For 1,319 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 69
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 984 out of 1319
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Mixed: 305 out of 1319
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Negative: 30 out of 1319
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Critic Score 100
It's an album so strong and so unexpected that it may change the way people hear all its predecessors. And that's just a start. Listen long enough, and this album might change the way you hear lots of other bands, too. -
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It is something most indie-rock bands take a long time to achieve, if ever: a heavy footfall, a no-half-stepping opus, a defining statement. [9 Oct 2005] -
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You probably won't hear a better CD all year long. [30 Jan 2006] -
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Critic Score 100
It captures Davis's finest working band at its apogee, straining at the limits of post-bop refinement.- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Critic Score 90
It may be Mr. Darnielle's best album so far (which is saying a lot) and his most straightforwardly autobiographical (which isn't saying much). [25 Apr 2005] -
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Critic Score 90
What's most exciting about ''Black Sheep Boy'' is that Okkervil River sounds more than ever like a band. [9 Apr 2005] -
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Critic Score 90
There's a new layer of perspective on her magnificent third album. [3 Oct 2005] -
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Critic Score 90
It is a fully legitimate, clear and strong rock 'n' roll record in the band's own style. And it may really be the best one. -
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Critic Score 90
It’s more experimental yet catchier, more introspective yet more assertive, by turns gloomier and funnier, and above all richer in both sound and implication. “Return to Cookie Mountain” is simply one of this year’s best albums. -
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Critic Score 90
As a sustained effort, it represents the band’s sharpest and most satisfying work, and one of the most accomplished albums of its kind this year. -
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Critic Score 90
Simultaneously brutal and hilarious, and bristling with wake-up-call urgency, “The Black Parade” may prove to be the best rock record of the year. -
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Critic Score 90
Barring some last-minute surprise, he has made the best hip-hop album of the year. [9 Nov 2006] -
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Critic Score 90
These clattering and clear-eyed tracks add up to something singular. [27 Nov 2006] -
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Critic Score 90
Arcade Fire mines classic U2 and Bruce Springsteen far better than the Killers recently did. And Arcade Fire didn’t lose its own voice in an attempt to sound bigger and grander. [5 Mar 2007] -
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Critic Score 90
The year’s most exciting rock ’n’ roll album. [26 Feb 2007] -
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Critic Score 90
“The Reminder” is a modestly scaled but quietly profound pop gem: sometimes intimate, sometimes exuberant, filled with love songs and hints of mystery. [15 Apr 2007] -
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Critic Score 90
Somehow The Con is even more obsessive sounding than Tegan and Sara’s earlier work, and it’s probably even better; it could well be one of the year’s best albums. -
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Critic Score 90
Lupe Fiasco and his producers--mostly Soundtrakk--have clarified the lyrics and brought out the hooks. The result is a three-act allegory that’s also one of the year’s best hip-hop albums. -
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Critic Score 90
Album is one of the year’s most bracing pop releases, and one of the best, a devastatingly fresh reframing of the pop songbook. -
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Critic Score 90
But there’s a strong presence to the album, with its meticulous atmosphere and granite consistency of tone. The chiming guitars of a pair of Erics (Pulido and Nichelson), and the tasteful work of a the drummer McKenzie Smith bring gravity to the band’s gloss on psychedelic folk. -
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Critic Score 90
There’s good reason for both the length of the album and its occasional lavish moments. Ms. Newsom has discovered how to open up her music: to let it whisper and swell, to be swept into the purely musical pleasures of an ingenious arrangement or to let simplicity and silence speak for her. -
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Critic Score 90
This band's self-titled debut (on Fat Possum) is disarming all the same, certain to be one of the year's most unabashedly beautiful albums.- Posted Feb 11, 2011
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Critic Score 90
That Take Care is an almost complete success is no small feat, especially given that it's an accomplishment of form more than of content, content having been handled assuredly on the last two Drake releases- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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