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For 5,918 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: 3,633 out of 5918
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5918
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5918
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    To The Stars... Demos, Odds And Ends
    "Golden Showers in the Golden State" is almost as filthy and funny as early Blink at their best. But if this "Suburban King" wants to rise again, he may need some help from his friends.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Latest Record Project, Vol. 1
    On the vast majority of Latest Record Project, he’s resorted to presenting off-the-cuff emotional reactions (and similarly tossed-off arrangements) as though they’re finished products. The result is a sometimes amusing, sometimes frustrating, sparsely thrilling, and largely unlistenable collection of rants and riffs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Metamorphosis
    The problem is that Papa Roach don't rise far enough above the radio-rocking competition--it's hard to remember the band's identity at this point.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
    His chops are pro and his delivery almost compulsively spot on, but he's far too thin on what singer-songwriters probably need most: their own point of view.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Cloud Making Machine
    While Garnier's trickling melodies and spare snares hint at mystery, mostly they leave you longing for a beat.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
    A handful of songs... work up some palatable L.A. pop, but those moments are surrounded by singer-songwriter cliches and painfully precious asides. [4 May 2006, p.59]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mandy Moore
    Sweet as she may be, there's nothing in Mandy Moore's bubblegum world that makes her stand out from the wallpaper of Disneyland background music.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unbreakable
    Unbreakable makes small nods to adult pop, peppering the processed music with tasteful piano and light guitar riffs and keeping bright, danceable grooves to a minimum. But the material stinks worse than ever.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Greetings from California
    The pristine production undermines any realness, like an amber-tinted Instagram filter.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sam's Town
    On Sam's Town they seem like they're trying to make a big statement, except they have nothing to say.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ritual
    What evades White Lies is the candid charm of his Brit-gloom forebears. The sleek synth tunes are more anthemic this time out, but the lyrics are no less overwrought.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So-Called Chaos
    How can Morrissette expect her introspection to be taken seriously when her songs sound like vintage Bryan Adams? [10 Jun 2004, p.91]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fastlife
    As a vocalist and a presence, Jonas is a flop.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Grind Date
    There's little personality and no surprises here.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Chronicles Of Life And Death
    They falter by attempting to stray from the formula they've mastered. [28 Oct 2004, p.100]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Full Circle
    Rhyme schemes are frequently sophomoric, the production is already slightly dated, and the monotony of down-tempo songs is barely broken by cliched floor-stompers about Escalades and playa haters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beware
    The unspecific lyrics are flatly whined in the manner of a depressed old codger falling asleep. Tempos stay sluggish and melodies meander, often parodying bygone rural music — funeral hymn here, waltz there.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Awake Is The New Sleep
    Awake has the occasional spiffy tune... but it's padded with pop-rock toss-offs and an unlistenable, ten-minute instrumental noise jam.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rebirth
    How did such a glam movie star turn into such a rinky-dink pop singer?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Wanted [EP]
    The Wanted take cues from Coldplay ("Clocks"-style piano shows up on "Gold Forever") and Kings of Leon ("Use Somebody" moans swirl around "Lose My Mind") to no avail, and their dance pop droops where it should bounce.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Spirit Indestructible
    Main producer Rodney Jerkins keeps the beats tight and hooks polished, but Furtado's flaming identity crisis makes this cringe listening.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    GO:OD AM
    GO:OD A.M. is a 70-minute studio album that would have been better served as two mixtape diary entries until the sober Miller discovered a smarter way to channel his newfound enthusiasm.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    BareNaked
    The funniest thing since Ravyn-Symone's Here's to New Dreams.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let's Bottle Bohemia
    Its fakeness comes to the fore. [28 Oct 2004, p.99]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kasabian
    There isn't much substance to the band's secondhand dance rock.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
    The meandering LP can't bear the weight of the man at the piano's indulgences.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tropical Storm
    Only the thickly gnarled riddims of the Sly-and-Robbie-produced "You Babe" really sets your ass to swaying -- and in the process, that song underscores just what a weak Storm this really is.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's About Time
    The party gets weird around "God and Guns," a hard-rock NRA hand job that's meatheaded and inflammatory. Elsewhere, attempts at pop coalition-building become wishful thinking.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tical 0: The Prequel
    The killer swarm of 1994's Tical and Tical 2000's astro-black ambition aren't anywhere to be seen. [27 May 2004, p.80]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grrr...
    Songwriters Justin Rice and Christian Rudder are fluent melodists, but the hooks can't redeem a peppy preciousness that veers into indie self-parody--the sound of post-collegiates far too convinced that they're clever and quirky.
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