For 5,914 reviews, this publication has graded:
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34% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: | Magic | |
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Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
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Positive: 3,630 out of 5914
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Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
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Negative: 40 out of 5914
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Pratt's jazz-steeped singing and rich guitar harmonies can recall early Joni Mitchell, or a nimble, less overbearing twist on the psychedelic folk of 21st-century artists like Joanna Newsom.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 27, 2015
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Three-quarters of Remember Me, which is mainly produced by Gemini or his like-minded associate P-Lo, sounds great on iPhone speakers. But the rest of the album is too slow and soggy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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The only significant change from their breakthrough effort, 1998's All the Pain Money Can Buy, is more expensive, expansive-sounding production and an increasingly overt Beatles influence in both the songs and sonics.- Rolling Stone
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At the top of their game, Little Big Town are taking an unlikely path: respectable, mid-career album artist.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2017
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Despite opening big, bright and airtight, I Like It When You Sleep... gets boring-melty during dream-gaze reveries like "Please Be Naked" and "Lostmyhead." Even so, when they hit the right kind of moody sheen ("Somebody Else," "Loving Someone"), the 1975 are an enjoyable balance of desire and distraction.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2016
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Can be madcap and zany, darkly hilarious, and just plain weird. [May 2020, p.89]- Rolling Stone
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The stylishly sleazy intensity is still there on their first record since 1998's excellent 1965, only with a wider palette.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 2, 2014
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While their long, drawn-out, circling dark clouds remain potent, ultimately The Glowing Man is the weakest of the three powerful epics they've released since 2012. It can be muted and jammy, the build-ups are not as dramatic and it brings little in new ideas for Gira's dead-eyed yowl.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 11, 2016
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With repeated listens, what feels at first like unmelodic obduracy reveals some hidden charms.- Rolling Stone
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There’s an element of the ridiculous in this. But there’s also a charm to their guileless, retro-fetishist conviction. And dudes have chops.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 19, 2018
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Grading on a curve, the composition, “Opening Night,” deserves a solid B. It’s dorky, catchy, and whimsical. ... The rest of their springtime retreat sounds generally more Weezerish. ... As with the corniness of “Opening Night,” Cuomo’s strong knack for vocal melodies throughout saves a lot of otherwise half-baked or cliched lyrics.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 21, 2022
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The beats and some sharp songwriting keep Milian's unremarkably airy voice from having to stand on its own. [18 May 2006, p.229]- Rolling Stone
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While the 21-year-old singer rocks more sass and self-empowerment on her full-length major-label debut (which, confusingly, shares a name with the four-song EP she released in September), she's also charmingly old-fashioned.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 6, 2015
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The music of the late Vic Chesnutt radiated black humor, ragged charm and a vulnerability that was often alarming. Cowboy Junkies successfully retain those qualities on Demons, a collection of Chesnutt covers that sets his striking lyrics against coiled guitars and baleful church organs.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 1, 2011
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12 hardrocking lefty diatribes against government conspiracies ("Drones – they got ya tapped, they got ya phone," Chuck D raps in "Take Me Higher"), civil injustice ("We fuckin' matter," he declares on "Who Owns Who") and, in the case of B-Real's rhymes, restrictive weed laws ("Legalize Me").- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Time Skiffs splits the difference between the pop and the avant, spaced-out family-pad music with solid drumming, deep-distance percussion, wobbly melodies, and harmonies somehow more blissed out than anything else.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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Crescendoing tracks like "True Monument" sound positively lush--at least if you ignore the dopey lyrics about "the cruelty of kindness" and other clichés.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 26, 2014
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An audacious set of... left-field covers (Radiohead's "Just," the Jam's "Pretty Green") turned into dance-soul tracks.- Rolling Stone
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The tunes come up seriously short on choruses and heavy on the Alanis Morissette references.- Rolling Stone
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With Rick Rubin co-producing, the band embraces not just synth-pop clamor but also dancehall-style chants and U2's grandiosity. It's the sound of Linkin Park feeling their way toward a new identity, but their skill for melody is obvious.- Rolling Stone
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The trip down memory lane helps the Crüe connect to their old sound: Much of Saints rocks with the same raucous fun as their Eighties albums, delivering glam guitars and arena-size choruses on cuts like the wickedly catchy 'Down at the Whisky.'- Rolling Stone
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The Strokes-ish quality is in the music's rigor: Assassins combines groove and melody with the same machinelike precision that sets Fraiture's other outfit apart.- Rolling Stone
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The onus here lies on the production... Rick Rubin's work is too timid; mostly, the shy combos of guitar, fiddle and accordion, or Benmont Tench's subliminal contributions on keyboards, make up the kind of severe meal that one is forced to think of as "tasteful."- Rolling Stone
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Everett keeps these ballads and rockers short, spare and pretty; his sad reportage is straightforward to the point of being guileless.- Rolling Stone
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An album of poetry set to music might not be what the world wants from Brian Eno.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 18, 2011
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Like his fellow goth-punk godfather Nick Cave, Spencer is a master of the offhandedly irreverent blues move, turning riffs like 'Crazy Pritty Baby' into prime perversion.- Rolling Stone
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The relentless lightness can get predictable after a while, as one plush ballad blurs into another, but Blue Neighbourhood, like all the best young loves, is full of promise.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 14, 2016
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