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For 5,861 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Kid A Mnesia
Lowest review score: 0 Burned Mind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,054 out of 5861
  2. Mixed: 1,677 out of 5861
  3. Negative: 130 out of 5861
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's Real
    Many listeners will get a thrill from the laser-pointed precision of the final product, a sort of quest for sonic perfection. But unless the bulk of Timony and Ex Hex fans have been harvesting a secret love for Rainbow or Foreigner for all these years, the sheer bloodlessness, the cleanliness, the emphatic punklessness of it all might just make it a pill too bland for many to swallow.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out of the Game
    Out Of The Game is a pretty mellow affair, and although it's hard not to miss Wainwright's "ponderous, pseudo-genius" extravagance, one can't help but be charmed by how lucid and relaxed he sounds. [Jun 2012, p.156]
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      • Posted Jul 9, 2012
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last of the Country Gentlemen
    Pearson's crafted an auspicious opening scene to what will be a long and brilliant second act. [Feb 2011, p.67]
    • Under The Radar
      • Posted Mar 29, 2011
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You Are All I See
    As it stands, You Are All I See is a very solid debut from a remarkable talent. I fully expect nothing but greater things in the future.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love This Giant
    One wishes for Clark to let loose a little more, and allow Byrne to mold his galloping rhythms to her punchy guitar lines. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.109]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hymn and Her
    The songs are well-crafted, no doubt, but they feel oddly rote. [Summer 2008, p.82]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Show Me How You Disappear
    As a whole, Show Me How You Disappear demonstrates a significant amount of promise, but gets muddied up by perpetual overexposure. It’s by no means an unpleasant or regrettable album, just one that doesn’t highlight the qualities that make Medford such a captivating artist.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Lucky Ones
    It may not match the transcendent bird-flipping of those early albums, but Mudhoney are still as pissed and giddy as ever. [Summer 2008]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Coincidentalist
    A pleasant, if uninspiring listen. [Nov-Dec 2013, p.88]
    • Under The Radar
      • Posted Dec 4, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shame, Shame
    Though Shame, Shame succeeds more than it fails, it also exposes how difficult it's going to be for Dr. Dog to truly create a masterpiece. [Sping 2010, p.69]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hesitation Marks
    On Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails hints at new directions, but hesitates to take a leap.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Life Fantastic
    Life Fantastic rolls along with signature Man Man sounds and forms, which is to say, a carnival of sorts. Part gypsy, part rock, slightly crazed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Stuff
    Influential they sure were, for better or worse, but right now, as heroically, monumentally crazed and unconventional they may be, Royal Trux are more a curio than compelling.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Two Saviors
    For all its efforts to communicate, Two Saviors, ends up being as inscrutable as the concepts it tries to put forth.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Idealism
    It's the subtlest distortion-heavy dance-pop album of the year, which makes it less compelling than its contemporaries, but also might make it more enduring. [Summer 2007, p.87]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beard, Wives, Denim
    Pond's music leans a little more joyous, perhaps, and is more infused with glam and classic rock [than sister band, Tame Impala.] [March 2012, p.79]
    • Under The Radar
      • Posted Mar 21, 2012
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Don't Stop
    When it's good, it's very good. And when it's bad...well... [Holiday 2009, p.81]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everything Ecstatic
    Sadly lacks the emotion and, frankly, the catchiness of his previous release. [#10, p.111]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pedals
    One can always count on [Walter Schreifels] for ample moments of songwriting gold and guitar rapture. [Feb. 2011, p. 67]
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      • Posted Mar 9, 2011
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You're Not Alone
    Three of the 16 tracks are spoken word, self-help messages, which match the rest of the album's rather cloying lyrical content. Every motivational buzzword is used repeatedly until you're almost praying for a bit of My Chemical Romance style, teenage nihilism to creep in, just to break up the monotony.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Days
    Once the album finishes, the feeling is of a consistently pleasing spell, but one without many memorable moments.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nothing Hurts
    Although the album starts off with a bang, it all starts to sound awfully similar after three tracks. [Spring 2010, p.72]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Threads
    Its debut had a rawness that this album lacks. Nonetheless, these songs, especially "Dead Oaks" and the gorgeous "School Friends" comprise a winning collection of emotional songs about relationships, romantic and otherwise. [#40, p.78]
    • Under The Radar
      • Posted Mar 19, 2012
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
    [They're unquestionably still the same band, but--just like many of their longtime listeners--they're all grown up now. [Nov/Dec 2014, p.63]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    E-MO-TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen and her production team try overly hard to be clever. In the end, what's left is a record that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously by anyone else.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    La La Land
    Kudos for trying to expand a tried and tested formula, but a lot of La La Land sounds like dozens of fragments of tunes crazy glued together in a hurry.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Impersonator
    The majority sounds like demos for a fuller, richer album that Welsh undoubtedly has the skills to write.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Havilah
    Restraint dominates elsewhere, but brillance comes when The Drones throw musical sanity to the wind. [Winter 2009, p.78]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Santogold
    Variously hailed as the future of pop music, the next M.I.A., and the culmination of punk, New Wave, and electronic pop, the most remarkable aspect of Santogold’s debut is how ordinary most of it is. [Summer 2008]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unrepentant Geraldines
    All the usual thematic motifs make an appearance, for good or ill. [Jun/Jul 2014, p.84]
    • Under The Radar
      • Posted Jun 6, 2014
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