For 3,120 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 65
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Positive: 1,690 out of 3120
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Mixed: 1,319 out of 3120
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Negative: 111 out of 3120
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As a country album, a pop album, or something in between, Love, Pain, & The Whole Thing is simply bad.- Slant Magazine
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The Raveonettes have always made use of heavy reverb on their albums, but the overall impact is that Raven in the Grave just sounds sloppy.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 4, 2011
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It's not so much the shift in style that hampers Born Free, but rather the trite subject matter and gormless storytelling that Rock so keenly adopts.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 15, 2010
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Fans of the old stuff who long ago wrote Morrison off will find their gripes sadly confirmed on Born to Sing: No Plan B, a recession album that's four years too late.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 14, 2012
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The only personality displayed on So Amazin' is that of her contemporaries and predecessors.- Slant Magazine
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Less a rebound from the indulgent for-friends-and-family-only nightmare of Rehearsing My Choir than a lateral side-step, Bitter Tea sounds like a desperate plea to be labeled as "clever."- Slant Magazine
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Undoubtedly crafted to be an easy listen, the overstuffed, lumbering, and joyless #willpower is quite the opposite.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 23, 2013
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Their new album, Shall Noise Upon, is intellectually thinner, more musically pedantic, and not quite as tongue-in-cheek.- Slant Magazine
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If you were expecting some kind of creative transformation from the shakeup, this new album may be something of a disappointment, as Urie and drummer Spencer Smith return to the skittish, bombastic pop-rock of their debut.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 22, 2011
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It's short, boring, and occasionally aggravating, recalling the flatness of acts like Maroon 5 and John Mayer while never coming close to their likeability, and when you're being rocked off the stage by Adam Levine, it's not a good sign.- Slant Magazine
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Too much of Boy is the bad kind of theatrical, less an album than an aural assault.- Slant Magazine
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You can practically hear the energy draining away as the album progresses and one song slides into another, indistinguishable by either melody or lyric.- Slant Magazine
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God Did lacks an organized artistic vision, or at least a sense of purpose beyond engaging in purely attention-grabbing theatrics.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2022
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Bloated, brainless, and completely lacking in self-awareness, it's a groaning monstrosity of an album, one that can't even put its overwhelming excess to any suitable use.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 11, 2015
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The remainder of Teenage Dream is a raunchy pop nightmare, with A-list producers lining up to churn out some of the worst work of their careers.- Slant Magazine
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The few tolerable moments across How Do You Sleep at Night? come from either outside voices, including a minute-long verse from Fousheé on “Sweet” that outclasses the bulk of Tezzo’s trite observations, or whenever Teezo is shamelessly copying from others, as he does on “Mood Swings” and the Steve Lacey-lite “Familiarity.”- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2023
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While Iggy's feral mischievousness may still be intact, the Stooges no longer feel like a band capable of anything but embarrassing themselves.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2013
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Maybe pastiche is inevitable, even in the Japanese avant garde scene, but can't it at least be a little more fun?- Slant Magazine
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Avril Lavigne is filled with similar empty life-affirming mantras and boasts of rebelliousness. Lavigne has mined these themes with success in the past, but here the exploration feels forced, as if she's trying to capture an attitude, and craft a persona, that she no longer lives.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 5, 2013
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Ignoring how incohesive Queen of Me’s track list proves to be—the schmaltzy “Last Day of Summer,” for example, is a pedestrian reflection of young love that feels entirely out of place on an album filled with tracks related to embracing one’s present image—the songs themselves are frivolous and lack both sonic character and catchy hooks.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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Sadly, the only compelling thing about the incoherent Graffiti is the material (both external and internal) that makes it even less palatable than a simply below-average collection of paint-by-numbers R&B beats.- Slant Magazine
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Some singles may work their way loose, but as a whole the album will is too long and monotonous; the affected style of Paul's voice, fine for the occasional single, becomes a grating trial over 21 songs.- Slant Magazine
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In Your Dreams indulges in some of Nicks's worst tendencies as a songwriter and is slathered in chintzy, dated production values.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2011
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The result is not a rock record as much as a total misperception of what makes a rock record. The base elements are all here (the sex and sleaze and guitar solos), but they're delivered in such a flat, awkward way that they feel interpreted by an alien.- Slant Magazine
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Tacked on to this mediocre rap album is a ghastly and desperate bid for a hit single that sees Minaj and producer RedOne snatching items from a veritable sale rack of tired Top 40 tricks and tossing them hastily over the most basic synth and drum-machine presets.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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50 doesn't fare any better on the softer side: 'Amusement Park' proves he's one of the worst lyricists alive.... It's not just the metaphors, though, it's the execution.- Slant Magazine
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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.- Slant Magazine
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Many of the album’s nine songs feel unfinished, with only half managing to crack the two-minute mark.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 10, 2018
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