Flak Magazine's Scores
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For 62 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | Separation Sunday | |
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Lowest review score: | Liz Phair |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 45 out of 62
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Mixed: 13 out of 62
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Negative: 4 out of 62
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Take away the album's conceit, and Stevens' artful songwriting -- and voice -- still remain.- Flak Magazine
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None of the songs on Get Behind Me Satan is bad; all the songs together, however, fail to meet the Stripes' criteria that all you need is two. For these tracks, you need four, five, six musicians -- not to drench the proceedings in a Scott Walker deluge, but to fill the spaces, the former job of White's guitar and Meg's drum bashing.- Flak Magazine
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It is Finn's particular gift to be able to set the listener smack in the middle of his songs, seeing what he sees, caring about the lives he chronicles. It is the listener's reward to find these stories scored by big, fat monster hooks, and effortless piano-driven melodies.- Flak Magazine
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One of Beck's most admirable traits is that when he tries on a new culture, he makes fun of his effort louder than anyone else can.- Flak Magazine
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Many of these songs have about as much sonic bite as a warm cantaloupe. When you compound this with Doe's more meandering songs, the results sound anemic.- Flak Magazine
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It's a beautifully produced album, textured and performed with such energy that her least satisfying lyrics (and the lyrics are usually the main problem on a DiFranco album) are muted.- Flak Magazine
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The best production values a major-label budget can buy make everything on Crimes as clear as a bell, which helps. This clarity elevates what could have easily been a sonic muddle into an album that bears repeat listenings.- Flak Magazine
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As the songs unfold over multiple listens, though, what becomes clear is that R.E.M. still has plenty to say, and plenty of interesting ways to say it.- Flak Magazine
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On Antics, Interpol is less indebted to its influences, creating a distinct sound from the distinguishing characteristics that drew those comparisons in the first place.- Flak Magazine
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No matter how the sounds are made, it is with captivatingly sincere intent that they are never boring and, above all, always enjoyable.- Flak Magazine
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The powerful melodies are impossible to shake, and grooves compel you to move, giving the album the authority of a greatest-hits collection.- Flak Magazine
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For even the most ardent Low listeners, this box set (in all its packaging design perfection) will overwhelm.- Flak Magazine
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An adrenaline rush of an album that firmly cements their status as one of rock's most exciting new acts.- Flak Magazine
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Porcelain neither builds on the promise of Wiretap Scars nor cashes in on the band's gifted heritage.- Flak Magazine
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If approached with a substantial amount of skepticism and wariness, The Cure is not a complete disappointment. In fact, it's often surprisingly good and sometimes even great.- Flak Magazine
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It's in the mournful, captivating, meditative, exasperating, pretentious, masterfully constructed experience of A Ghost Is Born that Tweedy and Wilco become true iconoclasts.- Flak Magazine
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Banhart ceaselessly entrances with his brilliant combination of John Fahey-esque pickings, absurd and sometimes profoundly resonating lyrics and the craft to convey both kinds with equal candor.- Flak Magazine
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It's no departure from any of the band's previous combinations of shuffling beats, spacey blips, dramatic strings and squeaking, soughed vocals; such a delivery of old comforts is precisely what makes the album so dull.- Flak Magazine
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The album is something of a wash, packing a less potent dose of Makino but an extra kick of Pace.- Flak Magazine
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There are half-considered melodies, vague nods to alt-country and a general cheerlessness that often makes listening a chore.- Flak Magazine
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Listening to Xiu Xiu, we become nosy neighbors with our ears pressed against the wall separating us from lives infinitely more fascinating and tragic than our own.- Flak Magazine
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There's nothing new under the sun in the world of Stereolab. Diehards will enjoy Margerine Eclipse simply because it exists and isn't lousy.- Flak Magazine
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Showcas[es] low-key numbers that draw on many of the influences that made Adams' Whiskeytown and early solo work so strong. [combined review of 1&2]- Flak Magazine
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The problem, however, is that the new album is too clean. It lacks the mess of the original, and the mess is honest.- Flak Magazine
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Stripped of arrangements, the songs are mostly brooding ballads, shadowy blends of folk mixed with traditional country that highlight Adams' shaky voice and caustic songwriting. [combined review of 1&2]- Flak Magazine
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Though there are quite a few slinking, introspective tracks on Transatlanticism, there are also a fistful of songs that have the left-field appeal -- not quite punk, not quite rock, not quite pop -- that brought a song like Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" to the top of the charts in recent years.- Flak Magazine
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Want One matches the eclecticism of Poses and his eponymous debut, but suffers from a lack of memorable songs.- Flak Magazine
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