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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    Neither the best nor the worst album this band has recorded.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Headphones
    The mood of the disc is no less overcast than his usual material; it just makes more use of the celesta setting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cold Roses
    Cold Roses comes as a bit of relief, bereft of the posturing that so often attends Adams’ work.... That said, there’s also a sense of retreat that permeates the record, a willingness to offer the comforts of familiar tones instead of ambitiously taking chances.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bem-Vinda Vontade
    Pierce could still use lessons from Stereolab or Aloha on how to shape textures into songs. [Aug/Sep 2005, p.133]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
    The two discs offered here brim with ideas, some more navel-gazing than others. [#16, p.143]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    22-20s
    What's not much in evidence is distinctive or memorable material. [Apr/May 2005, p.141]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Martha Wainwright
    Some of Brad Albetta's production veers toward generic pop and threatens to bury both Wainwright's distinctive voice and her lyrics. [Apr/May 2005, p.131]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let There Be Morning
    The Perishers fail to elevate their brand of minimalism beyond the politely unobtrusive and fatally unmemorable. [Apr/May 2005, p.149]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dimmer.
    Egon Schiele aficionados and jaded cabaret junkies: this is your music. [Apr/May 2005, p.146]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Alternative To Love
    Benson doesn't win any points for innovation, but his deft musicianship and confident vocal presence are sure to please those who never tire of a good tune. [Apr/May 2005, p.137]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Angels Of Light Sing 'Other People'
    The intensity of his voice never completely gels with the bright instrumentation. [Apr/May 2005, p.138]
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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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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Human After All
    Thematically, it's stale and preachy, but few capture mechanized emotion like Daft Punk. [Apr/May 2005, p.142]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Atom Bomb
    The Blind Boys of Alabama are probably the world’s hippest septuagenarians.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    No Wow
    Generally less intense and more coy, ponderous and forced [than Keep On Your Mean Side]. [Apr/May 2005, p.132]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let Them Drink
    It's not that terribly accomplished, it's not terribly coherent, it's not very linear, mature, or even sober-sounding. But that's rock 'n' roll, innit? [#16, p.145]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Story Of My Life
    Evokes Juliana Hatfield more than Shania Twain. [Apr/May 2005, p.127]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Solarized
    At times convoluted, Solarized can be a bit of a puzzle, but there are precious few pieces missing from this set. [#14, p.115]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aha Shake Heartbreak
    In song after song there are moments where it sounds like the band is weaving its way into a fantastic instrumental jam section, only to have the new idea abruptly cut short by the track’s end or an obligatory return to the next verse.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Cosmic Game
    Like much of Thievery Corporation's work, it's enveloping if not terribly galvanizing. [#16, p.138]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Feathers
    An elongated, spacey drone of acidic riffage and flickering psych-rock ambience. [Apr/May 2005, p.135]
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    • 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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Knuckle Down
    DiFranco always throws her heart into her songs, and Knuckledown gives her a chance to reflect on it.
    • 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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wilderness
    Prewitt's songs take their time unfolding, giving the album a meditative quality that's pretty admirable. [#14, p.105]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Sold Gold
    Narcissistic, repetitive, underpowered and yet strangely compelling in its quirky construction and directness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Rise
    Reaffirms George's place as a star in the making. [#16, p.138]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One
    When so much music is so bleak, a little unlikely optimism might be a crucial palliative measure, rather than Pollyanna-ish head-burying, and it’s sanguinity that Dirty Vegas delivers in spades.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing's Lost
    The songs are stronger than ever. [Apr/May 2005, p.139]
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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.
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