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For 4,066 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 4066
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4066
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4066
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Baby 81
    It's the sound of a band trying to play it both ways, and succeeding at neither. [May 2007, p.61]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    English Little League
    English Little League, like most of Pollard’s crop from the past decade, holds a few really great tracks, but is mostly missable.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Cosmic Game
    Like much of Thievery Corporation's work, it's enveloping if not terribly galvanizing. [#16, p.138]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Further
    A few gems, sure, but Further doesn't fly far enough.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Permanent Signal
    It wants to be The Antlers as a singer/songwriter, but even The Antlers walk dangerously close to the edge of good taste. Remiddi’s voice is no help, either, often times too delicate and dainty to extract much emotion from, and only convincing when it flaunts imperfections.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Story Of My Life
    Evokes Juliana Hatfield more than Shania Twain. [Apr/May 2005, p.127]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Death of a Decade
    It's a fine album that often lapses into anonymity, that never quite rocks as hard and as consistently as it should.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shine
    It's actually a good radio-rock disc, just not the crossover hit Anastasio's been after. [Dec 2005, p.115]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Duper Sessions
    The approach proves enjoyable, sometimes even beguiling... But... more adventurous songs... reveal Lerche's shortcomings with red-faced results. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Uneasy Laughter
    Uneasy Laughter is fine. It’d be much better if it was either divorced from ruminations on honesty, or if the band actually managed to define themselves without leaning on ’80s nostalgia.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Takes
    Give Adem his props for chancing a foray into the cover album field, a move which always carries its risks. But Takes simply doesn’t warrant much attention, no matter how much its material means to its creator.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free To Stay
    Display[s] a combination of openness and hookiness reminiscent of indie-minded chanteuses from Juliana Hatfield to Nelly Furtado. [Sep 2006, p.76]
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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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    O
    Now mature pop songwriters, the Omaha quintet sounds more like a conventional band on O, favoring rousing sing-along choruses, richly layered pianos and trumpets, and even standard drum kits.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Indigo
    Tatum and his collaborators nailed the sounds, but they don’t come close to finding tunes that resonate.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Computers & Blues
    Overall, Skinner sounds bored and tired of himself-in short, ready to move on.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Our Bedroom After The War
    In Our Bedroom After the War isn’t Stars’ best effort, but it ultimately satisfies: in wartime, one takes solace wherever one can.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    Himalayan
    The bottom line is, these guys have always just wanted to rock, and Himalayan is the first album that doesn’t let them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    I Remember
    AlunaGeorge have always been smooth, but here they sound soft, the glitches debugged, their quirks edited out.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Mockingbird Time
    Mockingbird Time suffers most in the songwriting, which too often relies on soft hooks and indistinct details that never quite add up to conflicts or characters.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Pinkprint
    The Pinkprint has moments. Some are great, but most are not.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dad Country
    The man formerly known as Jonny Corndawg paints a richly redneck milieu--a greasy truck stop, a married woman’s disheveled bed, a backyard littered with post-debauchery debris--but something about the way he wallows in that white-trash decadence is offputting, even a little ugly.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tired Of Hanging Around
    The band presently possesses more 'tude than tunes. [Nov 2006, p.81]
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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.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    Armistice
    The result is an awkward balancing act between a premature lust for accessibility and an obvious knack for the avant-garde, shirking traces of the latter in an ill-fated attempt at evolution.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All Jacked Up
    Half the album [is] mired in embarrassing heartland cliches. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    The album is undeniably solid, so why does it feel faintly underwhelming? Context is key.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    The Boy Who Knew Too Much
    By the time the pop-induced sugar rush wears off you realize that, besides being done before, these songs have definitely been done better. Worse yet, all you've got to show for it is a headache.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dimmer.
    Egon Schiele aficionados and jaded cabaret junkies: this is your music. [Apr/May 2005, p.146]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 43 Critic Score
    Mechanical Bull
    Unfortunately, they miss and it lands in the five-day-old dregs of a keg in an Anytown, USA backyard.
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