For 1,128 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
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Positive: 963 out of 1128
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Mixed: 122 out of 1128
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Negative: 43 out of 1128
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
Jeezy's sonic sins would be partially pardonable were The Recession to flash any hint of fun or humor. Instead, the street-cred-consumed caricature is more content to rip off Tupac Shakur ("Hustlaz Ambition") and write abominable hooks. -
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Critic Score 37
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.- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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Critic Score 37
The jokes are reasonably funny and the riffs rock reasonably hard. But Argos never convinces you that his unlikely persistence is paying off.- Posted May 23, 2011
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Critic Score 37
On 'Human' you can hear Brandy striving (understandably) to express herself, yet the result rarely rises above diary-entry tedium. -
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Critic Score 37
Every touch of lyrical bitterness is followed by enough sugar to mask the taste, which might be good in the short term but isn't a recipe for long-term health.- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Critic Score 25
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.- Posted Jul 26, 2011
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Critic Score 37
Peel away the accessibility of his fluffy debut and there's nothing but major-label album fodder. -
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
The rest of it, though, is stuff that will probably sound just fine beneath NFL highlight reels but fails to gel when the volume is up and California 2011 beckons.- Posted Aug 30, 2011
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
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.- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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- Posted Nov 29, 2011
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- Posted Feb 7, 2012
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Critic Score 37
Dead Son Rising feels watery and without a center; it reinforces Numan's legacy, rather than his potential.- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
Yet for all the textural variety they provide, those welcome cameos rarely succeed in leavening Lightbody's pervasive gloom.- Posted Jan 10, 2012
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Critic Score 37
The record is larded with awkward modernist R&B, Christian semaphore ballads like 'You Can' and warm-milk mewling that makes David Cook, Archuleta's "Idol" foe, sound like Robert Plant. -
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 38
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] -
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Critic Score 25
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.- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Critic Score 25
His music... exerts the allure of the most seductive pop, but does so with the calculation of a predator. -
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Critic Score 37
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.- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
Most of the material, though, tends toward a flavorless pop-rock sound that doesn't even do much to flatter Allen's appealingly rumpled vocals. -
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Critic Score 37
The Circle shows off Bon Jovi's still-sharp knack for wedding blandly optimistic sentiments to predictably soaring choruses. Unfortunately, it's getting pretty hard to tell one song from the next. -
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Critic Score 25
The mediocrity taints the entire record and makes one wonder how it all went so wrong.- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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Critic Score 37
Doll Domination is a series of signifiers to other, more interesting, moments in recent pop culture. -
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Critic Score 38
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] -
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Critic Score 25
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. -
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 38
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] -
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Critic Score 37
Coming from a star whose weekly "Idol" pronouncements emphasize the value of charisma, "Love?" definitely disappoints.- Posted May 2, 2011
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Critic Score 25
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. -
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Critic Score 37
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. -
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Critic Score 37
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.- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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Critic Score 25
"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. -