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For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972
Lowest review score: 10 Uncle Dysfunktional
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 296 out of 497
  2. Mixed: 177 out of 497
  3. Negative: 24 out of 497
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In This Light & On This Evening
    Brummie Rockers offer electro-led punch in the nose.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Contra
    New York prepsters stick to their Paul Simon-goes-indie formula on successful second album.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Straight No Chaser
    Pretty much every song on Straight No Chaser is a future pop anthem of powerhouse proportions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glitter And Doom Live
    A sophisticated gentleman does a poo.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fame Monster
    Dirty dance-diva bundles new EP with reissued album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fall
    Easy listening princess goes indie-goth.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Battle Studies
    Love as a battlefield.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ignore The Ignorant
    Here’s Johnny! Marr forces Jarman brothers out of their Crib.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Up To Now
    Mid-career retrospective captures SP’s inner conflicts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only Revolutions
    Scots veterans turn up the orchestra knob and rock.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phrazes For The Young
    Strokes frontman ditches leather jacket, reinvents self as DIY Gary Numan.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sainthood
    Canadian sisters examine love's deceitful ways.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    3 Words
    The People’s Princess pleases with Her catchy generic pop
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fits
    White hot rockers give two fingers to difficult second album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The BQE
    Pop go the classics with Sufjan Stevens.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Told You I Was Freaky
    Another dose of brilliant pop parody from the NZ twosome.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    Third time's still a charm with Philadelphian prog-folk contingent.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    xx
    What happens when you cross Mazzy Star with Sleater Kinney? These boy/girl newcomers have the answer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love 2
    French Smoothies return to lunar landscapes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feel The Steel
    Soft metal album that challenges Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Van Halen. Funny...I think.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Is And Always Was
    Revered outsider artist makes move on the mainstream.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
    Nutty Boys regain former glories in full.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    La Roux
    Strangely moving robo-pop from hyped duo.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    brand new eyes
    Emo kids kick up a riot on surprisingly edgy third outing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Where The Wild Things Are [OST]
    Sublime companion to kiddies’ book adaption from Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
    I don’t care who you are, come up with an album title like that and you get a free pass.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tongue N' Cheek
    Grime champ steps up to the mark with career-best record.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Journal For Plague Lovers
    Manics mine Richey’s last words for a return to the heart of darkness.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Temporary Pleasure
    Dance duo up their game on multi-packed, multi-contributor return.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Resistance
    It’s the closing triptych of quasi-classical numbers--the aforementioned ‘Exogenesis’ sequence--that transports Muse to a place beyond parody.
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