For 4,038 reviews, this publication has graded:
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44% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: | Channel Orange | |
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Lowest review score: | Revival |
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Positive: 2,752 out of 4038
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Mixed: 1,215 out of 4038
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Negative: 71 out of 4038
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The focus is less on total mayhem and more on creating droning dystopian soundscapes that MC Ride might occasionally hop on to yell over.- Consequence
- Posted May 29, 2014
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The wheels on the record don’t just tremble and squeak--they completely detach. Eight solo albums in, M. Ward’s indie folk wagon finds itself stuck in the mud.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 1, 2016
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From the sloppy production and uninspired arrangements to the fact that Tad Kubler hasn’t written a memorable guitar lead since 2008, Teeth Dreams sounds like the characters in its songs: past its prime and just trying to get by, but with the past creeping back in and not letting anyone forget it.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 21, 2014
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It’s best to approach The Knife’s Shaken-Up Versions with caution, even though the blade has dulled this time around.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 20, 2014
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The reissue of BlackenedWhite comes as a missed opportunity. Odd Future followers will likely have grabbed the expanded (and notably better) version when it was available free online a few months back; newcomers to the collective's output have better entry points elsewhere in their continuously-growing catalog.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 12, 2011
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- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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Jungle is a polished debut, but there’s no sense that J and T (or whoever is actually singing here) feel any sort of commitment to their lyrics, their arrangements, or anything beyond producing neatly packaged songs that slide them into festival slots.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 10, 2014
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The songs, sonically and structurally, don’t sound contemporary at all. At best, they sound like disco by way of these two artists, both of whom have been making similar songs for five, maybe ten years.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 3, 2014
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With Reputation, Swift seemingly has the idea that bigger, wider, and louder is necessarily better, but the dopamine rush that modern pop music can so reliably produce never arrives.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 10, 2017
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What The Cautionary Tales needs is a prudent pruning. This album struggles to appear deeper than a common puddle.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 23, 2014
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Farrell’s ambition is an admirable quality he wears on his sleeve, and at times, he showcases an impressive stylistic versatility. However, throughout this album, he takes indiscriminate left turns, and it ultimately makes Kind Heaven a needlessly gratuitous and pretentious mess.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 6, 2019
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An album desperate for texture, flavor, and risks, Giant Orange is the aural equivalent of middle-of-the-road musical tragedy.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 2, 2012
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Unfortunately, "Besides You" is the only song really worth mentioning. Everything else is so awash in a wall of buzzing noises, you'd think you were at the World Cup and surrounded by vuvuzelas.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 18, 2011
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We Are Undone, masters the sinking feeling of sharing a sweaty car ride or claustrophobic interrogation room with the bad cop/existential mindfuck cop team of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 5, 2015
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Twelve Carat Toothache feel thrown together and incomplete. Post Malone did himself a favor by limiting the run time of the LP, but if he’s championing quality over quantity, the quality has to be more incisive, specific, vulnerable, and holistic.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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DeLonge's forgettable chord progressions feel like an afterthought to lyrics that try too hard to fit into Blink's more morbid adult persona of late.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 11, 2013
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You can applaud them for chasing a creative high, but from two artists of their caliber, listeners should expect something better than High Life.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 30, 2014
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The album falls flat in just about every aspect. It’s not offensively bad, it’s inoffensively boring.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 5, 2016
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Parts of Anarchy, My Dear feel so unedited that it gets a little embarrassing for the listener, but when Say Anything collects itself, it has something to say.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 12, 2012
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The songs that are okay sound derivative; the songs that sound new are oozing messes that rough up everything that’s ever made Xiu Xiu work.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 6, 2014
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["Dirty Laundry" is] so raw and visceral that we finely see her as intended: vulnerable, flawed, and totally real. She tries replicating that authenticity, but there’s only the uber-cliché “I don’t care; we’re over” anthem “Gone” and the album’s superficially enjoyable title track, which Rowland approaches with some intriguing level of nuance.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 24, 2013
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Of course, it doesn’t make sense for Stewart to try to stand toe-to-toe with Simone’s vocals, but the close-mic’d, barely there vocal performance offered on Nina is a tragedy for a man who is a talented singer in his own right.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 6, 2013
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When their punches land, you want to bless these guys for sticking to their guns and not growing up. But the misses are real and painful, and they make Taking One For the Team a far more embarrassing listen than it needed to be.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 19, 2016
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Rather than provide a solution, or even insight into the Internet reality, Gambino simply adds to the frustrations. The big reveal at the album’s conclusion is that he was (likely) trolling all the trolls, but what about the fans?- Consequence
- Posted Dec 9, 2013
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Skrillex and Diplo successfully serve up twitchy beats ready to incite anything with a pulse, but the sentiment at the album’s core leans toward insufferable.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 18, 2015
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- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Boys and Diamonds ends up being hindered by the the same awkward, mock-ethnic yelps the duo seems to feel the need for on every other song they cut and the empty, tinny nonsense they seem to arrive at all too often as they attempt to craft memorable pop.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 12, 2011
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The riffs are certainly bigger and ballsier than those on the past few records, but Stockdale seems to have lost his personal line to the gods of the ’70s and is left settling for the lesser players.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 16, 2016
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Die Antwoord’s bombastic concerts and larger than life stage personas are not to be missed. However, this wild energy and devil may care attitude yield weaker dividends after being bottled and pasteurized in a studio that appears staffed by a cadre of rejected Saturday Night Live sketch writers.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
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It's always admirable when an artist or a band attempts to create a piece of music that differs from what came before. Unfortunately for Architecture in Helsinki, their new work fails as a cohesive whole, salvaged only by two or three songs here and there.- Consequence
- Posted May 16, 2011
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Breaking down barriers is not the forte of Top 40 rock music, but when you can't tell the difference between a Linkin Park track and something produced by a plebeian confusing dance beats for real drums, something has to give.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 2, 2012
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While it's a whopping 19 tracks, half the album is nothing more than bargain-basement pop knockoffs of everyone from Beyoncé to Keri Hilson.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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Skimming the top, fun. gets credit for its positive attitude and pocket full of catchy melodies, but on the whole, Some Nights remains forgettable.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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The problem lies in their vision, and the fact that it’s either too narrow or too cynical to take seriously.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 11, 2015
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Maybe it’s because we’ve grown accustomed to Cudi’s style and the influence it’s had over other artists, but at this point, it just sounds a little bit stale.- Consequence
- Posted Mar 3, 2014
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A deluge of whining that's lyrically incomprehensible and becomes sonically dull after one song.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 17, 2012
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There’s no interruption, no welcome silence between discs one and discs two. No, just 20 songs, a brutal slog of stacks and condoms and stacks and condoms and occasionally a disembodied ass without any other parts of a woman sighted.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 21, 2017
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The world Grobler crafts on Matter isn’t colored with the iridescent shades of blue from his early career; it is now a palate so bright and garish that it hurts the eyes.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 5, 2016
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For someone who records under his own name and not that of a collective, Croll remains a mystery, a patchwork of influences content to blend in, not to stand out.- Consequence
- Posted Apr 4, 2014
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Taylor's whispery, timid voice sounds restrained on nearly every track. Coupled with repetitive lyrics and monotonous rhythms, Overlook is a yawn-inducing piece.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 19, 2011
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It's the uninspired and homogenous manner in which Joker goes about ironing out nearly everything that made his tunes memorable to begin with that makes The Vision one of the most disappointing debuts of the year.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 8, 2011
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Equally appropriately, with increased attention comes increased expectations and increased scrutiny, neither of which are met by this sophomore release.- Consequence
- Posted May 1, 2014
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Victory isn't going to blow your mind by any means, but it's the first time in a long time a Wu-Tang brother has stumbled.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 2, 2012
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On this record, he’s taking a stab at, well, every genre. It doesn’t pay off, though, because this effort results in a sense of emptiness, an abyss of authenticity or real feeling. And that’s the problem: Despite writing “emotional” ballads for a huge part of his career, none of us really have any idea who Ed Sheeran is.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 19, 2019
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It's unclear what the band has been doing during its lengthy hiatus (their last full-length was released in 2002), but keeping up with current music trends was evidently not on the to-do list.- Consequence
- Posted Sep 4, 2012
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Vinyl is not a good format for Montage of Heck, an album that requires a fair amount of skipping around just to qualify as tolerable. I’m using the word “album” loosely here, because this one fails as an album in almost every conceivable way, jettisoning any sense of unity or context in favor of positioning itself as an aural complement to Morgen’s documentary.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 10, 2015
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Rather than braving the road less traveled, Yudin doubles down on his replication of trite indie rock tropes.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 24, 2015
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Fitz and the Tantrums is an album that feels, by some bizarre paradox, like both a product of contemporary market forces and a depressing relic of an era of the music industry best forgotten.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 9, 2016
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When you boil it down, Purple Naked Ladies' biggest fault is that it's generic.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 20, 2011
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Despite the occasional glimpse of colorful ingenuity, Medicine is an utterly sour experience.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 16, 2012
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The album is at its best when guests take the microphone and falls short nearly everywhere else.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Unfortunately, Hold My Home is not another baby step in the right direction, but rather a collection of slack-jawed tunes surrounding one or two borderline gems.- Consequence
- Posted Nov 5, 2014
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- Posted Aug 20, 2015
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Full of internal references to diamonds, fires, love, music, and seizing the moment whenever possible, Deja Vu’s lyrics play like pop music Mad Libs. When they’re not bland, some verge on violently tone-deaf.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 19, 2015
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Though only 11 tracks long, No Fixed Address feels rushed and half-hearted.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 5, 2015
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Jesus Is King is impersonal, repetitive, boring, and somehow too long at just 27 minutes. Some albums grow deeper with subsequent listens; Jesus Is King shrinks.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 28, 2019
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Fishin' For Woos, the surprising 11th studio album from the band, lacks just about everything a record needs to be taken seriously.- Consequence
- Posted May 2, 2011
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Rather than bursting forth with something new and unique, they wind up rehashing stale sounds and leaving the listener with an entirely unmemorable experience.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 18, 2012
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Morrison has a talented voice, but you might as well stick to Glee to hear it.- Consequence
- Posted Jun 14, 2011
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We Are Only What We Feel, if you go in expecting very little, can provide some background noise pleasure. But it only lights up for three seconds at a time. And then it’s trash.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 7, 2014
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So much of Ardipithecus is impenetrable, even distancing. The album is a headscratcher, one that shows plenty of promise but also a personality abstruse to the point of mystification.- Consequence
- Posted Jan 8, 2016
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Revival is the most pleasureless record he’s ever made, so stymied by his worst tendencies that like many other inept apologies from 2017 it only points out how much further he has to go rather than how far he’s come.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 18, 2017
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To the Stars… is a messy, frantic collection that suffers from a lack of focus and extremely poor sequencing.- Consequence
- Posted May 18, 2015
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The most remarkable aspect of Sirens, aside from its general awfulness, is how unnecessary it all feels.- Consequence
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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A muddled mess of a record from a band that completely abandoned any sense of identity.- Consequence
- Posted May 22, 2017
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The Florida rapper’s limited strengths and many weaknesses become highly detectable on Harverd Dropout. Under Pump’s control, the album piles up songs without structure, lines without meaning, and hooks without melody; it’s utterly tasteless.- Consequence
- Posted Feb 27, 2019
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Lulu is essentially a piece of shock art that's littered with vulgarity both lyrical and musical.- Consequence
- Posted Oct 28, 2011
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As it stands, this album feels like a few good ideas mired in a mess of half-formed sketches, rough recordings, and simple cliches.- Consequence
- Posted Dec 15, 2015
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- Posted Dec 21, 2011
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This CD is worse than a nu-metal reprise, in that it doesn't give true ragers an outlet, but instead facilitates the same false machismo that tribal tats and fake bench-press numbers suggest.- Consequence
- Posted Aug 9, 2011
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