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For 1,600 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: 1,362 out of 1600
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1600
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1600
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Magna Carta Holy Grail
    "Magna Carta Holy Grail" certainly is shimmering, heavy and at times sonically stunning, and Jay-Z can toss a brilliant metaphor like it's nothing. But a true masterpiece harnesses intellect and adventure to push forward not only musically but also thematically.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tha Carter IV
    The stream-of-consciousness id that Iggy Pop might once have envied is still on display, but here it feels corralled into a pen of predictable similes and metaphors.
    • 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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Stars Dance
    Stars Dance is exactly the kind of album one makes in 2013 if you want to keep the pop sugar of the Disney tween cabal but mix in some broken glass and a club bathroom nosebleed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All Wet
    The album is a hoot, and it adds to the allure with guest spots from Canadian performance artist Peaches, L.A. beat producer Skrillex, avant-pop singer and songwriter Charli XCX and others.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Everyday Is Christmas
    They [Sia and Greg Kurstin] bring effervescent energy to dance-minded tracks such as “Santa’s Coming for us” and the Phil Spector-inspired “Candy Cane Lane” while investing real sincerity into more introspective numbers including “Snowflake” and “Underneath the Mistletoe.”
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Powerballin'
    More consistent and satisfying than its predecessor. [14 Nov 2004]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Recess
    Skrillex is good enough to kill the Brostep monster he created. He just didn't quite finish the job here.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    No Mercy
    Repeatedly confessing to his own fallibility, T.I. turns his attacks on gossip website TMZ and people who post Twitpics - uncomfortably interrupting his own celebration to snarl.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    America's Sweetheart
    In contrast to the raw, subdued intimacy of Hole's "Live Though This," the sound here is all dressed up and accessorized, hard and aggressive but tuneful and hook-laden.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Lights And Sounds
    The band shows willingness to break form. [22 Jan 2006]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ringo 2012
    His trips down Memory Lane, thematically and musically, yield some modestly charming results here.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All At Once
    Until then, Jollett will have to make do with the brass ring he's holding on to with all his fortitude; everyone else can just come along for the ride.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Royalty
    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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ten Thousand Fists
    There's some infectious stuff here that's sure to get the fists up and pumping, but on the whole the cadence isn't varied enough to keep them there. [9 Oct 2005]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Leave This Town
    This is by-the-numbers arena rock, played with muscular competence by a relatively young band showing off its chops by executing successful formulas.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Mr. Brown
    Despite the style oozing throughout "Mr. Brown," the album's main -- and consistent -- shortcoming is that there seems to be something missing, lyrically and musically.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    TheFutureEmbrace
    There's a moment or two of alarm and urgency, but less of the rage that colored the Pumpkins' music. In its place, Corgan summons a liturgical grandeur that makes this an almost religious embrace. [19 Jun 2005]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Midnight Memories
    Here there are spirited, pitch-perfect replicas of the Who's power-chord bombast ("Best Song Ever"), Van Halen's louche boogie ("Little Black Dress") and Def Leppard's stadium-sized glam ("Midnight Memories").
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Endlessly
    Despite these high points, though, Endlessly has some problems. Duffy has said she wrote the songs in a mere three weeks, and it shows.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Let's Just Be
    Some more outré passages could have benefited from mad-scientist tinkering. But the mad-Mick Jagger that Arthur affects on the nasty "Cocaine Feet" and elsewhere is still nicely twisted.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Legion Of Boom
    To Jordan and Kirkland's credit, they let their guest stars shine without sacrificing the Crystal Method sound. [18 Jan 2004]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Do You Know
    The pleasant surprise here is that she's co-written several songs that do indeed probe beneath the cover-girl, tabloid-ready surface of her life.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The High End Of Low
    'High End' makes a deeper impression as a result of Manson’s reunion with longtime guitarist-bassist Twiggy Ramirez; together with producers Sean Beavan and Chris Vrenna, they sculpted a sound both harder-hitting and more finely detailed than on any previous Marilyn Manson record.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Goodbye Lullaby
    The problems arise on Goodbye Lullaby when Lavigne compartmentalizes her softer side, to the point where it eclipses her finger-jabbing cheekiness.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Sweet Escape
    There's such effortlessness in the confident pop music making here you get the sense she could keep knocking out hits this way in her sleep.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Doggumentary
    When he's not trying to satisfy different demographic demands, Snoop returns to his roots to create a laissez-faire funk full of laid-back raps and Jheri Curl groove.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Best Night of My Life
    Weirdly, Best evokes the early career of Rihanna, where a just-OK voice perfectly nestles into the steely production around it.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    7 [EP]
    These songs, simply put, are great: vivid, funny, full of feeling and supremely catchy, even if they don’t quite offer a clear picture of who Lil Nas X is offstage or off-screen.
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