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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Twin Cinema
Lowest review score: 20 Liz Phair
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 362 out of 474
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 474
  3. Negative: 12 out of 474
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Word Extinguisher
    One Word Extinguisher doesn't shock the way Vocal Studies... did but, if his debut drew the vivid hip-hop/electronic blueprint, Herren convincingly takes his plans and constructs something big with the follow-up.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glass [EP]
    [The songs] are just similar enough to blend together in a close listen, but they also work as a diverse soundtrack behind whatever it is you're doing.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fever To Tell
    O's seductive, cooing/shrieking contributions to the power of the Yeahs are immense, but they are no bigger than those of guitarist Zinner or drummer Chase.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Staying Out
    Road-testing new material has produced a tight and confident work that transcends many third and fourth attempts by artists of similar caliber.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Up In Flames
    A dizzyingly crafted explosion.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Secret Of Elena's Tomb [EP]
    As a whole, The Secret of Elena's Tomb is a compendium of many of the things Trail of Dead have been to date: provocative lyricists, well-honed musicians, and now film directors.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Remote Part
    Idlewild are rapidly outgrowing their influences as they forge a unique identity that leads me to suspect that they may soon be inspiring a slew of like-minded new bands.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buzzcocks [2003]
    May well be the best of its seven studio albums, one that even approaches the heights of the stellar Singles Going Steady collection.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Burn Piano Island, Burn
    In one instant, lead singer Jordan Blilie is whispering passionately in your ear. In the next, he tears into your insides with growls so piercing you'd think he'd transformed into a savage beast.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Up The Bracket
    More life-affirming than life-changing, on Up the Bracket the Libertines deliver a stellar set of songs that -- both musically and lyrically -- neatly synthesizes the past 40 years of English rock.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonderful Rainbow
    Music of reassuring terror.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Magnolia Electric Co.
    The Magnolia Electric Co. succeeds where other albums of a similar nature fail because it has the courage to point towards what is wrong with itself and the medium through which it is presented.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More Parts Per Million
    They are pop and punk and rock and indie and a combination of all these things, but, more than all of the above, they are Harris' personal songs and they are incredible.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anti-Pop Consortium Vs. Matthew Shipp
    Drawing notions of rhythm, tonality and structure akin to the work of avant-garde greats Roscoe Mitchell, Sun Ra and Kool Keith, Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp is an inventive, spaced-out fusion of classical free jazz and futuristic electro hip-hop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Are Free
    You aren't free after all, because once you've let the album in, you may never shake it off again.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    100th Window
    If there's one misstep on 100th Window, it's that [Sinead O'Connor's] talent and her range are underused.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Looks At The Bird
    This isn't music about angst or ego, hooks or licks, or lyrics we've heard before.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Long Knives Drawn
    The conversational rawness that drove the previous albums is gone, and the band loses something as a result.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hate
    Hate is a beautifully gilded record, thoroughly nice and thoroughly listenable, and a mark higher than a lot of pop music with lofty intentions, but it doesn't move you to extremes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Bedroom
    One Bedroom does tend to lag in parts, perhaps lost in the legacy of the band that created it, but in the end it comes off as an unified organic being, both necessary and pleasant.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phrenology
    With Phrenology, The Roots have finally made an album that lives up to their potential.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quality
    What makes Quality worth it is exactly what dragged down Train of Thought -- the slow and syrupy songs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Riot Act
    Sticking to a formula -- a formula that works for them -- the band sounds fiercer than ever on Riot Act.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American IV: The Man Comes Around
    Cash might surprise with his choice of covers, but in nearly all of his selections, he locates some personal meaning, or introduces new emotional elements.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Machine [EP]
    Let's face it, no one else today is making music as cool and original as that of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Have You Fed the Fish?
    The music here combines the scrappy, psychedelic folk of Hour of Bewilderbeast with the more melodic and sentimental "About a Boy" soundtrack.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ()
    The album coheres; it's a full body of work intended to be heard holistically, not simply as a collection of songs. But it takes some work. You must be an active listener to appreciate it fully.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Original Pirate Material
    In the midst of its 14 tracks, there are a couple that, if taken on their own, would qualify as throwaways. But the way the album should be heard, as a whole, each piece works with the others.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happyness
    Like a night taxi ride along a broad, lighted, skyscraper-lined city street, Happyness, the band's latest, feels wondrous, daring and slightly dangerous.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cruelty Without Beauty
    Cruelty Without Beauty is the sound of Soft Cell reclaiming the musical territory they staked out in their 1981 hit debut, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, offering up hooky, dancefloor-oriented synthetic soul, now jacked up into a higher gear for the clublands of the new millennium.
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