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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [2006 Version]
    The songs sound as modern and fresh as if they were recorded last year.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Todd Smith
    There's enough here to justify a listen, but with LL's considerable talents, a little more was expected.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    You Are There
    Mono has upped the post-rock ante with You Are There.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vessel States
    Vessel States' uncanny familiarity is its central disappointment.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feathers
    The more you listen, the more you'll start to pick up on the elaborate instrumentation that exists in the background.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Imaad Wasif
    The simpleness just keeps on coming until it's simply deadening.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jacket Full Of Danger
    Musically and melodically, this is the best work Green has ever done (even counting The Moldy Peaches -- which isn't to suggest for a second that Jacket is the superior record). Lyrically, though, it's the same old Adam Green bullshit.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    Sonically, the album picks up exactly where the Lips left off with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: heavy on the pop psychedelics, occasionally odd without being inaccessible.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    [His] vocals don't have the same strength or range they did just two years ago on You Are the Quarry.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meds
    If you are able to ignore the lyrics, you'll be rewarded: the choruses on Meds are catchy.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Things Go Better With RJ And Al
    Despite the jovial cover, this album comes off as almost entirely serious, which is all well and good until you hear some of the most misguided pontification ever laid down on a hip-hop track.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars
    An abundance of hook-laden choruses, New Order analog-boogie and Stone Roses-cool could not be more frustratingly baked into this crumbly crust.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    DFA Remixes: Chapter 1
    Even when it's not the most innovative, the sounds they use are fresh, and the duo tends to eschew hooks and conventional structure for letting the song slowly evolve.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Return To The Sea
    Return to the Sea is filled with breezy, infectious melodies and quirky whip-smart lyrics; qualities that were sometimes lost underneath the Unicorns' shtick.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Demon
    The music is cutesy and fun, but the lyrics are subversive.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Loon
    We know this routine well; it's comfortable and pleasing to the ears. But throw on a disc by one of the originators (Pavement) or the cream of the modern crop (Wolf Parade) and Tapes 'n Tapes is trumped hands-down.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ideal Lives
    If Jungles presented the formula, Ideal Lives gives us the answer.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Death In The Garden, Blood On The Flowers
    Irving's penned a batch of songs that can hold your interest in short bursts but will never inspire arguments. And that's damnation for pop music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones
    Show Your Bones is much more accessible than its predecessor, but there isn't really a "Maps" to serve as a gateway.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fishscale
    Another great release from the most important emcee in hip-hop.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    King
    King lacks an overall cohesiveness or direction.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Back Room
    The Back Room has the feeling of an album cobbled together too quickly.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    Keys to the World does have a few great moments, but it's not the definitive solo record he's been promising.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Dark Places
    Without any previous knowledge of Treacy's work, My Dark Places could be shoved aside as an album from some bloke being different just to be different, but this is nothing new for Treacy and the Television Personalities.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drum's Not Dead
    It's true that many of these tracks are not for the casual listener, but that's also not the point.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Sno Angel Like You
    'Sno Angel Like You is not only beautifully performed and recorded, but also wonderfully written.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    Other than on "Answers to Your Questions," it's not real pretty when O'Rourke steps to the microphone. Most of his songs stab at a Tom Waits-style balladry but end up sounding more like schmaltzy Steely Dan castoffs.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bring It Back
    By the time the final tracks roll around and Gardner and Hammel still haven't changed their sound much, their lovey-dovey frivolity gets old.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dying To Say This To You
    Yes, the Sounds' music starts to blur together, but what a blur.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When The Going Gets Dark
    Skipping from dizzying keyboards to bluesy guitar, this is one of Coomes's finest musical hours, capturing his muddled musings into tight and coherent disarray and focusing in on the dynamic between these two exceptionally talented divorcees.
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