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For 5,924 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: 3,638 out of 5924
  2. Mixed: 2,246 out of 5924
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5924
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mezmerize
    At its reckless best, which is a lot, Mezmerize is thrilling confrontation, a graphic reflection of a nation tearing itself apart in anger, fear and guilt.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pompeii
    Le Bon is one of indie music's more beguilingly brilliant artists, as her sixth LP attests. [Feb 2022, p.72]
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      • Posted Feb 8, 2022
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Twin Cinema
    Like the other two [albums], it's speaker-blowingly brilliant. [11 Aug 2005, p.70]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl Going Nowhere
    McBryde's got a big, vibrato-tinged alto, biker-chick style, and she wrote or co-wrote everything here, including "Dahlonega," with a sharp eye for piercing detail. She has a serious gift.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Benji
    Folk singer Mark Kozelek's remarkable sixth album as Sun Kil Moon feels less like a collection of songs than a series of eulogies delivered in real time.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Moon
    As a whole, the collection is as indispensable as Either/Or. [31 May 2007, p.96]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chris Cornell [Box Set]
    This collection (or any compilation for that matter) can’t come close to defining who Cornell truly was. He was multi-talented and a cipher; in some ways, he was impossible to know. But most of his truth appears to be in the music. The challenge is putting the puzzle pieces together.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Over and Even
    Subtlety and simplicity also define this set of acoustic songs. But like the verse, the terms understate the power and beauty of the subject at hand.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happy Songs For Happy People
    The music by bands on this kind of eternal blissful bummer trip walks a fine line between bewitching and dire; in the case of Mogwai, it's usually the former.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Streetcore
    Streetcore continues the band's lightly amplified muscular-acoustic sound.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atrocity Exhibition
    The fourth album from Detroit's Danny Brown is the year's most thrilling cry for help.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Semper Femina
    Her own voice just grows stronger, literally and figuratively: On "Wild Fire," advising a lover or frenemy to "stop playing that shit out on me," she's a wordy folk-soul queen of entirely her own making.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Have One On Me
    Her latest firmly establishes her as a singer-songwriter to be reckoned with.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things Have Changed
    The tricks and miracles of Things Have Changed are manifold. Half of its 12 tracks restore life to songs that were dead-on-arrival on Dylan albums from 1979 to 1989; the rest reshapes more essential parts of the legend.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good News
    Megan’s own flow is musical enough to offer its own hooks without outside ornamentation. A track like “Body” shows Megan’s pop strengths as she stretches the title into a stream of ody-ody-odys so bouncy you can practically see booties popping to the beat.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oceans Apart
    Newcomers will hear a seductively pretty indie-pop record, while their still-ballooning cult can marvel at the sound of their iridescent melodies turning autumn-gold.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Veckatimest
    Already a front-runner for 2009's most gushed-over art-rock record, the third disc from this Brooklyn quartet has a sound that is completely its own.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I'm All Ears
    Ultimately it’s the spirit of adventure that runs through the entire enterprise that makes the diversity feel perfectly coherent, and timely. The future, after all, belongs to the young.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bitte Orca
    It's at once attention-deficient and micromanaged, exhilarating and aggravating.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Devotion
    She perfects [her] approach on this set of elegant synth ballads, confiding hopes and heartbreaks in tones that command attention without ever chewing the scenery.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kicking Television: Live In Chicago
    Both a love letter to Wilco's dedicated fans and a definitive live statement from America's foremost rock impressionists. [3 Nov 2005, p.88]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tenacious D
    Not since Bob and Doug McKenzie have two jokers nailed the clod-metal aesthetic so accurately: Nearly every lyric here comes straight from your high school's bathroom wall.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good News
    His tunes are full of warm, woozy singsong charm.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Kid
    Her unusual harmonies with Plant on "Highway Song" and the hypnotic "Ohio" match anything from his celebrated Raising Sand LP.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Soft Bulletin
    Another baffling, winning, neopsychedelic recording.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    King Push - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
    Though hip-hop gets more melodic and vocally expressive every year, Pusha keeps his cadences steely and his bars hitting like haymakers, maintaining that ice-cold Nineties feel even when he’s taking on modern troubles.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
    Twenty years after their debut, Yo La Tengo are in full command.
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) [Box Set]
    The only thing A New Career in a New Town is missing, at least for the diehard fans who would buy a lavish box set like this, is more of everything – more rarities, more photos, more stories. But that's also precisely why this period in Bowie's career remains captivating. There's enough curious music here to last several lifetimes.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stumpwork
    Shaw tries to sing here and there (notably on “Driver’s Story”) but Dry Cleaning’s words and music seem to work best together when they’re working independently of each other. The band’s peers in the sing-speak/post-punk group Wet Leg do a better job overall of conjuring joy from the marriage of poetry and music but what Dry Cleaning do feels unique.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodness
    Raw-hearted bursts of bald guitar churn backing lyrics that hunger for meaning in terms that'd be corny if the music didn't hit so hard.
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