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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Devil's Playground
    The results are much better than his 1993 sci-fi shark jump, Cyberpunk, and so it automatically counts as the best thing he's done since "Cradle of Love."
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Red Carpet Massacre
    Timberland gives the Fab Five a sleek funk track on 'Nite-Runner,' which could have been a leftover from "FutureSex/LoveSounds." Justin Timberlake even arrives to gloss it up--as far as Duran Duran are concerned, the union of the Timber-Snake is on the rise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Interstellar
    Now solo, she's rocking the current micro-vogue for Eighties shoegaze pop: guitar-synth swirls, paper-thin New Wave bass surge, space-waif vocals like a spring breeze that barely billows your window curtains.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Messenger
    The massively influential Smiths guitarist finally makes the solid solo debut he should've recorded a quarter-century ago.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mondo Amore
    Nicole Atkins' second album is an exercise in what you might call brunch blues: Dreamy, vaguely melancholic, thoroughly pleasant.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Internal Wrangler
    By twisting the features of various stylistic forefathers - the Velvet Underground, early Pink Floyd, Can, Wire - they've created a new hybrid of bratty garage rock and whimsical sonic experimentation that delights in its own mutant energy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    VII: Sturm und Drang
    Although there's plenty of Lamb of God's trademark guitar chug and Olympics-level drumming, the eerier moments (see the jailhouse tale "512") and unexpected guests (including members of Deftones and the Dillinger Escape Plan) show a group that's thirsty to evolve beyond its own established patterns.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweeter
    The 10 songs on Sweeter, DeGraw's fourth album, are taut, efficient and hook-packed, with guitars bolstering the big choruses....He's also an incurable cheeseball.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blues Funeral
    Minus usual vocal sidekicks Isobel Campbell and Greg Dulli (who appears briefly on the vintage drum-machine jam "St. Louis Elegy"), Lanegan's chafed baritone works best with bold backdrops.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Downtown Church
    So while her voice is exquisite--a less burnished version of her pal Emmylou Harris'--it's still surprising to find her doing an LP of mainly cover
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tweekend
    Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan have dumbed down their sound even more - and their music is all the better for it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    Miniatures of spaghetti-western spasm and speed-of-light viscera.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    VYP: Voice of the Young People
    The standout is "L.I.F.E.," a raw recollection of an addled childhood ("I ain't got no pictures of my mother/She was a crack fiend/Nothing like crack mother") that proves there's more to her than bubble gum.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
    Four discs of this kind of horseplay might be too much for casual fans, but feedback freaks will savor the nuclear noise pop.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Story Of My Life
    Story is a couple gems short of excellence, but Carter has expanded her unaffected charm beyond the twang thang.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Social Network [Original Score]
    With help from producer Atticus Ross, Reznor has made a solid soundtrack to David Fincher's movie by doing what he's always done: creating grand industrial rock.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Light Of X
    Delivered in a pure, unblemished voice, even the sad songs are comforting, occasionally to a fault.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adiós
    Interspersed, however, with Campbell's finest performances are several moments that fall short on a record that occasionally feels like a forced final effort. ... Ultimately, though, it's Campbell's voice, still nimble and newly haunting in its frailty, that makes Adiós a worthy conclusion from the legendary singer.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Long Road
    Brazenly consistent, if unimaginative. [13 Nov 2003, p.99]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Ragpicker's Dream
    An album that can express itself only through understatement.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let It Be... Naked
    Casual fans, however, will wonder what all the fuss was about; novices should still get the original.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Push and Shove
    Push and Shove leans toward synthpop-flavored ballads with grown-up themes: relationship struggles, the rewards of long-term romance. The songs are catchy, but Gwen Stefani doesn't have the voice, or the gravitas, for grandiose tunes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lazers Never Die
    Recorded at Kingston's legendary Tuff Gong studios, this EP twists dancehall and dubstep into kinky new directions.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Night Long
    They return to vintage Sunset Strip glam metal à la "Crazy Bitch".
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Places Like This
    With its sexed-up beats, cowbell, nonsense chants and wigged-out Casio-keyboard psychedelia, Places Like This turns its sound-effect juxtapositions into sheepishly functional tunes.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    True Romance
    It's a loose concept, but it delivers.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Equals
    He’s equally rooted in old-school melody and beat-derived new-century songwriting. In its best moments, = brings together those two worlds. ... Yet as genuinely in love as he appears, his devotional songs tend to bog down in generalized sentiments and gooier melodies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mandatory Fun
    Sure, there’s a touch of hypocrisy in a guy as gloriously tacky as Al taking shots at the shameless but who really cares when it’s this much fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Duets II
    Say this for the 17 popstars who teamed with the greatest living singer of American popular standards: They're brave. Luckily, Bennett rescues most of his partners.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last Ship
    The play won't open until next year, so for now all the drama in these songs is internal, and all the more riveting for that.
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