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For 3,119 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: 1,689 out of 3119
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3119
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3119
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cost
    Epic in both sound and content, The Cost is both The Frames' most accomplished album and deeper and more rewarding than U2's recent work.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sex Change
    Sex Change, like some of the best pieces by the Boredoms or Glenn Branca or Eno, is a startlingly fun album to listen to.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cassadaga
    One hopes that the next LP will pack a little less filler, and Bright Eyes will drop a 40-minute work as tight as their best four-minute works.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn The Lights Out
    Three records into their career, The Ponys still sound like a really young band. And I can't be more complimentary than that.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond
    It's in between the showboating, when Mascis demonstrates his folk and country-tinged melodies and subtle but elaborate leads that you realize what you're listening to is pretty fucking close to genius.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    Though it may not fit comfortably alongside any other albums in Wilco's catalogue, Sky Blue Sky is further confirmation that, even at their most retro, they're among contemporary pop music's most vital acts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easy Tiger
    What Easy Tiger lacks in craft or measure, it makes up for in raw inspiration, which makes it all the more addictive.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Absolute Garbage
    'Tell Me Where It Hurts' is an undeniable sign that, despite their extended hiatuses and internal turmoil, Garbage is very much alive with ideas and ambition.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Marry Me
    Marry Me isn't quite a religious experience, but it's unequivocally divine.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Translated From Love
    It still has the depth her fans have come to expect, but it's Willis's coolest record yet.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fur & Gold
    Bat for Lashes' music feels like some lost specter that has fortuitously wandered into your home and can't help but haunt you.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Places Like This
    Architecture's instrumentation is more varied than ever before. Though they could've made another fine record by sticking to the simpler approach of their previous albums, it's refreshing to see a band take a more ambitious route, and do it well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
    Finally receiving distribution in the U.S., Junior Senior's Hey Hey My My Yo Yo sounds every bit as fresh and exuberant now as it first did in the summer of 2005.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Challengers
    If not instantly gratifying enough to rank as The New Pornographers' best album, Challengers is still their most diverse collection, one that speaks to the real breadth of its core members' skill with all manners of pop styles and that proves that they're capable of producing more than just guilty pleasures.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under the Blacklight
    Some of these genre shifts work better than others, of course, but the record is so tightly constructed that nothing ever crashes and burns.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
    In many ways, the album plays out as a far more effective and far less deliberately post-modern survey of the multiple phases of Dylan's career than does Todd Haynes's "I'm Not There" or its accompanying soundtrack.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mantaray
    Mantaray's sound is distinctly modern, filtered through the lush electronic textures of Garbage, Portishead, even Björk, but it's Siouxsie voice--trembling and echoing all at once--that reaffirms the album's urgency.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Magic
    I'll grant you that Magic is uneven, but I cannot admit that it is anything other than constantly captivating.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family
    Like most everything else about Family, it's a calculated risk that pays off.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    100 Days, 100 Nights
    100 Days, 100 Nights still speaks to the soul and the depth of the genre's past.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Gangster
    He's not a real gangster, but he is a real poet. And like the greatest of American poets, he admits that, very well then, he contradicts himself. American Gangster contains multitudes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As I Am
    Keys isn't quite a superwoman come to save R&B from itself, but the timeless quality of As I Am is right on time.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untrue
    Machine music this unrelentingly intimate is worth the attention it requires.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall
    By turns baroque, jazzy, morose, and enraptured, they're a perfect opportunity for Wainwright to showcase his capacity as a singer in terms of tone and melodic emphasis. And showcase he does, deploying his dulcet foghorn of a voice with subtlety, grace, and elasticity
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Solution
    Solution's unobtrusive yet menacing production--gothic keyboards, drum noises mimicking gunshots--nicely complement Sigel's musings on death, crime, and the urban landscape
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Distortion
    Distortion gets a lot right.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jukebox
    This album's pleasures stand as something warmly new from a major talent.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend's eponymous debut, with its wide range of references rationed across a collection of brief pop morsels, proves the early fascination was no fluke.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Detours
    Crow has managed the nearly impossible: recording an album that's as intensely personal as it is fiercely political.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lucky
    Nada Surf have matured into a strong enough band to make an album like Lucky, which is full of such existential hand-wringing and one of the year's first great pop records.
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