For 5,910 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.
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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: 3,628 out of 5910
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Mixed: 2,242 out of 5910
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Negative: 40 out of 5910
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This collection of unreleased material is uneven, tossing in undercooked instrumentals alongside tracks with MCs like Black Thought.- Rolling Stone
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If only the lyrics were as articulate as the melodies and playing. [Jul - Aug 22, p.120]- Rolling Stone
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It lacks the focused grace of his country experiments, but this much is true: It's Plant's hardest-rocking set in a decade.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 9, 2014
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High-impact scuzz-blues that aims for prime Hendrix and almost gets there. [30 Sep 2004, p.186]- Rolling Stone
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The band's dynamic stales over the course of an LP, but Speedy still manage a feat most peers in the recycling business don't: Make an old style a new concern.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 12, 2013
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While we await her next album of new material, due next winter, The Covers Record provides a stopgap fix of her unnerving, coldblooded voice and shaky acoustic guitar.- Rolling Stone
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The Lips have always been able to subvert pie-eyed whimsy with a sense of homespun beauty, and there's plenty of that here too.- Rolling Stone
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Set in the more commercial contexts of Kelly Rowland features and the-Dream's fluorescent R&B, he can sound like a fish out of some pretty expensive water.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 7, 2013
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While their long, drawn-out, circling dark clouds remain potent, ultimately The Glowing Man is the weakest of the three powerful epics they've released since 2012. It can be muted and jammy, the build-ups are not as dramatic and it brings little in new ideas for Gira's dead-eyed yowl.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 11, 2016
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What makes these multilevel pastiches more than cheeky cutups is a genuine musicality.- Rolling Stone
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- Posted Jan 15, 2014
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Check the track by Sobanza Mimanisa, who add guitar and more melody to the mix, as well as the accompanying DVD, which beautifully documents the recording of the CD.- Rolling Stone
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Much of Lamb of God contains the sort of piledriving guitar riffs and Olympic-medal-worthy drumming the band has perfected over the last 20 years, making it easy for their less political fans to get in on the fun. That said, the group sounds best when they take musical risks.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 16, 2020
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Their selling point is an eclecticism that evades Oasis-style overkill with compact songs that hop all over the place.- Rolling Stone
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An intermittently pleasurable record from a talented songwriter with an overstuffed brain. [8 Feb 2007, p.70]- Rolling Stone
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"Sad One Comin' On (Song for George Jones)"--a note-perfect honky-tonk weeper about the king of honky-tonk weepers. That’s the odd-card highlight of a set that focuses on smooth Eighties-style country-pop and ballad schmaltz.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 11, 2016
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- Posted Oct 31, 2012
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Antony Hegarty's tremulous warble is a strange and marvelous instrument--and for many, an acquired taste. The Crying Light, this diva-dude's third album, spotlights his haunting vocals with few distractions, using piano and low-key orchestral arrangements as foils for him to swoop and shiver over.- Rolling Stone
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He isn't operating in the same romantic vein as, say, Sylvester, one obvious predecessor--just delivering a healthy dose of real talk, set to clean cuts of vintage Chicago house grooves.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 19, 2015
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While it's refreshing to hear an R&B singer emphasizing the psychic toll of libertinism, his angst sex grows tiresome. Once in a while, can't this dude just get laid, and have fun doing it?- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 30, 2011
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Junior Senior's track-building smarts and way with a hook add up to non-annoying bliss on a handful of tracks.- Rolling Stone
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Four discs of this kind of horseplay might be too much for casual fans, but feedback freaks will savor the nuclear noise pop.- Rolling Stone
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The optimism and harmonies found on tracks such as "Wild Card" sound like they could someday turn the 22-year-old artist into a genuine pop star – but only if he outgrows his belief that in order to be serious, you have to be humorless, too.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 22, 2014
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Committed to romantic lyricism above all, Condon isn’t quite the tunesmith to fully justify this passion, compensating with melismatic slurs and a Gallic disdain for consonants. These tics don’t do much for lyrics he’s clearly been working on- Rolling Stone
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