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For 4,070 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: 3,634 out of 4070
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4070
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4070
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Spin
    Spin is enjoyable, but inessential.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Down To Earth
    It’s every bit as uneven as that bracing debut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Among the Leaves
    All the sullen lyricism dulls any chance of frisky spark. This does not make it a bad album, but it was a bit of a disappointment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    TLC
    TLC doesn’t take any creative risks and, in doing so, ends up lukewarm and average.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Molina And Johnson
    Very few tracks manage to claw their way out of the monochromatic haze of too similar textures, tempos, and sentiments, leading one to believe that Johnson and Molina are too perfectly paired to push each other in any new directions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Seasons of Your Day
    Mazzy Star’s M.O. is a barely present, ghostly ambiance, better sometimes in the background, but after nearly 20 years, a return demands more than essentially being the musical equivalent of late-night Sportscenter, something best enjoyed while drifting in and out of sleep.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    No Pier Pressure
    Between hints of the past’s greatness and some head-scratching choices otherwise, Wilson’s No Pier Pressure lives in a pleasant, inoffensive middle--and that’s a quality seen nowhere across his most daring, adored works.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Living Theatre
    There are beautiful moments on Living Theatre, but this time, the consistency is missing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Remember [Live]
    In the end, it's too erratic even by The Fiery Furnaces' standards to be a studio album, and utterly lacking the charm and character of the band's exhausting live show.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A.
    A bit of a yawn considering most of the bands employed make no efforts to cloak their blue collar core. They sound too much along the campfire-and-malt-liquor rock rolodex Springsteen nailed to breathe new life into the tracks.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    American Central Dust
    While American Central Dust falls short of "Trace's" heights, the album showcases Farrar's excellent songwriting, which is comfortingly familiar. It’s also a little monotonous.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Come of Age
    It offers a brief, indulgent and semi-trite mental vacation, which isn't so uncommon for second efforts and nice in its own way.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Icky Blossoms
    It seems with this first release, they're just starting to unfurl their musical feelers and see what it is that they do.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Blurred Lines
    Thicke does his best with these tracks, hitting all the right sultry vocal notes, but really the beats and production aren’t doing him any favors.
    • 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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Something Like a War
    That’s the fundamental issue of Something Like A War: Kindness, in their efforts to cultivate and redistribute softness as a universal tenet, forgot the key rule of living honestly—your vulnerabilities must be specific enough to connect with.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Here Lies Love
    With multiple narrators voiced by a plethora of singers, it's hard to follow which character is speaking at any given time. Extensive liner notes clear up the confusion, but it feels like a lot of work for an album that's not particularly revelatory in either music or story.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    The Great Gatsby [Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film]
    The resulting collection is something more middling, neither offensive nor revolutionary, with memorable moments and forgettable ones.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Screen Violence
    It simply does what CHVRCHES have always done, but it falls short of reaching the exciting thrills of their earlier work. Rather than distilling their sound into its most captivating components, Screen Violence retreads already well-trodden territory.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer eschews this cluttered approach, instead skittering through extended suites of build/release/build riff-rock that often leave Krug’s melody lines with no flint to start a fire.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    The Golden Casket
    Most of the songs on The Golden Casket don’t sound like they’re of a piece, and while the album has its moments, an overall lack of cohesion means they quickly fade.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Midnight Soul Serenade
    Heavy Trash deftly restores and reinvigorates the primitive era of rock and blues on its third LP, offering tinny, gritty and gnarled throwback production that pays tribute to the golden days of greasers.
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