For 2,075 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
| Highest review score: | Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,597 out of 2075
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Mixed: 443 out of 2075
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Negative: 35 out of 2075
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Battlefield, her expertly constructed second album, upholds a darker, more experienced tone without losing an ounce of melodrama.- The New York Times
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All together it makes for an often sumptuous debut album of lithe, modern coffeehouse soul (in senses musical and literal: Hear Music is a joint venture between Starbucks and Concord Music Group) that smartly avoids the bohemian.- The New York Times
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Their new album, Destination Tokyo, casts a spell in unpolished ways, evoking a gritty hybrid of Krautrock, dance-rock and art-punk.- The New York Times
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His identity crisis, drinking binges and family tensions are chronicled in chunky, rootsy rockers that can be stately or foot-stomping--and can, perhaps, offer some resolution.- The New York Times
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Originality, nostalgia, sincerity, camp--none of these are stable elements in Datarock’s world, which may explain why Red comes across as well as it does.- The New York Times
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It doesn’t reflect a lack of evolution, or even a regression, but rather the completion of a circle--and probably a landing pad, even as the world continues to whiz by.- The New York Times
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The Resistance, the crispest Muse album yet, is unapologetically and ambitiously beautiful.- The New York Times
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The songs stay bright, friendly and generalized yet heartfelt, awaiting the singalongs they invite in Ms. Furtado’s latest language.- The New York Times
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It’s a set of 11 concise songs in 37 minutes that are mostly fast, loud, sinewy and live sounding.- The New York Times
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On Central Market, Mr. Braxton’s first full album under his own name in seven years, he has moved forward with exponentially more complicated music. It’s exponentially more entertaining, too.- The New York Times
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She still needs every ounce of her pluck on an album with a gloss-to-grit ratio more or less congruent with mainstream country norms. But with her keenly stalwart voice, she’s the picture of self-possession, secure enough to admit to the occasional misgiving.- The New York Times
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Together [with producer Rob Cavallo] they broadened the band’s dynamics without sacrificing momentum.- The New York Times
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Michael Buble is a master at juggling musical attitudes, and his new CD, Crazy Love, whose title comes from the Van Morrison song, is his most confident balancing act yet.- The New York Times
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John Eatherly’s almost never in her way, though: she’s pugnacious and razor-sharp right from the outset of this often terrific, and sometimes surprising album.- The New York Times
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Amerie’s raw voice, blunt lyrics and rhythmic ingenuity make “In Love & War” a designer knockoff that at times rivals the original.- The New York Times
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It’s the sonic and emotional expansion her music needed, and its tied to some of her most unguarded songs.- The New York Times
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It all suggests a peculiar update of early-1960s exotica, with a heart of darkness in place of a setting sun.- The New York Times
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"I Can See in Color" is the culmination of an album on which Ms. Blige straps herself into the contemporary R&B machine, then grapples her way out.- The New York Times
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Somber, arty and quintessentially British: that's Hidden the second album by These New Puritans.- The New York Times
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Listeners familiar with Mr. Lang’s more obstreperous instrumental works may not recognize his style here (though a few more meditative ensemble pieces hint at it). But these choral settings, composed from 2001 to 2007, show that he has idiosyncratic but effective ideas about how to use voices.- The New York Times
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Mr. Lamkin’s foul moods are a source of vitality on this gritty and amiable album, his songwriting accomplishing loads in compressed, tightly shelved spaces.- The New York Times
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This isn’t just sonic research; it’s a real album, paced and considered. It feels good.- The New York Times
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After solo projects for both brothers, the regrouped Field Music remains concise but newly prolific on its third album, “Field Music (Measure)” (Memphis Industries), which is packed with 19 songs and a closing instrumental (actually two, including a hidden track).- The New York Times
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Galactic’s cyber-savvy New Orleans funk remembers the past but stays hardheaded about the future.- The New York Times
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They share the beat, tapping it on the bodhran, and slip in counterpoint from fiddle or Celtic harp. But they don’t try to make their collaborators sound Irish. Like the San Patricios, but with a happier outcome, they put Mexico first.- The New York Times
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The new album proves again that she’s not a dabbler, just as it proves again that she and Mr. Ward, her producer, share similar ideals.- The New York Times
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Sometimes lush, sometimes turbulent, the arrangements make Mr. Chu’s melodies more luminous while they open up mysterious spaces behind lyrics that ponder continuity and collapse. It’s a splendid transformation.- The New York Times
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Luckily, scholarship doesn't eclipse the limber, catchy music and the sheer nuttiness of the whole project.- The New York Times
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