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For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% 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 Comicopera
Lowest review score: 10 Sound-Dust
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,874 out of 2325
  2. Mixed: 380 out of 2325
  3. Negative: 71 out of 2325
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Rising Tide
    It's as if SDRE was trying to make every album it thought Rush should have cut after Moving Pictures - simultaneously dark, textural, riff-based and cliche-free, yet filled with the sort of sweeping gestures and lofty arrangements you usually find in vintage prog.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ovalprocess
    Unfortunately, [Markus] Popp has recently become more fascinated with theory than result.... This is what causes the downfall of Ovalprocess as a work of pure music.... a disappointing misstep. [#47, p.112]
    • Magnet
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Moon & Antarctica
    A dark album that shines very brightly. [#46, p.85]
    • Magnet
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Puzzle
    There's some buzzing and belling on "Puzzle," some crimped cracking that doubles as new wave, but for the most part, it's California dreaming at its dumbest.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sound of Water
    Saint Etienne's latest album is masterful: fanatically detailed, intelligent and swimming in lovely melodies and delicious electronic bleeps... easily one of the year's standout albums. [#46, p.90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elephant Shoe
    Somber early works by the Cure and Joy Division read like knock-knock jokes by comparison. [#46, p.66]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
    It glides along with the same humid grace that made 1997's If You're Feeling Sinister a bedsit classic.... wonderful, sweeping songs. [#46, p.68]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Silence Is Sexy
    the "new" Neubauten is a stronger unit than it has been in the entire latter half of its existence.... Silence Is Sexy is brilliant, and Einsturzende Neubauten remains without peer. [#46, p.75]
    • Magnet
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
    The balance of the album is crammed to capacity with placeholders for more fully developed ideas.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Binaural
    Near-brilliant... smoldering slabs of sonic complexity... [#46, p.86]
    • Magnet
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    nyc ghosts & flowers
    Doesn't quite reach greatness, but it grows and changes with every listen... [#46, p.92]
    • Magnet
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Supermodified
    Supermodified is a culmination, for its operatic/cinematic soundscapes... are utterly unique. [#46, p.93]
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Decentertainment
    Decentertainment shows the group regaining some ground lost after the 1998's disappointing Square Root Of Minus One... but the music lacks the mysterious funkiness that distinguished the group early on. [#46, p.95]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beaucoup Fish
    The first great album of '99. [March 1999]
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