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For 5,918 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: 3,633 out of 5918
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5918
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5918
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Are You Passionate?
    What makes this Mr. Young-goes-to-Memphis excursion resonate is the trouble that lurks just outside its boundaries.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wilder Mind
    The sentiment is Springsteen, the guitars are straight-up Strokes, and even if it's not going to work out for the relationship in this song, the music itself bristles with self-assurance.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blacc Hollywood
    Blacc Hollywood makes you want to come along for the ride.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reincarnated
    There's a winning sincerity to his sunny jams extolling peace, love and gun control; even the weed anthems feel less phoned-in than usual.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Acoustic Sessions
    Recorded in the couple's home studio, this set of duets by Lennon and his model girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, recalls other forebears too, such as the damaged beauty of Elliott Smith. But the songs have a sunny, psychedelic side.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    A breakthrough for Weezer... Cuomo's songs are his most plaintive and brilliant since Pinkerton. [19 May 2005, p.74]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    The music dips into ska, Eighties electro and power ballads, and the sumptuously noirish torch song "In Your Life" proves White's heart is as big as her spleen.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SuperHeavy
    If the songs sometimes feel a bit undercooked, the spirit is dazzling.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Astronaut
    Revitalizes Duran's early synth-pop magic. [28 Oct 2004, p.103]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fake Songs
    Hearing twenty-one Lynch-penned songs back to back gets exhausting.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    See My Friends
    The highlight of this collaborative set is "Days/This Time Tomorrow," a medley of Kinks classics.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scream
    The taut power-trio arrangements mix the whisper-to-a-scream dynamics of post-grunge with glam-rock chords and a big dollop of emo's teen psychodrama.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lions
    The heart of Lions lies in the best ballads the band has ever waxed, such as the Led Zeppelin III-esque "Soul Singing" and the churning "Losing My Mind."
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Winning Days
    Winning Days is a noisy triumph -- as good as their 2002 debut, Highly Evolved, and in some ways a leap forward in style and frenzy.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Revival
    At 77 minutes, Revival is a heavy listen, going deep on ballads with guests like Ed Sheeran and X Ambassadors. But a certain indulgent messiness has always been part of the Eminem experience. ... When Revival's confessionals work, it's proof that, when the real Marshal Mathers stands up, he can still pull us into his evocative dramas.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Britney Jean
    It's a concept album about the loneliness of pop life--with a high-profile broken engagement behind her, Brit gets personal and drops her most bummed-out music ever.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
    It was only natural to suspect that Limp Bizkit would fall on their faces this time by getting serious. But Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is looser and livelier and just plain better than anything they've ever tried before.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dark Horse
    Lange keeps things rolling--and to his credit, Chad Kroeger gratifyingly comes off as more of a regular guy than a rock star.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take A Look In The Mirror
    Korn have circled the wagons and self-produced their best album to date, refining the formula to a black-cancer marmalade of corrosive riffs, fist-flying rhythms, gothic-carnival atmospheres and toxic vocals.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sex Dreams And Denim Jeans
    Did Ke$ha bite her steez? Who cares? There's always room for another party girl.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Other People's Songs
    Erasure do the Ronettes' "Walking in the Rain" almost as well as Cheryl Ladd, they do Buddy Holly's "Everyday" better than James Taylor, they prove that one man and one man only was meant to sing "Can't Help Falling in Love," and they tart up Peter Gabriel something fierce.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Entrance Band
    He moans echo-caked utopian incantations, hustles some groovy conspiracy theories, spins a stolen Dylan melody into a elegiac space jam and ponders the nature of "circular time." But there's as much Sonic Youth doom in his band's guitar explorations as there is folky grooviness.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    You know how reunion albums work: You listen for the playing, not for the songs, which are mediocre at best.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Baptism
    Somewhere along the line in his career, he fully absorbed his pantheon of Sixties and Seventies influences and began to sound like no one but himself. The confidence that results from that growth -- along with the knowledge that comes from having made records for fifteen years -- is apparent throughout this album.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    Phair is a fine lyricist, and although she's lost some musical identity, she's gained potential Top Forty access.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Kelsea
    There’s surprisingly little filler on these thirteen songs, barring a few missteps like “Bragger,” which lands in an uninteresting netherworld between country and pop. More interesting is when Ballerini explores the social dynamics of that same netherworld.
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