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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% 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 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 63 Metascore
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    Black Acetate
    Much of the album feels unfocused, as if Cale has become seduced by the smooth trickery of digital production at the expense of cogent songs built on icy melodies, slippery poetics and true invention -- three of Cale's enduring strengths sadly missing through much of the album's fifty-three minutes.
    • 65 Metascore
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    The Tourniquet
    Unexceptional and devoid of charm, The Tourniquet is, on the whole, disposable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    [His] vocals don't have the same strength or range they did just two years ago on You Are the Quarry.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Heavy Blanket
    This is almost selfishly indulgent, and unless you haven't heard the previously released "Dr. Marten's Blues," you have very little to learn from the rest of the album.
    • 67 Metascore
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    Radio Wars
    Howling Bells fall into the same trap that kills most sorta-weird rock bands when they try to write a more popular sophomore album: Everything sounds bigger, but everything is easily more forgettable.
    • 67 Metascore
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    The Trinity
    Less than half of the eighteen tracks are worthwhile additions to Sean Paul's catalogue.
    • 66 Metascore
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    Such Fun
    Such Fun is the type of record Annuals were always going to make: a slick opus, epic both in sound and messiness, that just never comes together.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Few Steps More
    Though it’s soothing at times, A Few Steps More doesn’t really boast any kind of bumps, and it’s difficult to discern one track from the next.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    No Mercy
    No Mercy is a valley, not a peak, in a career that has seen plenty of both.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    III/IV
    Until he learns to translate the raw, confessional edge of his music to his work in the genre, the results will always be as unsatisfying as III/IV.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Strange Geometry
    An album that lacks the band’s trademark ebb and flow, Strange Geometry is just plain inferior to the Clientele’s previous work.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bright Lights Of America
    Even if Anti-Flag’s hearts are in the right place, Bright Lights of America is too vague to be impactful.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Invisible Deck
    The fun is gone. On The Invisible Deck, the Rogers Sisters sound like just another band.
    • 62 Metascore
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    The Less You Know, The Better
    Things jump back and forth from there, and never seem to build to very much. Shadow may want to cross back.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Certain Trigger
    But even at its toe-tapping best, this quintet from Newcastle can’t convey a sense of passion.
    • 67 Metascore
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    Asleep At Heaven's Gate
    Most of Asleep at Heaven’s Gate is forgettable, uninspired, middle-of-the-road indie pop.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    Unfriendly and alienating.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cults
    Cults is mostly just an album of girl-group signifier piled on top of girl group-signifier.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Abandoned Language
    Ultimately Dalek's fragmented drone makes [rapper] dalek's tired wordplay obsolete, thereby redeeming Abandoned Languages.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Are The Pipettes
    The record comes off as hokey.
    • 65 Metascore
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    The Alchemy Index Vols. I and II: Fire and Water
    Fire & Water contains too much artifice to swallow.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    La La Land
    On La La Land, however, Plants and Animals abandon most of the qualities that made the band distinct in favor of conforming to more contemporary indie trends.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There's No 666 In Outer Space
    Great musicianship does not a great album make, particularly when the singer is so out of his league.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In The Clear
    Once you get past the initial, pleasing familiarity, though, In the Clear becomes a decidedly middling listening experience.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    With A Cape And A Cane
    Much of With a Cape and a Cane is plagued with over-the-top dance wankery and a bit too much recycled influence.
    • 77 Metascore
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    White Crosses
    While White Crosses has a few stellar songs, it lets down as a complete record. Anarchy will have to wait a little longer.
    • 69 Metascore
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    Hysterical
    Mostly, Hysterical is lost in a hazy cloud that is more Dan Bejar than it is David Byrne.
    • 52 Metascore
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    In My Mind
    In My Mind has several potential hit singles, but taken as a whole it falls dramatically short.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tarnished Gold
    The Tarnished Gold is often nebulous and obtuse, trading in atmospherics more than the countrified terra firma of the band's past.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meds
    If you are able to ignore the lyrics, you'll be rewarded: the choruses on Meds are catchy.
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