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For 24 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score:
Haha Sound
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
You Gotta Go There To Come Back
Critic Score 30
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
24 music reviews
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    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 80
    Phantom Power
    Phantom Power's Technicolor ballads, flowery pop synths and acoustic touches will leave a smile on your face even as the winter days approach. [#23, p.102]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    Run To Ruin
    A beautiful album of uniqueness and unfailing spirit. [#23, p.96]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 80
    Cast Of Thousands
    An album of moody, grungy pop with a distinctive British feel that could easily be one of this year's sleeper hits. [#23, p.97]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 80
    Shine A Light
    Webb's hoarse vocals are filled with the sort of tortured earnestness that can't be faked. [#23, p.84]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 100
    Haha Sound
    Ha Ha Sound is the sort of album that will sweetly move you towards slumber. [#23, p.82]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 100
    Killing Joke [2003]
    The most vicious album of the year. [#23, p.84]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 80
    Lovers
    A kaleidoscopic masterpiece that asserts itself as a spellbinding album. [#23, p.100]
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    The Instinct
    Lyrically and melodically, Denali has grown by leaps and bounds. [#23, p.87]
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    stellastarr*
    Stellar. [#23, p.92]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 70
    With The Tides
    More mature than their debut. [#23, p.101]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 80
    The Civil War
    The superposition of these strange sound sources is at times shocking, obliquely tracing a history of American music. [#23, p.95]
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 90
    Echoes
    When you strip away all of the hype and everything you've heard about The Rapture, one thing still remains: Echoes is outstanding. [#23, p.98]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 70
    If We Meet In The Future
    There are moments... that are very poignant and will rip your heart out, but many tracks fall a bit short of that mark and simply provide a pretty album of background music. [#23, p.99]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 60
    Take Them On, On Your Own
    BRMC continue on a predictable arc, borrowing heavily from Psychocandy-era Jesus & Mary Chain melodies, coked-up Rolling Stones licks, and My Bloody Valentine's production values. [#23, p.88]
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 90
    The New Romance
    Feel[s] immediate and experimental all at once. [#23, p.98]
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 40
    Shootenanny!
    The musical equivalent to steamed broccoli. [#23, p.87]
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 80
    A Drug Problem That Never Existed
    A Drug Problem... is like the contents of a [D]umpster: greasy, creepy, nasty, and random. [#23, p.96]
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 90
    Fire
    The Electric Six have a knack for mixing a dash of Saturday Night Fever with a whole lot of MC5 and just a smidgen of Jack Black. [#23, p.87]
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 100
    Fatherfucker
    Peaches hasn't suffered from the sophomore slump one bit. [#23, p.96]
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 50
    Get Born
    If you dig the likes of the D4 and The Datsuns, you'll dig Jet, even though Get Born is the over-hyped sound of a few old records stuck in an all-too-familiar groove. [#23, p.93]
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 80
    Amazing Grace
    The sound is taut and tough, with a much more spontaneous sound than previous efforts. [#23, p. 101]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 70
    Breathe
    Filled with sweeping, modern day mini-symphonies that brim with operatic highs and poetic lows. [#23, p.94]
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 30
    You Gotta Go There To Come Back
    A mind numbing mix of unexciting midtempo rockers and smarmy ballads. [#23, p.101]
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 70
    Client
    A pretty good album that, while not exactly groundbreaking, is a fine addition to synthpop's latest wave. [#23, p.83]