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For 764 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Naked Truth
Lowest review score: 10 God Says No
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 517 out of 764
  2. Mixed: 199 out of 764
  3. Negative: 48 out of 764
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    By The Way
    Kiedis's lyrics are absolutely baffling.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Heathen Chemistry
    Nowadays, the Gallaghers can only offer stylized guitar murk and hookless acoustic ditties; even scarier, you can understand their lyrics, which are more mush-headed and lovey-dovey than you'd expect from a band this self-satisfied.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Murray Street
    The new album isn't terrible, just dull.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nellyville
    A great pop album that reconciles his sudden wealth, attachment to home, and desire to rule the world.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Private Press
    The record sounds like it came a year or so after Endtroducing--which is to say, it goes a little deeper in summoning Gothic textures and awesome drum samples, and arrives as a delayed, well-fitting follow-up to a landmark.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Golden Dove
    Weaves enchanting pagan ditties out of cello and euphonium, some cornball New Wave moves, and the serpentine economy of Timony's keyboards and Renaissance-faire guitar.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    18
    Nearly every song sounds like either a redux of or reject from its predecessor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    Maladroit picks up where the Green Album slacked off, relying on the same chunky sonics that set "Hash Pipe" apart from Weezer's earlier, more lithe singles.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When I Was Cruel
    Elvis makes you suffer for the good stuff with leaden conceits, overwrought hysterics, a useless reprise. And then he makes it all up to yoo-oo-oou.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is basically a good album, even a great album if you're in the mood, though if you listen to a lot of hip-hop (or house music or basement bhangra or any other genre not dominated by white people), it probably won't be the most extraordinary album you'll hear all month.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Handcream For A Generation
    Handcream is leaner and less exuberant than When I Was Born, lower on warm drone and Indian elements generally and higher on Singh's sardonic mode.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Release
    Release sounds at once like a last gasp and a reinvention, which makes it all the more moving.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    C'mon C'mon
    Only the tragic decision to duet with former employer Don Henley mars the ride.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Get Wet
    After one listen to I Get Wet, you'll swear you've heard it before... but somehow, you've never heard anything like it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Playgroup
    This is an album where the magic is all in the details: the exquisite interplay of different drum sounds, the textural alternation of succulent and crisp. The songs are merely serviceable.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rings Around The World
    SFA uses 21st-century tools to achieve pop timelessness.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    White Lilies Island
    There's an overwhelming tinny ring that starts on the second track, "Beauty on the Fire," and ends with the last track--it's this young possum's voice.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fever
    Sure, Fever's brushed-steel Eurodisco is old hat, Munich '77 via Paris '98. But mainlined along FM frequencies, it sounds totally 2002.
    • Village Voice
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Under Rug Swept
    I'm just not sure that pop music should come out of a thesaurus.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Source Tags & Codes
    At least it captures the fuzzy-math sound from too many gray-area indie bands--and it rocks hard where geezers like Mercury Rev just drift away.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cake & Pie
    There are tracks on Cake and Pie that suggest Loeb might have been a badass had she realized herself when boofy bangs and women with lightning-bolt guitars were defining pop.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Barricades & Brickwalls
    Chambers's two solo records are more fun than a barrel of Foster's, mostly because she doesn't sound daunted by the history of the music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gotham!
    By the second and third tunes, the game is up. We get it: Gang of Radio 4. This is Radio 4 Clash. And so on.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Scarecrow
    As if hell-bent on rewarding brand loyalty, however, Brooks does himself in by recycling his typical subjects.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love, Shelby
    Mostly all manner of shiny, happy pop.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Party Music
    Many of the lyrics on Party Music amount to no more than slogans, maxims, opinions.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Invincible
    To really care about this album you have to be able to get into the pure hard sounds of the dance-track percussion and the way Michael tends to garnish them with his voice.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Get Ready
    Neither as bad as you might fear nor as good as you might hope.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Is This It?
    If you like one Strokes song, you'll like their whole album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ten New Songs
    Ten New Songs is all introspection, closer in sound to a technologically updated Songs From a Room.
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