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For 2,093 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 City of Refuge
Lowest review score: 10 Lulu
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,670 out of 2093
  2. Mixed: 412 out of 2093
  3. Negative: 11 out of 2093
2093 music reviews
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hello [EP]
    On its official debut, Karmin sidesteps creative expectations by simply sounding like every other pop act going.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If On A Winter's Night...
    Mostly, with its wintry hush and flurries of harmonies, the album evokes the title, a not unpleasant vision of contemplatively gazing out a window encrusted with frost in a thick Irish wool sweater drinking a steaming cup of cider.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Rebirth Of Venus
    Lee pulls it off--and has fun with the earnest sermonizing while he's at it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Scream
    The resulting dynamic is two distinct flowers from the sound garden that produce an only occasionally sweet-smelling bouquet.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    iSouljaBoyTellem
    This follow-up to his commercially successful debut is a mind-numbing bore that has a few well-produced club tracks by Mr. Collipark and Polow Da Don that slightly mix up the successful formula (chant, be inane, repeat).
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What The...
    By its second track, “Down in the Dirt,” this album has already sunk into undifferentiated aural mud, with 19 more doses of thin drums, buried vocals, and shredding guitar to come.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BAYTL
    A tired, impotent album for sure, but between dumb and dumber, dumb wins every time.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fortune
    "Don't Wake Me Up," a thumping club cut that's irresistible on an otherwise forgettable album.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Slick Dogs And Ponies
    Sick Dogs never coalesces into anything more than the sum of its noisy, jagged parts.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buffet Hotel
    What makes this tower over some Buffett albums is the ballads.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feeler
    It's inexplicable why these songs were deemed weak follow-ups to the Toadies' stellar 1994 debut, as the "Feeler'' tunes - re-recorded with the band's current lineup - exude the sinister tension of the breakout hits while also branching out into other sonic turf
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unfinished
    Unfinished finds Knight buffed, shined, and (sometimes conspicuously) Auto-Tuned for a new generation that already has its own idols.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cosmic Hallelujah
    Chesney isn’t one to rest on his laurels, and his 17th album, Cosmic Hallelujah, bears that out.
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