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For 3,118 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Who Kill
Lowest review score: 0 Fireflies
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,688 out of 3118
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3118
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3118
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Quicken The Heart
    For an album that so readily cruises along on autopilot, the absence of a satisfying lyrical presence keeps it resolutely sandwiched in the middle of the pile.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sewn Together
    Meat Puppets 2.0 is a more polished, less accidental venture than the original, which isn't necessarily a drawback.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Actor
    Her voice seems small and fragile, but it's her most effective instrument, and it affixes a tight lynchpin to the album's broadly creative themes, leaving it glistening with ghostly elegance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Feel Cream
    Okay, maybe age has softened Peaches a tad, but if I Feel Cream is the result, it sounds more compelling and radical than any number of new iterations of "sucking on my titties."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Outer South
    The result is an album that's unfortunately baggy and sodden with filler, which could have benefited from a little less camaraderie and a little more revision.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Lies For Dark Times
    The lack of originality on White Lies for Dark Times is a major hindrance, but the execution of these stylistic pastiches by Harper and Relentless7 is so dead-on that it's easy to appreciate the record on its own modest terms.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fantasy Ride
    While Fantasy Ride doesn't include as many obvious peaks as Ciara's previous discs, the only major disaster is 'Like a Surgeon,' which is filled with creepy, ill-conceived metaphors for sex and should not to be confused with Weird Al's "Like a Virgin" parody. And that makes Fantasy Ride Ciara's smoothest ride to date.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wavering Radiant
    Whether trading in power chords or atmospheric overlays, the band excels at transforming emotions into thrilling sounds, palpable awe, and tangible dread. This is metal played at its arresting best.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Epiphany
    The entire album is executive produced by Ne-Yo, which gives Epiphany both a more modern R&B edge as well as a more unified sound than Michele's 2007 debut--which could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reintegration Time
    Reintegration Time is a neat, reserved album, if not satisfying as a close approximation of the band's live sound, then as a more low-key exploration on a parallel path.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Ways Away
    From the title on down, O'Neil invokes space and silence, guiding you through more sonic and emotional emptiness than you might think possible in 37 minutes.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Rebirth Of Venus
    Were the central conceit not so half-assed and Lee's lyrics not so shallow, Venus might qualify as actively misogynist in a way that could be interesting to engage and dissect. As is, the album is simple to an annoying, tiresome degree.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Colonia
    Colonia is what pop music might have sounded like in the era of gaslights and guillotines.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Together Through Life
    Dylan leaves it to his unique vocals and a smoking set of sidemen to get his point across.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Summer Of Hate
    At times they recall labelmates Wavves, short of their devotion to fuzzy landscapes--another sonic comparison for an album that recalls the messy disorder of a tipped-over jukebox.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Remind Me Where The Light Is
    The production on their sophomore effort, Remind Me Where the Light Is, is both a blessing and a curse, inflating some effects to dazzling prominence while pushing a host of crummy, outdated ideas to the forefront.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Are You In?
    De La Soul has always worked better in lo-fi, and the cheesy Rock Band-like guitars and drums in the middle section sound suspiciously like Moby's disastrous collaboration with Public Enemy a couple of years ago, but this is still an album that clearly belongs to De La Soul, and they're not shy about it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yes
    Fans hoping for a late-career renaissance might be let down, but the duo isn't slouching either.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tinted Windows
    Listeners are subjected to nothing more than a glorified boy band trying desperately to recapture a second wind.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounds Of The Universe
    They might not be affecting musical culture the way they did in their prime, but at least half of their latest effort is as strong as anything they've written.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Art Brut vs. Satan
    As always, the level of enjoyment depends on your patience for this kind of reflective, hollowly structured post-music, which examines the constructs of its genre even as it pushes forward with them at full speed.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Maudlin Career
    Luckily, for both the album and its audience, the band's perseverance results in hits more often than misses.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Bright Mississippi
    Toussaint gives each of the instruments room to explore, breaking free of the structure of the song and marking it with his own distinctive stamp. It's this loose, spirited mood that makes the album's interpretations so smooth and effective.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deeper Than Rap
    Deeper provides more of the same flawless sonics, with production contributions from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, the Runners, and DJ Toomp, and guest spots from Kanye West, Nas, and Lil Wayne. Amazingly, Ross himself has become less of an embarrassment on the mic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fortress Around My Heart
    Charmingly blunt and unpolished, Fortress instantly casts Maria as a distinctive talent among her established Scandinavian contemporaries.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dance Mother
    Even when they occasionally stumble ever so slightly under the weight of their own ambition, the reckless, adventuring spirit that comprises Dance Mother is one of the compelling things that makes it sound like one of the more exciting debut albums to emerge in long while.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Law Of The Playground
    While the idea of artistic maturity might seem anathema to the very appeal of the Boy Least Likely To, Playground marks the pair's awkward first steps toward adulthood.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
    Consistently literate and full of the comfortable resonance of his unique voice, Eagle once again proves Callahan to be as ageless as the forest.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fantasies
    While it continues Metric's new-wave/loud-rock amalgam, the songs themselves fail to leave much of an impact.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Swoon
    The Silversun Pickups show here that they've got a competent grasp of the amp-frying guitar soundscape, but someone needs to teach them how to write a decent rock song.
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