Spin Cycle's Scores
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For 99 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | Sunny Border Blue | |
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Lowest review score: | Song Yet To Be Sung |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 71 out of 99
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Mixed: 23 out of 99
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Negative: 5 out of 99
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Though it's no "Bloodletting," it does make for a satisfying reminder of that masterpiece.- Spin Cycle
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The band, while heavy on charm, is light in its ability to demonstrate any diversity in its songs.- Spin Cycle
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Unfortunately, the record is burdened by a pretentious, overarching narrative about "the Wise One" and his struggle with "the Banished Ones."- Spin Cycle
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Track after solid track, "Motherland" is a collection of pure, soulful offerings.- Spin Cycle
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She keeps shifting gears in an ill-advised attempt to please too broad an audience.- Spin Cycle
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As always, Kravitz infuses his rock with enough funk to get you moving, and his catchy choruses will echo in your head long after the album ends.- Spin Cycle
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Halfway through the album, Michael ruins the good mood with a seemingly endless run of soggy, would-be anthems and self-pitying celebrity complaints.- Spin Cycle
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The album may not break much new ground, but the band's performance is more dynamic than on previous releases.- Spin Cycle
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Hype for the Strokes is well deserved--it's hard to imagine a more vital American rock band.- Spin Cycle
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The admittedly catchy, three-chord pop structure isn't as effective as in previous DCFC releases--as a basic approach, it seems more thoughtless than deliberately anaesthetizing this time.- Spin Cycle
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This time around, the Garbage tradition of borrowing from all over the map has produced unfocused and derivative results.- Spin Cycle
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"Gold" proves that Ryan Adams is capable of blending a myriad of styles and influences.- Spin Cycle
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Pierce enhances his trademark electro-scapes with rich gospel choruses and grand orchestral flourishes for operatic effect.- Spin Cycle
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A platter of hot-buttered R&B popcorn, liberally sprinkled with salty social critique, "The Id" finds Gray getting disco-freaky while instigating her "Sexual Revolution," and playfully rapping about her kids with Slick Rick on the funky burner "Hey Young World II."- Spin Cycle
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"Strange Little Girls" is not a pretty album, but that's the point: the ugliness of male-female relations, which she exposes bit by bit with each cover, is a fact that is--in both pop music and pop culture--all too often ignored.- Spin Cycle
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It doesn't really break any new ground, but that's not the point. This record is about Dylan cutting loose and celebrating the richness of American music.- Spin Cycle
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Slayer remains an elemental metal band, continuing to surge on something high-grade and uncut.- Spin Cycle
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Ultimately, the record is kept from wonderfulness by too much drowsy material--it lacks [Neil] Young's screwball conviction or the hallucinogenic intensity of the VU.- Spin Cycle
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Pulling it all together is her beautifully rough voice, which has grown more precise without losing any of its raw, bluesy power.- Spin Cycle
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The most introspective and slow-tempo collection in Björk's catalog, "Vespertine" proves to be a rousing showcase of her captivating vocal talent.- Spin Cycle
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Just as little has changed on the radio front, so has Cake stuck with its market-proven formula on "Comfort Eagle."- Spin Cycle
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The disappointing result is mostly a collection of thin-sounding electronic drum beats and trippy effects that, were it not for Farrell's vocal accompaniment, would be altogether forgettable.- Spin Cycle
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When it clicks, "Aaliyah" transforms the confusion of young adulthood into exhilarating freedom- Spin Cycle
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The quartet has cooled its eclectic babbling, and "Hot Shots II" whirrs and purrs like a gleeming silver sports car.- Spin Cycle
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Songwriter Doug Martsch again succeeds in striking an impressive balance between guitar-saturated bombast and impeccable melodic taste.- Spin Cycle
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Anyone hoping Etheridge has channeled her recent ups and downs into anything resembling vital rock and roll will be disappointed. Instead, she's sticking closer to the middle of the road than ever before.- Spin Cycle
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