Village Voice (Consumer Guide)'s Scores
- Music
For 223 reviews, this publication has graded:
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73% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 82
Highest review score: | Pick A Bigger Weapon | |
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Lowest review score: | A Day Without Rain |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 184 out of 223
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Mixed: 37 out of 223
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Negative: 2 out of 223
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Crucially, his knack for simple punk tunes remains unchanged; also crucially, these do fine at moderate tempos, and one even gives off a whiff of Brecht-Weill. There are worse ways to come down off a multiplatinum high-lots of them.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
- Posted Mar 8, 2011
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At her best--which must not come easy, or they'd release more and more consistent albums--Rennie Sparks is a great American realist.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Mouthy, destructive, confused, sexed-up but no sex object, Jemima Pearl is the pearl.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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OK, more news event than musical milestone. But a really great news event.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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In a time when so many bands don't know why they exist but keep on vanning anyway, his honest tale is touching and instructive.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The music is so minimal that you won't return that often. But when you do, you'll remember she loves you.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Working on the humane assumption that all screamo records can't be equally horrible, the reviewerati have singled out this big-ticket effort... Unburdened by theory, however, I find that its distinction boils down to slightly subtler tunecraft and dynamic range.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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His comic timing and mixture of slangs--not to mention his musical conception... are all so much more fully developed that he's actually made a record that's fun to play in the background.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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His lesser songs would be dookie gold on an ordinary undie-rap album.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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No other Brazilian composer defies cultural boundaries so eloquently.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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With American Idol rampant, it's nice to have this emotional hipster sticking her celebrity cred in the stupid world's face.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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It could be argued that music this masterful waives all claim to the sound of surprise--until you pay attention.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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He thinks he belongs up there in front of that expert new band, singing or shouting whatever banality, profundity, or turn of phrase he's written down, and his level of enthusiasm combined with his level of craft will convince anyone who still likes, you know, songs.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Many details are too U.K.-specific for Yank-yob gratification. But aesthetes will come to enjoy Taylor's nuanced adenoids and his bandmates' thought-through arrangements.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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This being anthropology, pretty much, a sampler is the ideal introduction.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The Brit accents on the pseudo-triumphalist, vaguely Jeezy-sounding four-cameo opener are grime enough for me--most gripping grime I know, in fact, and pretty damn fine Jeezy-sounding pseudo-triumphalism to boot.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Though the singer-with-backup music relies on formula that won't set anyone's life straight, her melodic chops--sweet as a writer, supple as a singer--put the songs across.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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[Bell Orchestre] varies its cunningly sequenced, gratifyingly brief instrumental tracks with such old-fashioned amenities as textured melodies, pleasing dynamic shifts, and passages that, if they don't actually r-o-c-k, at least bound down the road in an excited manner.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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If anything, it's more a dance record, leaving those of us with a sentimental weakness for distinct parts a little lost.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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David Berman joins a pickup band that includes his close personal friend Stephen Malkmus to explore realms of vocal inexpressiveness undreamt by Stephin Merritt or the Handsome Family.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The melodies don't falter, and Wonder's unexpectedly and perhaps unfortunately influential vocal attack is as mellifluous as ever.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Both guys are so irrepressibly playful that they get serious at their peril--they're better off as a nonstop musical goof.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Pond's songs are the alt-rock equivalent of what used to be called New Yorker short stories: subtly realized domestic epiphanies often involving tame nature imagery.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Although Mike Elizondo adds momentum, Jon Brion's colors still predominate, and the melodic and structural contours are all Apple's.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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They've gotten unmistakably louder and unmistakably gayer--or perhaps I mean, hate the term, more metrosexual.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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There's no more accomplished crew in alt-rap, and though that can make their messages seem slick sometimes, on ['The Craft'] their booming beats, lucid raps, and articulate rhymes are technically miraculous.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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