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For 5,911 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 5911
  2. Mixed: 2,242 out of 5911
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5911
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fitz and the Tantrums
    It's a self-titled affair but it lacks the calling cards that originally made them interesting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose
    In a mistaken lunge at maturity, the Cooper Temple Clause devote much of Kick Up the Fire to chilled introspection and black-water ambience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Afterglow
    Die-hard fans will be delighted. Others might yawn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
    For the most part, the old magical feeling sure ain't coming back. [2 Nov 2006, p.78]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Birds Of Pray
    Birds of Pray, their sixth album, sounds a lot like the previous five.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kris Allen
    The likability that helped Allen win last season is so carefully low-key here that it's nearly lost.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Crazy Clown Time
    Lynch, a man of minor obsessions, here explores just one -- quavery, Fifties-style guitar. The result's long on atmosphere and short on anything approaching mystery.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Solarized
    Most of Solarized sounds like a so-so Portishead record with perfect cheekbones, an expensive haircut and rock-star airheadedness even Noel Gallagher couldn't manage.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Underclass Hero
    Melodrama drags down several cuts, including the absentee-dad lament "Dear Father," and in some form or another, you've heard all these songs before.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
    The real problem with coffeehouse stuff like "We Could Go and Start Again" isn't that it's corny--it's just tofu-bland. [6 Apr 2006, p.69]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
    Their songs carry bossa nova chord changes, analog keyboard bleeps and icy-cool chanteuserie from singer Inara George. So why is the second album by George and multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin so soul-deadening?
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