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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Souljacker
    From the blues-based grit and spit of the opening track to the messy distortion throughout, Souljacker launches an all-out attack on familiar Eels themes -- insecurity, loneliness, despair -- but this time from a more universal standpoint.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cuttin' Heads
    Mellencamp, as usual, writes strikingly about the heart ("Deep Blue Heart") and the heartland ("Crazy Island"), the twin concerns on an album that manages to be at once old-fashioned and very contemporary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Halos & Horns
    Halos & Horns doesn't so much rehash bygone eras as showcase Parton's skills as an interpreter -- especially of herself.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nocturama
    Most people this pretentious or literary don't rock so hard or write tunes so good.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bette
    On her new album, Bette Midler has gone into the studio with a master of makeovers, producer Don Was, and ended up sounding pretty much the same. That's a good thing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Russian Wilds
    The inspirations and pot-dream idealism may be retro; the zeal and momentum are not.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everybody Looking
    Everybody Looking, Gucci's ninth album and first after a two-year stay in federal prison, is a compelling left turn, the sound of a veteran innovator reclaiming his territory not with larger-than-life charisma and off-the-wall imagery but fresh intimidation tactics.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Other People's Lives
    It is a cocky, winning performance by a singer-songwriter who, on this album, for the first time in his rock & roll life, is truly on his own. [23 Feb 2006, p.61]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Southside
    Classic gestures are all over Southside, though Hunt thankfully has no interest in doing something so straightforward.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Atum
    ATUM is clearly meant to be the kind of record that requires your full attention, and Act Three makes for a nicely trippy conclusion to the whole project, as well as an intriguing listening experience in and of itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    Born Again is more straightforward than twenty-first-century Wilco. [20 Apr 2006, p.69]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trans-Continental Hustle
    Everyone is on point: Accordion and fiddle rock as hard as guitars and drums; rhythms from Brazil (frontman Eugene Hutz's new home) blend with breakneck Eastern European dances and D.C.-style hardcore.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She Wolf
    Shakira's trademark warble is gauche, but whether boasting about sex on 'Why Wait' or wailing on the guitar-propelled 'Mon Amour,' she's a charmer--a globe-straddling star you can cuddle up to.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blakroc
    Unlike many similar projects, this one doesn't seem overly impressed with its own novelty. A good thing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    FIDLAR
    Its debut bursts with hot sludge and lazy slop-rock jags.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Avalanche
    [Coco O. is] an understated soul-pop diva whose sweetness belies her stone funkiness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    Byrne delivers some impressively wicked guitar outbursts, too. But the frantic segments generally recede too soon, supplanted by more less-anxious downtempo bits.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let The Dominoes Fall
    Rancid sat out most of the Bush years, and they make up for lost time here, decrying corporate greed and the Iraq War in rave-ups.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live on Ten Legs
    The sequel to 1998's Live on Two Legs, this 18-track compilation is perfect for anyone unwilling to wade into the sea of official Pearl Jam bootlegs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Seven's Travels
    Self-loathing, navel-gazing and occasionally hilarious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Taste The Secret
    Jazz-influenced hip-hop with a sense of humor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Get Ready
    A catchy, beautiful album that looks to the past but refuses to be burdened by it.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    The music's shift from trivial to memorable dominates Maladroit; this is Cuomo's attempt to make his voice and guitar move as quick as his mind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Up!
    Up! would be a knockout even if it were limited to its one disc of country music.... But the second, relentlessly kinetic pop disc is a revelation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Souls Alike
    Throughout, Raitt holds her ground without digging a rut.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free At Last
    Over the flutes and soul-diva coos of 'When They Remember,' Free delivers an anguished but nimble sermon about his own struggles as a rapper; more than any other, the track shows off the mix of grit and pleasure that defines Free at Last.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pictures
    The whiplash reverberations of the 1964 Kinks and '65 Who on the LP3's third album, Pictures--the metallic thwack and buzzing sustain of singer-guitarist Glenn Page's Rickenbacker; the fast martial step and chrome-glaze harmonies in "I Don't Believe You" and "Nothing Like You"--are authentically vicious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mala
    Mala is smoother in its amalgamation, drifty melodies and his classic mumble recorded with gorgeously low-fi-sounding muffle.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wings Over America [Deluxe Edition]
    Now reissued with a variety of bonus goodies, Wings Over America is a time capsule from a neglected phase of the Macca saga--an artifact for Seventies stoners who thought Wings were heavier than the Beatles.
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