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For 4,544 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Life Of Pablo
Lowest review score: 0 Graffiti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,663 out of 4544
  2. Mixed: 771 out of 4544
  3. Negative: 110 out of 4544
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Reign of Terror
    On Reign Of Terror, Sleigh Bells is cornered in by its own sound, unwilling to risk more adventurous metal excursions or get vulnerable enough to fully embrace its emerging lighter side.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Six Cups of Rebel
    Six Cups seems determined to resurrect the bad decisions of pop's past.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    Lanegan's voice may be timeless, but its versatility has its limits--and Blues Funeral tests those limits just a little too much.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    Here they sound like preludes to a nice cup of tea and an afternoon nap.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Black Cocaine [EP]
    Judging by this underwhelming return, Prodigy's stint in the correctional facilities merely constituted time lost.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rad Times Xpress IV
    Whether by accident or not, though, Rad Times hits some genuinely artificial notes, in just the right way.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bangarang [EP]
    Bangarang is the work of an entertainer still insecure in his ability to hold his audience's attention without resorting to loud gimmicks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Which Side Are You On?
    The problem with DiFranco's current work is not the fading anger of her youth. Instead, it's her inability to sound engaged in the current events she sings about.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
    There's nothing about TM 103 that suggests Jeezy has any interest in moving on.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    BAYTL
    BAYTL is an album for B-movie lovers who prefer their entertainment blaring from the blown speakers of a rust-spackled Cadillac.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Purple Naked Ladies
    Without that blessed cohesion that is the groove, Purple Naked Ladies is an alternately jaggy and listless dream, rather than the narcotic romp it is meant to be.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Dreamer/The Believer
    It's a passable album of mostly neutral jams and bare-minimum production.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    rEvolver
    Despite the title's promise of evolution, the record mines the same club-banging, shawty-romancing formula of the singer's boom years, to ever-diminishing returns.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Lioness: Hidden Treasures
    The result is a collection so clean-scrubbed that it sometimes seems to be eulogizing an entirely different singer than the one fans remember.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Total Decay [EP]
    Total Decay's main drawback is its lack of contrast.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Radioactive
    For an uncomfortable seven-song stretch, the rapper seems so alienated from his own album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bruiser
    As it is, Bruiser is an album with some promise, but not much.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here and Now
    Even as Here And Now inspires massive eye-rolls, the nefariously catchy songs stick like stepped-in dog crap.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Coco Beware
    As pleasantly promising as CoCo Beware is, Caveman has yet to move past that phase, or to fully harness the alluring darkness at its heart.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Camp
    A meaty concept album about how the insecurities of youth carry into adulthood, Camp is heavy with themes of racial expectations and cultural ostracism--big ideas that aren't always done justice by Glover's cartoonishly exaggerated, one-liner-laden flow.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stronger
    The album suffers from a heavily produced electro-sheen, and ends up feeling more manufactured than magical.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    In the Key of Disney
    In Mickey Mouse terms, this album is more the blandly suburban color Mickey than the anarchic black-and-white Mickey. The shape is the same; the spirit isn't.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Live Music
    The absence of sonic violence and impenetrable murk has made the Strange Boys sound unexpectedly emaciated and bloodless.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Apokalypsis
    Wolfe's goth experimentalism is certainly harrowing stuff, but it's missing the chilling detachment and roughness that made The Grime And The Glow feel dark in unfamiliar and unsettling ways.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    He Thinks He's People
    He Thinks He's People feels like an autobiographical mix-tape, with a few phases worth forgetting.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Conditions of My Parole
    Conditions verges on dour, monochromatic humorlessness.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Soul Punk
    It's a produced pop record with electronic, danceable bits and vocal harmonies that sometimes seem much too enamored with Michael Jackson worship.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hall Music
    With Hall Music, Svanangen has proven he can compose big arrangements, but he might not write big music.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Own the Night
    While the average age of Lady Antebellum's members is a relatively youthful 28, Own The Night is purposely old-fashioned, even geriatric.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Sea of Memories
    The Sea Of Memories plays like an endless replay of Rossdale's past musical miscues.
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