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For 581 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Hidden
Lowest review score: 20 This New Day
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 376 out of 581
  2. Mixed: 195 out of 581
  3. Negative: 10 out of 581
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    As with the conceptual aspect, knowing the peculiar provenance of the noises on The Rose Has Teeth is actually supplemental to one's enjoyment of this suite... which stands alone as an enthralling aural experience.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stadium Arcadium
    There's hardly any doodling or misfiring to undermine the sheer vastness of Stadium Arcadium.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Surprise
    It's a bravura performance on both men's part.... A thrilling return to form.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gulag Orkestar
    The tumescent, endlessly inventive songs are seldom less than exquisitely performed.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
    Lovely.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfmother
    Where fellow Aussie pasticheurs the Vines get more depressing the more they manage to sound like Nirvana, listening to Wolfmother's hilarious attempt to board the long-departed cock-rock bandwagon - singing 'She's a woman, you know what I mean!' as if they have never seen a woman, let alone touched one - is actually quite fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
    The Hardest Way... is twice as good as any album about the price of celebrity has a right to be.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
    The problem is that these songs are mostly too corny to have much drama restored to them. This is not folk music as mystery or romance or danger but as communal singalong.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chosen Lords
    A brilliant collection of spanking, multi-layered tunes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Garden Ruin
    There is a new-found ferocity at play.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lunatico
    Lunatico won't alienate fans by having evolved too fast, nor disappoint by excessively rehashing old themes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    A wonderful record that is flawed - that'll be those flatulent synths again - but by design.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His Hands
    An unexpected winner.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    Thankfully, Bones is neither a heated-up knock-off of Fever To Tell nor a fan-alienating abandonment of their signature sound. It is instead, a supremely confident 12-song cut that has a remarkable weightiness.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fishscale
    Ghostface is in typically brutal form.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Confessions On A Dance Floor
    Confessions... is vocally sharp and (at times) lyrically breathtaking, but it is difficult to imagine this album working without Price's involvement.
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