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For 3,121 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Who Kill
Lowest review score: 0 Fireflies
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,691 out of 3121
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3121
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3121
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    Stylish and confident to a fault, Pharrell's success as a solo artist is, unfortunately, pretty much where the album title says it is.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Another Fine Day
    Another Fine Day is blandness personified: syrupy vocals and forgettable melodies stretched out over 15 tracks and 65 dull minutes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Holes & Revelations
    The album is a black hole of pomp and nothingness, a perfect document of the times. So, to fully enjoy it, it's best to turn your brain off and let yourself get sucked in.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Impeach My Bush
    Peaches goes easy on the syrup and heavy on the flavor and hands listeners a delectable, if slight, cherry bomb of an album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Eraser
    If anything, The Eraser more than proves that Yorke, no matter how intriguing or forward-thinking his ideas, needs the democracy of Radiohead to ground his more angular artistic impulses.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Return Of Dr. Octagon
    The Return isn't the return we were waiting for, but it's another explosive collection of anti-hits from hip-hop's most unique voice.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nineteeneighties
    Phillips's husky tenor makes this collection of college radio staples feel less like ironic cash-in and more like a genuine, affectionate nod of gratitude.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Corinne Bailey Rae
    Rae's amiable competence marks her as a talent worth keeping tabs on, but the strength of Corinne Bailey Rae is fleeting, a triumph of mood over tangible substance.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Last Days Of Wonder
    It's easy enough to listen to the album as a whole, but roughly a third of the songs are clunkers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The River In Reverse
    The River In Reverse is a dark, passionate work that channels its rage toward redemptive joy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Free To Stay
    An arresting collection... The only real criticism you can level at the sisters is that about halfway through the album, everything begins to sound the same.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Obliterati
    The Obliterati is underwhelming not because it's bad, or weak, or mediocre, because it's none of those: it's just not essential.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stand Still, Look Pretty
    Really, all there is to be said about The Wreckers is that, in playing country star dress-up, they're reasonably pleasant and inoffensive, which puts them a bit ahead of a good deal of what's currently popular in country music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To Find Me Gone
    It's a compelling, forward-thinking album that's as likely to please fans of melodic indie-pop and roots-rock as it is fans of the current crop of folk troubadours.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    Ultimately, the problem with Beast is that both its concept and its performance are so defined by their academic removes that it's impenetrable.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
    While Goodbye Alice In Wonderland is a return to form for Jewel, said form is bland, mostly colorless, and devoid of any truly memorable cuts that elevate the album to a disc worth spinning more than once.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
    Skinner goes with the flow but the flow isn't pretty, and though dissonance is his strong suit, the conflict in these songs isn't so much located within them as it is in the space that separates them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pick A Bigger Weapon
    [Riley's] lyrics are simultaneously clever and uninteresting: he rarely transcends an ABAB or AABB rhyme scheme, practically never rhymes within the lines, and his meter and diction lack intricacy.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Animal Years
    Animal Years sounds unsettled: the arrangements are far too bombastic for this record's purposes.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Todd Smith
    Todd Smith's slow songs... kill the album's momentum early on.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ringleader Of The Tormentors
    Whereas You Are The Quarry was a welcome return to form, Ringleader Of The Tormentors makes you wonder if seven-year gaps between albums are necessary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I'm Not Dead
    Pink's rhymes still rely too heavily on adolescent clichés and there's an air of contrived confessionalism throughout the album.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Meds
    A version of Coldplay's X&Y for the Hot Topic set, Meds finds a successful band doing just a little to tinker with their proven formula--in this case, bombastic melodic hooks supporting straightforward, repetitive lyrical turns-of-phrase--and attempting to pass off a few too many soundalike tracks as thematic coherence.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars
    Adventures is a bright, beautifully wrapped package filled with nothing but styrofoam packing peanuts.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Both Sides Of The Gun
    While his ambition on Both Sides Of The Gun is just another of Harper's many likable qualities, ambition alone doesn't make the kind of statement that the album's scope and structure demands.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Born Again In The USA
    What ultimately makes the album something of a chore is its one-joke premise, a preaching-to-the-choir broadside against the Evangelical right's ongoing assault on individual liberties and rational thought.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bring It Back
    A cohesive whole that bursts at the seams with a barely contained exuberance, Bring It Back finds a happy family unleashing sonic sunshine, spilling out of the speakers with unchecked abandon.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dying To Say This To You
    Slick and propulsive, the quintet needs a little meat on their songs to help elevate their slavish '80s enthusiasm into something a little more memorable.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    3121
    While the hooks don't reach out and grab you the way you long for them to, and though the lyrics aren't as smart as we've come to expect from a composer who once claimed to literally write songs in his sleep, 3121 is a wholly listenable and consistent(ly funky) addition to the catalog of one of music's pop pioneers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cannibal Sea
    Cannibal Sea is a mellow concoction well-suited to fans of cerebral indie pop.
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