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 |
Score distribution:
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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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The album’s feel and sound is resiliently explosive, especially on the three-song mini mega-mix of sorts that kicks things off. ... The rest of the album feels a little more perfunctory, never quite being of a piece a la their euphoric 2010 return-to-form Further, or offering uniquely memorable high-points a la Born in the Echoes’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”-tinged face-melter “I’ll See You There.”- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 11, 2019
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Pratt's jazz-steeped singing and rich guitar harmonies can recall early Joni Mitchell, or a nimble, less overbearing twist on the psychedelic folk of 21st-century artists like Joanna Newsom.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 27, 2015
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Hansard too often lapses into his trademark brooding melodrama--an easy fallback for a singer who's at his best, nowadays, when he's trying something new.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 14, 2015
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There are snoozers like the title track... but there are also pretty, narcotically alluring cuts like "FM." [21 Sep 2006, p.86]- Rolling Stone
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Far crisper and way less jagged than his last two albums. [30 Dec 2004, p.160]- Rolling Stone
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black midi take a serious detour into pretentious overreach here. [Jul - Aug 2022, p.120]- Rolling Stone
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Guesting on a Yoko Ono LP has become like getting cast in a Woody Allen film: an artistic validation and New York City-branded right of passage. It’s also clearly a hoot.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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At turns pensive and frenetic but always richly textured. [17 Oct 2002, p.72]- Rolling Stone
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All the humorless gloom and doom feels oppressive after a while. [18 Sep 2003, p.74]- Rolling Stone
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After a few listens, the charm of many of Willner's soundscapes fades: They provide a certain Vicodin-buzz pleasure--and then they don't.- Rolling Stone
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Miss Anthropocene is no doubt a work of ambition, and Boucher’s aims at bringing further awareness to the climate crisis are noble. ... Yet what the album actually has to say about climate change is often lost under the admittedly beautiful, meticulously composed wreckage. By the album’s end, Boucher has abandoned the muddled villainous pretext in favor of her own utopian fantasies.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 19, 2020
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So while her voice is exquisite--a less burnished version of her pal Emmylou Harris'--it's still surprising to find her doing an LP of mainly cover- Rolling Stone
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DeMarco's weed-y lazy-day croon can be a little too tongue-in-cheek. He's best when he's more earnest, both lyrically and melodically.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 4, 2017
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The movie-cue instrumentals, underdeveloped sketches and an incongruous fake cop-show theme prevent About a Boy from fully holding together as an album, but at the core of this soundtrack are some elegant, fully realized songs.- Rolling Stone
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Replace the sleepy stuff with more songs like "My Moon," and The Reminder would have been killer. [3 May 2007, p.147]- Rolling Stone
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The result is songs suited less for a rock club than a church sanctuary, with Picker playing the forlorn choirboy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 9, 2012
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On their first album in eight years, these How High stars seem every bit the pleasure-seekers they used to be.- Rolling Stone
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Though the fatalistic title number sticks, there's a reason Ellis shares his most memorable copyrights with James Brown.- Rolling Stone
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An uneven album... but it's a nice soundtrack for a lonesome drunken night. [14 Oct 2004, p.98]- Rolling Stone
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With repeated listens, what feels at first like unmelodic obduracy reveals some hidden charms.- Rolling Stone
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On their eighth album, this roots-music party band still acts as if electricity was never invented.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 1, 2014
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If the disc drags in places, Jarosz makes up for it with a pair of smart covers: Tom Waits' 'Come On Up to the House' and a take on the murder ballad 'Shankill Butchers' that betters the Decemberists' original.- Rolling Stone
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When Bemis is on--shuffling between a touching Latinate melody and an ace, bloodletting chorus on 'Hangover Song,' delivering the sugar-rush pop of 'Shiksa (Girlfriend)'--his songs are tuneful and invigorating.- Rolling Stone
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Moorer's handsome voice is remarkably twangless here. Also remarkable is that the most indelible of her goth-chick musings is the happiest-sounding.- Rolling Stone
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- Posted Nov 5, 2014
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Thrilling in five-minute bursts, a little tiring over a 50-minute LP, Rashad gives us a take on minimalism in the no-attention-span era: repetitive, ominous, eerily calm but always threatening to explode.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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Their fourth LP feels like their most serious yet--but that doesn't mean they've matured.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 3, 2014
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The second Zola Jesus disc could have spelunked into Brontë Sisters silliness, but its churning, creepy urgency proves hard to dismiss.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 4, 2011
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