For 4,084 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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 |
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While stocked with skillful guitars, tuneful vocals and the occasional hook, Without Feathers feels oddly unassuming, a plain-vanilla modern-rock record. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.122]- Paste Magazine
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All in all, it's a strange but refreshing and likely unintentional throwback. [Sep 2006, p.81]- Paste Magazine
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Although Goodbye winds down after the brilliant power pop of "Only One Too", Jewel never appears to be going through the motions. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.131]- 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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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]- Paste Magazine
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If you don't mind a little old-fashioned leering misogyny and plenty of lobotomized choruses, the power chords and snarling vocals will shake you all night long. [Sep 2006, p.81]- Paste Magazine
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The monotone delivery on Ideal Lives undercuts the urgency characteristic of Rahim's best performances. [Sep 2006, p.81]- Paste Magazine
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Everything I loved about Fever... is minimized on this follow-up, replaced by a more temperate jangle. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.129]- 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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This stuff is often pretty infectious in spite of itself--you know, "so bad it's good." [Apr/May 2006, p.118]- Paste Magazine
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Lyrics have never been Gilmour's forte, but now hooks have also abandoned him. [Jun/Jul 2006, p.117]- Paste Magazine
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A premature nostalgia trip: a journey back to college radio at the end of the '90s. [Apr/May 2006, p.106]- Paste Magazine
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Case... still approximates a Northwestern Patsy Cline with a graduate degree, and while the stories she tells are mournful, her delivery remains buoyant. [Apr/May 2006, p.101]- Paste Magazine
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Swings from rapid-fire rockers to acoustic-inspired melodic pieces. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.97]- Paste Magazine
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Timeless sounds like a pop-charts-and-trends magazine exploded in the studio. [Apr/May 2006, p.115]- Paste Magazine
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Entrenched fans will be pleased to have another wing to explore in his ever-expanding mansion of song. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.110]- Paste Magazine
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There isn't much to distinguish him from a million other talented but interchangeable coffe-shop-circuit troubadours. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.95]- Paste Magazine
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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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Oldham lacks the commanding vocal presence needed to convert delicate songs like "Master And Everyone" into shambling rock epics. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.110]- Paste Magazine
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All the pros and cons of Bright Eyes present themselves here. [Feb/Mar 2006, p.110]- Paste Magazine
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