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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It’s a tour de force. The work’s relentless, odd-accented, propulsive rhythms are a perfect fit for this band.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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That said, it's not an instant classic, but it is the best rap album since Kanye West dropped "Graduation" last year.- Boston Globe
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Fields showcases a burnished voice that quakes and quivers with the wisdom only age and experience can afford.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 30, 2014
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Freedom’s Goblin gives Segall room to play with a dizzying array of styles and genres, yet his excellent taste and melodic sensibility ensure that the whole wild endeavor stays firmly on the rails.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jan 24, 2018
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He enjoys modern arrangements and judicious cross-genre excursions that edge up on reggae and rock, and when he lets go, his guitar lines possess the playful muscularity of a tussle among rambunctious friends.- Boston Globe
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Anyone who rues the scarcity of smart, serious pop music for grown-ups should snap up the entire Sam Phillips catalog. On second thought, skip "Omnipop." But don't miss Phillips's splendid new effort, Don't Do Anything, a collection that dances in her signature mystery space between darkness and light with strange grace, emotional candor, and winsome hooks.- Boston Globe
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- Posted Aug 3, 2011
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Here she flirts with going full-bore on "Rise Again," but otherwise simply continues her ascendance as contemporary pop's most expressive and astonishing singer this side of Adele.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jul 31, 2012
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All told, the LP stands as a convincing counterargument against those who claim hip-hop’s ’90s golden era can’t come back again.- Boston Globe
- Posted Aug 20, 2014
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Like the pianist and composer’s other trio records, it makes for a satisfying, portable Iyer.- Boston Globe
- Posted Feb 10, 2015
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The knotty, gleaming structures often have hooky pop appeal (bassist Reid Anderson’s “Dirty Blonde,”), and the band can deliver an affecting ballad with brushes.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 5, 2015
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"My Love" are the first two words you hear on Erykah Badu’s beguiling new album, and they set the tone for the entire set. Unlike the politically charged mix of funk and hip-hop of New Amerykah Part One (Third World War), this chapter is a warmer, more sensuous blend of organic R&B and jazzy pop.- Boston Globe
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Patch the Sky might not be saying much, but Mould’s putting his all into saying it.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 24, 2016
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Aching, vulnerable, and unsparing in detail, her creations invite you to listen with your whole self and feel along.- Boston Globe
- Posted Oct 26, 2017
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The results are coolly sophisticated, an unfussy, mostly instrumental set of slink-and-slide joints shot through with a harmonic imagination that turns even a traditional hymn into an after-hours swing.- Boston Globe
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Taken as a whole, Real Animal shows a man content with the life he has lived, even as the rest of us hope that his final statement is still some ways off.- Boston Globe
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What unifies the album is the superb production, which marries indie-rock values to street-rap style.- Boston Globe
- Posted Oct 1, 2013
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The 11 tracks, all co-written by the Osbornes, expertly capture TJ’s beguiling baritone and John’s nimble fretwork, with fewer concessions to pop-country trends than might be expected from a major-label act.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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His most recent albums, however, have been uniformly excellent, and that includes Tempest.- Boston Globe
- Posted Sep 17, 2012
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At 67, Streisand’s gorgeous tones and powers of interpretation are utterly intact, and also front-and-center thanks to producer Diana Krall’s class-conscious pairing of her own understated quartet with Johnny Mandel’s velvety orchestrations.- Boston Globe
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The album is brimming with fabulously skewed turns of phrase that make sense from different angles, as White's protagonists wrestle with what it means to be alternately besotted and gutted.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 25, 2012
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The number of guests (including Matthew Dear, Apparat, and Caribou’s Dan Snaith) and the songs’ lengths, depths, and varying textures make it easy to get spun.- Boston Globe
- Posted Mar 27, 2013
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- Boston Globe
- Posted Oct 28, 2014
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The echoes among unhinged riffs on “Good Neck,” “Raising the Skate” and “My Dead Girl” speak to the unity of Speedy Ortiz’s vision, as well as its limitations; the spikiness that gives the music its appeal also turns it abrasive over the long haul.- Boston Globe
- Posted Apr 21, 2015
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Here, it’s less about what Y.G. does than how he does it; digging deeper into vintage G-funk flavors with a blend of personal, party, and political tracks, the young Compton rapper takes a sizzling step forward.- Boston Globe
- Posted Jun 16, 2016
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Rapping about how well you rap is both stubbornly old school and totally meta. It's also a form of hip-hop Darwinism, as the Beastie Boys, now in their mid-40s and still one step ahead of trash-talking competitors, demonstrate to the fullest on their eighth studio album.- Boston Globe
- Posted May 3, 2011
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Lisbon is the New York quintet's sixth album, and it hinges on a precision that wasn't there previously.- Boston Globe
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- Boston Globe
- Posted May 20, 2014
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- Posted Mar 24, 2016
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Profane, lecherous, loaded with head-trip tape loops and guitars that sound like power tools melting in the sun, this is late-night, howl-at-the-moon-outside-the-punk-club stuff.- Boston Globe
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