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For 1,126 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 The Golden Age of Apocalypse
Lowest review score: 10 This Is Forever
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 856 out of 1126
  2. Mixed: 256 out of 1126
  3. Negative: 14 out of 1126
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dark Touches
    Although this album is an improvement from his previous work, to fully understand this album (and his work overall), you must see him live.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stealing Of A Nation
    Too often we get ill-fated experiments in electronic circa 1997 and overly polished replications of their biggest hit to date, "Electrify." [Sep 2004, p.116]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    This Is Forever
    Yes, you said it best, pretentious-as-hell front-man, Warfield, this album is a train wreck.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Types Of Wood
    Too much of Wood lumbers on and on and on... [May 2006, p.95]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Other People's Songs
    The results have a better chance of ending up in mom's Volvo than your iPod. [Jan 2003, p.76]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hotel
    The frustrating saving grace is a bonus disc of fluid, pain-killing Brian Eno pastiche. [Jun 2005, p.75]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tourist
    Beck (Sea Change) and Coldplay (Parachutes) already made the exponentially better versions of this album. [Jun 2005, p.76]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    The results... rarely match up with the legend. [Apr 2007, p.107]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Generation
    Good guilty pleasure music. [Oct 2005, p.76]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Scream
    Scream may be the most compelling train wreck of an album in recent memory.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Lively Mind
    Mind plays like a collection of tracks destined for car commercials, Hollywood movies and Superbowl half-time shows. [Apr 2006, p.90]
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    • 70 Critic Score
    La Luna
    This is a considerably more ominous and hardnosed sound from former Can man Czukay than we've had in a while, and La Luna is more than welcome for it. [#77, p.126]
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