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For 461 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 63
Highest review score:
Monomania
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Nothing But the Beat
Critic Score 20
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 167 out of 461
  2. Mixed: 287 out of 461
  3. Negative: 7 out of 461
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    • Metascore: 34
    • Critic Score 20
    Famous First Words
    Ultimately, Famous First Words sets the cause of resurgent guitar rock back… ooh, a good 20 years.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 20
    Nothing But the Beat
    Guetta's trademark union of stadium trance and American R&B is represented in a glittering array of bling-encrusted collaborations (Snoop Dogg, Akon, Chris Brown) but they struggle to impose any distinctive personality on the overall mood of relentless rictus-grin-inducing euphoria.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Critic Score 20
    SuperHeavy
    The combination of reggae, drivetime rock and Bollywood orchestration may work beautifully elsewhere, but not here--and Stone's soulful noodling only makes matters worse.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 20
    Some Nights
    Lyrically vapid, auto-tuned and stadium-aspiring choruses like these, with their hands-in-the-air, mugging-with-your-mates quality, are so lacking in imagination that they make "feel-good" feel really, really bad.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 20
    Love Is a Four Letter Word
    Even by his own standards this is stupefyingly insipid and pedestrian fare.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 20
    Collections
    Collections, their second effort, mislays what little charm Delphic possessed, tilting at the big pop statement in uneven bursts.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 20
    Old Sock
    Its versions of tracks by everyone from Peter Tosh to Gershwin, Taj Mahal to JJ Cale seldom amounting to anything more thrilling than might be heard in the back room of a pub.