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For 5,913 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: 3,629 out of 5913
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5913
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5913
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    X
    X may be their niftiest since Adrenalize.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rockin' The Suburbs
    Sometimes the humor verges on camp (the title track), or the poignance drowns in Barry Manilow-isms ("Still Fighting It"). But mostly, Folds' songcraft is a winning mixture of the plush and the prickly...
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Threads
    The special-guests duets record is a famously fraught exercise, one that’s almost predestined to be bogged down by its own attention-grabbing premise. Threads hardly escapes that predicament, but it’s filled with enough solid songcraft to make one hope that Crow isn’t, in fact, truly done with record making for good.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    House of Spirits
    House of Spirits isn't exactly urgent, but there's pleasure in its slowness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fall Back Open
    Overhead's moaning gets tiresome, but their guitar-driven numbers evince both impressive shoegazing atmospherics and a prclivity for nicely fey songwriting. [27 May 2004, p.82]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything Was Beautiful
    Most of Spiritualized's ninth LP comes off intricate, elastic, and soulful. [Mar 2022, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Mar 10, 2022
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
    Seductive though Linkous' cushy, narcotic patter can be, his slower songs... feel like they're floating in an ocean of sleepiness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Do It Again
    Even without the ecstatic melodrama of Robyn's best work or the momentum of Röyksopp albums like 2009's Junior, this is a worthwhile peek into three great electro-pop minds.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Horses and High Heels
    With help from Dr. John and guitarist John Porter, Faithfull, like New Orleans itself, proves hard times make for very good music.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Back Home
    Alas, if you're looking for Slowhand to ignite the pyrotechnics, forget it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live at the Aragon
    Things loosen up on older material (a thrashing "Aqua Dementia"), and the band do a punishing cover of the Melvins' 1996 psych-sludge gem "The Bit." Replacing the original's sitar with Hinds' 12-string guitar roar, Mastodon again prove themselves broad-minded headbangers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Uniform Distortion
    Cackling, croaking, and cracking up through vocal processors, he sounds like he’s having a blast. And you will too, even if you don’t remember any of it by morning--which also seems perfectly in the spirit of thin
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Us
    Us struggles to consistently reach the vertiginous heights of “When I’m With Him” or Me, but at the album’s best, Rodriguez’s revealing narratives of fractured relationships and lonely adolescence strike somewhere deep, to the point that, if you listen close enough, her warm, whispery voice almost begins to sound like your own.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Almost Healed
    Ideally, Durk would have cut five or so songs and tightened Almost Healed into a clearer portrait of his struggle to leave his pistol-scarred past behind. Instead, he offers his fans a buffet of listening options, some better than others.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hypercaffium Spazzinate
    The most surprising thing about the record is just how blatantly a group that once skewered conformity in songs like "Suburban Home" brashly embraces nostalgia.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    St. Catherine
    Mondanile's side project, Ducktails, has typically offered him space to explore more abstract guitar moods, but his latest album refines that sprawl with more concise songwriting.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Male
    This Australian pop thrush broke hearts around the world back in the Nineties with her classic karaoke weeper "Torn," and Male has that same lying-naked-on-the-floor vibe.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Makes You Country
    There are a few whiffs, like the foul "She's a Hot One" ("She might be a mess, but she's a hot one"), but Bryan truly excels when he's all nostalgic for the uncomplicated ease of a summer fling in "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset" or subtly acknowledging the beauty of all types of love in the gently uplifting "Most People Are Good."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Doll Posse
    In typical Tori fashion, there's way too much conceptual malarkey surrounding the songs, but if you can ignore her fake posse, you'll find this is Amos' best album in many years.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Classics
    The surprisingly loungy results are unusually daring for these two.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ear Drum
    Though it's admirably consistent and pretty darn OK, it lacks a knockout track to counterbalance the complaints about the King James Bible and swine toothpaste.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    100 Days, 100 Nights
    Though the fatalistic title number sticks, there's a reason Ellis shares his most memorable copyrights with James Brown.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Panties
    Kells' voice remains one of the most flexible and inventive instruments in pop, but, even for him, Panties veers too frustratingly between horny and corny.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Unruly Mess I've Made
    "Make better music," he wills himself on "Bolo Tie." And sometimes he does, especially when the beats turn soulful and artists like Leon Bridges and Chance the Rapper swing by for assists. With the exception of the exuberant "Downtown," coming up with "Thrift Shop"-style catchiness is rarely the goal here.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chelsea Light Moving
    He can say far more with molten noise jags and spiraling, convulsive solos than he can with mind-clearing Beat poetry like the seven-minute "Mohawk."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Silver Lining
    For tuneful, middle-of-the-road rock, The Silver Lining ain't bad.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Zonoscope
    Australian synth-pop quartet Cut Copy do the Eighties eerily well. Too well, in fact. Cue up the band's third album, and you find yourself playing spot-the-influence.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diamond Eyes
    Usually, though, Chino Moreno's lyrics go for cathartic images (shaking coffins, fading faces) set to chopping riffage, whirlpool distortion and dark, soaring melodies that sound more like the Cure than Korn.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Analog Man
    Jeff Lynne's production on several tracks puts a Tom Petty-ready spin on laid-back California rock and has Walsh sounding less isolated from modern times than he thinks he is.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Believe
    At last, new metal has its answer to Depeche Mode's Black Celebration.
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