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For 5,921 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: 3,636 out of 5921
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5921
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5921
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cyr
    Rather than a through-line back to the Pumpkins’ trip-hoppy Adore, Cyr often sounds like Corgan was going for a new-wave sound that recalls Talk Talk, and unfortunately he has neither the singular vision he had in the Nineties nor the melodic savvy of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis to pull it off. Instead, most of the songs, all filled with neo-goth romantic lyrics, stumble and fumble over meandering melodies with no sing-along choruses to buttress them.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
    They sound like a marginally smarter American modern-rock act, screaming their pain over raw-boned riffs that could sure use some technicolor pizazz.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Defying Gravity
    Keith Urban plays it so safe on Defying Gravity, you'd think he got a musical lobotomy when he went to rehab.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fitz and the Tantrums
    It's a self-titled affair but it lacks the calling cards that originally made them interesting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose
    In a mistaken lunge at maturity, the Cooper Temple Clause devote much of Kick Up the Fire to chilled introspection and black-water ambience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Afterglow
    Die-hard fans will be delighted. Others might yawn.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
    For the most part, the old magical feeling sure ain't coming back. [2 Nov 2006, p.78]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Birds Of Pray
    Birds of Pray, their sixth album, sounds a lot like the previous five.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Kris Allen
    The likability that helped Allen win last season is so carefully low-key here that it's nearly lost.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Crazy Clown Time
    Lynch, a man of minor obsessions, here explores just one -- quavery, Fifties-style guitar. The result's long on atmosphere and short on anything approaching mystery.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Solarized
    Most of Solarized sounds like a so-so Portishead record with perfect cheekbones, an expensive haircut and rock-star airheadedness even Noel Gallagher couldn't manage.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Underclass Hero
    Melodrama drags down several cuts, including the absentee-dad lament "Dear Father," and in some form or another, you've heard all these songs before.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
    The real problem with coffeehouse stuff like "We Could Go and Start Again" isn't that it's corny--it's just tofu-bland. [6 Apr 2006, p.69]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
    Their songs carry bossa nova chord changes, analog keyboard bleeps and icy-cool chanteuserie from singer Inara George. So why is the second album by George and multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin so soul-deadening?
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