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For 497 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 2.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 That's the Spirit
Lowest review score: 20 Bright Black Heaven
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 435 out of 497
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 497
  3. Negative: 2 out of 497
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Daybreak
    The album's extended title track take the catchier parts of their newer material (vocalist Chris Conley's infamous Beatles influences seem to mesh much better with their punk rock sound here), and then deliver it so tightly and concisely that it would be a total waste to rehash their glory days.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Covering Ground
    Chuck Ragan's third full-length solo release, oozes blue-collar charm.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honkey Kong
    A blend of electronic beats, keyboard-heavy dance grooves and hip-shaking pop underpinned by distorted guitar lines, this is funky and enjoyable stuff.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heritage
    Heritage is an infinitely more audacious beast, full of jazzy noodling, serpentine guitar leads, folky introspection and general acid-drenched freakiness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mariachi El Bronx (II)
    As soulful and finely crafted as their debut of sorts, II is a glorious record.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wildlife
    Like every true outlaw before them, The Icarus Line haven't mellowed with age; they've gotten gnarlier.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Takasago Army
    The five-piece's dramatic Orient metal (their words) might not brace consistently but when it does it's unstoppable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Verge
    Pop sensibilities like these make some of the rhymes in the lyrics a bit predictable, but as they also result in choruses like those on 'The Joyride' and 'Circle Of Lies', it's forgivable.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Flood
    On The Flood the transitions are so effortless, so seamless, that what emerges is a near-perfect example of how to marry potentially ill-fitting musical elements in stunningly effective fashion.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ruining It for Everybody
    This preposterously technical mish-mash of progressive metal, full-throated hardcore, operatic female vocals and lounge jazz interludes triumphantly evidences a band taking an absurd amount of joy in kicking against the pricks.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dum Spiro Spero
    It's far from easy listening but it's an approach that's won them legions of devoted fans in the process and comes close to reducing many of their peers to nothing more than musical footnotes in the larger scheme of things.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Drifter
    Production-wise, the vocals could do with sounding more 'live' (they are note perfect)--but the musicianship present is enough to justify the polish.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Latest Fashion
    There is a welcome confidence throughout The Latest Fashion that Attack! Attack! have not previously shown and it's likely to propel this lot to great things.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Big Biz Quadruple Single
    It's still heavy, still weird and Jared Warren still sounds like a water buffalo gargling turpentine, and while there might just be four tracks to be had they're still more kingly than 99 per cent of whatever else is calling itself 'rock' music these days.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jasta
    Some of his vocal lines seemed rushed and out-of-sync with the American metal chug, but he proves his pipes on a fair number of spots.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arrows & Anchors
    The beauty of their sound is its unpredictability: fragments of rock, metal, folk, punk and pop collide and smash, creating Frankenstein monsters that spark into life and chase you down. And they've never sounded more convincing than this.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Black Crown
    Although there are storming successes amongst the album's 11 tracks (such as 'Slaves To Substance' and 'You Only Live Once') The Black Crown falls a fraction shy of the pack-shedding statement it needs to be.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time of My Life
    If you're checking out their fifth album to discover groundbreaking, controversial new music, you are a strange individual indeed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burning at Both Ends
    They're back in irresistibly anthemic form, with just the right blend of punk attitude and pop genius.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ascension
    While tracks such as Broken Home still deliver the crushing might (albeit in a more subliminal fashion) to his other outfit, the recently resurrected Godflesh, there's a sense of hope in the levitation-inducing riffery. Stellar.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Not Now, When?
    Overall, If Not Now, When? is the sound of Incubus coming of age. It's not particularly experimental nor is it completely straightforward but it is concise and a risk that's paid off.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ritual
    Like Wes Craven reanimating the slasher genre with the Scream franchise, The Black Dahlia Murder play with enough conviction and knowing reference to metal's most spectacular parlour tricks and add enough contemporary muscle to drop your jaw no matter your age.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Darkness in the Light
    While forward movement isn't a prerequisite of greatness, Unearth have moved sideways with only partial success.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shed
    It's taken Title Fight a good while to release a full album, but it's been worth the wait.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This Is the Computers
    The Computers' impressive debut is a riotous, riff-laden affair.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leveler
    As ever, their songs are structured, paced and technically advanced in a way that's leagues above much of this genre.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Hell
    It doesn't shun country influences altogether, mind--when matched to the album's mood and Green's plain-speaking lyrics, they function to add a soulful feel to a set of characteristically lovely, melancholic songs.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gold Cobra
    So is it any good? Does it matter? Limp Bizkit are bigger than ever before so getcha groove on, stop taking things seriously.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Get Your Heart On!
    This is still above average dude rock from the Canadian five-piece.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
    An impressive third effort indeed, designed to compel you to throw your fist skyward and indulge in a good old sing-song.
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