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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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    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
    There's only so much blood to be squeezed from that stone, so instead, Somethin 'Bout Kreay contents itself with using that stone to bash listeners over the head.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Gameface
    A mercifully brief running time (less than 50 minutes) and a few scattered moments of autobiographical storytelling help make Gameface marginally less disposable than its most recent predecessors.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    Worst of all, the album closes with three decent songs, reminders of Phair's talent that are muted by what's come before.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Graffiti
    Musically, Graffiti is a fairly ingratiating affair: The production is clean and often lively, and Brown sings well enough. The problem is what he’s singing.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    United Nations of Sound
    Ashcroft himself is disappointingly meager. For a man with a true gift for epic pomposity, he's mostly dull here.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Fortune
    Not all of Fortune is so unctuous, but none of it is inspired.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    I'm Back! Family & Friends
    Contrary to its emphatic title, I'm Back! Family And Friends isn't so much a full-fledged comeback album as a mildly inspiring three-song EP surrounded by truly horrible re-recordings and remixes of Stone's biggest hits of the late '60s and early '70s.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Rebirth
    Rebirth sounds like a strange dispatch from a lost ’80s in which Wayne trafficked in cheesy power chords, cornball hard-rock atmospherics, lame guitar solos for beginners, rock clichés, and Reagan-era synthesizers.
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