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For 4,065 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: 3,630 out of 4065
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4065
  3. Negative: 35 out of 4065
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Security Screenings
    Uneven. [Apr/May 2006, p.117]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Lie
    It might as well be Harcourt’s thesis: marrying the histrionic truths of the deeply aggrieved with the formal mastery of great pop. More often, Harcourt’s failed attempts at mimicking Jeff Buckley throw whatever genre he tries off balance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Old Road
    Recall's Johnny Cash's recordings with Rick Rubin. [Apr/May 2006, p.111]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cold Roses
    Cold Roses comes as a bit of relief, bereft of the posturing that so often attends Adams’ work.... That said, there’s also a sense of retreat that permeates the record, a willingness to offer the comforts of familiar tones instead of ambitiously taking chances.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Phantom Punch
    His grittiest, least-ethereal long-player to date. [Feb 2007, p.58]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    So by all means pick up With the Lights Out, but go ahead and trash the curiously un-Nirvana-like packaging, discard the heat-sensitive (!) box, pitch the liner notes, maybe even throw away the DVD.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Be
    In a year that has also brought the envelope-pushing production work of Edan’s album Beauty and the Beast, the rehashed soul sometimes comes off limp, too content with itself and its well-worn form to challenge the genre’s status quo.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Volume Two
    The smiling-through-tears undercurrent of ’60s pop is lost in Deschanel’s taffy-like vocals, and though the album evokes memories of a more pleasant time, they seem far too sweet to be real.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Golden Delicious
    For fans who’ve followed the singer/songwriter since the demise of Soul Coughing, there’s a lot to recommend on Golden Delicious.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hoyas [EP]
    Hoyas sounds slick, monochromatic and even a bit stale.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs of Patience
    Their reach so far exceeds their grasp that all we can hear is the rift between their ambitions and their abilities.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
    This album rocks harder than 2003's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, and it's more sinister, too. [Mar 2007, p.67]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    El Rey
    El is the kind of album you listen to once--and appreciate--but never really groove through with any regularity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wilderness
    Prewitt's songs take their time unfolding, giving the album a meditative quality that's pretty admirable. [#14, p.105]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New Moon
    For diehard Elliott Smith fans, New Moon is an absolute must... For remaining listeners, it's merely instructive, sublime in parts but not solid enough or surprising enough or interesting enough, musically, to merit multiple listens. [May 2007, p.58]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Colin Meloy Sings Live!
    Now the kid’s a toddler and his pop is widely known as Stephen Colbert’s hyper-literate, prog-rocking green-screen nemesis, but Sings Live! calls to mind a simpler time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Age Of The Understatement
    This record is not for everybody--including, I suspect, the majority of Arctic Monkeys fans. Nonetheless, Turner deserves props for unleashing his inner Bowie and embracing artifice with such nerve and verve.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mess
    Its coda features a lone, breathy synth that unfurls like a tattered flag planted high atop a snow-covered peak, and, like the band’s best work, the song is comparable to little else in the pop/indie landscape—a far cry from the tepid feel that permeates too much of this Mess.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Watershed
    The lack of sticky material that has beset each of her albums since 1992’s "Ingénue" continues with the self-written, self-produced Watershed, preventing it from rising above the level of tasteful mood music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Demolished Thoughts
    Whereas that album [Several Shades of Why] revealed the Dinosaur Jr frontman's surprising musical and lyrical range, Demolished Thoughts only reveals Moore's particular limitations.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pixel Revolt
    An uneven album that encapsulates much of what's gone flat in the scene he helped ferment, along with the few flourishes that make him a vital creative force.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Atom Bomb
    The Blind Boys of Alabama are probably the world’s hippest septuagenarians.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    Neither the best nor the worst album this band has recorded.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wildflower
    A collection of introspective songs that's heavy on the flower and hardly wild. [Dec 2005, p.107]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let Them Drink
    It's not that terribly accomplished, it's not terribly coherent, it's not very linear, mature, or even sober-sounding. But that's rock 'n' roll, innit? [#16, p.145]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    Sounds more ambitious than Coxon's effortless riffs let on. [Apr/May 2005, p.131]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Supermodel
    The crux is the album’s smothering, reverb-heavy, more-is-more production style, which smooths over some of the off-kilter quirks that made Torches’ sprawl so alluring.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mr. A-Z
    What makes this glossy album more charming than cloying overall is the totally unselfconscious way he throws himself into these showy and technically stunning performances. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.111]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    IV Play
    Even Dream’s production, which was voluptuously orchestrated, has turned static; there’s an ashen militarism to be heard in these slow, sad songs.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Under The Iron Sea
    Keane knows its niche and plays it well. [Aug 2006, p.97]
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