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For 4,860 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 38% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 64
Highest review score:
The Complete Beat
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Gemstones
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,054 out of 4860
  2. Mixed: 2,737 out of 4860
  3. Negative: 69 out of 4860
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    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    The Libertines
    This record... is brimming with character, easily surpassing their debut, its energy level like a battery charge. [Sep 2004, p.108]
    • Metascore: 97
    • Critic Score 90
    Van Lear Rose
    Nothing short of remarkable. [Jun 2004, p.102]
    • Metascore: 90
    • Critic Score 90
    Funeral
    It's so out of step with most indie rock it's as if it's been beamed from outer space. [Apr 2005, p.126]
    • Metascore: 93
    • Critic Score 90
    Madvillainy
    One utterly badass album. [Jul 2004, p.116]
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    Antics
    Antics is ridiculously good. [Oct 2004, p.112]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Beautifully Human: Words And Sounds Vol. 2
    Her voice is versatile, the beats delicioiusly languid, but it's the songwriting that shines. [Oct 2004, p.129]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 90
    World's Apart
    Their most coherent statement yet. [Feb 2005, p.100]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Gimme Fiction
    It's a bewitching formula. [Jun 2005, p.120]
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    Mezmerize
    Rarely are albums this thrillingly original. [Jul 2005, p.120]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 90
    Demon Days
    [Danger Mouse's] stunning flourishes... help place Demon Days notches above any vaguely electronic release in recent memory. [Jun 2005, p.104]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Be
    Common's best album so far, one that proves hip hop can be both smart and mainstream. [Jul 2005, p.114]
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 90
    Get Behind Me Satan
    Very possibly, an even better album than Elephant. [Jul 2005, p.108]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Minimum-Maximum [Live]
    Cut, copy and paste this definitive record into your world. [Jul 2005, p.115]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Black Sheep Boy
    Brave and ambitious. [Jul 2005, p.122]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 90
    Supernature
    Supernature sounds brilliantly here and now. Less coldly perverse than Black Cherry, it's also a lot of fun. [Sep 2005, p.110]
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 90
    Life In Slow Motion
    Musically and lyrically, Life In Slow Motion is his strongest collection of songs to date. [Sep 2005, p.108]
    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 90
    Takk...
    Takk... [is] a thing of... supple, muscular beauty, throwing off the stultifying air of reverence that has sometimes surrounded them. [Oct 2005, p.116]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    You Could Have... doesn't take you on the journey of highs and lows that the very greatest albums do. Its Greatest Hits feel is both its major strength and its major weakness. [Oct 2005, p.108]
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 90
    Playing The Angel
    Sounds so sure and committed that it could be the work of a new band. [Nov 2005, p.127]
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 90
    Aerial
    You could lose yourself for days here. [Dec 2005, p.142]
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 90
    12 Songs
    It may well be his strongest ever collection. [Feb 2006, p.98]
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 90
    29
    This is Adams at his most concise and focused. [Jan 2006, p.122]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 90
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    So no, it's not perfect. But Whatever People Say... has that edge, that thrill that comes only when a band have hit the zeitgeist hard and timed the punch to perfection. [Mar 2006, p.102]
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 90
    Fishscale
    He remains rap's finest storyteller. [Jun 2006, p.115]
    • Metascore: 72
    • Critic Score 90
    Idlewild
    Idlewild is a dazzling album. [Oct 2006, p.124]
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Love
    Flabbergasting... a genuine revolution in the head. [Dec 2006, p.133]
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 90
    Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
    An extraordinary record. [Mar 2007, p.115]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 90
    Sound Of Silver
    Not only do the rhythms here sound tighter and more intensely focused, Murphy's presence as a songwriter and frontman is a revelation. [Apr 2007, p.110]
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 80
    ()
    A masterpiece of bombed orchestral elegance, at once expansive and intense. [Dec 2002, p.112]
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 80
    Nextdoorland
    This is witty English guitar rock of the highest calibre. [Nov 2002, p.114]
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