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For 1,893 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Apple Drop
Lowest review score: 20 180
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,237 out of 1893
  2. Mixed: 650 out of 1893
  3. Negative: 6 out of 1893
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Oczy Mlody
    Much of what stems from his bands’ 15th standalone album never really gets past that “nothing of a track” phase. In fact, often the mood music Coyne and the gang have striven to make – as much about beats and textures as it is melody--is frustrating.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rewind the Film
    It feels self-centred and bored, and is reflected by much of the album’s music.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    My Love is a Bulldozer
    His tongue may be in his cheek at least some of the time, but parts of this album feel like the worst excesses of rock opera as applied to dance music.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Terror of Modern Life
    Signs of progression are, admittedly, belatedly embraced by the ham-fisted, if heartfelt dub-out Serious Business and the bowel-quaking Sunn O)))-style title track, but it’s too little too late.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cult Following
    It makes for an uneven, unbalanced experience that, sadly, is better on paper than in practice.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mystère
    Some tracks fare better than others, and it would certainly be a stronger album without the insistent disco party beats of SSD or Elle Ne T’Aime Pas.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Meteorites
    While it believes it’s a storm of Ocean Rain-esque majesty, Meteorites fizzles out like it’s just another shower.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Indie Cindy
    The lack of personality is most strikingly felt in Kim Deal’s absence.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Natalie Merchant
    10,000 Maniacs fans may yearn for the simpler music of old but, sad to say, given the effort involved, uncommitted listeners will simply shrug their shoulders.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mystery Glue
    The problems start with the songwriting. There isn’t a song that would have made it onto Howling Wind or Stick To Me, and it takes until track 10, Fast Crowd, to locate a decent hook.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ryan Adams
    Much of the album refuses to stick, drifting from one similar-sounding song to another.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    El Camino Real
    While La Costa Perdida was worth the wait, El Camino Real leaves the listener having enjoyed the trip, but glad to be getting home.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Detroit House Guests
    Some tracks inspire more amusement than may perhaps have been intended.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tracker
    There’s effortless and effortless, and this is an album that verges on the predictable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello
    Bang Zoom Crazy… Hello, their 17th album and first since 2009, is the latest in a number of stillborn attempts to recapture those glory days.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No Scare
    The result is that each side cancels the other out, rendering it somewhat ineffective.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Neptune
    Neptune may be swampier, but as side projects go, this is hardly an excuse for a great departure, more of an exercise in indulgence.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Back To Basics
    Sadly, Wyman can neither sing nor write a decent song.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Exploded View
    Sadly, Exploded View’s admirable commitment to spontaneity has resulted in a muggily-recorded LP which fails to match the usual high-quality post-punk output of the esteemed Sacred Bones label.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Keep Me Singing
    The tracks drift by like soporific imitations of past glories--for the most part there’s nothing especially wrong with the songs, they just sound as if they could have been composed using a Van Morrison Song Generator.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Love Undercover
    An uninspiring audio fluff. Cruel, after having previously reached such satisfying heights.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Relaxer
    Alt-J’s retelling of this age-old tale of ill repute has less edge than a mesh sack of Babybel cheeses.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Parlour Flames
    Move on, there’s nothing to see here.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Man on the Rocks
    The guitar solos are the album’s single saving grace.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Postcards from Paradise
    By track 11, Let Love Lead, you feel you’ve jogged along the cliché-rich, emotion-free AOR road for longer than its 43 minutes and 57 seconds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    180
    It’s garage rock by numbers and sounds like it took as long to write as it does to listen to.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Words to the Blind
    Words To The Blind doesn’t really stand for anything. Nor are its interludes or passages particularly interesting or exciting. Perhaps that’s the most Dada thing about it.
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