For 158 reviews, this publication has graded:
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45% higher than the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Score distribution:
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Positive: 96 out of 158
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Mixed: 40 out of 158
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Negative: 22 out of 158
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Uh Huh Herb is a disappointment, the tepid, not-quite-there record that many artists seem to make after hitting a career peak.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Skinner’s finely honed sense of place still has a nearly hypnotic effect.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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A darkly compelling masterpiece that taps into the pitch-black id of Johnny Cash’s best records.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Musicology is a thrilling, electric statement by an artist who just might be building toward another creative peak.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Damita Jo, sadly, is an outdated product of the turn-of-the-millennium pop scene, in which female singers conflated sexual openness with empowerment.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Endlessly pleasing (or trying to please), Feels Like Home dilutes even Jones’s brand of comfort-food jazz, grinding it down to something like a chewy gob of baby food.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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The songwriting is scattershot... and the sound strains for punk-on-a-budget but is as three-chord conservative as other retro acts like Rancid and the Distillers.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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A sprawling and undisciplined mess... but it’s fully attuned to what made West so compelling in the first place, namely chunks of samples that feel raw and convey an underdog sensibility.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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The carefully constructed sonics, though beautiful, can be so snoozily contemplative.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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While Tasty features predictable envy-inspiring flaunts of sex and cash, the album is good-hearted, too.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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The note that truly dooms Diary is thematic, not musical. The disc collapses under the weight of one song about heartbreak after another.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Like the market-minded collaborations that run rampant on hip-hop records, Elliott’s range here feels like base-covering.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Once in a Lifetime shies away from the Talking Heads’ life force. It presents them as winking ironists, not the true black-music believers that they were.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Putting Naked together was likely satisfying for McCartney, but like a lot of inherently selfish artistic endeavors, it’s somewhat less rewarding for everyone else.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Wainwright’s powers of observation recall both Morrissey and Cole Porter.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Unlike her recent work, Stumble Into Grace is made up solely of Harris’s work--love songs like “Can You Hear Me Now” that perfectly suit her voice, which is sweet and whispery yet never sentimental.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Speakerboxxx--by itself the album of the year--makes the failings of The Love Below all the more evident.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Clones testifies to how familiar (and hollow) the Neptunes’ studio tricks have become.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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How the West Was Won proves that Led Zeppelin was nearly peerless in creating gigantic, thunderous rock.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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The album feels like a romp, with Thompson performing everything from delicate waltzes to roadhouse rock.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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When you’re treated to such a powerful front woman, it seems almost unfair to complain about the lack of sophisticated sonics.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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What gives A Little Deeper its heft, though, is Dynamite’s voice: She can hold a word so long it almost floats in the air, and she purposefully embellishes her girlish, almost kewpie-doll-like whine to deliver her most stinging rebukes.- New York Magazine (Vulture)
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