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For 4,080 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: 3,644 out of 4080
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4080
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4080
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nashville
    Decidedly a pop record. [Apr/May 2005, p.150]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
    An eminently pleasurable album that reveals more with each spin. [Apr/May 2005, p.148]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Room Noises
    Eisley has developed its own unique, almost anti-populist sound, and a healthy, inquisitive sensitivity, to boot.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    Antony flourishes like a rare orchid in a New York hothouse, brandishing his voice like so many delicate petals. [#14, p.120]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Emoh
    Barlow fails to write an indie rock standard, something he usually manages once per album, but EMOH still exceeds expectations.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    Songs like “California” and “Walk Into the Sea,” by far the sunniest, poppiest material Low has ever produced, shatter the mopey mold the band has so carefully cultivated, and to thrilling results.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Superwolf
    Superwolf is Americana at its most grim. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Valende
    An esoteric, wonderfully eccentric psychedelic record. [#14, p.123]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Mountain
    Black Mountain indulges that old-school rock ’n’ roll craving.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lonely Runs Both Ways
    Lonely Runs Both Ways is spit-polished to a high, Nashville sheen, airbrushed into perfection and loaded down with layer upon layer of gooey gloss. Ultimately, all that shine holds Krauss back.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    Unabashedly grand and inspirational.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Tigers Have Spoken
    She’s in perfect form.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joji
    The very best kind of hot, front-porch music. [Apr/May 2005, p.134]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Key
    Whatever Key lacks in ramshackle charm, it compensates for with deft musicianship and winds up just as achingly fine as the band's sepia-toned debut. [#13, p.119]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
    Aside from the power of the music and lyrics, the set draws on Cave’s compelling persona: part priest, part sideshow barker--crooning one moment and eviscerating the next. While this has always been the core of his talent, on Abattoir/Lyre it is particularly rich and rewarding.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rendezvous
    Ranks with Lunapark and Penthouse as one of its best. [#13, p.119]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shake The Sheets
    Leo’s vision has crystallized. The songs are shorter and tighter than anything he’s seared onto tape, and his complex melodic phrasing arrives pitch perfect.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome To The North
    The Music has cranked propulsive garage psychedelia to stadium-rock decibels. [#14, p.127]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From A Basement On The Hill
    A fitting farewell to a distinctive voice silenced too early.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Songs For Patriots
    Their best since 1991’s Everclear, and a glittering statement of purpose from an institution reinvigorated.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spooked
    Hitchcock deals with present-day anxiety whimsically rather than specifically, while Rawlings and Welch provide an uncharacteristic but fitting mise en scene with their solemn plucking and barely suggested grooves, which function much like the shadowy cross-hatching you see in Edward Gorey’s drawings.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ray Ray
    Ranging from funk, R&B and soul to gospel and hip-hop overtones, Ray Ray delivers the goods.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Delivery Man
    Staggered between full-on rockers like "Needle Time," "There’s A Story In Your Voice", and "Bedlam," the softer material sounds excessively genteel.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Idiot
    As pretentious a concept as that might seem, Green Day pulls it off brilliantly.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    London Calling [25th Anniversary Legacy Edition]
    With the 25th anniversary edition of London Calling, Epic/Legacy has outdone itself.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Bottle Bohemia
    Let’s Bottle Bohemia is a triumph.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Funeral
    Musically dynamic and emotionally complex. [#13, p.132]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    HoboSapiens
    Like a Fellini movie, filled with rich textures and intriguing characters.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Folker
    Raw and revealing.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Living Things
    A sunny, neo-psychedelic outing. Unfortunately, this translates into overly busy, fussy arrangements that sometimes mar the impact of the songs. [#13, p.119]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weightlifting
    It's a welcome, bliss-smacked comeback. [#13, p.121]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Medulla
    Björk weaves into Medúlla a palpable longing for a simpler world--a world predating smart bombs and collapsing towers, a world in which life revolved around the expressive raising of one’s voice, both solitarily and in concert with others.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Winchester Cathedral
    A brand new bag of impossible shapes, rumbaing in esoteric formation. [#13, p.121]
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