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For 421 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Remedy
Lowest review score: 10 Bizzar/Bizaar
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 311 out of 421
  2. Mixed: 94 out of 421
  3. Negative: 16 out of 421
421 music reviews
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Travelogue
    This collection shows Mitchell as the self-conscious and restless innovator, picking her way carefully through the minefields of human relationships, leaving a trail of eloquent breadcrumbs, as she describes the passing scenery with her evocative and off-kilter imagery.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse
    Here again, it's a maddening ping-ponging between genius and plain stupidity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Touching Down
    It's refreshing to see a high-profile album like this take a long-form risk and stand on the merits of intuition and musical construction alone.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Justified
    A fun, contemporary pop record that's uber-cool without ever seeming forced.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lucky Day
    It's the "experimental" tracks like the humorous "Hey Sexy Lady," laced with mariachi trumpet, flamenco guitar, and castanets, and the bubbly old school reggae-country hybrid "We Are the One" that elevate Lucky Day to higher ground.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    OST
    Mathers slips only when he tries to play out the movie's rags-to-riches vibe with his friends.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Scarlet's Walk
    Her message, so powerful when unadorned, tends to get diluted by the awkward arrangements that accompany it.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stripped
    As a pop record, Stripped is practically flawless.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shaman
    Like Supernatural, the record tends to smack more of market research than the soulful expression of a rock legend at times. But in some instances, the duets pay huge dividends.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook
    A tasteful selection of pre-war era classics in a supper club jazz setting.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    New Earth Mud
    Unfortunately, Robinson too often relies on shoddy -- if not overly elemental -- lyrical passages, which ultimately prevents New Earth Mud from lodging itself into your musical memory.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One By One
    Arguably its most cohesive and dynamic effort yet.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let It Rain
    A dark, methodical, and ultimately beautiful album.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melody A.M.
    Unlike most acts who tend to get over-hyped and fall far short of expectations, Norway's Röyksopp does not disappoint.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    10
    10 is a return to form for LL, and the album finds him doing what he does best: Making relaxed, radio-friendly jams while giving the ladies a little something extra.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sean-Nós Nua
    Sean-Nós Nua takes a few songs to find its footing, but then it towers with her best.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bounce
    Bon Jovi's best one-two album kickoff punch since Slippery When Wet's "Let it Rock" and "You Give Love a Bad Name." But unfortunately, it's downhill from there.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BareNaked
    Hewitt's problem on BareNaked, ironically, is that she lacks "it." Whatever magnetism she carries on screen, whatever eye-candy poise she possesses; it all comes off as vanilla in her music.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Richest Man in Babylon
    The essential internationalism that characterizes this global showcase of a disc is mind-blowing in both scope and quality.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Do You Know Squarepusher
    Somewhat of a Squarepusher overview: digitally diced, partially digested, and sometimes brutally regurgitated, of course.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Twisted Angel
    She may have been young and naïve at age 13 covering Patsy Cline songs, but she had much better source material than the sappy, saccharine numbers she's getting from the middle-age songwriters who scripted Twisted.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sea Change
    Certainly his most personal record, arguably his best.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Up
    It's not likely that Up will have the same kind of cultural significance as a milestone like So, but there is no way that fans can write Up off as a disappointment, either.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Instigator
    Miller explores his usual subjects -- getting out of places and into relationships -- with more unusual touches.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lost Tapes
    Nas has compiled an imaginative State of the Union address to the streets.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Voyage To India
    Certainly a talented guitar-playing songstress, she also takes her lyrical cues from Hallmark cards, a mix at once comfortable and off-putting -- and difficult to put one's finger on.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Hundred Days Off
    What's so striking about A Hundred Days Off is that frontman/producer Hyde and producer Smith have reshaped Underworld as a duo without coming off as incomplete, overzealous, or jaded.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trust
    While Low turns to touches less subtle than before on Trust, the drape of ambient tension over gently ramping repetitions results in the band's most assertive album to date.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jerusalem
    The eclectic, pan-genre disc opens -- as did 2000's Transcendental Blues -- as an unabashed rocker, but this time around Earle uses the heavy artillery to underscore weightier worldly themes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Demolition
    The rockers here, however, aren't his best work, sounding like the Goo Goo Dolls with steel guitars.
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