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For 85 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 80% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 83
Highest review score: 100 XTRMNTR
Lowest review score: 40 First of the Microbe Hunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 85
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 85
  3. Negative: 0 out of 85
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
    Word has it that the band had more studio time than ever before, and the result is a concept album which combines elements of Lennon-McCartney experimentation with elements of Yoko Ono eccentricity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Asleep In The Back
    Elbow understand how to make an album flow without sacrificing the unexpected turns any good record should have.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
    Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, despite a couple of missteps, is brimming with life.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alone With Everybody
    For the most part, Richard Ashcroft's debut solo disc delivers.... an album full of soulful and genuine expressions of hope.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Argument
    This is really a leap forward.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
    [Oberst] infuses his figurative laments with a melancholy earnestness, communicating a more gut-wrenching breed of angst than the Limp Bizkits and Eminems of the world could ever hope to.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under Construction
    Unlike most of her peers, she knows that fun is really the fifth element of hip-hop, and she keeps finding thrilling new ways to make this music danceable and fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Contino Sessions
    Neither modern rock nor dance, Death in Vegas straddle the middle ground -- and prove that it's an extremely good place to be.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take Back The Universe (And Give Me Yesterday)
    Where most rock bands that try to play pop forget that pop music requires pop songs, Sefchik and Laguana are constructionists in the classic pop tradition.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Golden Greats
    A fundamentally unselfish record, as simply enjoyable as a day off or a light beer buzz.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hour of Bewilderbeast
    These songs are sonically interesting and pretty as Mom on Easter, but they don't really ring true...
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Is This It?
    They've locked themselves in a room for a year, learned to play 11 songs in one style, and counted on the singer to come up with a couple of ace-card tunes. Result.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Howdy!
    Howdy! is made up of everything you'd expect from Teenage Fanclub: warm and inviting acoustic pop, fluid melodies, rich harmonies, and head-nodding rhythms.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Age Of The Sun
    I've smiled and whistled right through every listen. But I haven't felt overwhelmed even once.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Double Figure
    Much like Orbital, they have the ability to synchronize ideas without over-saturating their songs.... Unfortunately, at 19 tracks, there is plenty of ambient trickle filling in the gaps.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phrenology
    This is the best hip-hop album I will never love.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Danelectro EP
    More interestingly, it gives a peek into Yo La Tengo's working methods. It's been a long time since they brought finished songs to the practice room; instead the combo jams together and lets the improvisation mutate over time into tunes which sometimes become the basis for songs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13
    If Blur was a tentative step away from the pop past, 13 is a suicidal leap - the little girls are not coming back after they hear this.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Parachutes
    If you usually enjoy pop music made by young white males with guitars, you'll almost certainly like Parachutes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold
    Most of the time these low-key meditations on enduring love and friendship ring true...
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Original Motion Picture Score for The Virgin Suicides
    There are elements missing and sometimes out of place on the disc.... Godin and Dunckel, however, succeed in interpreting the film's dreamy '70s vibe and creating sonics with appropriate drama and cinematic flair.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Isolation Drills
    If anyone's making radio-worthy rock 'n' roll nowadays, it's Guided By Voices.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure
    The music is occasionally difficult to embrace, to say the least...
    • 81 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Sophtware Slump
    Almost every song here seems unfinished, and while the The Sophtware Slump sounds great -- misfiring machines duel elegant pianos, guitars chug and grind, ancient synthesizers burst through the top end - it never goes much of anywhere.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    First of the Microbe Hunters
    The material hints at strength, but pieces that should have been severely pruned and used as a song's bridge stretch on and on. Perhaps they're just too thrifty or unwilling to toss anything out once they've gone through the trouble of recording it. The First Of The Microbe Hunters is for completists only.
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