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For 5,504 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 All Born Screaming
Lowest review score: 10 Unpredictable
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,965 out of 5504
  2. Mixed: 2,462 out of 5504
  3. Negative: 77 out of 5504
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return The Gift
    Return the Gift sees the foursome re-recording their original songs and, implausibly, making them better.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Violet Hour
    Though The House Always Wins unlocks a tidal wave of frustration with its nervy guitars, the change of pace can't prevent the numbness.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    stellastarr*
    Although they can generate a gothic tombstone rumble as convincingly as fellow New Yorkers Interpol, they prefer to keep moving, throwing in fresh hooks at every turn and making no secret of their influences.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Some Cities
    Anthemic, challenging pop.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Wow
    Somehow, though, the Kills' sludge-coloured, super-lo-fi sulkiness charms despite itself
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love, Angel, Music, Baby
    Only a pair of beefy co-writes with rock mauler Linda Perry detract from the overall tingliness.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jungle Rules
    At 18 tracks, Jungle Rules is too long, but provides the “playlist generation” with bangers to choose from.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kish Kash
    There's a recurring sense of enforced jollity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is Not A Test!
    Although [Test!] is predictably better than 90% of the year's hip-hop, it stands up less well against her own remarkable back-catalogue.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ships
    Demented, but fun.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Eraser
    It sounds exactly like you would expect a Thom Yorke solo album to sound: twitchy electronic beats, doomy washes of synthesizer, backing vocals that are invariably high, wordless and ghostly.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Till Death Do Us Part
    Doesn't break with the formula, but at least it stretches it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clothes Drop
    A typically canny and diverse selection: bona fide dancehall cuts interspersed with hooky pop.
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