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For 4,067 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version]
Lowest review score: 10 Songs From Black Mountain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,631 out of 4067
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4067
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4067
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
    Small quibbles aside, I'll Never Get Out Of this World Alive is a solid addition to Steve Earle's impressive body of work that should satisfy both faithful and new listeners alike.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Dancer Equired
    Dancer Equired is probably the most transparent the band has ever sounded.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Outside
    They're so determined to conjure a gothic America and its black-and-white morality that they fail to acknowledge the grace and sophistication of their source material.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Rockpango
    The bad news: Los Lonely Boys are much better players than they are songwriters.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    No Devolucion
    Instead of just beating around the prog-rock bush, Thursday now embrace their artsier unknown.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Bloodless Coup
    I still prefer Bell X1 with just an acoustic guitar and piano, but Bloodless Coup is, at the least, guaranteed to grow your Best of Bell X1 playlist.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Tomboy
    For the most part, Panda Bear manages to fall somewhere in between, creating a work that can be appreciated as both interesting from a compositional standpoint and enjoyable as an extension of his creative path over the past several years.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Share the Joy
    Combining swelling '60s throwback harmonies and the sweet, swift wit of '50s songwriting, they parlay clichéd notions into winning melodies.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Paper Airplane
    Paper Airplanes features a stellar set of songs that should continue to expand upon Alison Krauss' already-great reputation.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nine Types of Light
    They've been freaks; they've been lover-boys. Now they're spaced-out romantics.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Canary
    For all its careful historical detail and empathetic characterizations, Canary is decidedly topical: This historical setting becomes a means for a band of bookish young men to understand their own place and time.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    C'mon
    Musically, this is not a Low album that will catch anyone by surprise.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Build a Rocket Boys!
    This is an artfully conceived and executed, heartfelt and evocative work, and I suspect it's precisely the kind of album Garvey and his mates wanted to make, and in the U.K. - where it was released in early March - the reviews have been uniformly rhapsodic.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Raven in the Grave
    Raven in the Grave is consistently inconsistent, just like its makers.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Holy Ghost!
    As it turns out, Holy Ghost! haunts with more consistency under the sheets than on the dance floor.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    How to Become Clairvoyant
    With Peter Wolf and Robert Plant out making records that push the needle in the revered oldster lane, Robertson and his famous friends could easily have taken more names.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Blood Pressures
    Blood Pressures mixes heavy, gainy hard-rocking guitars with a whole lot of making love to the mic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Too Young to Be in Love
    More than that, it sounds like Bogart is working out some heavy things on Too Young to Be in Love; it's just a bummer that the discomfort is put upon the listener as well.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Nightingale
    It's hard to discern their true mission, but Nightingale is best when it traffics in the modest pleasures of a memorable melody or a pointed lyric.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Screws Get Loose
    Sonically, Screws spit-shines things just enough to give the songs an almost radio-friendly glimmer without losing their ramshackle mojo, sense of urgency or danger--cleaner, but not too clean for rock 'n' roll.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    All Eternals Deck
    This carefully sculpted juxtaposition of weight and waft has by now become the band's larger calling, and All Eternals Deck manages to be simultaneously esoteric and accessible, faithful and irreverent.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Gimme Some
    The energy level is up; the production is clanky and raw; the guitars ring louder, and the drums hit harder. For the first time, Peter Bjorn and John actually sound like--dare we say--a rock band.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lasers
    So the political nails are hidden deeply enough in the candy that sometimes it's hard to tell whether the juxtaposition is truly bracingly subversive or oddly self-defeating. Depending on your mood or disposition, maybe it's neither, either or both. A musical Rorschach test if there ever was one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Live on I-5
    It's pretty much a greatest hits album, which conceptually blows an opportunity right off the bat.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angles
    There aren't many instantly identifiable bands that can mess with the familiar recipe while somehow also honoring it, but that's precisely what the Strokes have achieved on Angles, an album as warm as it is cool.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Several Shades of Why
    With the vocals more out front than ever before, Several Shades showcases a wounded, fragile weariness that I'd never realized until now was such a huge part of Dinosaur Jr's ragged, heart-wrenching appeal.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Scandalous
    Scandalous isn't a throwback, it's a throw forward.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Charlatans At the Garden Gate
    Her music remains light with playful rhythms, but she keeps her songs controlled as if they were on a string, as well. If you're feeling brave it's a good listen for a quiet evening at home, but Tristen's study of the heart may be far too honest for some.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Violet Cries
    Violet Cries is broadly, nebulously goth, with very little to distinguish the band from their peers and forebears.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    He Gets Me High
    Altogether, He Gets Me High is a quick fix, lasting about as long as two games of seven minutes in heaven. Of course, that's plenty of time if you're playing with right girls.
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