auf der Maur builds a strong rhythmic foundation on this record and then proceeds to layer the white powder on top to hook the kids. [#11, p.94]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
It's disjointed, but somehow held together by Wolf's honestly and sometimes-brilliant turns of phrases.- Filter
- Posted Oct 17, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It's an album the way a band would do it, meticulously mixed together by two of Germany's best electronic producers. A little bit tanz, a little bit rock and roll.- Filter
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
[It] transcends sonic genres with a mature exploration of a global village too distracted to notice it's shorting itself.- Filter
- Posted Oct 14, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Filter
-
- Critic Score
An effort to be commended, but you don't have to care about global economics to enjoy the booty-shaking beats.- Filter
- Posted Nov 20, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
There are sometimes a little too many knowing winks in all the escalator chords and wordless chants, but you can't help but wink back. [Fall 2008, p.98]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
On Sing, through chipper dulcimers, ukuleles and tons of brass, the outfit makes maelodies that, though still weary, are joyfully yet vaguely reminiscent of Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson. [Fall 2009, p.92]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
Like scarfing down a meal at Sizzler: your stomach is stuffed, but, in the end, your taste buds are left itching for more flavor. [#11, p.95]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
For now, via tracks like 'High Noon' and 'Mother Nature,' they continue to ride high in the saddle on much the same sine waves they engineered in the previous millennium. [Summer 2008, p.100]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
There is ... a marked orchestral fluidity throughout, which lends itself to the experimental instrumental passages that permeate the record.- Filter
- Posted Feb 13, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Filter
-
- Critic Score
While the piano/acoustic guitar/percussion combo often associated with female songwriters is prevalent, the tracks manage to establish their own identities and not run together. Yet it's ultimately difficult to shake the feeling that you've heard this all before.- Filter
- Posted Dec 22, 2010
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Stunningly bright, impeccably trim and dance-y, the level of song craftsmanship here has garnered Beach Boys comparisons, but Ace of Base might be a more accurate touchstone, with a bit of Christopher Owens' (Girls) deep, bummed-out vocal blur as well.- Filter
- Posted Jun 11, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Someday World sounds quite like Happy Mondays at times, and rather like King Crimson at others.- Filter
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Though Maps is ona simple level known for James Chapman's spacey and cinematic sound, the new direction--or variety of directions--are all equally as wonderful, even if they are unrelated. [Fall 2009, p.106]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
From the album's opening electro-tribal groove to Tunger Hnifer's distorted bass and scratching vocals, the instrumentation throughout Who Killed Sgt. Pepeer? is both massive and of the varied type. [Winter 2010, p.98]- Filter
-
- Critic Score
Tiffany Preston impishly tries on accents for her FX-thinned vocals, Jamaican brogue here or a lot of Karin Dreijer Andersson wailing there, but it's the omni-directional whirl and clashing textures that consume the most.- Filter
- Posted Apr 28, 2011
- Read full review