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For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 81% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Last Broadcast
    The darkest feel-good record of the year. [14 Jun 2002, p.100]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fever To Tell
    Combine the intense vocals and thin lyrics with the speed and exuberance of the songs (most are well under three minutes) and ''Fever to Tell'' feels a lot like a series of quickies -- exhausting, fun, but a bit empty.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Ugly Organ
    Organ raises the Saddle Creek bar in terms of sheer psychiatric-rock intensity. [Listen 2 This supplement, Mar 2003, p.10]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Kaputt
    Kaputt nods to Steely Dan and late Roxy Music, and its shimmering synths and moody soft rock would be the perfect soundtrack to a romantic urban noir.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Yonder Is The Clock
    The fourth album from these purveyors of Band-evoking Americana is as folksy and honed as a tale by Mark Twain, from whom the Felices borrowed the title.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Second Chance
    It's the year's most elegant tell-all.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hearts Of Oak
    Ted Leo turns gasping, insistent vocals into narratives that are political and pop, never compromising one for the other. [21 Feb 2003, p.150]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bow Down To The Exit Sign
    Holmes races through genres like a mad cab driver running red lights, revving up a jittery, urban fever dream from a junk heap of beats and ragged exotica. [10/27/2000, p.120]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Electric Dirt
    The former Band drummer and cancer survivor's vocals sound grizzled and glorious on Electric Dirt.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Serena-Maneesh
    Sure, this speaker-frying style has been done before, but rarely with such confidence. [12 May 2006, p.83]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Play
    What could've been a condescending gimmick yields some of the year's most haunting, and haunted, music.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Medulla
    One of her best efforts. [10 Sep 2004, p.161]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Apollo Kids
    Many of these tunes sound like they could have been recorded at any point in his 17-year career - and that's great news for fans.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This Is Happening
    Golden-voiced Murphy, however, doesn't try for any cheap Bowie-baritone vocal mimicry, and his lyrics and musicianship have greater depth and polish. The best inspiration should come with improvements, and Murphy's are vast.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Treats
    It's as if every element of Sleigh Bells' genre-swerving sound--primitive guitar fuzz, pastiche beats, sugar-buzz?vocals--bypasses the default snark button and burrows?directly into jaded listeners' punch-drunk pleasure centers.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Indestructible
    It's when Rancid downshift that things get really interesting. [22/29 Aug 2003, p.131]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Evening Of My Best Day
    These are pop's most artful anti-Bush statements to date.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Kids See Ghosts
    While Kids See Ghosts feels more like a Cudi album than a Kanye one, it is a production showcase for both. ... The seven-song affair leaves you greedy for more when it’s over in a mere 23 minutes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Trouble Will Find Me
    The result is a painstakingly composed batch of tracks that struggle to break free from their gorgeously constructed prisons.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams
    Ndegeocello's dreamy vocal styles buttress this boudoir-freindly work. [28 Sep 2007, p.106]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
    His meandering monologues contrast with the top-notch if uniformly pensive songs.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Veni Vidi Vicious
    They almost vindicate the near-deafening hoopla that preceded this major-label debut. [10 May 2002, p.80]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Gimme Fiction
    Strings swoon, falsetto voices sigh, and counterpoint piano lines glide. Yet nothing sounds fussy. [20 May 2005, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Feels
    Breathlessly giddy and shamelessly trippy. [21 Oct 2005, p.75]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Black Cadillac
    The best of Cash's nuanced compositions... turns her healing process into great art. [27 Jan 2006, p.84]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Western Stars
    Placing intricately detailed portraiture on massive musical backdrops has been a Springsteen trademark for years, of course, and Western Stars continues this legacy, transforming the enormous into the intimate. [14/21 Jun 2019, p.104]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Bird Songs
    The vintage tunes inspire riskier improvs from Lovano, even when his rhythm section adheres to more straight-edged accompaniment.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Yeezus
    This album has the potential to mess with your whole year.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Wildheart
    Miguel recognizes both the romance and the risk embedded in the City of Angels, a clear-eyed balance that makes Wildheart as bracing as a plunge into the Pacific.
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