Junkmedia's Scores
- Music
For 403 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 287 out of 403
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Mixed: 104 out of 403
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Negative: 12 out of 403
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music reviews
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Critic Score 100
Corner's gutter low ends, amphetamine drum programming, and Dizzee's cockney slang-spitting place this record among rap's paradigmatic moments. -
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Critic Score 100
On A Grand, everything Skinner does is in service to an infinitely satisfying and resonant whole. -
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Critic Score 90
Like The Fiery Furnaces' Gallowsbird Park, or Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights, Funeral is a debut record that simply refuses to be ignored. -
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Critic Score 90
An album that's both effortlessly confident of its sound and monumentally fearless of introducing cohesive surprises. -
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Critic Score 90
Halfway through the album, it's clear that this is a glimpse into the future of pop music. -
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Critic Score 90
The 10 tracks are hands down the most irresistible pop music you'll hear this year. -
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Critic Score 90
Better than anything they've recorded to date, Hypermagic Mountain approximates the swelling energy of Lightning Bolt's live havoc. -
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Critic Score 90
Although an extreme statement, it is a major stylistic step forward for the band and pays off great dividends to those so inclined to follow them into The Woods. -
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Critic Score 100
It is every bit the equal of recent pop classics like the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, or The Shins' Oh, Inverted World. -
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Critic Score 90
You really don't know what you're dealing with until you sit down and take in the freewheeling beauty of one of the year's best. -
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Critic Score 100
An exceptional testament to James Murphy, both as a musician and producer. -
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Critic Score 90
There's just a little more space on this record for the songs to build and breathe. Twin Cinema is the first New Pornographers record you'll want to sit through from beginning to end. -
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Critic Score 90
Happy Songs is epic and subtle, technically savvy and emotionally charged and visceral all at once -- in short, it's a summary of everything that is great about Mogwai's music. -
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Critic Score 100
There have been releases that have excited me so far, but none that have completely recharged my faith in intelligent rock music. This is the first essential album of the year. -
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Critic Score 100
The album, impressive in its scope and sense of adventure, is a further reinvention in Björk's already massive discography. -
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Critic Score 100
Although Lost and Safe would be a crowning achievement for any band, The Books show no sign of running out of beautiful musical ideas to convey. -
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Critic Score 100
All eleven songs on Gimme Fiction are immaculately crafted, concise pop gems. -
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Critic Score 90
Lidell has created an album of flawless, imaginative, and radical funk grooves. -
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Critic Score 88
The group's cohesion is the cornerstone of the album; no one instrument stands out, while each contributes equally to the whole. And it's the trio's loose arrangements and subtle interplay that leave center stage to the thoughtful and provocative lyrics. -
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Critic Score 88
It has an appealing gentle earnestness that most pop music lost somewhere in the past few decades. -
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Critic Score 100
Love Songs for Patriots picks up exactly where American Music Club last left us: producing uniformly excellent music filled with heartbreak, loneliness, and - yes - politics. -
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Critic Score 90
De-Loused in the Comatorium is a musical gem that captures the soul of Mars Volta in a way that soundly delivers on the hype. -
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Critic Score 100
These are songs about horrible times in horrible lives; hearts are rotten long before they break and the sounds they make are awful and haunting and beautiful. -
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Critic Score 88
While all of the sounds that made their debut so compelling are in place here, Broadcast has also branched out, employing a looser approach to strong structure. -