For 5,914 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 6.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
| Highest review score: | Magic | |
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| Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,630 out of 5914
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Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
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Negative: 40 out of 5914
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Paul Smith's vocals are full of New Wave artifice, but he's also more earnest than many of his post-punk peers. [25 Aug 2005, p.100]- Rolling Stone
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The more visceral appeal of Coming Apart--most notably Gordon’s vocals--is lost somewhat in this pivot to patient squall and ugly voids (the 10-minute “Change My Brain” sounds like she’s crooning to an industrial fan), but the duo are still exceptional at manipulating scuzz.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 16, 2018
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Gogol are best when Hütz lyrically nuances the roiling energy; on "My Gypsy Auto Pilot," he goes back to Ukraine to find that he's a stranger in his old hometown.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 23, 2013
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While Brown's easygoing, singing guitar is the clear star throughout the record, something feels off overall, since the renditions here rarely live up to the originals. [May 2021, p.75]- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 11, 2021
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NakedSelf finds him returning to the slow-burn industrial grind of his best work.- Rolling Stone
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Does This Look Infected? squeezes a dozen energetic songs into a half-hour, and each one is over before you can figure out why that chorus sounds familiar or where you've heard that riff before.- Rolling Stone
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The London threesome behind X-Press 2 slaves to house's repetitious mechanics (check the ugly robot fart clouding "AC/DC") yet often transcends its self-imposed limitations through fastidious craft.- Rolling Stone
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It's a fruitful partnership: Earle's hard-won earthiness acts as a counterweight to Baez's ethereal tendencies, and Day After Tomorrow leans toward tough-minded material with blues and Appalachian overtones.- Rolling Stone
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- Posted Jul 31, 2012
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Full of shiny seventies pop rock simulations, but you would be much better off putting on an old Todd Rundgren or Raspberries record. [Aug 2020, p.73]- Rolling Stone
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Lauren Mayberry and her two beardo bandmates revisit the frosty New Wave of Yaz and early Depeche Mode while adding staccato, percussive glitches that echo but don't mimic the Eighties.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 26, 2013
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The writing is more a series of creepy pranks than a set of tunes, but Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane are a tight knottyrhythm team, and their propulsion under the comic vocals in "Tragedy's a'Comin' " and in the manic marching jam "Last Salmon Man" is no monkey business.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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The Georgia collective's second album is pop at its most playful and the avant-garde at its cuddliest -- a four-act, twenty-seven-song fantasy trip in which structure and chaos keep leapfrogging each other.- Rolling Stone
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There's a faint mustiness to some of the more upbeat arrangements, but on slow jams like the title track (a falsetto-streaked 1961 gem by the Jive Five) and Curtis Mayfield's "Gypsy Woman," Neville suspends time in vocal amber, a true soul master at work.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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His official debut LP still sounds like it's stuck in the past, with solid production from old-school legend DJ Premier and his latter-day disciple Statik Selektah.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 20, 2015
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It's mood music (bad-mood music, to be exact) and, despite coming from a band called the Body, it's largely formless; much of the time the songs just seem to end.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Not his most satisfying concept, but he can do more in 72 seconds that most artists can in four minutes. [May 2020, p.89]- Rolling Stone
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Unfortunately, Fear of the Dawn — the first of two records White will release this year — feels like a hodgepodge of good intentions and so-so execution.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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Thoroughly enjoyable though it is, Phantom Punchalso feels a little lightweight.- Rolling Stone
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At 67 minutes, this record could have probably used a bit more editing, but Rest in Chaos is definitive proof that Hard Working Americans is no half-baked side project. Instead, the group continues to be a fascinating roots-rock collaboration.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 27, 2016
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Settles on muscular, tasteful adult pop that's often autobiographical. [Mar 2020, p.91]- Rolling Stone
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McRae’s debut doesn’t exactly make her stand out from the sea of algorithmic pop girls, but it definitely shows promise.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 27, 2022
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But whereas White relives rock history in fever dreams, Greenhornes singer-guitarist Craig Fox envisions the past through heavy eyelids. His rollicking punk tunes are coolly detached, and his psychedelic mudslides often laze in drooged-out repose.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 8, 2011
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Sometimes the humor verges on camp (the title track), or the poignance drowns in Barry Manilow-isms ("Still Fighting It"). But mostly, Folds' songcraft is a winning mixture of the plush and the prickly...- Rolling Stone
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These collaborations jell because Richie's style is so expansive, musically and emotionally.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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Her songs sound great but feel off, merely gesturing in the direction of emotions. In the end, she's so cool she'll frost up your earbuds.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 1, 2012
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This sequel takes a similar approach [of 2007 LP Yes I'm a Witch], to mixed effect.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 19, 2016
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Common can be too, well, common: a nice guy, whose boasts and bromides are too predictable to really inspire.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 20, 2011
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