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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Singing, rapping and spoken-word float through these tracks, as do soulful improvs from Adjuah, Glasper and others, but what lingers is the overall aura: a no-seams-showing blend of jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with a spontaneous "3 a.m. in the studio" feel.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 25, 2018
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What emerges is a basement-punk groove band where you're never quite sure where the groove will take you.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 18, 2014
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Pop-punk trio deliver glittery hooks and raw feminine energy. [Jul 2020, p.87]- Rolling Stone
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Sweet, solid collection about fatherhood and quitting cigarettes, sounding like the National. [Apr 2020, p.87]- Rolling Stone
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Brad Paisley's latest is so well-meaning it's tempting to forgive how overwrought it is.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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It delivers the ramshackle, ritualistic, druids-at-Stonehenge mood that campfire crusties at U.K. festivals like Glastonbury aspire to. Convinced Armageddon is upon us, the Mekons are determined to get in some mournful Earth worship first, and for fans who feel the spirit, songs will emerge.- Rolling Stone
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When Jonathan Davis sings "I know this all sounds so cliché," on "Lost In The Grandeur," he's pretty much right. [Feb 2022, p.72]- Rolling Stone
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His latest features his own zonked singing on tracks like the loopy, Tom Petty-referencing elegy "Feel the Lightning" and the head-spinning backwoods goof "When I Was Done Dying."- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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This is a surprisingly crisp live LP, even at two discs: taut and driving, full of Celtic and country flourishes, held together by richly melodic tunes.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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When their trio of guitarists aren't busy auditioning for Ozzy or Springsteen, they summon dynamic, smartly-shaded echo caverns more reminiscent of Sunny Day Real Estate and Modest Mouse.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 29, 2014
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Beachwood Sparks do their Sixties So-Cal thing so well, you kind of wish they'd stick with it and leave the genre blending and apocalyptic disillusionment to Radiohead.- Rolling Stone
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The stark, minimalist production by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek is so cool and aloof that these snacks never feel fully cooked.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 22, 2014
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She sounded more like a star when she cameoed in Zero 7 than she does on most of her own album.- Rolling Stone
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At her best, she is pop's most galvanizing tough broad, but her sixth LP devolves into self parody.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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- Posted Jan 3, 2012
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As mild as the music might often sound, this is an album that cuts deep.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 21, 2014
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As always, frontwoman Marissa Paternoster's winding guitar solos and dogged vibrato vocals steal the show.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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The arena-huge tunes can get a little overbearing, but cuts like the title track â?? where Gabel yearns to smash white crosses displayed by anti-abortion activists â?? are righteous, churning gut-rollers.- Rolling Stone
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This solo album isn't dramatically less low-fi than his last four, but it does incorporate legible, likable tunes into his ragged guitar rave-ups.- Rolling Stone
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The result is a set of forlorn ballads that start spare and gather beauty as they grow.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 19, 2020
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The memorable, politically minded tunes are a testament to the band's bighearted collective spirit.- Rolling Stone
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With help from producer Atticus Ross, Reznor has made a solid soundtrack to David Fincher's movie by doing what he's always done: creating grand industrial rock.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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[A] sense of distance permeates the music: dark, mutable, likably repetitive synth whirr that recalls artfully creepy bands like the Knife.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 5, 2012
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Time Skiffs splits the difference between the pop and the avant, spaced-out family-pad music with solid drumming, deep-distance percussion, wobbly melodies, and harmonies somehow more blissed out than anything else.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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When Los Lobos hook up with songwriters like ex-Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, things start to go downhill in a hurry.- Rolling Stone
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South Carolina rapper Danny Swain shoots clever satiric spitballs from the hip-hop margins.... But eighty minutes of gripes about label persecution and insufficiently positive reviews feels like celeb whining from someone who isn't famous.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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There's an army of voices inside Tori Amos, and the girl knows how to use them.- Rolling Stone
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