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For 4,091 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 3.1 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: 3,655 out of 4091
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4091
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4091
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Until the Tide Creeps In
    Until the Tide Creeps In isn’t that; nor is it a mawkish trip down memory lane. Instead, it’s an album of reconciliation, an opportunity for Jack and Lily to make sense of their youth spanning into their adulthood.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jim
    U.K. upstart Jamie Lidell’s latest is trapped squarely in this box, but the quality of his vocal performance generally keeps things from being stifling.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Heligoland
    Instead of reintroducing the genre’s founding dub steps and club sensibilities, contributions from Massive Attack’s musical descendants (Blur/Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn, Portishead’s Adrian Utley) lend quieter atmospherics that amplify the emotion of the band’s mainstay whispers.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Carpenter
    It's this penchant for playing with contrast--between light and dark, comedy and tragedy, hard and soft, fast and slow--and their ease with switching gears between the romps and soliloquies that shines on The Carpenter, perhaps stronger than on any of their previous releases.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Stories Don't End
    Stories Don’t End is crisper and more overdubbed, sprawling a tad where the first two albums flowed seamlessly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jukebox
    On Jukebox, some of the eyes-closed magic is traded for dim lights, but the readings are just as stunning.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Our Nature
    In Our Nature’s fingerpicked reveries, sonic gentility and lugubrious vibe might tug at your eyelids, but be warned: Its heavy-hearted sentiments are hardly the stuff of dreams.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Hopeless Romantic
    Michelle Branch is no poet, but Hopeless Romantic tells her story with enough variance to stay engaging.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Colors
    As both a quintessential entry into his catalog and a striking entry into mainstream popular culture, Colors once again cements Beck as a clever, ever-dynamic and enduring artist.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Island Intervals
    Island Intervals marks a giant leap for Thibodeau, while not veering too far from his own trodden trail. Call it future folk, but in 10 years we’ll be calling it timeless.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Several Arrows Later
    Another nice-enough album of sweetly sighing chamber pop that marks yet another incremental step forward. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.109]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Travellers In Space And Time
    The songs don't exactly span the musical solar system, maintaining the same general tempo and flow throughout the fifty-minute ride, but despite its rather static, predictable quality, Travellers managers to take listeners on a journey out of this world, but just barely.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Darker Days
    Though it slips occasionally into a humdrum loop, Darker Days is a solid indie rock album that’s sure to please PB&J’s fans as much as your run-of-the-mill radio listener.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Courage Of Others
    This unrelenting but beautiful melancholy forms the glut of Courage. Beauty is key here, especially with a song like “Bring Down,” where an otherwise depressing dirge is given liftoff by Smith’s sweet harmony and a twittering flute.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Beauty/American Psycho
    AB/AP is more intriguing when the band follows their wackiest instincts.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zeros
    Vasquez certainly isn't tiring of this, as he's fine-tuned his sound even further so it reflects its influences, yet still allows him to chase his personal muses.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Euphoric
    The album is also a testament to Rostam and Georgia’s connection: Their musical chemistry is so rich that, on Georgia’s first collaborative album, she sounds more like herself than ever before. As she stitches her own euphoria together, one thread stands out the strongest: other people.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    My Old, Familiar Friend
    Slower songs like “Gonowhere” and “You Make a Fool Out of Me” can be a drag, but what My Old, Familiar Friend lacks in consistency it more than compensates for with adventurous diversity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Oceania
    Although the band has put an emphasis on slowly releasing single songs, the album feels like its own focused piece, and not just 13 different studio tracks, and Oceania very much sees Corgan and company settling into album, not single, territory.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In Heaven
    In Heaven somehow manages to rise above its easy reference points, finding subtle ways to impress in spite of its occasionally obvious methods.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
    Dr. John shows us the scope of Satchmo’s influence, how the early American music that he pioneered has blossomed into a multi-faceted music that still has his soul at its center.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    X&Y
    This is not easy listening; on the contrary, it requires a real commitment from the listener. But it’s a commitment that’ll be amply rewarded.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Heaven
    The Ohio crew's fourth full-length houses two really stand-out tracks among a nonoffensive wash of mediocrity.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Noctourniquet
    Noctourniquet is not the band's best effort, but it is pleasing and interesting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Vows
    It's difficult to remember what happened, though you're fairly sure you enjoyed a great deal of it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Born Under Saturn
    Born Under Saturn proves Django Django still has all their ducks in a row three years after their debut self-titled record. They’re still making music as well-suited to dance clubs as to solitary psychedelic journeying.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
    Thanks to Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, we’ve got a second dose of that Eraser sound. And yes, it’s pretty fantastic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    The Majestic Silver Strings
    And yet, given the promise of their combined talents, Strings turns out to be seriously frayed, as these guitarists sound like they're going to another job instead of hanging around to jam.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs
    The tone and pace of Wolfe's voice don't really vary that much, and there isn't enough happening with the instrumentation to give the album any real sense of dynamism.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Too True
    For now, the best way to sum it up would be “one small step for music, one giant leap for Dum Dum Girls.”
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