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For 5,910 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,628 out of 5910
  2. Mixed: 2,242 out of 5910
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5910
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This Right Here Is Buck 65
    As an introduction to Buck's weird world of lovable losers, hugely endowed centaurs and insomniacs, Right Here is right on.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Moonshine in the Trunk
    It's not his greatest LP, but it's one of his most fun.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Beautiful Revolution, Vol. 2
    There’s enough evidence on A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 to suggest that he still cares about music, but it may take more than mellow bromides and Obama shout-outs to truly convince us.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For Your Entertainment
    The songs sound great but feel strangely stuffy--Entertainment seems like a disc that was overthought.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Faded Seaside Glamour
    Genteel, eminently tuneful. [24 Jun 2004, p.179]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Howl
    The songwriting on mellower numbers like "Promise" isn't as finely crafted as the expansive sound. [25 Aug 2005, p.99]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Final Frontier
    Maiden have long had a knack for the lung-busting chorus, but what impresses here are the complicated arrangements.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bring Ya To The Brink
    Brink never reaches a full serotonin explosion like "Confessions on a Dancefloor," but at least Lauper has taken after the competition and found a new groove.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's Not Me, It's You
    It's Not Me, It's You is far from perfect, but it sounds fantastic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fork In The Road
    It's messy, funny and pretty crazy at points.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond
    Too often the pervasive mournfulness tilts more maudlin than high-lonesome.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Driving A Million
    Ultimately, Gwenmars is a Xerox of a Xerox, but this melodic, very big facsimile remains very listenable, indeed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smash Mouth
    Goofy, head-bobbingly hummable.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    OST
    Cold Mountain's salvation is the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church, a shaped-note choral group that delivers its two hymns with an otherworldly intensity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Big Red Machine
    Big Red Machine sounds like Bon Iver and The National freestyling with friends, drinks and vape pens.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bravery
    The Bravery do a jockier version of the New Wave competition, pumping the drums in straight-ahead tunes such as "An Honest Mistake" and "The Ring Song."
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Anteroom
    The Anteroom sometimes creeps and lurches like an old car stuck in rush-hour traffic.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dark Lane Demo Tapes [Mixtape]
    The project, a grab bag of new songs, leaks, and material previously teased on Instagram Live, is often bittersweet and deeply contemplative, even by Drake’s standards.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mr. Brown
    Many of Sleepy's songs sound oddly unfinished, relying too heavily on his insistent falsetto.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fall to Grace
    The material, featuring production by U.K. soul vet Nellee Hooper (Soul II Soul), could be more memorable.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sun Structures
    What's lacking are the fun and wit of a great Summer of Love 45.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yes
    On their excellent 10th album, the music leans toward the ornate, with snatches of Tchaikovsky and spaghetti-Western atmospherics enveloping the synths and house beats.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lucky Day
    The faster Shaggy's music gets, the better it is.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Underneath the Pine
    As Bundick reveals more of his esoteric pop sensibility, comparisons to Beck feel increasingly apt. Whatever wave Bundick is riding, he's likely to be at the front of it.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Early Times
    Berman and the Jews may have gotten higher-fi and easier on the ears, but never more casually charismatic and deeply urban.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Duke
    Even when it's too adult-contempo (see Steve Vai grating new age cheese all over "Isfahan") this album always has one thing going for it – it makes you want to listen to some Duke Ellington.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2000 BC
    The big difference this time out is that the beats are as aggressive as Canibus' lyrics...
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Human
    Although Human occasionally slides into easy-listening soul, the still-spiky star delivers assured, remarkably smooth vocals throughout.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Brave And The Bold
    Sometimes mesmerizing, often depressing. [23 Feb 2006, p.68]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I'm Having Fun Now
    The mood may be dark, but the record is a model of musical egalitarianism.
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