No Ripcord's Scores
- Music
For 2,725 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
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Positive: 1,898 out of 2725
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Mixed: 751 out of 2725
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Negative: 76 out of 2725
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The potential Young shows is infectious and encouraging, but her debut was going to be a buzz kill from the start, if only because of the hype.- No Ripcord
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Victorious is premium Wolfmother in places, and pretty much abominable in others.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 9, 2016
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Frontman Max Bloom’s voice isn’t even that dissimilar from that of the man he replaced in 2013, but he’s lacking something that Blumberg clearly had in his arsenal to sharpen his band’s sound.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 9, 2016
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The production is inconsistent and largely a bit too bombastic for Das Racist's usually free-associative, untechnical rapping.- No Ripcord
- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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All in all, Curve of the Earth comes across a little on the self-indulgent side, and although most bands evolve and move on from past successes, over-complicating things can lead to that band losing their sense of character and identity.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 16, 2016
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Sadly, the interesting ideas fall at the place on the spectrum where it jives for just a short time, at least for this particular listener.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jan 30, 2013
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There are some nice elements here: the vocals and vocal harmonies are reasonably solid, but they're trapped underneath layers of, well, noise.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Even if the album's sonic template doesn't stray too far from his 2011 breakthrough debut LP Within You Without You, Greene chooses to keep the mood so light that it's practically inert.- No Ripcord
- Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Stephan Babcock is a determined performer, and his bandmates are suitable harmonizers, but even at a tight 30-minutes the album’s lack of strong melodic direction quickly turns tiresome with its stilted, colorless sonic onslaught.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 22, 2016
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Conrad’s strategic intentions get the best of him, swerving between unmemorable mid-tempo cuts and stodgy piano playing with the occasional flashes of unfulfilled brilliance.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 16, 2016
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He implicitly tells you to “die, die” on the Slightly Stoopid-resembling Zombie Bastards, after all, a joyful retort to the haters who won’t shut up about how Weezer has become a meme in musical form. But Cuomo, ever the mercurial songwriter, later goes off over the pleasures of parasailing on the escapist, Paul McCartney-recalling High as a Kite. And that’s when Weezer (Black Album) peaks.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Pyramid of the Sun certainly isn't an utterly bad album--it's cohesive enough, and it can be really engaging. At the very least, it serves as a heartfelt tribute to the band's late drummer.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 2, 2011
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At its strongest moments, you can make out its appealing qualities. But at its weakest, you start to understand why they announced the album with a blog post that said: “Wait, they’re still a band?” Aside from the haunting Fallin’ Thru, with its sparse piano notes and whispery vocals, Mercy is a broken-down, mostly acoustic album that only feels empty.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 24, 2020
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The English Riviera is a perfectly listenable album, and it's one that will, quite rightly, be the soundtrack to the summers of more than a few, but the often indistinct music and insipid lyrical content mean that it's doubtful if its charms will last through to the autumn.- No Ripcord
- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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While there are plenty of technical elements to recommend it, The Classic just lacks that indefinable quality that would make you return to it repeatedly.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 24, 2014
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Hang appears as an album of ambition that outdoes itself so spectacularly that it appears as a jazzed up, Disney-esque caricature of its own end product.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 13, 2017
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Without him [Machinedrum], it's a well assembled but dull record. With him, it's sublime.- No Ripcord
- Posted Sep 11, 2012
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There's not a single stand out track, good or bad; and the likes of this album have been released, oh, a million times over, in the past 8 years--it’s not bad, not good, just a drop in a calm, tepid, flat ocean.- No Ripcord
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The lone connective thread found in Gardens & Villa is that of its dedication to build a vigorous gamut of synths. As it turns out, once that defining element is out of the mold, you're left with skeletal compositional biases that amount to very little.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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An album can't wear the pants of Carpenter, Carlos, and Oldfield, all of whom crafted electronic epics built around unforgettable melodies and precise attention to detail when Stevens and Bram hop from one track to the next before any of their soundscapes journey beyond the front porch.- No Ripcord
- Posted Apr 13, 2020
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She's still one to watch, but the hype which preceded the release of Who You Are promised much more than what has been delivered.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 22, 2011
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It has all their trademarks--simultaneously elaborate and raw, idiosyncratically punk-rock, dedicated to chronicling the unrelenting ugliness of western society--but this time little of it sticks.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jan 31, 2014
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Woods should take the cue from Bill Callahan and what he accomplished with Smog: if you are going to delve into the restricting realm of lo-fi, there has to be emotional and appealing substance and quality in the songs themselves. Lowering the production quality does not, as in a double helix, imply that the songwriting quality will improve.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jul 27, 2011
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Unfortunately, her constant insistence on being so ham-fistedly quirky and zany soon becomes wearing, and simultaneously rescues and spoils the whole album.- No Ripcord
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Lyrically Wake Up The Nation is largely inscrutable, while sonically it remains a shambling and ungainly listen.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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Considering how the lyrical content and flat as a rug singing in Weekends was written for an elementary school child to understand, they probably should've kept it that way; it occasionally downgrades the songs to a point where they are unable to rise above their cheesiness.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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When it comes to developing and honing the craft of songwriting to present a signature sound with a variety of ideas, The Temper Trap fall short.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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Weezer disappoints again. The rest of the tracks are, for the most part, more throwaway power-pop in the vein of the "Red Album."- No Ripcord
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Most bands are simply prolonging the genre’s decline by playing insensibly catchy pop under the sonic crust we’ve come to know it for. Failing either, we’re left with the dull ad nauseums of the musical record. And that, in a sentence, is Born Again Revisited.- No Ripcord
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There are some nice moments in the mess, and sometimes I'm almost tempted to look past the annoyances before they build up--but sometimes, that's frankly just not possible.- No Ripcord
- Posted Sep 7, 2011
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