For 5,894 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 6.2 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: 3,612 out of 5894
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Mixed: 2,242 out of 5894
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Negative: 40 out of 5894
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The mood stays ominous, even as sonic details thrill headphone-equipped headbangers.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 12, 2013
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Each of these albums is as noteworthy for what's missing as for what's there.- Rolling Stone
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Whether the ace metal is speedy or onerous (or both, as in the case of "Six Shooter," with its shrieking insanity), it is always deployed in the service of the eccentric song structures, and every track becomes a splendid, mysterious thing.- Rolling Stone
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Merritt's compositions have a tossed-off, barely produced quality and are held together by sturdily constructed melodies that hark back to Eighties synth poppers like Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark.- Rolling Stone
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With Kill the moonlight, Spoon complete their transformation from ragtag rockers into beat-driven post-punks.- Rolling Stone
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Musically, it's as superb as anything she's ever done.... But underneath the sublime sounds, something crucial is missing.- Rolling Stone
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Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past. And you don't have to care about English history--or England in general--to fall under Harvey's spell.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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A sprawling, eclectic set that ranges from the slightly tepid to the truly transcendent.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 21, 2018
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There's some info overload, but Ellison is an ace with pacing, and a distracted soulfulness guides the frantic laptop science.- Rolling Stone
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Despite the thematic monotony, Tucker and her band mates think louder and rock smarter than anyone in their class; a modest effort like All Hands would be another band's masterpiece.- Rolling Stone
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As usual with T.W.O.D., these songs are only as good as their grooves.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 20, 2014
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It works well as a very basic introduction to Factory's better-known groups: Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays.- Rolling Stone
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From her luscious, aching croon, and her ensemble's solemn high-mesa twang and groove..., you'd never guess she wasn't covering Patsy Cline standards.- Rolling Stone
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The music isn't always as dynamic as his thoughts, opting for a mostly mellow mood that matches the LP's carefree samples of surfing documentaries, but doesn't always capture their freewheeling individuality.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 27, 2016
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It's at once attention-deficient and micromanaged, exhilarating and aggravating.- Rolling Stone
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New Bermuda's few epiphanies are surrounded by waters too rough for most listeners.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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As an introduction to Buck's weird world of lovable losers, hugely endowed centaurs and insomniacs, Right Here is right on.- Rolling Stone
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Geogaddi is marvelously vague, as unconcerned with the real world as gangsta rap is obsessed with it. It's also a lovely, strangely comforting collection of electronic introspection, mood and shadow.- Rolling Stone
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Like Death in Vegas, Holmes is a techno boffin whose work builds upon that of the Velvet Underground rather than Kraftwerk; too bad his grooves, like the bass-line chug of "Living Room," often go nowhere fast.- Rolling Stone
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Though nowhere near as incisive, infectious or rewarding as their best work, Kids See Ghosts is still an important step forward into an era of big moods and short attention spans.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 11, 2018
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Though her deep voice is mixed down a little, most of Meshell Ndegeocello's seventh album--five of its tracks reprised from last year's "Article 3 EP" recalls 2002's "Cookie."- Rolling Stone
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At their best, Animal Collective combine shapely pop hooks with mind-broadening sonic freakery. At their worst, the sonic freakery is mind-numbing. Like most of their work, this five-song EP contains all of the above.- Rolling Stone
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Bush of Ghosts seems half-baked, putatively cerebral yet underthought, interesting only because somebody famous did it.- Rolling Stone
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It's a balanced album by a spirit who seems anything but.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 18, 2014
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Most of Spiritualized's ninth LP comes off intricate, elastic, and soulful. [Mar 2022, p.71]- Rolling Stone
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Badu seems so taken by hazy texture--and so determined to play the weirdo--that she's neglected to write many actual songs.- Rolling Stone
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