The Independent on Sunday (UK)'s Scores

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For 595 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% 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: 70
Highest review score:
One Day I'm Going To Soar
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Last Night on Earth
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 379 out of 595
  2. Mixed: 206 out of 595
  3. Negative: 10 out of 595
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    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 20
    Last Night on Earth
    Even if it's a joke, it's a joke you don't wanna hear.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 30
    Femme Fatale
    Max Martin, Mr "Baby One More Time", has been roped in again along with scores of interchangeable Scandinavians to create an album of autotuned landfill chartpop which you will scour in vain for anything on a par with "Womanizer".
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 20
    Kisses on the Bottom
    Suggests that McCartney lacks anyone to tell him when he's had a terrible idea.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Critic Score 20
    The Connection
    It's nice that Shaddix is still alive, but Papa Roach remain irretrievably atrocious.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 20
    American Soul
    Tthey run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier with Hucknall managing to make every song sound impressively dated.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Critic Score 30
    How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell
    It's coated in a layer of pseudo-authenticity, but ultimately it's a record which aims for Bo Diddley or Johnny Cash and merely attains Dire Straits.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 20
    Havoc and Bright Lights
    Morissette is the sort of woman who does yoga to ensure she can still gaze at her navel... Self-obsessed.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 20
    Overexposed
    The sooner this bunch of plums fade back into obscurity, the better.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Critic Score 30
    Sticks + Stones
    All Syco needed to do was reprise her staggering first TV audition. Astonishingly, they've dropped the ball.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 20
    Famous First Words
    This debut is so lame, it makes the Beady Eye album sound like Let It Bleed.