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For 5,921 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: 3,636 out of 5921
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5921
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5921
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live: Everybody's Talkin'
    Derek Trucks, blues shouter (and Trucks' wife) Susan Tedeschi and nine friends cut a path between the improvised and the carefully arranged.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Coexist
    Coexist will not surprise old fans. The xx haven't altered their sound, they've refined it, adding a splash of arena-rock guitar here, a clubby 4/4 thump there.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spells
    Not all of Spells is as memorable as you'd hope. [19 Apr 2007, p.63]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silver Bell
    Though Silver Bell meanders at times, "Little God" (which might be about the devil) and the vengeful "Sorry and Sad" pit her thoughtful, detailed lyrics and blue, reedy voice against tough Stones-in-the-bayou guitars.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live in Detroit 1986
    The sound quality isn't ideal, but Fela's bruising music is.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stereo
    With a voice that aches like a hangover, Westerberg has long sounded like he's had an album of post-punk saloon ballads in him. Stereo is that album, and it's his best collection of songs since the Eighties.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gimme Fiction
    The overall effect can be vaguely schizo -- many of these tracks seem more like cool fragments than true songs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pushin' Against a Stone
    Credit June's vinegary, slightly oddball vocals, equal parts Diana Ross and Dolly Parton, which guide each song like an old tractor retrofit with LED high beams: luminous, ancient, unstoppable.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Healing Tide
    Whether in a quiet hymn of adoration like “Hearts” or the soul-stirring “Love Like There’s No Tomorrow,” the Trotters’ deep affection for one another informs every aspect of this album, and shines like a beacon in troubled times.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    BE
    BE may be the most on-brand album BTS has ever made, recognizing hardship while offering healing and hope and a way to look past our current pain. It’s what BTS has been about since the start of their career.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Plowing Into the Field of Love
    Their superb third album [is] a classic case of punk wolfboys who discover girls and lose their religion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    On News and Tributes, the Futureheads make punk that's packed with ideas and downright radiant.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I See You
    It's ironic, though, because the xx have never been so unguarded, either emotionally or in their musical ambitions. The result is as haunting as ever.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Signed and Sealed in Blood
    This one may be their most devil-may-care, mixing hardcore blitz, Pogues instrumentation and Thin Lizzy swing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wolf's Law
    At times, it feels like they're glue-gunning hot ideas rather than writing fully realized songs, but they've come up with some fine Frankensteins nonetheless.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Further Complications
    Produced by Steve Albini, Cocker's excellent second solo disc sets hilariously over-the-top come-ons to bruising garage rock and woozy soul.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run To Ruin
    What gives the album life, though, is Nastasia's airy, intimate voice.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good News
    His tunes are full of warm, woozy singsong charm.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    DNA
    There’s a down-to-earth sense of crisp, hooky economy à la Mendes and Puth, gentlemanly horniness mixed with bittersweet innocence they wear well, even as grown men who know what it’s like to soldier their way to hard-earned redemption.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Situation
    Buck 65's percussive funk and gruff flow serve language that deserves no less.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scream
    The taut power-trio arrangements mix the whisper-to-a-scream dynamics of post-grunge with glam-rock chords and a big dollop of emo's teen psychodrama.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gone Now
    Bleachers' second LP exudes a kind of afflicted bliss, anthemic Eighties pop and R&B impressions built from the harried, diaristic isolation that era's Top 40 only allowed in at the margins.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There Is No Enemy
    Those seeking the naive concision of earlier records will be disappointed: Most songs sprawl near five minutes or longer. But their components are all about simple melodic beauty, writ large--prog-rock for pop purists.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everyday
    There is just enough sour questioning and irritation in Matthews' delivery to keep the radio candy from melting into raging glucose.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Private Press
    The Private Press is a moody, murky album, by definition not as groundbreaking or epochal as Endtroducing . . . but fascinating enough in its own right.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Radical Connector
    The German duo has hitched its busy beats to big-ass melodies. [28 Oct 2004, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Abyss
    Throughout Abyss, Wolfe uses her pain as a powerful tool, revealing the beauty underneath it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ben
    Surprisingly, it finds him mellowed out, focused, with a newfound interest in subtlety and even subtext. ... Ben is handily his best album. It’s a midcareer downshift from an artist who desperately needed it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hallucinogen [EP]
    More than simply a stopgap to tide fans over until her debut LP comes out, Hallucinogen is a fully-realized vision from an artist who's poised for a long and fruitful career.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1
    What ties it all together is a brooding intensity that fits perfectly with The Hunger Games' dystopic mood.
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