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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. Positive: 184 out of 223
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 223
  3. Negative: 2 out of 223
223 music reviews
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vapor Transmissions
    Aiming to fill the Queenhole by injecting video-game sci-fi and radio-head sonics into a pop-metal base, the Korn protégés forge a "startling vision of a future world in which communications technology has been turned against us, becoming a tool for government surveillance rather than personal convenience." Gosh, how'd they think of that?
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Devil's Night
    These ill jockeys are just a two-inch ruler for Marshall Mathers to measure his dick against.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tight Connection
    Bad laptop Blondie.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    So Much For The City
    [A] sentimental cutesification of surf and country.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fabulous Muscles
    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
    Red Dirt Girl
    What a weird (dishonest? ironic? clueless?) name for a record that's all literature and arty sound effects.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harmonies For The Haunted
    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
    Tres Cosas
    Boring strummed singer-songwritering with not terribly interesting electronica.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Return Of Dragon
    [Crosses] PG-13 thug and subpar Luther Vandross.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Documentary
    This no-talent is masscult rock at its most brazen.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    This Time Around
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Happy People / U Saved Me
    His productivity isn't exuberance, it's greed; his PG rating isn't scruples, it's cowardice.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    A Day Without Rain
    Yanni is Tchaikovsky by comparison, Sarah McLachlan Ella Fitzgerald, treacle Smithfield ham.... Like Master P or Michael Bolton only worse, she tests one's faith in democracy itself.
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