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For 403 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 La Foret
Lowest review score: 10 Underwater Cinematographer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 287 out of 403
  2. Mixed: 104 out of 403
  3. Negative: 12 out of 403
403 music reviews
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Porcelain
    Sparta earn points for thinking big and penning deeply-felt songs that break the five-minute mark, but ambition alone isn't enough.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Solarized
    The album's production, particularly the insistence on pinning Brown's hazy croon way on top of the mix, too often dulls any punch the music would otherwise have.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Howling... It Grows And Grows!!!
    The Catheters do little to distinguish themselves, instead offering formulaic rock rebelliousness in a nicely packaged, repetitive form.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Space Settings
    As a hip-hop record, Headset's Space Settings fails to hit the mark of its influences, but it is successful in its own right.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Night On Fire
    The '80s idolatry is far too forced and distracting, and VHS or Beta comes off as trying too hard to imitate admittedly great, but definitely dated, pop music.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Spine
    Solid, if unspectacular.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Often Lie
    To be sure, there is nothing on Often Lie that is revolutionary - for the most part Dalley delivers straight ahead power pop.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When The World Was Our Friend
    The spoken-word Sonny and Cher act of Chains and Sue does gets tiresome at moments, lyrics like "you be the follower, let's kill the leader" aren't as clever as their authors believe, and the record does run on a fairly consistent mid-tempo bounce.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Travistan
    The album feels half baked, as though Morrison isn't quite sure which direction to take his nascent solo career.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Raven
    The outcome is alternately brilliant and awful, adventurous and boring, incisive and pretentious, over-wrought and subtle.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Business Casual
    Despite the wailing vocals and insipid lyrics, the rhythm section nearly saves this album with its tensely coiled, ready-to-explode grooves.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Winning Days
    The disc's highlight, "TV Pro," ably blends the band's two moods and adds some promise to an otherwise bland and vacant offering.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Press The Spacebar
    Unfortunately, the band is not able to match their vitriol with memorable tunes.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gemstones
    Over the course of Gemstone's 15 tracks, Green's heavily enunciated, lumbering delivery become more irritating than a busload of thespians on their way to an audition. Thankfully, Green's elementary-school melodies, which call to mind Jonathan Richman at his silliest, ultimately save this album from the topical hell to which it aspires.
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