Hot Press' Scores

  • Music
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. Negative: 24 out of 497
497 music reviews
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pop and R&B backroom boy steps into the spotlight.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The album fifteen years in the making that sounds like a slick but robotic imitation of what it might have been long ago.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beyonce still proves that she's an all-around good performer even though her attempt to branch out into an alter ego fails a little.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their sunniest record yet, Campbell and Lanegan continue to impress with this short, but sweet, mini album.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Seal re-visits some soul classics, but dresses them up in a way that turns pure gold into something of a different color.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chapman creates yet another soulful, personal album that adds to her repertoire of timeless tunes with a few mentions of Jesus and Barack Obama.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Mancunian greats turn out definitive two-CD hits collection of live recordings, alternative takes and hard-to-find tracks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Not many tricks up their sleeves on this album. The Bronx make more of the same noisy, aggressive songs on an album with the same title as their last two.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ‘Amarillo’ Man records Richard Hawley-produced album of songs from Sheffield.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Q-Tip demonstrates his unique talent in this sleek, soulful, silky-smooth hip-hop album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite initial misgivings, our reviewer found that Little Joy's album delivers an old fashioned pop feel with a little DIY indie sound.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Piano playing songwriter straight out of a ‘70s dinner party.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The girls play to a new beat in this album, as they focus on evolving their sound while changing up their lineup.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Released on the web fully two months before it hits record stores, Bloc Party’s third album is as gleaming and hermetically sealed as one of Kubrick’s monoliths.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Freddie-less queen fail to recall old glories.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If it ain’t broke you may smear it with red lipstick and back-comb its hair. But do NOT fix it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Irish Rockers still going for the emotional jugular on impressive fifth album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Deerhunter's latest features more pop melodies and fuzzy soundscapes, forsaking the raw, intense sound we all love.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though it doesn't exactly live up to its name, Legend manages to capture the optimistic sprit of Barack Obama in
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A thin line between revelation and revivalism, Adams and the Cardinals make an album worthy of high praises.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Not up to par with his other albums, Tom Jenkinson's latest work is saved only by his name and not his art.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ghostly pop transmissions from buzzy Brooklynites.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Solid and stolid live album from glam punker turned roots rocker.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Anastacia’s voice--once described by a critic as a ‘human air-raid siren’--is still hard to love: when she reaches for the trembling high notes your first instinct is to duck under the table and lock your head between your knees.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    After an eight-year hiatus, these hard rock legends return to the music scene with a banging album that has just a little less bite than others past.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lucinda Williams provides instruction for those who feel fucked around and fobbed off at 40-something.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Little Ones are, for the most part, pretty melodious producing indie pop fun with touches of Afro-beat, maybe, possibly!
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Former Be Good Tanya delivers modern americana nugget.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Cutting to the chase, this album is full of Rihanna b-sides that sound like a carbon copy of everything in the charts right now and are completely personality free.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A rackety, sing-along sound from a band on a largely undefined mission.