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For 1,599 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Lowest review score: 25 The New Game
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,361 out of 1599
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1599
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1599
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Stone Love
    By sticking to a single subject, "Stone Love" lacks the range and ambition of her splendid "Mahogany Soul" album in 2001, but it is still a joy. [11 Jul 2004]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    This is minimalist rock with real feeling and a subversive, epic range. [4 Mar 2006]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Collections, Vol. 1
    Teebs may not be as acclaimed as Flying Lotus or labelmate Thundercat, but he's making music just as inspired.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Peeping Tom
    It works equally as a setting for his quieter moments (the tropical "Caipirinha") and for the melodic vocal rages that defined Faith No More's hits. [4 Jun 2006]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
    Ambitious and sprawling, a mud-caked journey to transcendence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Angles
    Best of all, Angles captures that now-all-too-rare excitement of musicians playing off of one another.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lay It Down
    Featuring some of the Reverend's finest work in years, Green's latest is proof positive that as important as it is to show up, you still need to know how to lay it down.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Street Sweeper Social Club
    Marrying firebrand lyrics with massive, pedal-pushing guitar riffs, SSSC (it sounds like a union acronym, doesn't it?) revels in the kinds of big, earnest gestures that emblematized 1990s alternative rock.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Hagar's Song
    The results are as distinctive as they are rewarding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Soldier Of Love
    "Soldier of Love" is unique in its confrontational tone, but it connects to the other best tracks on this album, which employ minimalism and the rules of cool to carefully reconstruct various musical styles.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Undun
    It's both bleak and unexpectedly beautiful.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
    It's a masterpiece of storytelling, empathy in the midst of chaos.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Tales From Turnpike House
    If it's pop craftsmanship you are after, few can equal this melancholy concept album and the sheer virtuosity of its hooks. [22 Jan 2006]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
    Calling an Eels album personal and somber seems redundant, but compared with the guitar-rock discord of the two preceding albums, this return to meticulously crafted pop miniatures seems even more inward-directed. [24 Apr 2005]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Demon Days
    It's Albarn's evocative words, compelling if understated melodic sense and subdued vocals that are the emotional center, transcending the gimmick even more than on the first Gorillaz album. [22 May 2005]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Planet Earth
    A sound as sharp and renewable as anyone's in pop history.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Veckatimest
    A feast for repeated listening, Veckatimest yields the kind of eccentricities a fan can spend months winding and unwinding.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Far
    The fables and fantasy lives they depict are rendered in fairly understandable terms. Yet Far still shows the range that Spektor can travel within her dreamy world.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    Any TVOTR fans hoping for a return to the band's heavier early days might have trouble with Nine Types of Light, an album full of such a brilliant clarity that the title could be referencing its track listing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sing It Loud
    Playing with a band of her own (an alt-country collective dubbed the Siss Boom Bang) for the first time in a couple decades, Canada's sometimes strings-besotted crooner has found her guitar groove again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Leaving Eden
    The result is a rarity in the Chocolate Drops' world: roots music as useful as it is beautiful.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    See You On The Other Side
    While some recent Korn records sometimes got lost in the sludge, "Twisted Transistor" and other new tracks reach back to find harsh, and intimate, hard-rock hooks. [6 Dec 2005]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    II Trill
    Bun B's second solo record is an impressive late-career triumph, one with a poignancy and resonance worthy of his dedication and devotion to the memory of his departed friend.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    a ghost is born
    The songs are structured firmly in the classic tradition, evoking Dylan, the Band, Hendrix and Beatles. They're enriched by a bottomless well of melodic invention and find an emotional core in Tweedy's shy, plaintive vocals. [20 Jun 2004]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Electric
    Two young dudes couldn't make a synth-pop record so polished and seamless, one with a maturity matched only by the constant quest for surprise. Only the Pet Shop Boys can do that, as evidenced by Electric.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kiss Each Other Clean
    Now with his fifth album, Beam may not have abandoned his roots, but he's certainly stretched far beyond them.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
    Its songs cast the universal emotion as gentle on the surface, with a riptide, and some bubble with quickening desire.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kaputt
    Kaputt is hallucinatory and unstructured, grabbing for whatever it likes in the moment -- it's the radio of Bejar's mind, floating off to sleep.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Get Away From Me
    Filled with just the kind of unpredictable twists and turns that you'd expect from someone who lists Doris Day as one of her idols and hopes someday to be compared to Bob Dylan. [29 Feb 2004]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    World's Apart
    Even Trail of Dead's slightest moments speak with the purpose and ambition of genuine rock 'n' roll intellect and desire. [6 Feb 2005]
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