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For 581 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 0.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Hidden
Lowest review score: 20 This New Day
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 376 out of 581
  2. Mixed: 195 out of 581
  3. Negative: 10 out of 581
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Black Parade
    It reeks of a band with ideas above their station.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Songbird
    A messy car crash of a record.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A Little Bit Longer
    Their McFly-like soulless pop-rock is unlistenable tosh.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Here I Stand
    Last year he made the magnificent 'Dat Girl Right There', only to omit it in favour of the gloop he wades through on this.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Yell Fire!
    Yell Fire! offers little bar platitudes over a bed of reggae-lite and tepid bluezak.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Unfamiliar Faces
    Costa's sophomore album is every bit as anaemic as the Johnson connection suggests.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This New Day
    An album so overblown yet inspiration-free as to be worthy of national shame.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rudebox
    An absolute howler.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pull The Pin
    A brave new direction it isn't.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Cosmos Rocks
    What an astronomically bad parallel universe. Queen's star is dead.