NOW Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,812 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 66
Highest review score: | The Life Of Pablo | |
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Lowest review score: | Testify |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,287 out of 2812
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Mixed: 1,452 out of 2812
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Negative: 73 out of 2812
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This is a dry affair dominated by standard-issue R&B production monotony, and an egregious misuse of resources.- NOW Magazine
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Redundant, needlessly long, Those The Brokes rarely matches the 60s California-dreamin' good-vibes pop of its successful self-titled predecessor.- NOW Magazine
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Most of this over-egged sissy-boy schlock would make James Blunt wince.- NOW Magazine
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Uniformly mediocre.... It leads one to assume he's either lost the ability to discern the padding from the profound or he just didn't give a shit.- NOW Magazine
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The result is exactly what you'd expect: loud and hard garage rock devoid of personality or originality.- NOW Magazine
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So while Yellowcard's hearts may be in the right place, it's clear they're simply incapable of realizing this clumsy faux magnum opus.- NOW Magazine
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Considering the expensive talent involved, this is a colossal disappointment.- NOW Magazine
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Sitek attempts to do Johansson (and us) a favour by burying her monotonous voice deep in the mix, but unfortunately, the musical support isn’t interesting enough to carry the album. Skip it.- NOW Magazine
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Jay proves that, yes, he really has nothing more to say except to state the fact that he's back.- NOW Magazine
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For Mötley Crüe, every new record is a Faustian deal: their former glory as 80s hair-metal badasses in exchange for sustained economic success in a diminished, lame-ified state.- NOW Magazine
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The problems that litter No Line fall into two categories: mind-numbing blandness on the part of the band or embarrassing, face-palm-inducing vocal choices by Bono.- NOW Magazine
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The most listenable song is the Chavril duet Let Me Go, which has zero of either musician’s “edge” and a whole lot of adult contemporary schmaltz.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2013
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In lieu of artistry or any semblance of lyrical spark, DST offers monotonous production and relentless chanting.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jul 22, 2015
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Past the dancehall signifiers (Paul's increasingly strained lilt and tepid syncopated pulse), the new record is brazenly mediocre.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Songs you'd expect to swell and boil over--which is what Modest Mouse are good at--often end up trudging humourlessly (Ansel, Be Brave), and things get far worse in the moments where humour is actually the goal.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Mar 12, 2015
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These 14 purpose-punk "anthems" (songs with loud multi-tracked vocals during the choruses) sound like Anti-Flag hastily thawed them out of mid-90s cryogenic stasis in a moment of frenzied conviction that we've never needed them more.- NOW Magazine
- Posted May 28, 2015
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Topping off this overproduced, underwhelming effort are Roberts's over-enunciated lyrics. Even at his best, he comes off like a guy crashing an Of Montreal album.- NOW Magazine
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Authentic is ridiculous right down to the heavy-breathing interludes, which worked for Usher circa 2003.- NOW Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2013
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Rebirth is – without qualification – the most embarrassing album of the last 10 years. Embarrassing for him, for his audience, for rap, for humanity.- NOW Magazine
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He rushes through the tunes, slurring syllables as if enunciating the lyrics would be too much work even if he could remember all of them. And clearly, one day wasn’t enough rehearsal time for his hired band, who are so often in vamp mode while trying to figure out where Morrison’s going that they lose track of the tunes.- NOW Magazine
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Everything on My Bloody Underground suffers from Newcombe’s chronic lack of focus, leaving the entire mess sounding like half-assed sonic sketches farted out in a friend’s basement over a woozy weekend.- NOW Magazine
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The closest this popportunistic foursome comes to satisfying songsmithery is "The Getaway," whose title is sound advice for potential buyers of this album.- NOW Magazine
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A dreary dump of sad sack pop blather that makes poor use of the substantial talent on hand.- NOW Magazine
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This is not an observation about theme--the record is unremarkable in both sound and execution.- NOW Magazine
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It seems as if they've done everything possible to distance themselves from their original, much more interesting sound, opting instead for songs with barely enough hooks and coherent structures.- NOW Magazine
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Though Storch and other heavy hitters do their best to craft reasonable facsimiles of a broad range of Today's Best Dance-Pop Hits, they can't hide the fact that Hilton's a shit singer who can't carry a tune even when the vocal melody is reproduced note-for-note in the arrangements.- NOW Magazine
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