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For 4,084 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: 3,648 out of 4084
  2. Mixed: 400 out of 4084
  3. Negative: 36 out of 4084
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Midwinter Graces
    Amos fails to find an entryway into these songs that justifies her willingness to bury her personality inside them, ending up with a well-meaning but ultimately inessential vanity project.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nancy Sinatra
    She's still got class and sass to spare, but among so many collaborators, Sinatra sounds too malleable and impersonal. [#13, p.111]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Traffic And Weather
    The band simply reiterates earlier ideas less interestingly. [Apr 2007, p.54]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Hands
    Little Boots’ problem may be that there’s little left to add to her genre: The synth-pop revival has nearly exhausted itself, and Hands ends up sounding like a B-sides collection cherry-picked from the catalogs of Kylie Minogue and Girls Aloud.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Sadness
    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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Dos!
    On "Lazy Bones," that confessional spirit adds urgency to the band's power-chord crunch. Elsewhere, though, there's a troubling lack of focus.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Expecting Company? [EP]
    What we're left with is an EP full of hollow gestures. But at least it's an EP instead of an LP.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dark Light Daybreak
    If anything, the vocals provide the most effective dynamism in lifting these tracks out of their banality and providing sporadic moments of layered exaltation – short, shimmering flashes of greatness on an album that’s not especially compelling.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tough Age
    Tough Age’s self-titled debut has its moments, most of them falling in the album’s front third.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shots
    The band gets bogged down far too often with a slow-verse-then-guitar-solo model, making Shots a nice overall listen but not much more.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    With Love
    Where lyrics are concerned, be prepared for plenty of eye rolling (or eye gouging).
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Continuum
    A couple songs on Continuum do hint at what Mayer is capable of if he can shed his perfectionist skin and get to the quick of his emotions. [Nov 2006, p.76]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Tomorrow, In A Year
    The concept was ambitious but, unfortunately, in releasing Tomorrow as an album, the team divorces the music from the stage and leaves the songs stranded in a mire of effects and noise.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Van Weezer
    It is an album that would make Tenacious D roll their eyes and make metal fans scratch their heads.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fire Songs
    The Twins aren’t so compelling as songwriters, and too many of these fire songs sound merely serviceable, with mellow hooks and humdrum sentiments.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milk White Sheets
    The album relies on a stark, tribal minimalism that sounds as if it was recorded several decades ago. [Dec 2006, p.93]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Richard Butler
    It's refreshingly under-eager. [Aug 2006, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glitter In The Gutter
    The playbook is obvious and efficiently executed. [Mar 2007, p.63]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    On An Island
    Lyrics have never been Gilmour's forte, but now hooks have also abandoned him. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.117]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Heartbeat Radio
    Prodigiously talented but frustratingly inconsistent, Lerche gives Heartbeat Radio an unsteady pulse.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Lie
    It might as well be Harcourt’s thesis: marrying the histrionic truths of the deeply aggrieved with the formal mastery of great pop. More often, Harcourt’s failed attempts at mimicking Jeff Buckley throw whatever genre he tries off balance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Love Sign
    Free Energy can put a damn pop hook together--problem is the execution.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Dreamed We Fell Apart
    Campbell's particular sense of catchy pop melody is a nightlight in the darkness. [#14, p.111]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fallen Leaf Pages
    Finds them doing pretty much what they've always done (hardly bad news). [#16, p.149]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dreams Come True
    Dreams Come True is nothing if not well-produced and lovingly assembled. Problem is: there ain't no soul.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Back To The Web
    Back to the Web finds the band at its best when Elf Power shakes off its drowsiness and recaptures glimpses of its former weirdness. [Aug 2006, p.95]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Our Earthly Pleasures
    Simplicity is king, as a relentlessly jaunty onslaught of jangle-pop hurtles ever onwards. [May 2007, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 48 Critic Score
    Share the Joy
    Combining swelling '60s throwback harmonies and the sweet, swift wit of '50s songwriting, they parlay clichéd notions into winning melodies.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Taiga
    Taiga is an attempt at putting what it is that’s personal--vocals and lyrics--in the forefront, which is important, but it’s banished a mood and kind of mystery from everything.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Fatherland
    It’s just a shame that what lies behind dozens of layers of metaphorical shrouds, isn’t a bit more poetic and interesting.
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