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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 0.1 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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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    The first time I listened to Radiohead's In Rainbows, I loved it, no holds barred.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Comicopera
    It's a portrait of an English radical at 62, but it's personal and emotional and neither strident nor stodgy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Magic
    It's the way Springsteen injects his American bible stories with the air of disbelief that makes Magic a truly mature and memorable album.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Songs Of Mass Destruction
    Lennox has pop-rock maestro Glen Ballard, who marshals her voices into a cyber-soul chorale. The sleekness doesn't diminish the fervor or the fun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    100 Days, 100 Nights
    100 Days, 100 Nights deserves every accolade it has and will receive.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Washington Square Serenade
    Even though there are moments in this outing heavy on tried-and-true folk trappings--lots of mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar--in which Earle sounds more as if he's echoing his role models than joining them as an equal, for the most part he succeeds in moving the dialogue forward.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Songs About Girls
    Songs About Girls offers the Will that some will love to love as well as the Will everyone loves to hate.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Shine
    The songs are fairly compact and easy to follow. But they're far less easy to track and more interesting to live with than the work of most pop bards
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Awakening
    Toning down the sonic drama creates an appealing intimacy, but an hour's worth of blues- and folk-flavored ballads becomes monotonous.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Drastic Fantastic
    It's more professional than compellingly personal, but a lack of pretension lets the choruses soar and the hooks kick in with full, pleasurable effect.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    All The Lost Souls
    There's plenty to scorn on All the Lost Souls; Blunt loves a well-worn phrase, and his attempts at humor can be surprisingly crude. But he's onto something. He's not making background music.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Sucker
    Elemental guitar riffs knock around the noisy yet balanced mix like grenades in a Maytag full of crankcase oil, as electronic beats launch forward, clash hand to hand, spit automatic fire....It works.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Playlist
    Here is a man unafraid to rep for the drippiest balladeer ever, Dan Fogelberg--and no one will call Edmonds on it, because his restraint and care eliminate any sense of the maudlin.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Graduation
    The bliss that does surface on Graduation is all in the grooves, which range further than West has ever gone before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
    Anyone still looking for a sure bet will find one in this album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    La Radiolina
    Now, like an intermittent short-wave transmission that suddenly catches a clear and vivid frequency, Radiolina comes into sharp focus, defining a mature sound in a mesmerizing collection of 21 new tracks.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kala
    The album hits hardest by embodying the process by which certain voices are bottled up and distorted within the global noise of what M.I.A. calls "Third World Democracy."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Challengers
    Newman's weakness for melancholy melody washes over everything on the Canadian confab's fourth album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mentor Tormentor
    Murray and co-founder Aaron Espinoza celebrate romance in tracks such as 'Answers and Questions,' but more affecting are such ruminations on vulnerability and heartbreak as the stark, propulsive 'Fakey Fake' and the electro-torchy 'Never Mind the Phone Calls.'
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Natural
    Some things get better with age: The Mekons' latest features acoustic, pub-ready stompers such as 'Give Me Wine or Money' and 'Dickie Chalkie and Nobby.'
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Fur & Gold
    The collection offers a fresh take on England's druid-rock legacy, blending electronics with the elemental skin and seeds of drums and shakers in a sound that's both atmospheric and richly textured.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    War Stories
    The result is a stormy set of dark, synth-streaked psych-rock jams that carries a whiff of tomorrow while looking back to the stomping proto-metal of Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Planet Earth
    A sound as sharp and renewable as anyone's in pop history.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Our Love To Admire
    Our Love to Admire will be looked back on as that tricky third record, the one it's cool to like best.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Time On Earth
    Where Hester contributed rhythmic surprise and fleetness, Sherrod brings solidity and power that anchor the whole affair with a reassuring gravity.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    We'll Live and Die in These Towns
    Thanks to Clarke's well-developed tune sense and his bandmates' primal need for speed, We'll Live and Die in These Towns doesn't sound the way life in a cubicle feels; if anything, it replicates the adrenaline rush of one of those YouTube videos in which a stir-crazy office worker decimates a copy machine.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dylanesque
    You'd think such an ardent Dylanite would choose less obvious cuts. Alas, the usual suspects appear.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    It's A Bit Complicated
    As good as much of the new British rock can be, it is experiencing a creeping seriousness these days. "It's a Bit Complicated" is a welcome corrective.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Era Vulgaris
    "Era Vulgaris" ain't vulgar at all — in fact it's musicianly as heck.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Memory Almost Full
    High points outpace the lows.
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