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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    Key to the success of 'Broken Boy Soldiers' is the relatively restrained musicianship.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    This is woeful, otherworldly - and wonderful.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pink
    there's something in this that sounds just so much more intelligent than fannying around making devil horns.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    'Bang Bang Rock & Roll' is as clever as it is funny as it is entertaining. It's the most original independent album in years.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    St. Elsewhere
    It's hard not to feel that the mystique is so damaged by the poor execution of the opening, that the rest of 'St. Elsewhere', however good, struggles to catch up.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Spell
    'The Spell' marks their most successful record to date in creating a coherent aesthetic throughout; a beguiling and compelling atmosphere of black magic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Just Like The Fambly Cat
    An album that rivals the brilliant 'The Sophtware Slump'... as their absolute masterpiece.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    Challenging, ingenious, electronic surrealism for the brain and ears.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surprise
    Daring, inventive and groundbreaking.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gulag Orkestar
    It's not without fault; too many songs and too little variation between the tracks detract from unequivocal enjoyment. Much more of an album to admire, rather than cherish.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pearl Jam
    This is Pearl Jam, it's down to you whether that means anything or not.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Capture / Release
    'Capture / Release' is an album that sounds very much like now, but it should way transcend it too.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
    'The Hardest Way To Make an Easy Living' is a far more skilfully crafted album than the 'A Grand...', despite what you might have heard.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chosen Lords
    No-one makes gizmos and machines prong like fruity tuning forks as well as this man, nor do they construct such vivid atmospherics with such cunning simplicity.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kick
    This is an album that seethes with anger, ambition and malicious intent, and it's all the better for it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Field Music
    Even Paul McCartney himself hasn't made an album this McCartneyish for some twenty-odd years now.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jacket Full Of Danger
    Come and pay homage to the new Lounge Lizard King.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    While Wayne Coyne has been carving out and presenting to the world the manifestations of his crazy mind for an age now, the possibilities have so often been superior to the finished article. That is certainly not the case here.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    What's so remarkable about Morrissey's writing on 'Ringleader...' is a seeming greater comfort with the more upbeat subject matter than with his usual morose metier, and what remains of that is executed with an exceedingly hammy fist.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    His Hands
    Her voice is still like clear honey dripped on freshly baked bread, and almost sounds nourishing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Loon
    'The Loon' retains a genuinely empathetic sincerity that deserves applause, but should be praised to a greater degree for bringing weird, left-of-centre indie back to the fore.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    If 'Fever To Tell' was a scratchy post punk effort, then this is their gothic record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Back Room
    If you were disappointed by 'Antics' then this'll make up for it, and if Interpol's last offering did agree with you then you'll spend the rest of '05 at least giving this a great big hug.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Drum's Not Dead
    This is music that relies entirely on feeling, and while not for everyone it is music at its most impulsively, spontaneously creative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
    He lays bare pissed-off tantrums and his emotion through a burgeoning self-belief and raw musicality to create his endearingly bittersweet masterpiece.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Supernature
    This is so good it makes us want to do one of those superlative deploying pull quote things that journalists often stick at the end of their reviews: this fantastic piece of work is already a strong contender for album of the year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Under A Billion Suns
    A fabulous record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mr. Beast
    Ten years after they first assaulted us, Mogwai remain as vital as ever.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ballad Of The Broken Seas
    '...Broken Seas', though understated and pretty, tingles with furtive sexual chemistry.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
    On 'Fox Confessor Brings The Flood' Neko's voice and sheer poetry of her song-writing make hyped also-rans like Jenny Lewis look like hot-pant wearing desperados, proving to her rivals and beyond that style and substance aren't mutually exclusive.
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