Mixer's Scores

  • Music
For 110 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 90 Original Pirate Material
Lowest review score: 30 Slicker Than Your Average
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 85 out of 110
  2. Negative: 1 out of 110
110 music reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their most cohesive work to date. [Nov 2002, p.80]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An eyes-closed, head-bobbing masterpiece. [Oct 2002, p.86]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everybody Got Their Something has something for almost everybody... [Jul 2001, p.86]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's safe to say that if you liked Em's last two albums, you'll like this one. [Aug 2002, p.80]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Admittedly, the album drags in parts, but Out Where is still a success. [Oct 2002, p.88]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album straddles old-school R&B, hip-hop, adeep house and anything else that illuminates Jeff's mad production skills. [Aug 2002, p.79]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The duo's ingenuity and willingness to push the envelope shines as brave and completely commendable. [Apr 2001, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fog
    The tracks are often tuneful, but they're too downtempo for anything but the chill room. [May 2002, p.74]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In stark contrast to his previous experiments with computer sound artifacts and process-driven minimal click arias, Commers barrels out with harsh walls of thrashing interference and feedback in track after track. [Aug 2001, p.78]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    OST
    [Eminem's] three solo offerings... are the strongest cuts from a very strong album. [Jan 2003, p.84]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The disc comes across like the best B-sides compliation you've never heard. [Nov 2002, p.77]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A pretty solid IDM-goes-funky effort. [May 2001, p.78]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their most consistent, simplied effort. [Feb 2002, p.76]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best sex-obsessed album since Prince's Dirty Mind. [Nov 2002, p.78]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unrestrained by the limits of producing a radio-friendly album, Mirwais produced an excellent album that can be appreciated by both fans and critics of Madonna. [Apr 2001, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A diverse, versatile selection of tracks. [Apr 2002, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Get Ready succeeds in feeling like a New Order record despite all its new flavors. [Sep 2001, p.86]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Come With Us transcends the duo's once-signature style, using a diverse palette of sounds and rhythms to create songs most applicable to the big-room dancefloor. [Jan 2002, p.73]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Michael Caine chill than Sean Connery cool, but equally suave. [Oct 2002, p.88]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album is witty and fun and will appeal to a wide variety of people. [Apr 2002, p.82]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Emerson's] absence has liberated rather than weakened Hyde and Smith. [Sep 2002, p.74]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some compared Simian's debut to the Beta Band, but this is much more retro, raw and rockin'. [Jan 2003, p.76]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Armstrong's arrangements have the emotional resonance to move your mind to more serene locales. [May 2002, p.78]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    3D
    [A] slick, street-smart album of sassy party tracks and sensitive slow jams. [Jan 2003, p.73]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Groove Armada's most mature and settled work to date. [Sep 2001, p.83]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It is good to see such experimentation by an artist in a field usually associated with being so genre-specific. [July 2001, p.82]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Cruelty Without Beauty lacks in originality it more than makes up for with sheer wit. [Oct 2002, p.81]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This record is neat and all, but Buzzkunst doesn't add to the collective legacy of Shelley and Devoto. [June 2002, p.88]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daybreaker is Orton's ultimate heartstring-pulling concoction. [Jul 2002, p.80]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of sheer brutal force. [Jul 2002, p.79]
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