For 5,903 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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 |
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Positive: 3,621 out of 5903
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Negative: 40 out of 5903
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Some of Beyoncé’s best vocal work on record, produced flawlessly and at the forefront of each track. Her voice as an instrument is wielded superbly across the entire album but most strikingly at the top of it, as she glides across country and R&B inflections effortlessly.- Rolling Stone
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Austin's favorite trio dishes out eleven helpings of diverse alt-pop on what may wind up being the finest record of its ilk all year. Charged by song sculptor/frontman Britt Daniel, this start-to-finish triumph never underachieves even if it has an effortless aura at times.- Rolling Stone
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This record demands a room full of quiet and your undivided attention. Listen to it any other way and you may be disappointed, even bored, by it. And that will be your hard luck, because Silver and Gold is Neil Young at his hushed, acoustic best: simple, romantic, direct.- Rolling Stone
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His album of Waits' penned-and-produced songs may be the masterwork of Hammond's long career, as well as further testament to Waits' unique genius.- Rolling Stone
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Why anybody would choose to spend their life without a copy of This Is Not a Test! is a mystery.- Rolling Stone
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The album's producer, Gil Norton (whose crescendos for the Pixies were an alternative-rock cornerstone), has subtly filled out the sound of the Patti Smith Group without losing its handmade, jamming essence. Guitar tones resonate through the mix, and new lines snake through what used to be hollow space.- Rolling Stone
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In somebody else's defiance of death, we in the audience get an intense affirmation of life, not to mention some of the best jokes in rock & roll history.- Rolling Stone
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Produced by Ken Nelson, who was also responsible for Badly Drawn Boy's Bewilderbeast, Quiet Is the New Loud is equally praiseworthy, as the band conjures up the spirit of Nick Drake with eerie precision.- Rolling Stone
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If this combination of big-name backers, undeniable skills, radio-ready tracks and a marketable thug persona make Get Rich or Die Tryin' a sure-shot smash hit, it also makes it a great record.- Rolling Stone
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Lynn and White weren't straining to make history, just a damn good Loretta Lynn album. But it sure sounds classic anyway.- Rolling Stone
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It comes down to the songs, and these are the most intense he's ever written, one instant classic after another.- Rolling Stone
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Devils and Dust is also as immediate and troubling as this morning's paper.- Rolling Stone
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If you happen to be a rock band, and you don't happen to be either of the White Stripes, it so sucks to be you right now.- Rolling Stone
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Like the other two [albums], it's speaker-blowingly brilliant. [11 Aug 2005, p.70]- Rolling Stone
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A Bigger Bang is just a straight-up, damn fine Rolling Stones album, with no qualifiers or apologies necessary for the first time in a few decades.- Rolling Stone
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Might be the most oddly beautiful, psychedelic and ambitious [album] of the year. [21 Sep 2006, p.84]- Rolling Stone
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Kala strikes deep. There's a resolute sarcasm, a weariness and defiant determination, a sense of pleasure carved out of work--articulated by the lyrics, embodied by the music.- Rolling Stone
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On Graduation, West tries hard to address the problems on his first two albums, and succeeds: The new disc is tighter than "Late Registration" (fifty-one minutes long), with no skits (thank heavens) and less ornate production.- Rolling Stone
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All of it rocks; none of it sounds like any other band on earth; it delivers an emotional punch that proves all other rock stars owe us an apology.- Rolling Stone
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All he [Malkmus] wants to do is surrender to the lightheaded rush of the music, and the results are downright glorious.- Rolling Stone
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This isn't a mixtape, it's a suite of songs, paced and sequenced for maxaqimum impact.- Rolling Stone
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Tell Tale Signs makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the world he lives in, now more than ever.- Rolling Stone
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Just as exuberant is the part of Disc Two dominated by the jazz-infused playing of pianist Rubén González, whose spiraling solos bring roars from the crowd.- Rolling Stone
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This reissue bonanza shows the Nineties' premier indie band turning reflective and joyfully screwing around at the same time.- Rolling Stone
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21st Century Breakdown is even better, so masterful and confident it makes Idiot seem like a warm-up.- Rolling Stone
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It's built for fanatics, yet the goods could make a fanatic out of anyone.- Rolling Stone
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