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For 2,398 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 The Seer
Lowest review score: 10 The Path of Totality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,776 out of 2398
  2. Mixed: 543 out of 2398
  3. Negative: 79 out of 2398
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Way I See It
    The Way I See It isn't going to blow any minds, but it might open a few eyes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Overcome
    Overcome is but a grain in the sand on an oversaturated desert; a metal album you'll enjoy while you play it but won't ever be something you‘ll yearn to hear.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Death Magnetic
    There’s a worrying air of desperation running through the band’s lyrical choices that thankfully doesn’t spill over into the music, but it is nonetheless a frequent distraction on an otherwise fine album from a heavy metal juggernaut that might just be kicking back into gear.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Block
    Like "Red Carpet Massacre," The Block is proof that it requires more than the best producers and songwriters to make good pop music
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost In The Sound Of Separation
    When Underoath hits it they hit it well, and Lost in the Sound of Separation is still a very good record despite its faults.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Exit
    Exit is a classic, a refreshing and rewarding experience that is sweet and euphoric and brilliant. Exit should make Tokumaru a star.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    L.A.X.
    When it's good, it's really good. Otherwise, it's never really bad, just excessive and somewhat unfocused.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All Hope Is Gone
    While it's not without its obvious highlights, All Hope is Gone feels too much like a demo with professional production values to make me recommend it as an album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ultra Beatdown
    Ultra Beatdown features the same guitar riffing, theatric singing and the rest of that stuff that doesn’t matter in regards to Dragonforce.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Rocky Road
    Perhaps the greatest compliment that could be paid The Rocky Road is to say it can easily be recommended alongside the best in the Dubliners and Luke Kelly’s catalogue, a distinction both Dempsey and Kelly would no doubt be delighted with.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Resurgam
    Coupled with the fact that his synergy of indie, singer-songwriter, pop, and trip hop is never quite realized, renders Resurgam a few steps below the 2008 hip hop releases that have already proven themselves to be superb.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Youth Novels
    These songs aren’t necessarily greater than the pop tunes around them, but they are different, more singular and more interesting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Take Me To The Sea
    It’s not bad in the sense its unredeemable, just in the sense that it fails to do what it wants to really, really hard.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Fields And Open Devices
    White Fields and Open Devices is simply one of those albums that is well-composed and well-executed.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    London Zoo
    That an album can match enjoyment with artistic merit in a year that has largely seen albums go one way or another is a joy in itself.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Astrological Straits
    Zach Hill is a talented drummer, with some great ideas, but certain elements of the album just tarnish all of the positives. This album is even unlistenable at moments.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fasciinatiion
    It has great ideas brewing, but there are tons of bells and whistles in the production that upstage the songwriting, which admittedly is weaker than usual for The Faint.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conor Oberst
    Lyrically, however, the album is just another soul-searching journey, and while he may be getting too old to call a “boy genius”, he's not lost any of his wistful intelligence.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harps And Angels
    It's hard to slate Harps and Angels too much, because the music is actually quite good in places and it's nowhere near bad enough to be a chore to listen to.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fragile Future
    Unfortunately, with Fragile Future, Hawthorne Heights start awkwardly and never really find their feet.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Partie Traumatic
    Black Kids are trying too hard, plain and simple.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Donkey
    It fails as dance, as rock, as pop, and as art-rock or art-pop. Really, should we be settling for an average, inoffensive midpoint between all these, given all the music that exists in the world?
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fate
    Simply put, Fate is a refreshment of the sound that has been missing for so long.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Day As A Lion [EP]
    The sound quality is, by all accounts, mediocre, but the raw nature of the music reflects the “one day” aspect of their motto.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beautiful Future
    This is just lazily done and disappointing considering it’s been marketed very well to appear mysterious.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Untitled
    Untitled is far from terrible, but it's still a deflating, disappointing, infuriating listen.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Coral Sea
    Ultimately this is very hard to judge as pop music. Judged as art, however, it's sensual, insidious, cathartic, and quite beautiful.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hercules And Love Affair
    Hercules and Love Affair is a killer work from Butler, an album not meant to break down any barriers or start a revolution.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
    So Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is just another Sigur Ros album, but if I can be the first to say it, our "first vital band of the 21st century" is starting to feel old hat.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Saints Of Los Angeles
    While Saints Of Los Angeles is occasionally stunning, as is consistent with Sixx’s recent return to form, it often sounds too much like something Nikki Sixx would expect Crüe fans to like, rather than the top-class rock n’ roll he’s time-and-time-again proven himself capable of making.
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