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For 508 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 The Center Won't Hold
Lowest review score: 10 Just Like You
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 434 out of 508
  2. Mixed: 63 out of 508
  3. Negative: 11 out of 508
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Other Side
    Sad to say, this follow-up lacks a lot, music-wise and heart-wise, and apart from one or two decent interjections, leaves a lot to be desired.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Save Rock and Roll
    I can only assume the title Save Rock and Roll is intentionally ironic on their part because even they should know it's quite a stretch to call this rock and roll.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Future Hearts
    Fourteen tracks is way too long for ATL's brand of music and while you get a few pop anthems, most of the music comes off forced and really lacking effort.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Just Like You
    Seems like a deliberate maintenance to cash in on the Warped Tour crowd because there's no substance, nor any style, to this record, as has been the case for FIR for years now.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Coming Home
    Coming Home scrubs away the band's aggression and tries to get more emotional, but all it does is end up sounding like that perv you'd never leave a drunk friend around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything Now
    Everything Now feels like everything's dead as it lacks any sort of freshness or intrigue.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore
    They try to be all vulnerable but come off overly cheesy with no real big hooks.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Voids
    Most of the album is way over-polished and creatively stifled. MTB try to maintain a sense of how well they did prog-punk but this is a line they can't even straddle anymore. The beauty that was once there is gone. Voids is aptly titled.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
    This record is pointless. And bad. And annoying. It’s yet another failed attempt to either re-write history or cash in.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hymns
    It's such a musically bare record. "Into The Earth" is the only song that feels like a rock song and it's also very soft and drab. So many songs riff off the same synth beats that HYMNS end up being a contemplative session that puts you to sleep as opposed to prodding at your mind.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 6
    Most of the jams offered come off like this: wasteful and undesirable with heavy riffs, no melody and heavy double-kicking that all combine into an incoherent mess.