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For 70 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 90 Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Lowest review score: 10 Bridge
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 70
  3. Negative: 6 out of 70
70 music reviews
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trickle
    Anchored by moody, mid-tempo songs enveloped in pop-washed trip-hop..... a stylish collection of well-tailored backdrops for Boyle's mournful soprano.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Marshall Mathers LP
    It just isn't as much fun this time around, no matter how fresh Dre's beats are or how many worthy targets get shot down along with the innocent.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver & Gold
    A wonderfully warm recording, Silver & Gold is country-folk soaked in co-producer Ben Keith's crying pedal steel, Neil's harmonica, fiddles, acoustic guitars and even Emmylou and Linda for good measure on one cut.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Return of Saturn
    The new set lacks Kingdom's cathartic exuberance, not to mention the myriad bouncy sing-along hits that made Gwen Stefani to the '90s what Madonna was to the '80s.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MDFMK
    Hammering a shade softer, MDFMK daubs layers and layers of sophisticated balance -- all depth, no surface.... And the guitars and vintage synths, formerly sprayed on like aerosol cheese, now blend and complement each other -- like, you know, music.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Winners Never Quit
    It's all very precious stuff, sounding like some of Sebadoh's best material. Kids who've eaten up the whole indie-rock thing thus far will go bananas over Pedro the Lion.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Disco and The Half Way To Discontent
    Their sound is steeped in rare grooves, enhanced with hip-hop electronics and designed for lighthearted dancing. If the pair occasionally turn their rhythms on autopilot and rely on algorithm, you can't really hold it against 'em.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    69 Love Songs
    After three discs, Merritt's mesmerizing display of sustained inconsequentiality starts to seem like one of those Guinness Book of World Records stunts, impressive but pointless.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remedy
    Warmer, more soulful and worldly than the average drug-fueled ravers, Basement Jaxx may not quite have relaid house's foundation, but they've at least redrawn a few of its rules -- beat by gleeful beat.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Foliage: Animation Music
    Amiable multi-instrumental pop shuffles in the hazy mode of the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, gauzed with intricate four-part harmonies and a host of sound effects, bump up against loping, kitchen-sink ambientronic instro-ludes in albums that seem created somewhere outside of standard time by art students with a serious pop jones.
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