Nude As The News' Scores
- Music
For 140 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | The Violet Hour | |
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Lowest review score: | The History of Rock |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 109 out of 140
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Mixed: 27 out of 140
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Negative: 4 out of 140
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OutKast are hip hop’s version of Radiohead: the only consistently platinum act concerned with not only pushing the limits of their genre to another level, but moving music as a whole.- Nude As The News
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Flaws aside, Speakerboxxx more than lives up to its billing.... The Love Below, however, is a revelation.- Nude As The News
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Comparisons aside, though, the Strokes do cultivate a sound that's enough theirs to make me wonder what their second and third albums will sound like.- Nude As The News
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The album's songs do not attack you with bombast but rather smother you in a slow burn, like gathering frost suffocating a mournful shut-in.- Nude As The News
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She retains her unique quality to marry upbeat, elegant melodies to witty lyrics that exhibit a disenchanted but honest take on life and love.- Nude As The News
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Stories is rich with texture and memorable melodies.- Nude As The News
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A beautiful, magical, mystical soundtrack; similar to Homogenic, but in a sense, more light-hearted and full of love.- Nude As The News
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This album is to Unwound what Daydream Nation was to Sonic Youth: the application of wild imagination and ruthless harmonies to a more mainstream format, while largely dispensing with their heritage and experiments.- Nude As The News
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Low's most accomplished album yet, if not its most creative.- Nude As The News
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Agaetis Byrjun stands up in overall artistic merit to any record ever made.- Nude As The News
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Rings Around The World takes another twelve bold strides forward, applying the technology explored on earlier efforts like Radiator and Guerrilla and the restraint exercised on the more lo-fi Mwng to a fresh set of songs that stretch the group's stylistic boundaries and provide the young century with one of its first classic albums.- Nude As The News
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The White Stripes are a great rock and roll band, and White Blood Cells a suitable coming-out party.- Nude As The News
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Their music is as strong as ever and they certainly deserve your attention.- Nude As The News
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Throughout, Trail Of Dead make off like indie rock legends at the top of their game.- Nude As The News
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It has so many promising moments, so few -- and I would say hardly any -- flaws, that I just can't help but think, "what if he saw it through?"- Nude As The News
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One of the Flaming Lips' most listenable records and another step up the ladder toward pop perfection.- Nude As The News
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Somehow The Ugly Organ has enough pop appeal and pseudo-uplifting sentiment to make it listenable.- Nude As The News
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Hearts Of Oak is one of those albums on which each song has the power to get you thinking, and the hooks to resonate inside your head long after it's through playing.- Nude As The News
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Mwng fits right in with their unique vision, and shows that the band can happily and productively work outside of the traditional bounds of the music industry.- Nude As The News
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Unlike past efforts, the songs don't overstay their welcome, evoking more smile-enducing moments than one would come to expect from RHP- Nude As The News
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Unfortunately, the last third of the CD isn’t nearly as good as the first two-thirds.- Nude As The News
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Although some aspects of the group's live show threaten to turn the entire thing into an ironic joke, the excellent music here betrays no such mixed messages.- Nude As The News
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Blood Money should be heard as a complete piece of music -- like watching a play -- and some tracks that might appear thin on their own will be revealed as far meatier in context.- Nude As The News
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There is no doubt in my mind -- and in this I seem to have a lot of company -- that Transatlanticism is Death Cab For Cutie's best album so far.- Nude As The News
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Music this laid-back but this deep, so full-bodied and yet so restrained, could only have been made by Lambchop.- Nude As The News
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This ambient/noise/psychedelic amalgam is limited by tedious repetition and a lack of emotional focus.- Nude As The News
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