For 1,598 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 points lower than other critics.
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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: 1,360 out of 1598
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Mixed: 176 out of 1598
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Negative: 62 out of 1598
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The complicated result plainly contradicts its title: For a rock-star victory lap, Everything You've Come to Expect is anything but.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 31, 2016
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A moody, deeply textured R&B album with vibe to spare, Mind of Mine sounds as if it was designed to showcase the effort and inspiration that went into it.... With 18 tracks on the deluxe edition, the album can wear you down with all its finely wrought sophistication, even when Zayn is singing about taking your clothes off.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2016
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Barbara, the duo's first album of original material together in five years, often stacks up with their best work and suggests that the ideas they pioneered in the '90s aren't just back en vogue--they've held up amid decades of fast-moving techno.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 16, 2016
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If these Top 40 fixtures make the album feel in keeping with current radio pop, they don't crowd Stefani with unnecessary bells and whistles. Her singing--and, more important, what her singing is saying--is always front and center, which gives the music an intimate quality even at its most polished.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 16, 2016
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The album is an artistic statement album with a capital "A," complete with an alter ego and theatrical flourishes that hint toward something of a funk-rock opera about death, spirituality and personal identity.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 2, 2016
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- Posted Feb 5, 2016
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In almost every way This Is Acting feels safer and more ordinary than “1000 Forms of Fear,” with familiar (if sturdy) melodies and lyrical clichés about houses on fire and footprints in the sand.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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Focused on bass, percussion, saxophone and various odd electronic punctuations, the new work is equal parts thrilling and devastating.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 26, 2016
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Like avowed influences Van Morrison and Neil Young, Friedberger on New View travels in fluid, seamless melodies, and uses them in service of lyrics that revel in poeticism.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 26, 2016
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Taken together, Malibu builds on the skills .Paak introduced on his first album, called "Venice."- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 26, 2016
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- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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The music carries a convincing bad-guy energy that’s all the more potent for its sweet, often luscious textures. Its recklessness travels in a clear direction.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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A proudly organic companion to the EDM-inflected "Phase One," Prince's latest album shows that he hasn't lost his interest in (or his knack for) the creeping funk and lush R&B balladry he was making in the early 1990s.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 16, 2015
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The release, available on the major streaming services and as a CD package with bonus DVD (featuring a high-resolution surround-sound remix and two other alternate mixes), offers rich perspective on the evolution of Reed's approach, highlighting an artist in transition, looking for a hit or two and adapting to a new decade.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 23, 2015
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Adele’s fans have been waiting for years for new Adele songs to explain their experiences to them. And they get a worthy batch on 25, an album so full of heavy-duty drama that it makes a more lighthearted peer such as Katy Perry seem like a Pez dispenser.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 19, 2015
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On Made in the A.M. the group takes advantage of its nothing-to-lose position with a handful of cuts that feel even loosey-goosier than usual.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 16, 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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This quartet appreciates dynamics, surprise noises and curious structural diversions to go with the fury.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 19, 2015
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Most everything on Over is built with measured precision.... Equally striking is the musical depth.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 19, 2015
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Far from a scorched-earth rebranding a la Cyrus’ 2013 raunchfest “Bangerz,” Revival turns out to be surprisingly modest, from its midtempo pacing to its thoughtful introspection.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 9, 2015
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Meow the Jewels deliver emotional depth befitting nature’s most psychologically elusive creature.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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Together on Unbreakable they [Jackson with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis] create grand-scaled but meticulously detailed songs that almost sound as though they’ve been under construction since 2008.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 1, 2015
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Crosseyed Heart could have been issued at any time in the past four decades. It’s full of influences he’s spent his creative life exploring, and there’s nothing viral or meme-worthy about them. That Richards keeps discovering nuance within those original texts is a testament to his seemingly infinite muse.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 21, 2015
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The crafty alt-country singer reimagines Swift’s blockbuster pop album as a polished roots-rock disc.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 21, 2015
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This album is not very good--and what makes it even worse is that it’s by Miley Cyrus.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 1, 2015
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An impressive and revealing new album full of expertly crafted pop songs with clear-cut commercial goals.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 31, 2015
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Bryan, never a particularly flexible singer, sounds even more wooden than usual in these tracks; for the first time, this 39-year-old father of two seems a bit embarrassed here, which threatens to topple the whole enterprise.... The singer is far more convincing in the album’s slower, quieter tunes.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 7, 2015
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Nothing ever quite feels certain on Star Wars, an album in which one of pop-culture’s most recognizable phrases--and a 20-year-old band--is flipped into something wholly unpredictable.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 20, 2015
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This is Young the aged bellwether, raging about the state of the world with the focus of someone with little left to lose.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 1, 2015
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Amid so much rewarding yet familiar ground, Covered sounds more like a step sideways rather than forward.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 18, 2015
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