Wall of Sound's Scores
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For 232 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia | |
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Lowest review score: | When It All Goes South |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 198 out of 232
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Mixed: 32 out of 232
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Negative: 2 out of 232
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Beenie Man's smooth adaptability works against him, as the 17 tracks almost inevitably contain a few less than stellar ones. For the most part, however, Art and Life has more good than bad.- Wall of Sound
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The result is not only a more ambitious album than one might have expected, it's also a substantial step forward from Urban Hymns, the Verve's own crowning achievement.- Wall of Sound
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The 10-song album... hits and misses in equal quantities, though even at its worst moments, there's at least a germ of a good idea that simply wasn't realized -- or, in the case of some of the album's longer tracks, was overdone.- Wall of Sound
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What is meant to sound languid and trippy instead comes across as overwrought and pretentious?- Wall of Sound
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The band is beguilingly hypnotic, making music that is decidedly off-kilter. Guitars swirl, grind, and mesh with fluid rhythms and haunting melodies.- Wall of Sound
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A dense and textured rock affair that builds a bridge between grunge, goth, and industrial stylings.- Wall of Sound
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Enter Faith and Courage, an album that reclaims O'Connor's status and stature as it presents us with a kinder, gentler, and matured artist who still sings like a wily archangel and writes with passionate, purposeful clarity.- Wall of Sound
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The disc's first single, "Someone Else Not Me," makes it clear that although the band often sticks to the same songwriting formula, there are still new melodies left to explore.- Wall of Sound
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Plaintive, nakedly honest lyrics collide with keen observation... an hour of enrapturing atmosphere.- Wall of Sound
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Moves with a quick tempo that whips through the album's 15 songs and assorted skits.... There's something innately joyous about many of the group's songs, whether it's how the J5 MCs play verbal double-dutch over the pulsating "Jurass Finish First" or the assembly of sampled snippets that drive the playground anthem "Monkey Bars."- Wall of Sound
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It's not precisely rock and roll, more a summary of the stylistic fusion that has evolved over his last five albums: unequal parts rock, bluegrass, folk, Irish, and punk.- Wall of Sound
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Scottish pop whizzes Belle and Sebastian have finally found a way to rid themselves of their onerous rep as critics' darlings: They've made an album that isn't very good.- Wall of Sound
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Van Helden's compositional modus operandi doesn't vary much between the 11 tracks, but it's a combination that rarely fails to deliver a knockout punch. He introduces one element -- a vocal snippet or a jazzy drum break -- and milks it for a spell, before introducing a contrasting timbre. The two begin to climb in and around each other, as Van Helden tweaks and twists various effects, bringing the music and momentum to a dizzy, unsettling pitch.- Wall of Sound
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A melange of rather unremarkable vocals; ambitious, overwrought dance-pop; and lyrics that occasionally read and sound like English as a second language.- Wall of Sound
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The Platform, for all its individual strengths, never hits any kind of synergy as an album.- Wall of Sound
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Matchbox Twenty never claimed to be original or challenging or anything more than a lightweight and entertaining pop band. Which is why Mad Season, with its rather casual and jammy feel, is so surprising, so substantial, and much more satisfying than expected.- Wall of Sound
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It's smartly crafted black comedy from hip-hop's greatest white MC, a strong storyteller and a master of the metaphor, who produces staggeringly popular music that's mostly meant to be enjoyed with both a pained grimace and a smirk.- Wall of Sound
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Wasp Star adheres to the bouncy melodicism and skewed humor that's been XTC's stock in trade for 25 years.- Wall of Sound
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They've offered us more inventive, more substantial work in the past...- Wall of Sound
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A formless collection that drifts from one tune to the next, weighed down by a general sense of murk that pervades everything from Tchad Blake's production to the song arrangements and the lyrics.- Wall of Sound
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The band members unleash meditative, self-consciously poetic jams, solidifying their status as the hipster's Phish.- Wall of Sound
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Some of Hatfield's best work ever... [v]irtually every track here is memorable, and often heart-rending, revolving around Hatfield's strengths as an artist: her baby-girl voice; her frank, naive lyrics; and her acoustic melodies.- Wall of Sound
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An unseemly, almost unnecessary foray into heavy metal and hard rock, especially in light of her success on the acoustic side.- Wall of Sound
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Oops! does succeed in making Spears sound sexier and meatier -- and not that innocent -- as its team of top-shelf producers (particularly Max Martin and Rodney Jerkins) supports her adenoidal vocals and breathy hiccups with bottom-heavy arrangements that provide a bit more thrust and pump to the proceedings.- Wall of Sound
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The blond brothers' creative maturity is evident all over the disc's 13 songs.- Wall of Sound
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The band hasn't taken the same sort of strides it has in the past. That's not to say Wishville isn't a strong album, but in the realm of Catherine Wheel recordings, it doesn't deliver on the promise of Adam and Eve.- Wall of Sound
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