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For 2,726 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 70
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Mixed: 751 out of 2726
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Negative: 76 out of 2726
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What they’ve given us is an exquisitely polished blur, enjoyable at times, mildly challenging at others, but nothing that you couldn’t feel comfortable piping in as background for the Sunday barbeque with the Petersons.- No Ripcord
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After a good handful of listens nothing hugely sticks and it isn't quite clear what they're aiming for.- No Ripcord
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Just download the good stuff or buy the album and don’t expect much from Rivers because he never really gave you more than a few minutes of cheap thrills in the first place, which is plenty to thank him for.- No Ripcord
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From The Valley To The Stars is simply a collection of mostly good and occasionally great songs that just doesn’t quite work as a whole.- No Ripcord
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For most of My Bloody Underground, Newcombe vocalizes like a decaffeinated Kevin Shields, barely audible under the weight of reverb that blankets just about every track.- No Ripcord
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Unfortunately, they didn’t miss by biting off more than they could chew; it’s more a sense of complacency you get form listening to Walk It Off.- No Ripcord
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Yet, while it's unlikely that the previously familiar will be suddenly converted by these endeavours, it wouldn't be strictly fair to say that there's not the occasional hint of a broadened palette on display here.- No Ripcord
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Real Emotional Trash feels like a compromise, for Malkmus and for us.- No Ripcord
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Quaristice can occasionally be on the sloggish side. However, there's a lot to admire in such a brazen display of accomplishment, and, while it may not be looking to court the most gushing of affection, this will undoubtedly prove to be one of '08's most singular releases.- No Ripcord
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There may be nothing exactly wrong with Good Arrows as a record, and I’m sure that in a different time and situation it would be considered a respectable if shallow pop record.- No Ripcord
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Bedroom is an album of dynamics and contrasts with its biggest asset its heart; chipped, cracked or broken, naivety is replaced by genuine emotion. Sometimes it’s boring and sometimes it’s endearing.- No Ripcord
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Asleep at Heaven’s Gate is strangely flawed because the warmth of the first two albums has been exchanged for grandeur and detached shellac. By no means is this a fall from grace for Rogue Wave, but it is the band’s first significant stumble.- No Ripcord
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On a Saturday night, in an adrenaline soaked club with a nasty bass--Simian Mobile Disco is amongst the greatest fun you’ll ever have. But on a perfectly round, 16 gram piece of plastic--it ain’t really worth a damn.- No Ripcord
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There's not a single stand out track, good or bad; and the likes of this album have been released, oh, a million times over, in the past 8 years--it’s not bad, not good, just a drop in a calm, tepid, flat ocean.- No Ripcord
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Icky Thump is an anti-climatic, vaguely appealing record that unfortunately feels like a retreat from the ballsy piano-based pop eccentricity of Get Behind Me Satan. And that's a shame because going back to basics — at least in this case — feels like surrender.- No Ripcord
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In the end, Memory Almost Full is a reliable, easy record for a man who’s been far too reliable for his own good.- No Ripcord
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Certainly few guitarists playing today evoke the kind of mad intensity on display here, but like the Comets on Fire, the whole package rarely comes off as good as you think it should.- No Ripcord
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It’s an engaging listen, sure, but sadly Our Earthly Pleasures lacks the euphoric punch to make a listener jump up and down vigourously.- No Ripcord
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Wolf sometimes succeeds in emulating Kate Bush’s knack for combining the utterly bizarre with godlike musicianship, but sometimes he falls short.- No Ripcord
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Just because something “sounds” like a classic record, it doesn’t mean it is.- No Ripcord
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There’s a lot of bluster and enthusiasm here but I’m struggling to identify much in the way of true substance.- No Ripcord
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There are sublime moments here, and occasionally the interplay is breathtaking. This is pretty rare however, which leaves the rest of the record sounding just as you’d imagine it would, which isn’t a bad thing, just not at the levels of creativity we’ve come to expect.- No Ripcord
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The beautiful melodies and harmonies don’t actually go anywhere, they just kind of float in and out of earshot, failing to develop or do anything harmonically interesting.- No Ripcord
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As a whole, it leaves you thinking that Bobby Conn could have, if he wanted to, made a seminal underground record.- No Ripcord
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Great art must provoke or inspire you, and I’m sorry to all the folks out there “awash” in Eluvium’s dreamy “soundscapes” of pure “emotion” and “beauty”, but this record does neither.- No Ripcord
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The Bird and the Bee end up sounding like the soundtrack to some glossy drama about a bunch of over privileged kids living in Notting Hill.- No Ripcord
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One good single does not a great album make, and unfortunately, the rest of the record becomes pretty tedious, pretty quickly.- No Ripcord
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The overall effect is of an album written and recorded on prozac that never achieves the emotional highs or the lows needed to make this kind of country soul great.- No Ripcord
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It’s confident and cohesive, but the precision may not be the Gossip’s ideal sound.- No Ripcord
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Slogging through the whole disc for the few shining moments just isn’t worth it.- No Ripcord
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The excellent-to-annoying song ratio on this album is definitely high. Still, their first record was solid from start to finish, and this one smacks so much more of Lennon/McCartney than Kapranos/McCarthy.- No Ripcord
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Frankly, Love Kraft sounds like a different band, which would be fine, if it wasn’t so less loveable and not nearly as bizarre.- No Ripcord
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It sounds like good musicians doing a rush job, kind of like Blood on the Tracks without the spellbinding genius.- No Ripcord
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Inexplicably, predictably, Daft Punk have become the first band to produce a retro post-parody of their own work.- No Ripcord
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If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard before, you won’t be disappointed – all the darkness, grime and perversion is here or implied.... But if you’re looking for variation, innovation, or thematic depth, it’s unlikely you’ll find it here.- No Ripcord
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Those in search of classic Barlow would do far better to dig out their battered old copies of Bakesale.- No Ripcord
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Both pared down and unengaging at the same time, this appears to be a dead end.- No Ripcord
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They write some good tunes, and they have some appropriately strident abuse for lyrics. But there’s not enough for an album.- No Ripcord
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In their insistence on trying to mix quirky, quiet electronica with beer-swilling pop, without the two informing each other, Athlete too often fall into a formulaic and predictable model.- No Ripcord
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The Runaway Found is to be filed alongside Coldplay, Starsailor and Snow Patrol.- No Ripcord
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No matter how cliched and predictable this record gets, there are always some undeniable hooks to lure you back in before your patience wears thin.- No Ripcord
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Although Trev gives Stuart Murdoch's songs a freshness and clarity that is entirely complimentary, the decision to unleash a flurry of TV melodrama string arrangements or flashy showbiz brass on half the songs leads to results that range from tolerable over-egging at best and annoying inanity at worst.- No Ripcord
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It's just comfortable and pleasant enough to convince yourself to stick around - never good enough to be satisfying, nor bad enough to be disappointing.- No Ripcord
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Rather than being enjoyable, listening to Breathe in its entirety soon becomes a chore.- No Ripcord
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Neither hot nor shit; it's one of those albums you might buy on impulse and be neither disappointed nor overwhelmed by.- No Ripcord
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Ha Ha Sound is occasionally brilliant, often adequate and, on some tracks, so bizarrely irritating that the mind boggles at who Broadcast imagine would actually be interested in hearing them. So, in summation, an almost essential album of largely inessential tracks.- No Ripcord
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