For 4,060 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version] | |
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Lowest review score: | Songs From Black Mountain |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,625 out of 4060
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Mixed: 400 out of 4060
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Negative: 35 out of 4060
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The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett understands the grace of understatement.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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Leon Russell has nothing to prove, so his will to rappel off musical cliffs and soar into boogie, big-band jazz and tavern immersion’s rarified air is that much more satisfying.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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The result is a combustible album that doesn’t seek to recapture the band’s old spark so much as light a new one.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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While there’s nothing here as instantly infectious as “Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster” (the single from last year’s Floating Coffin), Drop plays like some lost weekend at the Fillmore West circa 1966-71.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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Food may not make her the star she deserves to be, but this slightly overcooked album is proof that she can cook.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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Spiderland is a record that will sound just as exciting 20 years from now. Call it the gift that keeps on giving.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2014
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Not many bands in recent memory have been able to combine noise and otherworldly sonics with the sweat and hot breath of punk rock. The Skull Defekts have mastered it, boiled it down and resurrected it.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 17, 2014
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It’s a fun album, an album that the world is better for having, but hardly something you hope other musicians hear and emulate.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 15, 2014
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The Both’s self-titled release is the sound of a first date that wasn’t exactly a drag but won’t be leading to a second meet-up.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 15, 2014
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Though these 11 songs aren’t always as sharply drawn as his best material, there’s plenty to love here.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 15, 2014
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Even the most drawn-out, mind-bending stretches on the album serve a purpose, managing to avoid sounding like sonic filler.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 15, 2014
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The result is one of the more confidently presented, mostly inoffensive and ultimately inconsequential albums in recent memory.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2014
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His debut may have taken a decade to gestate, but we’ll probably still be unpacking its innovative grooves in another.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2014
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The disjointed nature of Under Color’s thrust somehow catapults its enjoyability.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2014
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Ultimately Enter The Slasher House excellently parallels the campy horror flicks and haunted houses that inspired the band’s name.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2014
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While the results are neither as energetic and original as the peak Sun Records or Columbia recordings, nor as darkly compelling as the Rubin albums, they’re still a lot better than anyone might have expected.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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Jackson Browne fans will be extremely satisfied with this set, one that Browne himself must surely be smiling upon.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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With Here And Nowhere Else, they’ve thrown the first punch, and it hits you square in the jaw.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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The bottom line is, these guys have always just wanted to rock, and Himalayan is the first album that doesn’t let them.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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The songs are fast and short; the energy throughout the album is infectious and continuous--which helps to not overwhelm with its cranked-to-11 setting and should have most eager and willing to keep coming back.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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Not merely a product of maturity, Nickel Creek has grown without losing its palpable joy or wondrous ability to make musicianship as accessible as the engaging way their voices draw listeners to them.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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The music never seems to come from a place of desire to convey something true or honest from within DeMarco, but instead it paints variations of past emotions, interpret others’ honesty, gives a distorted remembrance of the past for a more entertaining present.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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Over nine songs, Carey crafts a number of bright, warm, sweeping moments that fit with the album’s theme of the American West, land of exploration and possibility.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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Ultimately, Just Because sounds like an almost-redefined version of The Belle Brigade, which is an impressive feat for a relatively new band. It’s just a little surprising that such a sad record can sound so blissfully blasé.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2014
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The expansive tracklisting makes for a CD-era 70+ minute listening experience. You can appreciate the varied approach that John and Bernie Taupin brought to the studio with the balladry (“Candle In The Wind,” surprisingly not a US-charting song), the ballsy (“Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting”) and the busy (“Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)”) even if the results led to a less-than-cohesive album on the whole. As with many Elton John albums, there are hidden gems to be found.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 26, 2014
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As easy as it is to enjoy, there is something fleeting in its pleasures, as if it isn’t quite complete without occupying the same spaces as the band.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Teeth Dreams is the first time since Boys & Girls in America that The Hold Steady toes that perfect line between adolescent, backseat make-out sessions and stoned, intellectual discourse on the human condition.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Odludek does its job well enough as it pulses forward, though it strangely doesn’t stick as deeply as you might expect.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Half of the tracks on World Of Joy don’t even crack three minutes. It certainly validates the album’s garage-punk ethos, but at the same time, it barely gives Howler enough time to prove itself on its second album.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Ages and Ages have undergone lineup changes and lots of peripheral personal battles and have somehow managed to internalize and later deduce how to navigate the avenues of their own lives in triumphant--and insanely memorable--song. In the process, they’ve come out with one of this year’s best all-around albums.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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