For 1,599 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 0.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | |
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Lowest review score: | The New Game |
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Positive: 1,361 out of 1599
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Mixed: 176 out of 1599
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Negative: 62 out of 1599
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Like cotton candy, the food group she most resembles, what may seem like a mouthful for a moment is gone in the blink of an eye, leaving a sweet aftertaste and empty calories behind. [22 Aug 2006]- Los Angeles Times
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For all her lovesick panting, pleading and purring, Ashanti is never emotionally engaged with the songs, which aren't worth the trouble anyway. [2 Jan 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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For most of the album, she sounds like any other self-absorbed teen, yearning to be Alanis, Gwen and even Stevie Nicks. [6 Dec 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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There is some of the old energy here, thanks in part to the presence of drummer Tommy Lee, who drives 'Down at the Whisky' and 'Chicks=Trouble' like somebody with a head full of stimulants. Yet the album lacks the tune-craft that once made vintage Crüe such hits as 'Dr. Feelgood' and 'Kickstart My Heart' so appealing.- Los Angeles Times
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The record is a failure, a virtual what-not-to-do guide for both songwriters and spurned lovers.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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Basic Instinct offers enough android booty bass action to satisfy those who like their rhythms complicated but repetitive and hooks foreseeable from a mile away, but pleasant enough when they arrive.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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On 'Human' you can hear Brandy striving (understandably) to express herself, yet the result rarely rises above diary-entry tedium.- Los Angeles Times
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Three new tracks (including a dreamy take on the gospel standard "His Eye Is on the Sparrow") provide a glimmer of what Stone might accomplish if he ever rouses himself more fully.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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A handful of lovingly arranged power ballads were evidently designed to illuminate the singer's remorse over the Rihanna incident. Yet Brown doesn't seem up to the task of contrition.- Los Angeles Times
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There are a few glimmers of hope; Tisdale has said her heroes are Pat Benatar and Kelly Clarkson. But to succeed in the crowded hallways of teen pop, she'll have to be as fearless a misfit as those two bad girls--and not feel guilty about it in the morning.- Los Angeles Times
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Much of Britney Jean devolves into an abyss of electro-neutral bangers produced by the reigning kings of danceable obviousness, Will.i.am and David Guetta.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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Last Night feels like a cold academic exercise, as though Moby were compiling a collection of beats for future examination by an alien race curious about our after-hours ways.- Los Angeles Times
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Predictable and flavorless, these songs seem to realize a fear that unfairly gathered around Shakira in 2009 when her album "She Wolf" led some critics to suspect that the Colombian-born star was attempting to Americanize her sound (or had been coerced into doing so by forces in the music industry).- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 26, 2014
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She doesn't give you the sense that she's thought through the opposing themes in her music: the individual versus society, modernity versus tradition, dependence versus independence. It all feels as unexamined as her use of certain vocal patterns typically associated with black singers.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 14, 2015
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The album's sound is raw, but "raw," even in the Americana circles that Son Volt travels in, doesn't always equate with primal power. Sometimes it's just undercooked.- Los Angeles Times
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Connick's music has none of the attitude the singer often summons outside the studio.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 28, 2013
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Though saucier and sleeker than its peers, the Wanted isn't nearly as fun....But none of the guys has an especially charismatic--or even distinguishable--voice.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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Editors' ponderously titled third album is a disappointing reversion to form, with listless melodies, gloopy, synth-heavy arrangements and corny lyrics that might pass for sly goth-culture satire if Smith didn't deliver them with such self-serious bravado.- Los Angeles Times
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Too many of these 16 hazy, half-crazy tracks sound like undercooked studio goofs recorded in the wee hours by Albarn and his impressive circle of celebrity pals.- Los Angeles Times
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Unfortunately, Muse's efforts can barely get off the ground and wouldn't survive a war against a fly swatter.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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The result isn't the clean-up job it might've been; Bugg, 19, still sings with a nasal edge that wouldn't last more than a round on "American Idol." Yet the songwriting here feels more evened-out, less appealingly pugnacious than it did last time.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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If Chapman restores some of Lady Antebellum's polish, he still keeps the group moving too fast with zippy pop-country arrangements that rarely allow Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott to harmonize as sumptuously as they're able.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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Dead Son Rising feels watery and without a center; it reinforces Numan's legacy, rather than his potential.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Coming from a star whose weekly "Idol" pronouncements emphasize the value of charisma, "Love?" definitely disappoints.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 2, 2011
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Yet for all the textural variety they provide, those welcome cameos rarely succeed in leavening Lightbody's pervasive gloom.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 10, 2012
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Endicott had a hand in penning the excellent title track from Shakira's new album "She Wolf." Perhaps he can preserve some of that creative spark for his own band's next endeavor.- Los Angeles Times
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- Posted Jul 23, 2013
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