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For 4,072 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: 3,636 out of 4072
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4072
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4072
4072 music reviews
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mark Kozelek
    With no dramatic tension, pathos or even story arc, these songs are little more than piles of slack words from an artist who has confused saying whatever comes to mind with having something to say.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Endless Wire
    The songs are mostly weird, overly familiar, or simply bland. [Dec 2006, p.89]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Bigger Bang
    The ideas quickly wear thin. [Dec 2005, p.107]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfamiliar Faces
    Costa’s jazz-tinged neo-folk songs are boyishly engaging for as long as they last, but they drift away without leaving a trace, as he too often settles for merely maintaining a feathery, bittersweet modality, so that the McCartney-esque tunefulness of the title track, the Mungo Jerry-like lilt of 'Miss Magnolia' and the ever-so-slight edginess of 'Cigarette Eyes' stand out by default.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Traffic And Weather
    The band simply reiterates earlier ideas less interestingly. [Apr 2007, p.54]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Often Lie
    Hopefully next time he'll challenge himself to expand his palette and realize more of his considerable potential. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.138]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This is PiL
    With none of the tension or electricity of the music PiL is best-remembered for, This is PiL is a disappointing return.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All That I Am
    The only satisfying songs here are the two Spanish-language tracks that kick off the album with booty-shaking brilliance. [Dec 2005, p.107]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Phosphene Dream
    Phosphene Dream's real achievement is that it takes the band's earlier murderous attitude and makes it impossibly bland.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Anywhere I Lay My Head
    These songs were already so impeccably performed that Johansson didn’t have very many new places to take them, and although her effort and nerve are commendable, “not as terrible as you thought it would be” just isn’t the same thing as good.
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