For 4,077 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: 3,641 out of 4077
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Mixed: 400 out of 4077
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Negative: 36 out of 4077
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Everything moves in slow motion, as if that lent profundity to the proceedings, and even then the vocals rarely keep time. Perhaps Holland believes that singing off the beat creates tension, but it merely diffuses what little energy these songs possess.- Paste Magazine
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Its walls of distorted, alt-rock power chords reek of the 1990s. [Apr/May 2006, p.102]- Paste Magazine
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It's better to be the imitation Ray Charles than the poor man's R. Kelly. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.94]- Paste Magazine
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Back Home embodies the featureless, sickeningly pleasant sounds piped unmercifully into department-store elevators. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.121]- Paste Magazine
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Thomas hasn't yet figured out that as long as he mistakes ponderous poetics and platitudes for depth, the surface trappings of his self-serious songs won't matter all that much. [#16, p.125]- Paste Magazine