For 1,596 reviews, this publication has graded:
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62% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Dear Science, | |
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Lowest review score: | The New Game |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,358 out of 1596
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Mixed: 176 out of 1596
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Negative: 62 out of 1596
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Combined, the result is a dynamic, human album, one that's easy to fall in love with. Highly recommended.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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The Beasties' irreverence is what made them stand out in the first place; that their willful chaos continues to charm and mutate so many years on is the big surprise.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 2, 2011
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- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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What a beautiful record. Truly gorgeous, the kind that wins both hearts and awards--perfect for a dinner party, a drive along Pacific Coast Highway, or a good, healthy cry.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 4, 2011
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Embedded in a world of crashing, pounding pop music, Adams' solo rawness brings with it sweet release.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 11, 2011
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Sometimes, a CD scratches an itch you didn't even know you had, and El Camino is that record.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 6, 2011
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A few private recordings have surfaced from the early 1960s, but none capture her essence like 1966.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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Accelerando is a rambunctious yet nimble celebration of the groove that turns as much on the fulcrum of drummer Marcus Gilmore and bassist Stephan Crump as it does on Iyer's restlessly inventive piano.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 16, 2012
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- Posted Apr 3, 2012
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Ace producer and longtime champion of underground hip-hop El-P walks a fine line on Cancer 4 Cure, crafting aggression with militaristic precision.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 22, 2012
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It's essential 2012 listening for anyone interested in popular music as art.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 19, 2012
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While hearing the band tear through early takes on pillars from the trumpeter's electric period such as "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" and "Spanish Key," it's hearing the band upend some of Davis' older material that may be most striking.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 6, 2013
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Awash with beats, rhythms, electronics, the occasional guitar and Yorke's soaring if still mostly unintelligible tenor, Amok is a record to get sonically lost within, a work whose every measure teems with a quality and a precision that only musicians at the top of their game can touch.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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They've captured a sound as tangibly uplifting as pop music gets. The Mavericks are back and indeed, just in time.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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Bombino and his band have released a killer document not only for fans of North African guitar music; anyone who has ever appreciated a master player make magic on a Fender while a band, which on Nomad is augmented by a few Auerbach’s go-to session men, organizes structures behind him, will find comfort in Bombino’s music.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 5, 2013
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Doris features instrumental interludes, expanded mid-song diversions and enough surprise to warrant repeated--obsessive--evaluation.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 20, 2013
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If you've ever fallen in love with a Costello record, be prepared for a new obsession.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 18, 2013
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Genre jumping aside, it's the patterns as much as the riffs that are beguiling here.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 29, 2013
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It's an album we'll be looking at in December when it's time to single out the most powerful works of 2014.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 14, 2014
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Brash, polarizing, fearless and filled with a purity of vision that would make Col. Kurtz blanch.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 13, 2014
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- Posted Jul 15, 2014
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You want immaculate structure and production, there are plenty of albums available. You want the sound of life, of a voice summoning all its powers to shake a room and be heard, this recording is waiting.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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If you're looking for a freaky good time, Art Official is your ticket.... An exquisite Prince R&B album.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 29, 2014
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What could have been a random collection of odds and ends--or worse, a nostalgia grab--isn't so much a look at Wilco's alternate-history past as it is a glimpse at ground the band still has to cover.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 18, 2014
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Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, Black Messiah is as vital as it is sublime.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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His voice raw, pitchy and quivering, Dylan croons his way through elegantly crafted songs with seeming disinterest in flawless takes or perfect pitch. Yet it's profound, thematically devastating and so well curated as to feel essential.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 29, 2015
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For anyone remotely interested in how great art is made, [the deluxe edition] is the equivalent of an audio master class as Dylan works, reworks and reworks again the song until it sonically captures the energy, defiance, outrage, empathy, celebration and liberation embedded in the lyrics.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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Producing the album themselves, he and the band also zero in on a perfectly period musical and sonic vibe for this outing.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 6, 2018
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The Nashville-based, label-defying group has cooked up eight effervescent originals and added its stamp to a couple of Yuletide chestnuts. ... Boogie-woogie, Tex-Mex, heart-melting pop, retro blues--it’s all here in one irresistible package.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 6, 2018
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Remarkable... a lovingly assembled production that rarely goes where you expect it to — but, like Solange herself, always puts across a clear sense of place.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 3, 2019
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