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For 3,121 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: 1,691 out of 3121
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3121
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3121
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tales From Turnpike House
    A modest triumph.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Greatest
    A stirring, raw masterpiece.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rabbit Fur Coat
    A left-of-center delight that will tide over the Rilo Kiley faithful until their next album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Standing In The Way Of Control
    The Gossip's melodies are infectious and their beats propulsive enough... to get the sk8er kids to drop the self-conscious posturing and dance a little.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Colour The Small One
    Repeat listens reveal the album to be what the one-time Zero 7 vocalist describes as a "slow burner," a druggy mesh of acoustic guitars, keyboards, and lush, cinematic string arrangements.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light
    The first third or so of Recording A Tape lags a bit, mostly because Bell Orchestre seems reluctant to show all its cards right out of the jewel case. However, once you reach "THROW IT ON A FIRE," the horns and percussion begin to drive, and the album grows progressively stronger.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confessions On A Dance Floor
    One of the few pop singers whose albums are best appreciated in their entirety and not lopped off into "hit singles," Madonna... has succeeded at creating a dance-pop odyssey with an emotional, if not necessarily narrative, arc.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    12 Songs
    One of the most indisputably interesting pop albums of the year.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Descended Like Vultures
    If not as easy to embrace as its predecessor, the album compensates with a great deal more ambition in its scope.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tournament Of Hearts
    There have been better albums released in 2005 than Tournament Of Hearts, but it's probably the album most ideally suited to be a left-field commercial success.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mouse And The Mask
    The Mouse and the Mask, while it may not be answering life's questions, is an enjoyable and highly original achievement.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Machine
    For every song that's been improved there's one that's been unnecessarily tooled with.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Z
    Dialing down the reverb and allowing more wide-ranging influences to show through, My Morning Jacket fashions a messy, transitory record that's head-over-heels giddy, curiously experimental, and patently weird in equal measure.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wildflower
    Crow typically does "melancholy" with panache, so more's the pity that Wildflower often sounds outright dull.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alive And Wired
    What Alive & Wired does best is reconcile the considerable charms of the band's studio output with the immediacy of their live shows' energy, and the Old 97's captured on this essential double-album is a band that lands at the midpoint between Wilco's high-minded songcraft and the ball-busting rock swagger of Drive-By Truckers.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Takk...
    As music that's beautiful simply for the sake of being beautiful, Takk… is an unqualified success.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Weight Is A Gift
    The electric guitars are grittier and the drums are more aggressive than those of many of their fellow indie-pop acts, giving Nada Surf a distinctive sound in an increasingly crowded genre and rocking hard enough that they rightfully should earn a second shot at radio.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oh No
    While there's nothing at all revolutionary in the band's combination of nihilistic lyrics and sunny pop hooks or in their use of dance rhythms behind their guitar power chords, it's nonetheless rare to encounter a major label pop or rock album as start-to-finish good as is Oh No.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twin Cinema
    Best (and nearly perfect) when taken two or three songs at a time, as an entire album, Twin Cinema overstays its welcome. It's simply too much of a good thing.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pixel Revolt
    It fully merits high praise as both the best work of Vanderslice's career and easily one of the best albums of what has been a refreshingly strong year for music.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why Should The Fire Die?
    While their lyrics do tell compelling stories, Nickel Creek's selling point remains their technical gifts and, again, Why Should The Fire Die? showcases a phenomenal learning curve.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Cookbook
    The pages of this cookbook are a primer on how Missy let her head get fat.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Illinois
    From its framing gimmick and its anti-folk folk songwriting to its he-has-to-be-kidding song titles and its show-offy instrumentation, Illinois should reduce to a simple stunt performance. That it's pop-art of the highest caliber, instead, cements Stevens as one of the most vital voices in music today.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multiply
    An album that, in its best moments, draws comparisons to at-peak Prince and, at its worst, lands in the respectable company of Nikka Costa’s Everybody Got Their Something.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wikked Lil' Grrrls
    Establishes her as the progenitor of what could be called electro-ethno-pop.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Electrified
    While there's a definite sense of in-studio spontaneity to Electrified, the album's only significant flaw is that the songs sound restrained in their current form.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blame The Vain
    Represents a new peak in a career full of them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anniemal
    Annie the songwriter is breathless and unsure of herself, her voice barely registering above a church-wafer-thin whisper for most of the record.
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