For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 78
| Highest review score: | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do | |
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| Lowest review score: | Playing With Fire |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
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Mixed: 407 out of 3519
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Negative: 27 out of 3519
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These barren videogame shoot-out beats and textures don't do him justice. [17 Sep 2004, p.76]- Entertainment Weekly
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This vanilla artifact from Zep's massive 2007 reunion concert falls into all of the typical traps associated with live albums. [30 Nov 2012, p.73]- Entertainment Weekly
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Bunyan's wispy soprano lacks nuance, making for music that's ultimately more numbing than emotive. [4 Nov 2005, p.71]- Entertainment Weekly
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For an album called Think Tank, this muddled retread seems awfully short on ideas. [9 May 2003, p.75]- Entertainment Weekly
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That alpha-jerk machismo is mitigated somewhat by the intoxicating future-soul sonics on songs like 'Right Side of My Brain.' But The-Dream's vision of romance mostly plays like a nightmare.- Entertainment Weekly
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Get Behind Me Satan is surprising, all right, but not always in the right ways.... Too many of the tunes--and Jack's lyrics--are undercut by lurching, half-finished arrangements. [10 Jun 2005, p.105]- Entertainment Weekly
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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.- Entertainment Weekly
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Like the Strokes on their own sophomore effort, the Libs thoroughly disappoint on this follow-up. [24 Sep 2004, p.106]- Entertainment Weekly
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Nothing here explains the reported $4.5 million budget. [28 June 2002, p.142]- Entertainment Weekly
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Cave's songs once conjured eternity. Now they just feel like one. [13 Apr 2001, p.76]- Entertainment Weekly
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The smiley-face vibe and quasi-ironic lyrics... only make the band seem more coy and arch than ever. [10 Oct 2003, p.124]- Entertainment Weekly
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What Drake needs is a few more punchlines to brighten up his monochromatic therapy sessions. Surely Canada's excellent healthcare system can underwrite that.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Artists from Radiohead to Liars have explored this territory already, and better. [19/26 Apr 2013, p.112]- Entertainment Weekly
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After 10 years, RFTC have perfected their mix of muscular guitar riffs and bristling horns; it's the songwriting that's hit a dead end. [3/9/2001, p.82]- Entertainment Weekly
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If [only] these epic songs glowed hotter along the way. [6 May 2011, p.74]- Entertainment Weekly
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Corin Tucker's voice--always so uniquely emotive in the punkier contexts of S-K--looms uncomfortably over songs that sound scrapbooked from other '90s-centric acts (Liz Phair, Pavement) but never take on a form of their own.- Entertainment Weekly
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Cooder's guitar work is lyrical as always, but the songs... are oppressively cutesy and faux naive. [9 Mar 2007, p.109]- Entertainment Weekly
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Something here brings out the most precious and irritating aspects of Björk's elfin voice.- Entertainment Weekly
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How you respond to this cloying, gothic preciousness will have everything to do with your personal tolerance level for things like rough-hewn songcraft and small children chanting about zombies. [16 Oct 2009, p.59]- Entertainment Weekly
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Although they’ve occasionally strayed from that style of pop-punk over the 13 years since that collection debuted in 2003, their tenth and final record features glimmers of their former selves--for better and for worse.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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By the sound of it, Radiohead have strayed off into the same territory Yes did over a quarter century ago -- and two pieces of marginalia in a row don't bode well for the outcome. [8 June 2001, p.72]- Entertainment Weekly
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Bogs down in stillborn ballads, vague metaphors, and fusty arrangements that sound too Olde English, even for him.- Entertainment Weekly
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Without exception, the well-chosen tunes become edgeless, pleasant downgrades of their remarkable originals. [30 Jun 2006, p.159]- Entertainment Weekly
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Tomorrow's sound, grittier and dustier than '98's poppish A Long Way Home, masks the album's core blandness; too much of the material is just plain forgettable. [11/3/2000, p.83]- Entertainment Weekly
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The record falls off during its latter half as the melodic R&B cuts begin to blend together. And in lieu of a clear-cut concept, the random spoken-word tidbits that appear throughout the tracklist feel frivolous compared to how Blood Orange and Frank Ocean used them on their last albums.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Aug 7, 2020
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The problem with OK Human isn't that Cuomo makes a facepalm-inducing Kim Jong-un reference and rhymes sad with bad, it's that there's not enough genuine pathos to outweigh the places where he can't help himself. Instead, the fleeting moments of authenticity are hidden beneath a pile of hokey one-liners, spotty vocal performances, and awkward arrangements that rely on the accompanying orchestra to provide all of the emotional depth.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Jan 28, 2021
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