Rolling Stone's Scores

Select another publication »
For 5,914 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: 3,630 out of 5914
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5914
5914 music reviews
view
per page
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I'm Going Away
    Like previous albums, I'm Going Away is long on imaginative-but-uncatchy brain ticklers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dangerous Woman
    Grande may not have settled on a sound, but she's still an outsized, dangerous talent.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Say Anything
    There's sax and doo-wop here, but Bemis is at his best yelling stuff like "I can't define myself through irony …and self-deprecation!" over taut punk pop.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Haunted
    Unfortunately, Haunted reverberates with tired samples, rehashed echo effects and beats so plodding they could stop a metronome.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Power In Numbers
    Their second album will thrill fans who stopped clocking rap a decade ago and heads who never let go.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Three Dimensions Deep
    She often sounds invigorated as the record breezes through multiple styles of R&B as well as afropop, house, and funk. ... Unfortunately, her shapeshifting gets short-circuited by hamfisted writing, especially as the album’s space theme gets less playful and more literal.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Holy Fire
    Holy Fire is a collection of well-manicured tracks zoning out to a dazzling middle distance.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
    The meandering LP can't bear the weight of the man at the piano's indulgences.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    Miniatures of spaghetti-western spasm and speed-of-light viscera.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ready For Love
    Even when he picks up the pace, he sounds a little weary.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Phantom Moon
    Intimate strings, minimal drums and soft sighs caress meandering tunes that avoid hooks or obvious statements. But Sheik's delivery lacks the emotional depth of his U.K. models: Nick Drake, David Sylvian and the Blue Nile couldn't conceal their pain behind lush arrangements.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kiss Of Death
    When he's undone, it's by tinkertoy production on tracks such as the insipid Mariah Carey Vehicle "U Make Me Wanna." [5 Aug 2004, p.106]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Golden Dove
    It's like the pop equivalent to the 692-page fantasy epic, only it makes less sense.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    The Lips' spacious attack feels a little tired. [6 Apr 2006, p.64]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Home of the Strange
    Though Gadhia hasn't shed all his Chris Martin influence, he's developed an edge of paranoid menace reminiscent of Muse's Matt Bellamy. It's a sound that comes from both everywhere and nowhere.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
    Yes, there are duds among these 36 tracks. But they pass the time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
    The playing never stumbles, though the writing occasionally does.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Young Machetes
    Unfortunately, Blood Brothers don't actually make you scared, which any good noise band should.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Do It Again
    Even without the ecstatic melodrama of Robyn's best work or the momentum of Röyksopp albums like 2009's Junior, this is a worthwhile peek into three great electro-pop minds.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joyful Rebellion
    Gives alt-rap humanism a good name. [28 Oct 2004, p.103]
    • Rolling Stone
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Traveling Kind
    Through it all, their creative partnership sounds stronger than ever.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Come from the Same Place
    Their third album continues in this mild fashion, and though always pleasant, it's often unmemorable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Many Moons
    The Brooklyn-based singer is an expert arranger and song craftsman, if only an adequate lyricist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Equilibrium
    A mellow concoction of atmospheric textures, electronic samples and funk-lite beats.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chicken & Beer
    A great style doesn't always equal a great album, and the world's illest flows can't rescue some of these dud beats.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
    These twelve songs are streamlined, uncluttered miniatures.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Going Back Home
    Brawling tunes steeped in vintage rock & roll, with Daltrey setting his maximum-R&B yowl on full bluster against Johnson's slashing attack.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Translated From Love
    Her good taste tethers her to the old homestead on her first album since 2002, taking off only once: on an unlikely cover of Iggy Pop's 'Success.'
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    200 Million Thousand
    This smart if self-conscious album makes it clear who the Lips would like to be, but it's hard to tell who they really are.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Knot
    It's Wye Oak's arrangements--feedback blasts, tape-loop-like effects, violin and pedal steel sighs--that turn standard indie-rock ballads into unusually evocative mood music.
Page: