For 5,914 reviews, this publication has graded:
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34% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: | Magic | |
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Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,630 out of 5914
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Negative: 40 out of 5914
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The song's arena-ready polish extends throughout New Again, but it doesn't stave off the forced melodrama of songs like the angsty 'Lonely, Lonely.'- Rolling Stone
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Turner's new side project, a collaboration with Miles Kane of Merseyside indie-poppers the Rascals, is a shameless nostalgia trip--and it's still compelling.- Rolling Stone
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The darker moments like 'Contemplate,' where he explores insecurity against an elegiac Rihanna sample, prove he's best as a doubter, not a hater.- Rolling Stone
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The album is exceedingly strange yet scrupulously crafted and intelligent. Chances are that Air, as they fashioned this fetching and jejune and weirdly disturbing score, were also having a small laugh.- Rolling Stone
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Modern electric blues as Prince and George Clinton would have it. [Aug 2020, p.73]- Rolling Stone
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The soundtrack is not as evocatively cinematic as the Wu's greatest songs, but it's a tasty mixtape.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 8, 2012
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Few bands are better equipped to release an odds-and-sods record such as Steal This Album!, because SOAD songs already seem like bits and pieces of different songs welded and held together through sheer force of will.- Rolling Stone
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Loudon Wainwright III's latest album is a long joke, full of wry commentary on weighty topics like mortality and lonesomeness.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 9, 2014
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His lyrics have always run the risk of feeling overthought, and Pieces of a Man is no exception; for all his talent, Mick sometimes verges into dorm-room thoughts (“cottonmouth get you soon enough/wake up and realize the moon is us”) and cringeworthy high musings (“Fuck is woke if you conscious but still in the bed”). But his heart is in the right place, and his elevated lyrical aspirations steer him right more often than not.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 1, 2018
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For all its prettiness, Liberman tends to fade into the background. Even Carlton's wistful vocals often disappear into the mix.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 29, 2015
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Highlights "Comrade" and "Alaskans" are abstract but inspiringly muscular, while other songs drift into panoramas of tentative guitar lines, distant whooshing sounds and Vernon's wounded falsetto singing couplets not even he would dare make sense of.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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This LP is like a special-mention science-fair project: two brainy kids speaking in tongues that are fascinating even when they're hard to follow.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 11, 2012
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For Lamp Lit Prose, Longstreth melds both strategies in a flood of ideas and magnificent vocal arrangements. The results are by turns dazzling and exhausting. Partly it’s is an issue of balance.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 13, 2018
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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- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 2, 2018
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The trio shape folk, gospel and blues influences into straight-ahead roots rock somewhere between the Lumineers and Lady Antebellum.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 4, 2013
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BEASTMODE 2 sounds like a Dirty South mixtape, and you can virtually imagine the duo grinding in an Atlanta studio somewhere at 4 a.m. after the strip clubs have closed. But like so many mixtapes from trap’s golden era, all the songs tend to run together into an amiably hardscrabble blur.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 7, 2018
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This batch of cadaverous Bowie-isms won't leave fang marks on your memory. [Sep 2020, p.68]- Rolling Stone
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Live at a Flamingo Hotel (any Flamingo Hotel will do, apparently) has 19 swaggering, giddy takes of fan favorites like their better-than-the-original Architecture in Helsinki cover "Heart It Races."- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 20, 2015
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Hebden's lovingly arranged pet sounds cohere nicely when he jacks up his trip-hop-y beats.- Rolling Stone
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Matmos amble and shuffle toward a new interpretation of history. [11 Dec 2003, p.204]- Rolling Stone
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Producer Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot) adds some arena sheen, true. But it's not enough to smooth the edges off "Arc Arsenal," a primal tantrum against rebels "robbed . . . of their cause," or to homogenize the ragged beats and mind-bending guitar flurries of "Enfilade."- Rolling Stone
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Maybe with less to prove, the shapeshifters make some of their prettiest music ever here; apocalyptic vibe notwithstanding.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 2, 2011
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It's a brutal approach that tends to trample her fragile vocals and rarely flatters her winding tunes.- Rolling Stone
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New Jersey's Real Estate unspool pretty reveries tinged with enough guilt and confusion to keep them honest.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 18, 2011
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Hot Shots II does its best to return to the epic soundscapes of The Three E.P.'s; the long grooves and easy melodies are back, and the band's tendency toward the diffuse has been reined in.- Rolling Stone
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Leo's melodic gifts don't keep up with his lyrics. [22 Mar 2007, p.80]- Rolling Stone
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Her most nuanced new lyric details an apostate tour-bus driver's descent into a luscious sin she probably knows better than she lets on.- Rolling Stone
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An infectious love for their hometown and a sound that brings in soul, pop ballads, polka, Jamaica and Steely Dan makes this Wikipedia workout actually feel inclusive.- Rolling Stone
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Their fifth album, inspired by the OD death of bassist Paul Gray, is quite the heavy-duty emotional enema.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 21, 2014
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