For 5,918 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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: 3,633 out of 5918
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Mixed: 2,245 out of 5918
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Negative: 40 out of 5918
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In tracing the way Mitchell’s songs mutated from bare-boned recordings to fully realized tracks with more musicians than she’d ever used before, Archives Volume 3 finally allows us to hear those steps along the way. That evolution is most apparent in the making of Court and Spark, an album that was both a beautifully crafted piece of adult pop on par with Steely Dan‘s work and a warm, intimate, emotionally conflicted meditation on love and relationships.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 17, 2023
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Punisher is more sure of itself than its predecessor, thanks to Bridgers’ sharpened and studied songwriting. Her couplets, even more biting this time around, are either brutally self-directed (“I’m a bad liar/With a savior complex”) or just quietly dazzling.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 9, 2020
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This Texas native (1940-2002) was a one-man song factory in the late Sixties, writing hits for Nashville royalty. But Newbury's hurt and searching, draped in chamber-country silk, bloomed best on the solo LPs in this box.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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The only dicey part is an uneven disc of six remixes: some provide new insights, others fall flat. ... With three other discs and a book of the Edge's moving black & white portraits of the band in the California desert, the box is a thorough portrait of a band on the verge, ready to burst into the arms of America and the rest of the world.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 6, 2017
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By the fourth line — "Being this young is art" — it's obvious, the track ["Slut!"] is a stunner. .... The chorus [of "Say Don’t Go"] ("Why'd you have to lead me on? Why'd you have to twist the knife?") hits so tragically hard that it was destined to be screamed by stadiums full of fans at future Eras shows. "Suburban Legends" is a euphoric, dizzying rush to the head, with Antonoff's production making it sound like the soundtrack to the world's most addictive arcade game.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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On the evidence of this excellent debut, few people can challenge Skinner right now except himself.- Rolling Stone
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The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We is another evolution: a mix of quotidian-yet-elliptical lyricism, classic country accompaniment, daring orchestral movements, and the musician’s unique brand of storytelling.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Dylan is the unquestioned star, the magnetic, assured center of the sprawl. ... The longer view afforded by Dylan’s full set lists, rehearsals almost to opening night (with songs that appear nowhere else in the set) and a disc of additional rarities from along the itinerary captures both the acute showman’s focus the singer brought to this enterprise and the accelerating, play-for-the-moment drive that climaxes in that “Isis” from Montreal.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 7, 2019
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Waits' ravaged voice surrendered all pretensions to melody ages ago; his throat is now pure theater, a weapon of pictorial emphasis and raw honesty.- Rolling Stone
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Funeral for Justice is the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 30, 2024
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More Blood, More Tracks does not contradict the choices Dylan made on the way to Blood on the Tracks. It fills in his road to wisdom.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 2, 2018
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The album holds up as one of the Eighties' smartest megapop statements, full of passion and surefire hooks.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 1, 2011
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This expanded reissue adds Not Forever the 1989 demo tape that got them signed.... It shows a vision startlingly complete, and its scrappiness occasionally serves the songs better.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 28, 2014
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For the die-hards, the ones who have charted the Classic Quartet's every move, from the early glories of the Coltrane LP to the fiery outpourings heard on albums like Sun Ship from 1965, it's another small but crucial puzzle piece in the group's still-stunning evolution during its roughly three-year lifespan. For everyone else, it's an unvarnished, day-in-the-life portrait of an icon--and the three musical giants that helped him achieve that status--at work.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 29, 2018
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- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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He's less pimp than craftsman, packing more style--and more substance--into his four-minute-long songs than other rappers deliver in an entire album.- Rolling Stone
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All over The Record, they keep recombining their individual styles into a different kind of chemistry for each song. That’s why they transcend any kind of “supergroup” cliché. After all, supergroups are a dime a dozen compared to actual great bands. And boygenius leave no doubt about where they stand.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 27, 2023
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woods fulfills the literary expectations he’s often saddled with. Each work is a different chapter in an impressively consistent collection, and Maps finds him in repose, taking stock of the world of him.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 8, 2023
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The Live Anthology redresses that wrong with a panoramic picture of the Heartbreakers' indestructible groove.- Rolling Stone
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Somehow, the Primals' fury never seems misguided: This is one ball of aggression that hangs together, thanks to the band's smarts and funk.- Rolling Stone
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There is an emphasis on keyboards, in pulse and architecture, that adds buoyancy and color to James' writing and flatters his keening, stratospheric tenor.- Rolling Stone
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St. Vincent is her tightest, tensest, best set of songs to date, with wry, twisty beats pushing her lovably ornery melodies toward grueling revelations.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 25, 2014
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- Posted Mar 27, 2013
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On their second album as Run the Jewels, noise-loving Brooklyn rapper-producer El-P and Atlanta's Killer Mike make the most explosive hip-hop you'll hear all year.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 5, 2014
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Rounds is almost accidentally poignant--it's like hearing shattered transmissions of sentimental old music. [15 May 2003, p.134]- Rolling Stone
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What keeps it from being a crackling mess is Markus Acher's sweet, plaintive voice pushing these selected ambient works toward song structure and melody.- Rolling Stone
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A record this layered and quirky is easier to make than it was when Prince Paul first started cutting up old 45s (case in point: the Wiseguys), but to do it well - keeping intact an aesthetic that threads together all these disparate sounds - is true talent.- Rolling Stone
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Like a great DJ set, songs morph into one another thematically and structurally, most notably in the album’s central triptych. ... The music works its magic, and like a perfect night a clubbing, the uplift is ultimately irresistible.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 25, 2018
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With its carefully-crafted sequencing and seamless interludes, Kiwanuka feels like a proper old-fashioned album constructed as such, with some of its brightest highlights buried deep into the record’s latter half.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 24, 2019
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