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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% 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: 100 Twin Cinema
Lowest review score: 20 Liz Phair
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 362 out of 474
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 474
  3. Negative: 12 out of 474
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Your Blues
    Whilst Bejar's songs are blessed with mucho rhythm and melody, you should still be made aware that there's no real beat, no real bass, and little that sounds organic. Yet there's still something quite regal and symphonic about it all, the synthesized strings and horns and piano stirring up a romanticism that goes with Bejar's fancy-pants lyricism.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Bedroom
    One Bedroom does tend to lag in parts, perhaps lost in the legacy of the band that created it, but in the end it comes off as an unified organic being, both necessary and pleasant.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
    The earthy tones, accomplished songwriting and passion within Full of Light give Mendoza Line newcomers good reason not only to hear their new album, but also to dig into their back catalog.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dear Catastrophe Waitress
    Horn turns in the best work of his career, giving DCW a collection of sounds so potent and invigorating that the album may be Belle & Sebastian's Revolver.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    i
    The marked contrast between the deadpan vocals and the lightness of the music mostly works, although because of the limitations of Merritt's vocal range, he is not always able to project the same depth of feeling detailed in the songs' lyrics.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Walking With Thee
    Walking With Thee isn't a rehashing of last year's Internal Wrangler; it's actually an inferior version of it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What's Next To The Moon
    Kozelek has delivered a wondrous collection.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Below The Branches
    It is quite possibly Stoltz's best work ever, and certainly one of the landmark releases of 2006.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Trials & Errors
    This is simply some of the best guitar-driven rock I've heard all year.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grown Backwards
    The beauty and richness of our seemingly mundane lives can be found here, in the bossa-nova of minor catastrophes, the pseudo-jazz of strippers, and the easy lilt of coffee cups.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cannibal Sea
    Cannibal Sea is startlingly immediate.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness
    Zedek is still shrouded in her aesthetic darkness, is still hungry, still driven; her music is still driven by the same ghosts that've haunted her throughout her career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Laughter's Fifth
    Laughter's Fifth finds Jayne tracking back to a groovier, sillier time in rock 'n' roll, peeling back the rough riffs and celebrating the peace-and-love beat.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bows & Arrows
    Even with a couple of missteps, this is a solid album that will likely stay in heavy rotation on your stereo for months to come.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Up The Bracket
    More life-affirming than life-changing, on Up the Bracket the Libertines deliver a stellar set of songs that -- both musically and lyrically -- neatly synthesizes the past 40 years of English rock.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Human Animal
    For Human Animal, Wolf Eyes have stepped back from pure violence, bringing in some of the old cinematic features while retaining pieces of the vicious nature that has served them well.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Waiting For The Moon
    Tindersticks have always made music that conjures up smoke: songs that are elusive, wispy and ephemeral, sung by men with somewhat rough smokers' voices. With Waiting for the Moon, unfortunately, little remains once the smoke clears.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    The Life Pursuit is an immaculate album; Belle & Sebastian craft pure pop perfection better than just about anybody.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Guero
    There is nothing here that thrills with its audacity, beauty, beat or lyrics. Instead, we are given a solid batch of songs that for any other artist would be a crowning achievement, but for Beck is just mediocre.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sumday
    Sumday's only real flaw is the creeping sense of professionalism that is starting to emerge in the band's songwriting and playing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Almost Killed Me
    Rocks like Bad Company and Thin Lizzy and vintage Springsteen. Look out.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lost in Revelry
    Fans of the group's previous recordings may have trouble accepting the fact that Lost in Revelry doesn't have the high melodic consistency of We're All in This Alone.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Collisions
    Among contemporaries, Calla now stand alone, making dark, beautiful, intensely understated music that's as much landscape as narrative story.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fear Of A Black Tangent
    His guffawing voice makes him sound like every rhyme he delivers is a punchline.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Discover A Lovelier You
    The album succeeds in creating a dreamy mood that is both soothing and slightly unsettling. And yet this mood is relentless, and, ultimately, all the songs begin to sound the same.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Up Above
    Up Above Is, in such, a gentle enough jam to work/non-work in an incidentalist sense; but compare it to folk that do this sort of gear with a fearsome seriousness -- like, most obviously, the Vibracathedral Orchestra -- and T&C come up as pale as a Midwestern mid-winter tan.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Handcream For A Generation
    The set works like a spun-up set of carefully collated cuts, sequenced with stuck-tape-over-the-tabs-in-the-corners mix-tape affection that makes the whole seem like a sticky-sentimented sentimental love letter to the boys' record collections.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meltdown
    If you're a fan of tuneful, American-influenced pop-punk, Ash are waiting to burn a hole through your heart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Comfort Of Strangers
    The songs are subtle and powerful, full of pain and humor.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Revelling/Reckoning
    Her most skillful and soulful work thus far.
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