Rock Sound's Scores

  • Music
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. Negative: 2 out of 497
497 music reviews
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times, the quintet deliver the solid grooves and renowned, catchy singalong choruses that have engaged their adoring fan base, but for too much of the time Ungrateful sounds a bit flat and tired.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While achingly sincere rock bands aren’t hard to come by these days, Fatherson have more than enough melodic nous to get listeners invested.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To hear a band with such obvious and deep passion playing unencumbered and liberated rock music is an utterly captivating experience that Rock Sound would thoroughly recommend. Holding nothing back sounds exactly like this, everyone else please take note.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So is it any good? Does it matter? Limp Bizkit are bigger than ever before so getcha groove on, stop taking things seriously.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nothing groundbreaking, but sure to keep fans of the band happy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It is with frightful ease that one can declare 'Days Go By' as a parody of the efforts which came before.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Commercially-driven producers or not, though, the band have a knack for keeping their sound current and contemporary –- while still being reminiscent of their early material.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you're checking out their fifth album to discover groundbreaking, controversial new music, you are a strange individual indeed.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Overall, it’s a decent summer barbecue soundtrack, but hardly vintage Sublime.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They're no longer a phenomenon; instead, Sum 41 have continued to mature into a rather good band.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sure, the relative absence of co-frontman Mike Shinoda saps some of the band’s unique character and they get bogged down in sluggish, downcast dirges in the final stretch, but there’s also a sense of liberation running through these 10 tracks; the mark of artists unshackled from their past, stepping into the unknown.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While not quite as cack as recent efforts by Bad Brains or DYS, it still defies belief that this should ever see the light of day.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TTNY show flashes of quality that are as good as pop-punk gets.