For 4,085 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 76
| Highest review score: | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version] | |
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| Lowest review score: | Songs From Black Mountain |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,649 out of 4085
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Negative: 36 out of 4085
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The Brooklyn band’s innate charm and accessibility allows forgiveness of its near-abandonment of bass-driven new wave.- Paste Magazine
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Evokes Juliana Hatfield more than Shania Twain. [Apr/May 2005, p.127]- Paste Magazine
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More Pete Seeger than Cat Power, her interpretations sometimes feel too internalized to startle. [May 2007, p.61]- Paste Magazine
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Unfortunately, What We Saw is heavy on overlong ballads, and when she adds that trademark whimsy to the mix, it's nearly unbearable.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 31, 2012
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Gone is the orchestral saturation that sometimes bogged down Crooked Fingers, replaced by gnomic acoustic folk that's stark to the point of nudity. [Oct 2006, p.84]- Paste Magazine
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It could have been--and should have been--a much better listen with the talent these three ladies possess. Unfortunately, it never quite jells.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jul 16, 2014
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Invisible melodies--sometimes too invisible--give shape to songs like wind billowing through curtains. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.143]- Paste Magazine
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Préliminaires applies an interesting--if not wholly successful--Aznavour twist to Iggy’s latter-day repertoire.- Paste Magazine
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The well-established indie-pop tricks get results, but are too unerringly calculated to have much distinct personality. Some big, billowy production would have helped.- Paste Magazine
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DiFranco always throws her heart into her songs, and Knuckledown gives her a chance to reflect on it.- Paste Magazine
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The record feels akin to 40 minutes of stoned stargazing in a college dorm room. And the kid down the hall has yet to add substance to the conversation.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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The Strokes don't have much of their own to say here. [Dec 2005, p.106]- Paste Magazine
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Citrus is the crossroads where My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth mingle. [Aug 2006, p.88]- Paste Magazine
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Learn to Sing Like a Star threads together Hersh's myriad musical guises while striving for some of the immediacy and distinctive yelp of her Throwing Muses heyday. It mostly works. [Mar 2007, p.69]- Paste Magazine
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Eloquently combines elements of pop, spaced-out electronic rock and even dirty garage. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.121]- Paste Magazine
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It's hardly perfect, but it's bolder, more complex, and ultimately a more fulfilling release for this band. [May 2007, p.65]- Paste Magazine
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Egon Schiele aficionados and jaded cabaret junkies: this is your music. [Apr/May 2005, p.146]- Paste Magazine
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Unlike previous MagCo. releases, it finally feels like the band has achieved a unifying cohesiveness. [Nov 2006, p.79]- Paste Magazine
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Most of Songs balances caustic lyrics with beautiful power-pop interludes. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.119]- Paste Magazine
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English Little League, like most of Pollard’s crop from the past decade, holds a few really great tracks, but is mostly missable.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Only a tender take on Tom Waits' "(Looking For) The Heart of a Saturday Night" gives Peyroux the glimmer of modernity Perfect World so desperately craves. [Oct 2006, p.80]- Paste Magazine
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Finds them doing pretty much what they've always done (hardly bad news). [#16, p.149]- Paste Magazine
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Alongside its distracting flaws, True Sadness contains some truly beautiful music--and a good measure of the joyous energy that The Avett Brothers employ to transcendent effect live--but there’s no guiding principle here, resulting in a dizzy mess of an album that doesn’t live up to the band’s talents.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 29, 2016
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On Beal’s first album, he moved between child-like ambience, songs suitable for weird film scores and stomping blues.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 10, 2013
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Even if the whole thing isn’t world-upheaving. Those standalone tracks make it worth a whirl.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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At root, the gritty, back-to-the-garage drive of these pop tunes adds a layer of grease that makes them stick. [Apr 2007, p.58]- Paste Magazine
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Tough Age’s self-titled debut has its moments, most of them falling in the album’s front third.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jan 8, 2014
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