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For 1,951 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Wincing The Night Away
Lowest review score: 20 Luminous
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,539 out of 1951
  2. Mixed: 380 out of 1951
  3. Negative: 32 out of 1951
1951 music reviews
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Everything Is Forgotten
    Methyl Ethel's sophomore LP begins promisingly enough. ... Then things go south. "Act of Contrition" and "Groundswell," whose slogging beat and island vibe sound wildly out of place, are clunkers.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Last 2 Walk
    Save for Lyfe Jennings' refreshing cues on 'Hood Star,' there's nothing original about Last.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Whatever's On Your Mind
    Whatever's on Your Mind is as scattershot as the band that made it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The New Classic
    Iggy Azalea's a fun girl booty-shaking a few morsels of neon, hashtag-spangled pop.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Sound of Sunshine
    Summer's gone, but the buoyant vibe to The Sound of Sunshine extends year-round.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hymns
    Lacking the band's prior specificity, too much of the album languishes in uncommitted sprawl.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gettin' In Over My Head
    If you've followed Wilson's treacherous saga, it's heartening how upbeat Getting' in Over My Head sounds, even with a fair number of tracks misfiring.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Are You Passionate?
    Just how bad can an LP produced by "Neil Young & Booker T. Jones with Duck Dunn and Poncho Sampedro" be? Not bad at all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Raven
    Reed's wraparound originals are mostly vaudeville, which is to say laughable. [Note: The score listed is for the 2xCD version. The single CD version received a lower score of 1/5 stars.]
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Reincarnated
    The onetime rapper's new foray into Lionism deviates so far from the norm that its proprietor's been edged out, melded into a nonconfrontational reggae singer whose drops can't muster a single memorable moment.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Love, Shelby
    The edges have all been sawed off of Lynne's sound by producer and co-songwriter Glen Ballard, and she appears as a positively wimpy adult.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Codename: Rondo
    If Ghostland Observatory's serious about more than modern raves, the locals need to bring in an outside producer (Austin's Wolfgang Gartner?) to help construct something fresh. Otherwise, the party's just about over.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Slipway Fires
    Between the two best tracks that bookend the UK quartet's third LP struggles an album slighter than the last, which was already thinner than the first.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    This is no five-star, but the disc's greatest wobble is also its strongest suite: It genre-hops.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Astronaut
    With too many songs trying too hard, Duranies will still go hungry for quality.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    Pharrell's all-too-shallow schtick becomes monumentally tired over the course of an entire album.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Funstyle
    Hunted by cryptomusicologists with a zeal once reserved for Zimmerman's Basement musings and the Pixies' purple phase, this addition is alluring.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    See My Friends
    Square-peg/round-hole pairings of the Kinkster and guests seldom jell as duets (Bruce Springsteen), but covers from Lucinda Williams ("Long Way From Home") and Jackson Browne ("Waterloo Sunset") make for choice B-sides.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tical 0: The Prequel
    Bogged down by Meth's lackadaisical approach and reliance on guest appearances, Tical 0: The Prequel falls flat on its befuddled front.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let a Lover Drown You
    Touches of Simon & Garfunkel lift "Catalogue" and "Gold," but the lingering harmonies feel more forced and measured than natural.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Theology
    It's a tale of two cities that was better off reaching an accord for a single CD.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    This is not the sound of a band with anything on the line.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
    Sure, there's Somethin 'Bout Kreay, but it's not good.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Roses at the End of Time
    Produced by her son Cisco Ryder, Roses at the End of Time decorates Gilkyson's repertoire with 10 lush offerings instead of a full-bouquet dozen, yet it's as fragrant and evocative as needed.
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