Slant Magazine's Scores

Select another publication »
For 3,120 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: 1,690 out of 3120
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3120
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3120
3120 music reviews
view
per page
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Thunder, Lightning, Strike
    It's so overwhelmingly happy and thrilling a musical statement that it would justify even a few more exclamation points.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blame The Vain
    Represents a new peak in a career full of them.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Okemah And The Melody Of Riot
    Okemah is heady stuff, to be sure, but it's also one of the year's best straight-up rock albums.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Life Pursuit
    The melodic hooks are huge, but what makes The Life Pursuit a legitimately great album is that Murdoch's lyrics are at turns witty, insightful, assertive, and sardonic.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Magnificent City
    Refined attention to detail gives Magnificent City the kind of structural awareness that distinguishes exceptional records from merely great ones.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
    The 12 most ambitious, dense songs she's yet committed to record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Blessing And A Curse
    As a whole, A Blessing And A Curse is the album that Drive-By Truckers have always threatened to make, a hard-rocking testament to the intelligence, sensitivity, and soul of a people often discredited for lacking all three.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Wolfmother
    One of the stronger debuts of 2006.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Waterloo To Anywhere
    Punchy, ragged, and frenetic, Waterloo To Anywhere surges forward, not-so-subtly aping The Strokes, The Clash, and The Ramones as well as delivering that precise buzz that can only be felt by the young, drunk, and excited.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Let's Get Out Of This Country
    While the songs are undeniably beautiful and even fun, the music provides a vital balance to the album's substantial thematic heft, and it's that combination that makes Let's Get Out Of This Country one of the year's best pop albums.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rather Ripped
    Rather Ripped is probably one of the best records in Sonic Youth's catalog, and definitely one of the best albums of 2006.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fundamental
    It would be unthinkable to imagine a more pleasurable listen coming along in 2006.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album
    The more interesting discussion to be had about The Avalanche is whether it says more about Sufjan Stevens or everyone else that a collection of even his second-tier material ranks among the most superior releases of the year.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Return To Cookie Mountain
    TV On The Radio do more than keep pace with their Shortlist Prize-winning Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes; they enhance nearly every aspect of their debut, creating an album that is uniquely theirs in the modern scene.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Modern Times
    Might be the most upbeat feel-bad album of 2006.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads is nearly as great as the band's masterpiece, It's A Shame About Ray, and far more dependable than the runner-up Come On Feel The Lemonheads. And it may be more fun than either.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ta-Dah
    Ta-Dah isn't an unimpeachable triumph from front to back, but it's a hell of a good showing.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Food & Liquor
    Food & Liquor is one of the year's fresher efforts and future classics.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Children Running Through
    An astonishing piece of work.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    City Beach
    Cunniff has never sounded more joyful as a singer or writer as she does here.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Magic Position
    The Magic Position is a euphoric listening experience not even being a critic can spoil.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sweet Warrior
    The tightness of Thompson's compositions grounds the explosive, whimsical meandering of his improvs; Sweet Warrior, and "Guns Are The Tongues" in particular, captures that glory as well as anything else from this century.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Proof of Youth
    Every fade-in and chord change on Proof of Youth is perfectly calibrated to make for seamless song-to-song transitions and for an album that seems to end entirely too quickly.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Civilians
    Even in its rare maudlin and melodramatic moments, the album is saved its many precise, stainless sounds: Henry's compassionate, reverb-shaken voice, Bill Frisell's excellent fretwork, a bewitched pump organ, a snare hit that always echoes a bit too long.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Scene Of The Crime
    Scene of the Crime is as comprehensive and as thorough an artistic declaration of self as any in recent memory.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Some People Have Real Problems
    Some People is stuffed to the rafters with love songs but they're never precious or cloying, even when the arrangements soar to rousing string/brass/choir-laden climaxes, or when the lyrics are comprised of little more than a string of clichés .
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Made In The Dark
    Hot Chip boldly expand and louden up their sound significantly here, while admirably retaining full command of the forms they've already mastered.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lust Lust Lust
    These songs don't sound like love songs because they aren't love songs. That the Raveonettes understand why that's an important distinction makes Lust Lust Lust a sleazy pop masterpiece.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
    Badu's spare, pointillist lyrics are almost constantly folded deep within dense, heavy arrangements
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Devotion
    Devotion includes all of the same essential ingredients as its predecessor, but a ratcheting-up of intensity makes this album shine even brighter.
Page: