For 5,924 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: 3,638 out of 5924
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Mixed: 2,246 out of 5924
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Negative: 40 out of 5924
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The most heartening thing about Feels Like Home is the utter absence of fussiness, or second-album overthink. It extends the Come Away With Me template while never echoing the earlier songs.- Rolling Stone
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Understandably, Reed's old fascination with sadomasochistic transcendence puts off those who don't swing that way at least a little. But the music on this record, its gorgeous part, could change that.- Rolling Stone
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With appearances from most of the big-name rappers and wall-to-wall Neptunes beats, this should be the world's greatest hip-hop compilation -- and much of the time it is.- Rolling Stone
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Gold lacks the concise ache of Adams' indie solo prize from last year, Heartbreaker, but it is stronger on naked truth.- Rolling Stone
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For all its audacity and lyrical cleverness, Search is an album with insecurities as remarkable as its confidence, with desperate measures justified by sincerity of purpose.- Rolling Stone
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For all Beck lifts from the Seventies, the album never sounds like a period piece; there's always something extra in the mix, stray elements that are both goofy and strangely apropos.- Rolling Stone
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The Menace, the long-delayed follow-up, finds Elastica in an unrepentant mood, scuffing up their terse, trashy guitar rock with fun-house noise while adding a handful of ambient mood pieces that sound like Aphex Twin castoffs.- Rolling Stone
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Synth techno filtered through the twenty years of electronic dance music that have unspooled since 1982. [11 Apr 2002, p.132]- Rolling Stone
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Clapton pays broad tribute to Johnson as a composer and public-domain synthesist.- Rolling Stone
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A widescreen musical masterpiece with a knowing wink. [28 Mar 2002, p.68]- Rolling Stone
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They don't mess around much outside their tessitura - they like to keep everything light, fast and punchy.- Rolling Stone
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Free may be her most beautiful album, as well as her cagiest: There are gaunt rock songs and ramshackle ballads, all painted with bold, sure strokes that belie her ambivalence.- Rolling Stone
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Now comes the sequel, which plays down Guthrie's playful leer in favor of his snarl.- Rolling Stone
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There is a flow and coherence to these fifteen tracks that make the narrative whole much larger than the sum of its occasionally goofy parts.- Rolling Stone
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The best bullets here are like excerpts from a fantasy mix tape of classic glam and garage rock.- Rolling Stone
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With their fifth studio record, Phrenology, they finally become what we've always hoped they would be: a hip-hop band that strikes a very funky balance between righteousness and humor, between headbanging grooves and truth-telling.- Rolling Stone
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There's no denying the over-the-top whomp of his music, the loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages.- Rolling Stone
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The Stills' excellent debut album, Logic Will Break Your Heart, is a stunner, a rush of shoegazer guitars and suave lover-boy angst.- Rolling Stone
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These are familiar tales of lost women and running men, but the sting and color in Malin's language and voice put you right by his side in these noisy bars and deserted bedrooms.- Rolling Stone
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Vicious is a combination of punk's snottiness, Detroit rock's raw power and the stylized blues freak-outs of bands like Pussy Galore.- Rolling Stone
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The happiest-sounding album she's ever made.... it may also be the best. While her austere sonic signature remains, the vocals are discernibly more relaxed, the tunes welcoming and even expansive.- Rolling Stone
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In every skewed guitar note and crackling drum beat, every cello stroke and modulation of MacKaye's malleable voice, there's a passion for rigor - intellectual, political and musical.- Rolling Stone
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It's an album of tuneful, intimate pop-rock songs...- Rolling Stone
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Mama's Gun finds Erykah disrobing emotionally, shedding the self-righteousness and goddess posture that marked Baduizm. The new Erykah isn't teaching, she's dealing with regular-person baggage.- Rolling Stone
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