Village Voice (Consumer Guide)'s Scores

  • Music
For 223 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 82
Highest review score: 100 Pick A Bigger Weapon
Lowest review score: 16 A Day Without Rain
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 2 out of 223
223 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The musical parsimony, cultural insularity, moral certitude, and histrionic affectations of these lo-fi artier-than-thous promise indie ideologues whole lifetimes of egoistic irrelevance.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    What a weird (dishonest? ironic? clueless?) name for a record that's all literature and arty sound effects.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    What gave Shawn Christensen and his botched tonsillectomy the idea of joining the exalted ranks of Robert Smith and Simon Le Bon?
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Boring strummed singer-songwritering with not terribly interesting electronica.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    [Crosses] PG-13 thug and subpar Luther Vandross.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    This no-talent is masscult rock at its most brazen.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    If you thought they were bad when they were cute, or even that they were cute when they were good, believe me, you don't want to hear them mature.