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For 5,914 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: 3,630 out of 5914
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5914
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    The Lips' spacious attack feels a little tired. [6 Apr 2006, p.64]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Myth Takes
    Tedium is a problem, but danceability is a given.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Piece by Piece
    The OG American Idol manages to pull off that clock reversal, flooring her DeLorean back to the Eighties on her seventh studio album.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cloud Nine
    His debut album, Cloud Nine, is naturally very same-y--deep house wasting away in Margaritaville--but unfailingly gorgeous.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Southern Style
    On his fourth solo country album, Rucker is warm and easygoing, more buddy than bro, winningly carrying bar-hopping honky-tonk ("Good for a Good Time"), down-home anthems ("Half Full Dixie Cup") and low-sung ballads ("You Can Have Charleston").
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love for Sale
    A superhero team-up that has produced another album of rock-solid takes on the American songbook.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bury Me in My Boots
    Lead singer Jaren Johnston is a top Nashville writer, but he’s a bit too enamored of good-ol'-boy clichés. Luckily, he's an excellent singer.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Try This
    After Missundaztood, her choices were to repeat herself or to try more material outside her realm of expertise. She does a little of both on Try This, with mixed results.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Documentary
    If you're going to be literal and heartfelt, you'd better have something to say, and that's where the twenty-five-year-old rapper often falls short.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unpredictable
    When the album works, it's because of Foxx's easy charm and A-list confidence.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lynn Teeter Flower
    It'd be nice if Taylor went easier on the introspection. [8 Mar 2007, p.86]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hurley
    Weezer's eighth album is an olive branch to the ride-or-die nerd side of his audience: A Weezer record named after Hurley from Lost is like Rick Ross slapping a picture of Scarface-era Pacino on an album cover and calling it Tony.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    X
    His serious side is more compelling.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stay Human
    But there's genuine excitement in hearing him leap nimbly between the tart funk of "Rock the Nation" and the loose organic soul of "Speaking of Tongues" as he rails against the inequities of death row, mingling the earthy and the high-minded into something special.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smokey & Friends
    The balance of respectful tributes and reimaginings recalls John Fogerty's similarly structured 2013 collection, Wrote a Song for Everyone.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Me Back
    The 23-year-old diva plays a little nicer, adhering to the Mary J. Blige school of gritty, nuanced hip-hop soul.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Crying Light
    Antony Hegarty's tremulous warble is a strange and marvelous instrument--and for many, an acquired taste. The Crying Light, this diva-dude's third album, spotlights his haunting vocals with few distractions, using piano and low-key orchestral arrangements as foils for him to swoop and shiver over.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Milk Famous
    Their third album deepens the rockist intentions with a track called "Heavy Metal" and a sound that's like Spoon or Fountains of Wayne dipped in distracted keyboard/noise-guitar ooze.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Falling Off the Sky
    [They] remain masters of stately jangle, and their writing now has a reflective depth that makes for music that's wise as well as crafty.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    June Gloom
    Here they're a full band, splaying low-protein vocals over delicately crunchy hooks and tensile ballads.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Lumineers
    The central concern is present-tense lust and heartache, which this spirited band translates into a fine drunk-clogging soundtrack.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everything Is New
    It's an appealingly scruffy sound--an underdog album, a record you want to root for.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Head Is an Animal
    This Icelandic six-piece pull off a neat trick: They make whimsical sound tough.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On A Wire
    On a Wire quivers with the anxieties that must have arisen as the Get Up Kids left behind what originally made them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All City
    Hip-hop for the modern fabulous woman.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yes, I'm a Witch Too
    This sequel takes a similar approach [of 2007 LP Yes I'm a Witch], to mixed effect.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Mad & Faithful Telling
    What leader Nick Urata does on his big indie debut is pretty straightforward: make dance music and ballads with drama and kitsch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?
    The viscera isn't surprising. What may be is the empathy, wit and beauty on this focused LP.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Leave This Town
    It takes gall to put a song called 'No Surprise' on your second disc, but gall is something Daughtry does not lack, and that's what made him one of the only bona fide rock stars to come out of American Idol.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Momentary Masters
    Albert Hammond Jr. packs his third solo disc with the band's signature crisp melodies, curt guitar churn and New Wave synth ripple. As a singer and lyricist, though, Hammond has an openhearted, somewhat quizzical mien that's a far cry from the Strokes' poker-faced chic.
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