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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    Play On
    On Play On her approach results in a scattershot collection that too often mistakes bombast for sincerity ('Unapologize') and sap for sentiment ('Temporary Home').
    • 53 Metascore
    • 53 Critic Score
    Universal Mind Control
    Common’s inability to sound sincere about a man he spent two years championing is the most telling part of this consciously shallow caricature of hip-hop’s dregs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    Neither the best nor the worst album this band has recorded.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    L.A. Divine
    For a 14-track album that feels interminably long at only 44 minutes, three songs is not enough to save L.A. Divine from sustained mediocrity.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Have Mercy
    Unfortunately, “almost as good as Steve Miller” is about as good as things get.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tourist
    Instantly forgettable. [#16, p.139]
    • Paste Magazine
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lulu
    It's not an especially good album, but its failures are noble rather than ignoble-byproducts of ambition rather than hubris.
    • 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]
    • Paste Magazine
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    NOW + 4EVA
    The result is one of the more confidently presented, mostly inoffensive and ultimately inconsequential albums in recent memory.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One
    When so much music is so bleak, a little unlikely optimism might be a crucial palliative measure, rather than Pollyanna-ish head-burying, and it’s sanguinity that Dirty Vegas delivers in spades.
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