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For 4,079 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: 3,643 out of 4079
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4079
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4079
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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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    As Above So Below [EP]
    As Above So Below is so soft, so painfully passive that at times that it's hard not to wander away.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 41 Critic Score
    I Told You I Was Freaky
    As much of Freaky wallows in the jokes, the record runs out of ideas astonishingly early.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bedlam In Goliath
    But even the highest highs soon crash and dissipate, wallowing once more in a proggy bog.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Octahedron
    Octahedron is the sound of a band treading water.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Siberia
    There's something disconcerting about Siberia's familiarity. [Dec 2005, p.111]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
    For an album that focuses on the theme of love, it’s really hard to find anything to swoon over on I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Preliminaires
    Préliminaires applies an interesting--if not wholly successful--Aznavour twist to Iggy’s latter-day repertoire.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Power of Peace
    he vocals are gorgeous and Carlos plays with restraint and taste throughout. Unfortunately, such moments of inspiration are rare, as most of the songs reflect a project that struggles to find a place to stand.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    White People
    The songs are sprightly but not riveting, the beats competent but not galvanizing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inside/Absent
    The songwriting meanders sometimes, but some engaging moments... surface throughout. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.135]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Fools, No Fun
    It could have been--and should have been--a much better listen with the talent these three ladies possess. Unfortunately, it never quite jells.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tyranny
    Tyranny plays out like an album-length version of that epic song, stumbling upon moments of success in the way that a drunk dart player hits a bullseye every once in a while.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Search
    On The Search... Farrar discovers some genuinely exciting new haunts, and frontloads them conveniently. [Mar 2007, p.62]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    Chaosmosis
    Chaosmosis, though full of small pleasures, will undoubtedly go down as a minor work in the Scream discography. Primal Scream’s best records dissolved genres together like potions; Chaosmosis seems happy just to ride out the groove.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 44 Critic Score
    Little Wild One
    The album comes off as polished, tasteful and static, like a still-life, beset with predictable melodies and proficient but less than electrifying vocal performances.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twelve
    More Pete Seeger than Cat Power, her interpretations sometimes feel too internalized to startle. [May 2007, p.61]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mylo Xyloto
    It's a moment of stirring calm amid a sea of blaring showiness, and this well-intended mixed bag, despite its lovely surfaces, could have used more of that variety.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Freedom's Road
    In [some] songs, Mellencamp comes across as Toby Keith's benevolent doppelganger: a good ol' boy who'd rather forgive someone's sorry ass than put a boot in it. [Mar 2007, p.68]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    An End Has A Start
    These 10 songs repeatedly strike the same dynamic and evoke the same vague drama, each sounding more perfunctory--and more soulless--than the previous.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lynn Teeter Flower
    What she has done so compellingly throughout her career--evanescent moments of self-doubt given voice through melancholic bursts of catharsis--yields here to '70s singer/songwriter cliches once peddled by Carole King and later adopted by the Lilith Fair crowd. [May 2007, p.68]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mission Bell
    "Violin," the lone track which seems to bare a hint of Calexico influence, is unsurprisingly the album's clear highlight: a swelling, sweeping slow-burner with wide-screen atmosphere, angelic harmonies and pedal steel aching over modest acoustic strums. More of this ilk and Mission Bell would have been a stunner.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wildlife
    The well-established indie-pop tricks get results, but are too unerringly calculated to have much distinct personality. Some big, billowy production would have helped.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cosmic Egg
    Much of Cosmic Egg is just that--not-quite-hatched, and in need of sharper claws.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rise To Your Knees
    The years, however, have worn on the Meat Puppets. Their unrestrained gusto has been replaced with a slower, methodical purging.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Green Imagination
    It's surely a treat for fans of Olivia Tremor Control. But while interesting in its own way, the album is an inessential psychedelic-pop diversion for most everyone else.
    • 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let There Be Morning
    The Perishers fail to elevate their brand of minimalism beyond the politely unobtrusive and fatally unmemorable. [Apr/May 2005, p.149]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Without Feathers
    While stocked with skillful guitars, tuneful vocals and the occasional hook, Without Feathers feels oddly unassuming, a plain-vanilla modern-rock record. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.122]
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