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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Transference has the act experimenting more with textures and mood. The result is a collection of melodic fragments and unexpectedly welcome left turns.- Los Angeles Times
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It's a minor miracle she's been able to make room for another Lavender Diamond outing. But when the results sparkle this brilliantly, the multi-tasking seems exceedingly worth it.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 26, 2012
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Rarely does a single album capture so much of what's right in a country's current moment in pop music.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 4, 2014
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A brave, surprising third effort that's both challenging and confident, catchy but progressive, expertly imagined and executed.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 14, 2013
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Relax is Das Racist's first commercial release, yet it shares the dense sprawl and uncomfortable laughs of the group's previous Internet mixtapes.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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There are not as many revelations as on Rice's acclaimed 2002 debut, "O," but it still can be sonically thrilling.- Los Angeles Times
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Most contemporary country musicians steadfastly bypass the dark territory Krauss and her mates mine here, missing out on the deep emotion lurking within it. The loss is theirs.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2011
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Michele is more wry than most feel-good sisters, and never sentimental. She doesn't offer any solutions to the predicament of women caught up in sweet, rough love; like those blues queens of yore, she just takes you there. The journey is gift enough.- Los Angeles Times
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A bold, essential chapter in this young man's inspired body of work.- Los Angeles Times
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Wheelhouse [is] perhaps his most ambitious album to date, taking on such hot-button topics as spousal abuse, Southern provincialism, racism and social justice alongside characteristically well-crafted mainstream country fare.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 9, 2013
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This is an album in the classic, pre-digital sense, in which the very sequence of songs suggests meaning and connection. [12 Sep 2006]- Los Angeles Times
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The sound is more varied and lighter on its feet with touches of harpsichord and banjo but anchored by the Hold Steady's signature: thick, humid arena rock, a high-pressure system of cresting guitars and pianos that injects these dramas with tension and embraces all their contradictions and ambiguities.- Los Angeles Times
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Incisive, cutting and verbally dexterous, if a little overwhelming in a single sitting, Barnett's best new songs — "Pedestrian at Best," "Depreston" and "Debbie Downer" among them--inject memorable heft into timeless rock terrain formerly explored by Polly Jean Harvey, young and angry Elvis Costello, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 25, 2015
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Despite the fret board fireworks, this is an honest love letter to the art of making music.- Los Angeles Times
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His songs are lyrically simple yet emotionally and sonically resonant enough to envision listeners being drawn in even if they don't know the language.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 19, 2015
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He organically forges those into an utterly distinctive voice that takes what's come before and artfully moves it forward with the power of a certain steel-driving man.- Los Angeles Times
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Their switchblade-sharp vision incorporates acute observational powers about the human condition and savvy compositional skills that come together in songs that are piercingly honest, funny and sometimes both.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 7, 2013
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Healthy doses of humor sit side-by-side with sincerity in this smartly conceived, engagingly executed holiday song cycle.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 28, 2018
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If Swoon isn't quite this year's "Tusk," the Silversun Pickups are exploring fresh territory of their own and keeping it easy to follow.- Los Angeles Times
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In its best moments, "Helplessness Blues" sparkles like some sort of divine plan, but a plan that knows the value of mistakes, surprises and even regret.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 3, 2011
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With 14 magnetic works, the album is so packed with vivid Bowie-isms that it seems like he's been storing away one plump specimen per year so that in the proverbial wintertime he'd be ready for a glorious feast.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 5, 2013
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This may not make new converts, but Spree fans will find much cause to rejoice. [11 Jul 2004]- Los Angeles Times
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A compact, nine-song, 32-minute album that suggests an artist just hitting her stride, Li's new album seems to have pinpointed the locus of power in her voice.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 6, 2014
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The production makes stellar use of his major-label money; the sound is refined and dynamic in a way that's wholly missing from pop radio.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 11, 2011
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For an act founded in anonymity and reserve, it turns out the Weeknd's most convincing work of art is Tesfaye's own rollout as a star and storyteller.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 10, 2013
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Le Noise is not an epic -– if it were a book, you could read it in an afternoon -– but it's statement enough from a man who's already said so much.- Los Angeles Times
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Stevens ventures widely on this 85-minute disc to find the best way to express what turn out to be basic home truths.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 23, 2010
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Vancouver duo Brian King and David Prowse throw themselves into every song as if it's the last one they'll ever play. That go-for-broke attitude carries their third album, which is less about the songs than the sheer joy of playing them.- Los Angeles Times
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