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For 5,908 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,626 out of 5908
  2. Mixed: 2,242 out of 5908
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5908
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    • 54 Metascore
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    I-Empire
    The results so far: mixed. I-Empire is full of big, faintly Eighties-sounding chiming choruses and arms-outstretched melodies, and DeLonge deploys the signposts of significance all over.
    • 49 Metascore
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    Take It To The Limit
    Its follow-up still trades in hard-driving anthems ('Use Me') and catchy hair-metal refrains (the title track), but frontman Austin Winkler is a bad representative for emotional frat dudes.
    • 53 Metascore
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    Horrorscope
    It's an almost perfectly consistent follow-up to the band's successful 1998 debut - perhaps a tad too consistent.
    • 57 Metascore
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    Songs From an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
    Songs From an American Movie sounds orchestral and homespun at once: Lustrous, fancy strings on one song give way to a slap-happy ukulele on the next. Yet it's too much of both and not enough of either.
    • 56 Metascore
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    The Golden D
    He's gotten the Chicago basement vibe down exactly right... What's missing are songs -- instead, we get sketches, riffs and doodles.
    • 69 Metascore
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    Man on the Moon, Vol. 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager
    As Drake and Kanye West have demonstrated, there's room in hip-hop for melancholic MCs who upend the self-congratulation that dominates the genre.
    • 54 Metascore
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    White Lilies Island
    Imbruglia's delicate, sweet and well-behaved singing isn't the ideal vehicle for expressing angst, even if most of these minor-chord, gray-skies anthems seem to be yearning to do just that.
    • 57 Metascore
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    Born This Way: The Remix
    The album has some diverting moments.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Soul
    The songs he has chosen--have been reinterpreted so many thousands of times, he'd have to reinvent them to get anyone to pay attention, and the only thing new that Seal brings to the party is a feeling of swank Euro-sophistication that saps the music of much of its emotional oomph.
    • 74 Metascore
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    King's Mouth: Music and Songs
    As a stand-alone piece of music, its pacing tends to remain too static to uphold its heavy premise. The best songs arrive far too late, and early tracks like “How Many Times” and “Giant Baby” can be hard to distinguish from recent Coyne experiments like 2017’s Oczy Mlody.
    • 52 Metascore
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    The Incredible Machine
    Sugarland are ruthless in their desire to leave no radio-ready trick untried, but in the end it's too much machine, not enough heart.
    • 54 Metascore
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    Everyday Demons
    Everyday Demons will satisfy metal fans who are in between favorite albums, but if your tastes don't run along the lines of The Simpsons' Otto the bus driver, you can take a pass.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jesus Is King
    The plaintive, direct singing mode is West’s best delivery vehicle across the album. The rapping is uniformly lackluster when not delivered by one of the brothers Thornton in their return as legendary rap duo Clipse.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Charmer
    There's little new here, and even less charm.
    • 47 Metascore
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    Have Mercy
    They still sound generic – a bar band in search of songs.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ultra Payloaded
    Most of Ultra Payload feels pretty random.
    • 73 Metascore
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    Rainier Fog
    Rainier Fog, though, feels as though it’s stuck between gears. As usual, there are Cantrell’s gargantuan, 10-ton metal riffs and lyrics like “I’ll stay here and feed my pet black hole,” on the especially dreary “Drone,” but they linger too long in that zone.
    • 49 Metascore
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    Paula
    His soft falsetto is sumptuous, but too many tracks veer into uncomfortable parody.
    • 62 Metascore
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    Funeral
    Funeral is wildly uneven, a landscape of pronounced highs and lows.
    • 60 Metascore
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    Golden Lies
    On Golden Lies, weighty midtempo rock hobbles the Pups' trademark blend of cow-punk, blues and hallucinatory instrumental rants.
    • 66 Metascore
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    Always Tomorrow
    Unfortunately, the music doesn’t do the lyrics any favors, a real surprise coming from an artists whose earlier LPs established her as one of indie-pop’s sharpest melodists.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Soul Sessions, Vol. 2
    Her musical instincts are off, and she steamrolls nearly every song with her bombastic blues growl.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    ...And Star Power
    An 82-minute combo plate of half-finished songs, choruses unmoored from verses, bursts of skyscraping beauty and long passages of sonic murk, all vaguely redolent of the Rolling Stones and Jesus Christ Superstar.
    • 70 Metascore
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    Alexander
    If it's vaguely hippie-ish and vaguely Californian, count on Ebert to work it into his solo debut: acid-folk reveries, Beck-ish busker rap, lyrics about Vietnam, sensitive maleness, Dylanisms, yodeling, calling women "mama," reggae, bongos.
    • 70 Metascore
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    Night of Hunters
    It doesn't rock, but it waltzes, spinning a tale involving animated trees, demons and what may be peyote cactus tea.
    • 56 Metascore
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    Sweet Talker
    Jessie's at her best when she's having fun. She just doesn't have enough of it here.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    J. Lo
    Most of the songs on J.Lo, for all their craftsmanship, are easy to trace to last year's hits. And while dance pop doesn't necessarily demand great singers, Lopez is just scraping by.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Atmosphere
    The problem is that he brings the same vague, feathery touch to everything he does.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Night Time, My Time
    Some of the modern EDM heaviness of Icona Pop and Sleigh Bells kicks in latently, but the 21-year-old's iciness ultimately fails to charm.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    .5: The Gray Chapter
    Their fifth album, inspired by the OD death of bassist Paul Gray, is quite the heavy-duty emotional enema.
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