Hot Press' Scores

  • Music
For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972
Lowest review score: 10 Uncle Dysfunktional
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 24 out of 497
497 music reviews
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dirty dance-diva bundles new EP with reissued album.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Millennial ‘It’ Boy gets the horn on eighth album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easy listening princess goes indie-goth.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love as a battlefield.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Great songs played well, but...
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here’s Johnny! Marr forces Jarman brothers out of their Crib.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bernard Sumner delivers decent Enough Post-New order solo platter.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Predictable return to stadium soft-rock from former Poodle-permers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mid-career retrospective captures SP’s inner conflicts.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scots veterans turn up the orchestra knob and rock.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strokes frontman ditches leather jacket, reinvents self as DIY Gary Numan.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Canadian sisters examine love's deceitful ways.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Four years in the making second album from Oz hard rockers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The People’s Princess pleases with Her catchy generic pop
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    White hot rockers give two fingers to difficult second album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pop go the classics with Sufjan Stevens.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another dose of brilliant pop parody from the NZ twosome.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Devon’s finest makes a Motown-laced return.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    Third time's still a charm with Philadelphian prog-folk contingent.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A spirited return from Beth Ditto and company--but where are the new ideas?
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    What happens when you cross Mazzy Star with Sleater Kinney? These boy/girl newcomers have the answer.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    French Smoothies return to lunar landscapes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soft metal album that challenges Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Van Halen. Funny...I think.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Revered outsider artist makes move on the mainstream.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nutty Boys regain former glories in full.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangely moving robo-pop from hyped duo.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emo kids kick up a riot on surprisingly edgy third outing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There’s still something oddly admirable about Alice In Chains’ stubborn refusal to change.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sublime companion to kiddies’ book adaption from Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Surprisingly enjoyable party rock.