Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,257 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | To Pimp A Butterfly | |
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Lowest review score: | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,055 out of 4257
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Mixed: 1,147 out of 4257
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Negative: 55 out of 4257
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What's so brilliant about ['Taiga'] is how Yoshimi finds spiritual connections between unlikely genres. [Oct 2006, p.102]- Spin
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The result is a bigger, slicker record laced with potent "American Idiot"-style Bush-bashing, a handful of emo-heavy relationship ballads, and very few surprises. [Sep 2007, p.138]- Spin
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Qui's huffing skree just doesn't have the immediacy of the Lizard's Zep thud. But Yow's ragged bellow has aged nicely into a wheezing croon. [Oct 2007, p.108]- Spin
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Even when he's bumming, though, Walker still finds comfort in a good groove or a tart horn chart.- Spin
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Some halfhearted rhymes linger, but contagiously energetic political jams such as 'Cold War' make it easy to forget that it's been three years since anyone heard of Le Tigre. [Sep 2007, p.136]- Spin
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Cool people probably think this sort of utilitarian grab bag dumbs down Beck-like eclecticism. But maybe it didn't take such a genius to come up with it in the first place. [Jan 2001, p.109]- Spin
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Kurt Wagner's conversational croak is, charitably put, an acquired taste. [Sep 2006, p.106]- Spin
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Back from the brink of a long-promised implosion, the Vines sound like a band renewed on their first album since being booted from Capitol following dismal sales of 2006's muddled "Vision Valley."- Spin
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Poptimist Michael Angelakos tried to hold onto his girlfriend with Passion Pit's first EP. That didn't work (blame the self-obsessed lyrics), but on his band's debut full-length, their squeaky indie-pop theatrics are more convincing.- Spin
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Even with the occasional middling moments, it's hard to deny the band's clever, boisterous spirit. [May 2007, p.86]- Spin
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The sonics find themselves not proving enough either. They’re free, to do what they want, any old time. And it costs them.- Spin
- Posted Mar 23, 2016
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Turn to Gold will undoubtedly translate better blasting out of stage speakers, the medium most ideal for unfettered solos and melting six-strings--their riotous late-night debut could barely be contained behind a screen. On record thus far, though, Diarrhea Planet’s instrumental split-personality excess could use a dose of Imodium.- Spin
- Posted Jun 15, 2016
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These airy confections of analog-synth purrs and Chicago brass and Laetitia Sadier's obliquely humanist lyrics are distinguishable from one another by tone palette more than by hooks or style. [Oct 2001, p.126]- Spin
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Let Us Pray offers a familiar Scarface tableau, but Pusha and cast (including a demonic Tyler, the Creator on "Trouble on My Mind") paint his fantasies with requisite fervor.- Spin
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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- Posted Jan 22, 2016
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Ultimately, Just a Souvenir is the awesome, but hardly mind-bending, spectacle of an electronica wizard buying a fuzz box.- Spin
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Credit producer Butch Vig, too, who brings the trio closer to sonic Nirvana by coaxing out their snarls and then compressing and polishing them to maximum shininess.- Spin
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With intervention from the boys of No Doubt and production help from Steve Albini, this sprawling album earns a fair hearing.- Spin
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The Harsh Light of Day is being sold as a Great Album, which means ubersongcraft, which means the Beatles, and keep that pedigree coming. [Oct 2000, p.173]- Spin
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While Damnesia makes a surprisingly strong showcase for the Trio's songwriting chops, they should've taken a few more chances.- Spin
- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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It’s carefully and competently constructed, palatable but perilously short on whimsy.- Spin
- Posted Mar 1, 2016
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His murmuring voice brings a believable everydude quality to witty tales of landlord troubles and great evenings out, but above all he's a love junkie.- Spin
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Slim aims for the gut but usually ends up hitting the hips; either way, his relentlessly cloying lyrics ensure that Be Set Free is more suitable for soundtracks and square dances than headphones.- Spin
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With Leisure Seizure, Vek doesn't retool his sound much -- slabs of jittery synths underpin his urgent yelps, which start to grate over 12 tracks.- Spin
- Posted Aug 24, 2011
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1D’s swan song is hopelessly neither here nor there, appropriate to the drinking-age attention spans of an act whose solo careers beckon.- Spin
- Posted Nov 16, 2015
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A melodic world of deliciously messy guitars, synthesizers, and piano. [Sep 2006, p.102]- Spin
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The effect is like gauze with teeth--chill-out music that never stops looking over its shoulder. [Oct 2006, p.104]- Spin