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For 1,598 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 Dear Science,
Lowest review score: 25 The New Game
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,360 out of 1598
  2. Mixed: 176 out of 1598
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1598
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The Wanted [EP]
    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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Wild Ones
    Wild Ones has two of Flo's top 40-obliterating recent singles, "Good Feeling" (in which he hijacks Avicii's "Le7els") and the title track....The rest is serviceable work for the clubland meat grinder.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Every Man Should Know
    Connick's music has none of the attitude the singer often summons outside the studio.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Pura Vida Conspiracy
    Pure Vida overwhelms as often as it inspires.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Salute
    Here they sag under the weight of too many wind-swept piano ballads and booming productions seemingly modeled on Katy Perry's "Roar."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Shangri La
    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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Britney Jean
    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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Mastermind
    Ross seems on auto-pilot here.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Shakira
    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).
    • 72 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Turn Blue
    A pronounced feeling of descent pervades Turn Blue.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Paula
    The record is a failure, a virtual what-not-to-do guide for both songwriters and spurned lovers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    747
    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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Title
    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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Drones
    Unfortunately, Muse's efforts can barely get off the ground and wouldn't survive a war against a fly swatter.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Revival
    But where Jay-Z raps with style and elegance to spare, Eminem hits clunker after clunker on Revival, his clumsiest record to date. It’s not just the corny jokes and goofy puns, either, although those are plenty bad
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Life In Cartoon Motion
    His music... exerts the allure of the most seductive pop, but does so with the calculation of a predator.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The New Game
    The album's gooey, mid-tempo grind at best evokes System of a Down stripped of ambition and eccentricity, and might elicit sympathy with whatever culprit is running around that no-stoplight town.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Scream
    The idea of Cornell's sex-god wail over Timbaland's mechanized funk is appealing. But Scream draws out the worst tendencies in both of them.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rebirth
    "Rebirth" deserves its reputation as one of the worst albums of the year so far. With luck, Wayne will return to what he does best -- and soon.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Here I Am
    She does herself no favors by choosing consistently bland material, and her third album does nothing to dispel the sense that Rowland should be more selective.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Whatever
    You have to ask if the tween sector of the 1% just found their house band.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Paralytic Stalks
    Paralytic Stalks is downright exhausting.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    The mediocrity taints the entire record and makes one wonder how it all went so wrong.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Based on a T.R.U. Story
    Contrasted with Lil Wayne's easy, seemingly effortless guest verse, 2 Chainz sounds like a rank amateur whose topics of choice -- strippers, money, drugs -- have been examined to death in hip-hop by others with a much more varied vocabulary.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Authentic
    Authentic not only misses the mark, it doesn't even come close.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    More
    Full of dull riffs and saggy rhythms, Uncanney Valley makes you wonder why exactly frontman Travis Morrison reunited the group in 2011.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Uncanney Valley
    Full of dull riffs and saggy rhythms, Uncanney Valley makes you wonder why exactly frontman Travis Morrison reunited the group in 2011.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Moon Landing
    He does manage to out-Mumford and out-Sheeran his countrymen on the rustic single "Bonfire Heart" (ironically, co-written with super-pop penman Ryan Tedder). Whether you want to hear James Blunt plowing that field is a conversation between you and your god.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cheek to Cheek
    Shallow, deeply unimaginative renditions [of standards out of the Great American Songbook].
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Endless River
    The aimless fragments on The Endless River, on the other hand, are so excruciatingly dull (even by Pink Floyd’s often-dull standards) that the band’s name on the cover feels like a straight-up bait-and-switch.
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