CDNow's Scores
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For 421 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Remedy | |
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Lowest review score: | Bizzar/Bizaar |
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Positive: 311 out of 421
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Mixed: 94 out of 421
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Negative: 16 out of 421
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Beyond the music, X's sincere subject matters keep the album enticing.- CDNow
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Whatever its negligible shortcomings, Golden State at least serves to inject a depth of vision to what formerly was a rather one-dimensional musical entity.- CDNow
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On Atomic, the band unveils a sharper pop-rock sound, one that's so infectiously catchy that you'll feel like an inoculation is in order.- CDNow
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Cuttin' Heads whizzes by in just under 40 minutes, with ridiculously charming acoustic pop, Latin-flavored sizzlers, and menacing love songs.- CDNow
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Gandhi Khan is full of the dark, dirty production Van Helden has championed recently.- CDNow
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Let It Come Down, might well contain the most potent feel-good music he's yet crafted.- CDNow
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An angular art-punk record that twitches as if in the throes of electroshock treatment.- CDNow
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Love and Theft is a strange trip through Dylan's personal relationship with the blues, whether it's the silly story-song "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum," the mandolin lament "Mississippi," or the solid blues-rock of "Lonesome Days Blues" and "Summer Days."- CDNow
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Built around mellotrons, bowed saws, and other odd sonic devices, All Is Dream's arrangements often recall the prog-rock heyday of bands such as Can and Yes, albeit with more somber hues.- CDNow
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On such ballads as "Corner of the Earth" and "Black Crow," Odyssey seems to come up short.... But when the intention is to make you move, Odyssey shines brightly.- CDNow
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13 tracks of the kind of confident, effortless wordplay that made him a household name in the first place.- CDNow
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Listener-friendly, surprisingly short songs that walk a thinner line than usual between tired and inspired.- CDNow
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An optimistic-feeling, playful record that recalls the jazzy-edged sunshine and beat pop of the '60s.- CDNow
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With Vespertine, Bjork has constructed a whispering wall of wonders, and instead of forcing everyone out, has invited the world to look through the cracks.- CDNow
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Iowa boldly follows up, notching maximum body blows in its unyielding production, while maintaining an odd grandeur in its professed pain and anguish, its struggle for individualism.- CDNow
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Quasi's only mistake might be that it made this album too long; it clocks in at over 50 minutes. Such tracks as "Seal the Deal" and "Little Lord Fontleroy" show the limitations of a duo, and, at times, Quasi's basic keyboard and drums approach lacks a sense of wholeness and tends to meander.- CDNow
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Whatever the source, each song is given a finely detailed treatment that gets to its emotional core, and the exquisite engineering allows each nuance to add to the total effect.- CDNow
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When Maxwell sings songs cultivated to melt a girl's heart ("Silently"), it sounds more like grand, fervent gospel than a cheap, fevered move.- CDNow
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There are a few winners here among the brick-and-mortar alt-flak -- which the band is wholeheartedly capable of as well...- CDNow
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The only caveat toward Two? The Saints still rock, but they don't rave quite as hard.- CDNow
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Tweekend certainly isn't mind-blowing or revolutionary, but it's abundantly clear that the Crystal Method has found its sound: the hard rock and hip-hop influences that inflected Vegas move to the forefront, and the tempo comes down a few notches, thus emphasizing thunderous bass and hardcore head-bobbing.- CDNow
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Framed in delicate, candlelit arrangements that beckon like distant ghosts, Phillips addresses matters of faith, love, and spiritual connection in such a way that questions are as important as answers.- CDNow
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Sometimes beautiful, sometimes disquieting, Time (The Revelator) is something short of revelatory, but it's entrancing nonetheless.- CDNow
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