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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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    White Chalk
    On the largely piano-based White Chalk, she retreats into an odd little-girl-lost persona, singing almost entirely in a tremulous higher key that strangles the most powerful instrument in her arsenal: that voice.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Songs About Girls
    In this post-Sir Mix-A-Lot age, even the most proper among us love a fun, edgy booty song. But will.i.am neuters that guilty pleasure with stiff drum programming, robotic guitar bursts, and vaporous synth melodies.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Just Like You
    The counterintuitive lushness smothers Cole's modest wail on cuts like'heaven Sent.' [28 Sep 2007, p.105]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Drastic Fantastic
    Drastic Fantastic's airy guitar pop--not to mention Tunstall's muted rasp--feels more technically proficient than passionate. [21 Sep 2007, p.81]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Delicate Thing We've Made
    This might make for nice pregaming music before an evening out clubbing in Ibiza, but for the rest of us, the effects can be a bit savage on the ears. [24 Aug 2007, p.133]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Paper Walls
    A CD teeming with punchy choruses and crunchy guitars that are so five years ago.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Mix-Up
    Who'd have guessed that a Beastie Boys record could be too subtle?
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Fragile Army
    There's now an almost garish cast to the proceedings. [22 Jun 2007, p.71]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Era Vulgaris
    All the beefy guitar playing in the world can't change the reality that there isn't a single song here that you'll remember, or what to return to, two summers hence. [15 Jun 2007, p.78]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Double Up
    Just as surely as Justin brought sexy back, Kelly is bringing slightly creepy back.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Minutes To Midnight
    Amid the stabs at growth, every new effect sounds borrowed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    American Doll Posse
    Too bad Posse is a conceptual wreck, because it benefits from some of the beefiest, most borderline-glam-rock moments Amos has put on record.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Twelve
    Almost nothing here evokes Smith's old "Go, Rimbaud!" chutzpah. [27 Apr 2007, p.139]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Como Ama Una Mujer
    Como Ama does represent a victory for Lopez by offering fairly persuasive proof that, contrary to rumor, she can sing, and without a regiment of background choralists. All that bulking up she's been doing at the vocal gym isn't enough, though, to turn flaccid torch songs into muscle.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Pocket Symphony
    This is meant as a return to the film-score sounds of Safari. Unfortunately, "hummability" is missing fromthe formula. [9 Mar 2007, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    My Name Is Buddy
    Cooder's guitar work is lyrical as always, but the songs... are oppressively cutesy and faux naive. [9 Mar 2007, p.109]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Cost
    The Frames just about define overripe, both musically (imagine if Coldplay decided to make its power ballads even more bombastic) and lyrically. [23 Feb 2007, p.99]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Freedom's Road
    Like a political speech, Mellencamp's stadium rock plays to the cheap seats but rarely offers specific critiques or risks giving offense. That this is less than inspiring says as much about modern politics as it does mass-market pop.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    True Magic [First Version]
    A large chunk is bogged down by extended outros and lyrical inanities. [19 Jan 2007, p.81]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Born In The U.K.
    For every catchy valentine, there are three groan-inducing Big Statements. [20 Oct 2006, p.83]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sam's Town
    With Sam's Town, they've removed the glopped-on Goth eyeliner, sprouted scruffy outlaw beards, and traded in urbane decadence for windswept super-romanticism. Bye-bye, Duran Duran; hello, Simple Minds.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    20 Y.O.
    Sharp production can't mask the absence of any standouts likely to be remembered 20 months from now.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Hoodstar
    The best production can't hide Hoodstar's lack of imagination. [22 Sep 2006, p.95]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Idlewild
    OutKast have stretched rap's boundaries to the breaking point before, but this time their experiments come across as gimmicky or strained.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Second Round's On Me
    This round goes down like a cheap well drink. [18 Aug 2006, p.139]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    (One)
    Surprisingly pedestrian. [18 Aug 2006, p.138]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Feedback
    The guileless, old-school vibe... feels tired. [28 Jul 2006, p.67]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    If In My Mind seems divided against itself, rest assured that all of the songs have something in common: They're not remotely catchy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Impeach My Bush
    It ultimately feels kinda sterile. [14 Jul 2006, p.79]
    • Entertainment Weekly
    • 55 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Silver Lining
    The nostalgia train is stalled by embarrassing platitudes and well-worn riffs. [14 Jul 2006, p.79]
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