For 2,093 reviews, this publication has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: | City of Refuge | |
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Lowest review score: | Lulu |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,670 out of 2093
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Mixed: 412 out of 2093
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Negative: 11 out of 2093
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The song [This Is Country Music] encapsulates Paisley's status as a premier upholder of traditional country within a contemporary framework, and the 15 songs that follow confirm that status.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 24, 2011
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On first listen, the disc seems unassuming because of its subtlety, but slowly it reveals its layers. The tracks about love, devotion, and transcendence are refreshingly honest and (mercifully) lacking in leering lasciviousness.- Boston Globe
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Utopia is both resolutely avant-garde and absolutely beautiful, a combination those who associate experimental music with dissonance and ugliness will find utterly paradoxical.- Boston Globe
- Posted Nov 22, 2017
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When Joyce Manor cracks open its sound the results are satisfying despite (or maybe because of?) being delivered in bite-size form.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jul 21, 2014
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The album will be attractive to head bangers, math rockers, and now even classic-rock devotees thanks to guitarists Brent Hinds's and Bill Kelliher's deep devotion to the almighty riff.- Boston Globe
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She’s the star of her own movie--and that’s very much what this album feels like--and she’s in charge.- Boston Globe
- Posted Sep 10, 2013
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Expectations were high for this first joint record from the husband-and-wife team, but they generally settle for easy-listening, adult-contemporary blues music that rarely unleashes the power for which they are known.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 10, 2011
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Composition is just part of what makes pop music work, and the best tracks on In Conflict succeed on the arrangements and production as well as the writing.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 27, 2014
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What results is an album to live with, and to live inside: engrossing and necessary.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jul 21, 2016
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If this sounds ambitious, it is. But Russell pulls it off with an engaging nobility.- Boston Globe
- Posted Oct 6, 2011
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It adds up to an album of left-field soul that's downcast but not at all a bummer.- Boston Globe
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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Baltimore's Dan Deacon has piled all facets of his musical persona together here.- Boston Globe
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Atkins’s songwriting has since mutated, so that even songs that would have fit on “Neptune City” (the remix-ready disco track “Girl You Look Amazing”) or “Mondo Amore” (the stomping country-gospel “Sin Song”) represent a progression.- Boston Globe
- Posted Feb 25, 2014
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Forget about the dreaded decline. Arctic Monkeys have moved from their alarmingly evolved infancy into rock toddlerhood with glibness, swagger, and whip-smart songs intact.- Boston Globe
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The smooth-groove classicism here is just part of Hamilton's mature command of the form, with none of neo-soul's studied Afro-Sheen patina.- Boston Globe
- Posted Dec 13, 2011
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The record is the most unvarnished rock music Palmer's ever created, leaning heavily on '80s goth and the oddball New Wave of folks like Lene Lovich.- Boston Globe
- Posted Sep 17, 2012
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This sensual song suite about the ephemeral nature of love and what it takes to sustain happiness should end up among this year’s finest efforts.- Boston Globe
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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Thomas Mars sings with a casual amiability so hard to resist that it helps carry Phoenix through some of the less immediate material on the album's back half.- Boston Globe
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The disc is an affirmation that life, and hip-hop, can indeed get better.- Boston Globe
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Far from an indulgent wallow in saccharine nostalgia--and disproving absurd accusations of a quick-buck dip into a fountain of easygoing oldies a la Rod Stewart--the album is lean and subtle- Boston Globe
- Posted Feb 3, 2015
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Samson & Delilah casts the English singer and songwriter even further afield, a mesmerizing right turn into the murky waters of throbbing R&B and ambient dance pop.- Boston Globe
- Posted Oct 21, 2013
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BSP has backed up its postured oddities and idiosyncrasies with a new raison d'être: to deliver the true stuff of rock 'n' roll.- Boston Globe
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The dizzying succession of beats per minute paired with thoughtful lyrics about music's role in shaping memories gives Saint Etienne a chance to create a rare entity: Dance music for the thinking person.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 4, 2012
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Fade isn't a dramatic reinvention, or even necessarily any progression at all, just Yo La Tengo not needing to be anyone else.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jan 15, 2013
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Over the slack strum of guitar, Spaltro tells a spectral tale that feels like a hazy dream until a violent outburst yanks you elsewhere. That’s precisely where Spaltro likes to keep you: on edge.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 9, 2013
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Smith creates wide-eyed compositions with textures that cascade over one another, capturing the vast celestial wonder of synthesized sound.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 22, 2016
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It’s the work of a talented rapper who takes palpable pleasure in the possibilities of language.- Boston Globe
- Posted Aug 26, 2013
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At its best, Vampire Weekend takes the exceedingly familiar template of indie rock and invigorates it with a chiming guitar sound that suggests the band has been spending its downtime browsing afropop.org.- Boston Globe
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It sounds like a recipe for a dozen buzz bands this year, but Atlas Sound transcends the fads. Melodies shine through like faint stars through the window.- Boston Globe
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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It's a rock album that mixes 30-year-old influences with the deep, hazy production of indie synth-poppers like M83.- Boston Globe
- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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