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For 4,085 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version]
Lowest review score: 10 Songs From Black Mountain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,649 out of 4085
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4085
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4085
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lucky
    While never unpleasant, Lucky represents a slowdown from the roll Nada Surf has been on.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Calling
    Though much of the blandness can be attributed to Matt Rollings' MOR production, one is left wishing an artist of Carpenter's considerable talents would eschew the aural dreck and truly shine. [May 2007, p.68]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    Dirty Projectors
    Dirty Projectors, his self-titled rebirth, is therapeutic and at times frustratingly insular, full of dazzling and meticulous electronic textures that bely the melancholia underneath.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Age Of The Understatement
    This record is not for everybody--including, I suspect, the majority of Arctic Monkeys fans. Nonetheless, Turner deserves props for unleashing his inner Bowie and embracing artifice with such nerve and verve.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Living With War
    The album has the instantaneous feel of a blog. [Aug 2006, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Plumb
    Unfortunately it feels mostly like an over-concentrated mess of misplaced ambitions.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Atom Bomb
    The Blind Boys of Alabama are probably the world’s hippest septuagenarians.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Outsider
    The Outsider consistently grabs at transcendence only to watch it recede. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.110]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 52 Critic Score
    Blood From Stars
    Levon coaxes an intricately textured tone from his saxophone on 'Over Her Shoulder,' but generally, Joe’s erudition gets the better of him on this strangely dim and twinkleless album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Forgiveness Rock Record
    Whereas BSS' two previous albums indulge the group's pop sensibilities while showcasing its knack for rock anthems, Forgiveness cremates and scatters these strengths over an intimidating and overwrought runtime.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Making a Door Less Open
    Making a Door Less Open isn’t as memorable as its predecessors on its own: Toledo’s vision as a whole never feels truly fleshed out, representing the first legitimate misfire in the career of one of this generation’s most talented indie-rock songwriters.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    Sounds more ambitious than Coxon's effortless riffs let on. [Apr/May 2005, p.131]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    So by all means pick up With the Lights Out, but go ahead and trash the curiously un-Nirvana-like packaging, discard the heat-sensitive (!) box, pitch the liner notes, maybe even throw away the DVD.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Something
    Something is a generally enjoyable, but nonetheless generally unremarkable next step for the band.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tin Can Trust
    All of Tin Can's shifting tempos make you feel like you're getting a new song each time, but really, you've heard it all before.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Watershed
    The lack of sticky material that has beset each of her albums since 1992’s "Ingénue" continues with the self-written, self-produced Watershed, preventing it from rising above the level of tasteful mood music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meadow
    Meadow may amount to less than the sum of its parts, but those parts are often pretty great. [Sep 2006, p.78]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Real Emotional Trash
    With Real Emotional Trash, he proves he can retain both, leaving behind the controlled one-man-band environment of 2005’s Face the Truth and issuing his most eclectic and unpredictable album yet.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chrome Dreams II
    Young uncorks his storied one-two punch, mounting a pair of sweeping, detailed social narratives while ripping away at the guitar strings, laying his psyche bare. Long may he rave.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Before The Dawn Heals Us
    A lusher, synthier and all-around grandiose slab of shoegazer emoting and New Age cinematics. [#14, p.120]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Wolves
    For being one of the first big punk albums in post-Trump America, Wolves doesn’t howl nearly enough and rarely shows its fangs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Attack & Release
    Wonderful as they are, imagining the 76-year-old “Rocket 88” creator singing the weary gospel of “Remember When (Side A)” or the reflective “Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be” makes Dan Auerbach’s vocals sound tragically demo-like.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On Leaving
    Her voice isn't a particularly versatile instrument, but it radiates a certain dignity and keeps the focus on her well-crafted songs. [Nov 2006, p.85]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Farm
    At times, Mascis and Co. sound perfectly at home amidst a wall of distortion (see the bouncy, hook-driven 'I Want You to Know'). But for the most part, they sound exhausted.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Roadhouse Sun
    The bulk of Roadhouse Sun, however, hews too closely to bland bar rock, as if they’re drinking Bud Lights instead of Shiner Bocks.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wonderful, Glorious
    These are lifeless non-revelations married to engrossing tunes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Hang
    The band’s latest is a slight improvement, though the self-indulgence and lack of focus are still in evidence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Escape 2 Mars
    Even with Gab’s phonetic prowess and all that time to prepare for launch, Escape 2 Mars doesn’t reach the transcendent heights of its sublime, lushly orchestrated predecessor, ultimately feeling less like an epic interplanetary voyage and more like space camp.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Million Dollars To Kill Me
    It’s a recipe for Joyce Manor at their slickest power pop yet, even as it lacks the narrative depth we’re used to.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Centipede Hz
    Centipede Hz is not their worst album as some will believe--or as its dense ugliness will first sound--and it may continue to reveal itself over time like TV on the Radio's Nine Types of Light or Spoon's Transference.
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