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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    50 Words for Snow
    With all seven of the songs clocking in at six to 10 minutes each, Bush takes her time, but the songs aren't built of different parts; it's more like mounting meditations on one theme.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Feels Like Home
    This is no more a perfect album than "Come Away With Me," but its highlights again carry the stamp of a singer whose talent is strong and whose vision is true.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories)
    Carll is every bit as expressive a singer as he is a writer, drawling his trenchant observations with deceptive ease.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Harrow and the Harvest
    Long trafficking in a sometimes spare yet intricately drawn sort of Americana that could fit just as comfortably at the turn of the 20th century, their latest delivers the same deceptively simple alchemy of dustily lilting voices, vivid lyrical twists and crisp acoustic flourishes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Silver Age
    Silver Age is an exclamation point to those [Sugar] reissues, a nod to the past but with clear direction forward.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Apollo Kids
    Apollo Kids shows that one of rap's company drivers is still on the speedway--zooming slightly slower than before, but with better pacing and control of the wheel.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    In Your Honor
    Loud, anthemic, joyous and bitter, it's easily the best Foo Fighters album in a decade. [12 Jun 2005]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Good, The Bad & The Queen
    They sound like a seasoned team, an understated unit where nothing dominates and everything contributes to enhancing the moods of Albarn's songs.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The ArchAndroid
    At times, the fumes of ambition are so thick off "The ArchAndroid," it's hard to absorb in one sitting. All the same, it's a star-making debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Better Day
    Parton's irrepressible personality is the star attraction, and on Better Day it shines.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    RTJ2
    Headphone rap of the highest order, tracks on this sequel hum and groove, laced with texture and hidden sonic accents.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Syro
    The artist has presented an utterly human, mostly nonverbal defense of his aesthetic: atmospheric, occasionally funky and meandering instrumental electronic tones, lovingly crafted, with imaginative internal logics.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    Orton's determination to dig deeper into song and vocal expression instead of toying with a stylistic bauble has paid off in her best album since her debut. [7 Feb 2006]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Clapton
    Clapton and Bramhall also have pulled off a minor miracle in assembling an ad hoc group that manages to sound like a blues band whose members have been absorbing one another's abilities to the point of musical osmosis.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Beat the Champ
    Throughout Beat the Champ, Darnielle and his band exude confidence and a sense of purpose.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Master of My Make-Believe
    Throughout, Santigold never stops playing spin-the-globe, and she also never loses sight of her mission to keep listeners moving.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Hypnotize
    "Hypnotize" has some of the circus-is-in-town surrealism that links System to the Frank Zappa avant-rock tradition, but overall it's more of a fundamental rock album. [20 Nov 2005]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Showtunes
    This suggests that a full focus on inventive musical theater may be where his talents will flourish. [19 Mar 2006]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Somewhere Else
    The drama chronicled on Somewhere Else isn’t just rowdy, it’s borderline illicit.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    D12 World
    It's Em's show, for sure, and being surrounded by a talented, fast-talking crew has made him even more engaging than he is on his own.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Dedication
    Each of the thousands of individual beats, bumps, dots and dashes on Dedication sound forged with a sculptor's eye for form and shape, crafted and shined until they glisten.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    See You There
    There's little studio sweetening applied to Campbell's boy-next-door voice, a smart move that gives his age and condition the honest respect he's earned in what's been a difficult but brave fight.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    If "Nightmare" misses some of the poetry and exhilaration of "Whatever," it has something more important: authenticity and integrity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Junto
    So much exuberance can be overwhelming when digested in a single sitting. Better to let the record seep in over a number of weeks.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Spirit Indestructible
    Ever confident of her allure both as a woman and an artist, Furtado on The Spirit Indestructible proves nearly untouchable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Haden Triplets
    Cooder’s production is fittingly raw, putting no phony gloss on these songs brimming with heart-on-sleeve honesty.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    UGK 4 Life
    UGK 4 Life is the rare swan song that manages to be essential for the music alone.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Hellbilly Deluxe II
    There is no instant hit of the "Living Dead Girl" variety, but across 11 songs, "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" is Zombie's most consistently tuneful record to date, without sacrificing the noise and industrial beats of the past.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bubblegum
    An album that seethes and rocks with real energy and depth. [22 Aug 2004]
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