For 4,084 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: 3,648 out of 4084
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Mixed: 400 out of 4084
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Negative: 36 out of 4084
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It's the sound of a band trying to play it both ways, and succeeding at neither. [May 2007, p.61]- 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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Like much of Thievery Corporation's work, it's enveloping if not terribly galvanizing. [#16, p.138]- Paste Magazine
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It wants to be The Antlers as a singer/songwriter, but even The Antlers walk dangerously close to the edge of good taste. Remiddi’s voice is no help, either, often times too delicate and dainty to extract much emotion from, and only convincing when it flaunts imperfections.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 20, 2013
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Evokes Juliana Hatfield more than Shania Twain. [Apr/May 2005, p.127]- Paste Magazine
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It's a fine album that often lapses into anonymity, that never quite rocks as hard and as consistently as it should.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2011
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It's actually a good radio-rock disc, just not the crossover hit Anastasio's been after. [Dec 2005, p.115]- Paste Magazine
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The approach proves enjoyable, sometimes even beguiling... But... more adventurous songs... reveal Lerche's shortcomings with red-faced results. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.112]- Paste Magazine
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Uneasy Laughter is fine. It’d be much better if it was either divorced from ruminations on honesty, or if the band actually managed to define themselves without leaning on ’80s nostalgia.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 23, 2020
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Give Adem his props for chancing a foray into the cover album field, a move which always carries its risks. But Takes simply doesn’t warrant much attention, no matter how much its material means to its creator.- Paste Magazine
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Display[s] a combination of openness and hookiness reminiscent of indie-minded chanteuses from Juliana Hatfield to Nelly Furtado. [Sep 2006, p.76]- Paste Magazine
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Now the kid’s a toddler and his pop is widely known as Stephen Colbert’s hyper-literate, prog-rocking green-screen nemesis, but Sings Live! calls to mind a simpler time.- Paste Magazine
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Now mature pop songwriters, the Omaha quintet sounds more like a conventional band on O, favoring rousing sing-along choruses, richly layered pianos and trumpets, and even standard drum kits.- Paste Magazine
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Tatum and his collaborators nailed the sounds, but they don’t come close to finding tunes that resonate.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2018
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Overall, Skinner sounds bored and tired of himself-in short, ready to move on.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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In Our Bedroom After the War isn’t Stars’ best effort, but it ultimately satisfies: in wartime, one takes solace wherever one can.- Paste Magazine
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The bottom line is, these guys have always just wanted to rock, and Himalayan is the first album that doesn’t let them.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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AlunaGeorge have always been smooth, but here they sound soft, the glitches debugged, their quirks edited out.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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Mockingbird Time suffers most in the songwriting, which too often relies on soft hooks and indistinct details that never quite add up to conflicts or characters.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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- Posted Jan 5, 2015
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The man formerly known as Jonny Corndawg paints a richly redneck milieu--a greasy truck stop, a married woman’s disheveled bed, a backyard littered with post-debauchery debris--but something about the way he wallows in that white-trash decadence is offputting, even a little ugly.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 17, 2013
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The band presently possesses more 'tude than tunes. [Nov 2006, p.81]- Paste Magazine
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Phosphene Dream's real achievement is that it takes the band's earlier murderous attitude and makes it impossibly bland.- Paste Magazine
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The result is an awkward balancing act between a premature lust for accessibility and an obvious knack for the avant-garde, shirking traces of the latter in an ill-fated attempt at evolution.- Paste Magazine
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Half the album [is] mired in embarrassing heartland cliches. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.96]- Paste Magazine
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The album is undeniably solid, so why does it feel faintly underwhelming? Context is key.- Paste Magazine
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By the time the pop-induced sugar rush wears off you realize that, besides being done before, these songs have definitely been done better. Worse yet, all you've got to show for it is a headache.- 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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Unfortunately, they miss and it lands in the five-day-old dregs of a keg in an Anytown, USA backyard.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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