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For 3,119 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: 1,689 out of 3119
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3119
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3119
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend's eponymous debut, with its wide range of references rationed across a collection of brief pop morsels, proves the early fascination was no fluke.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rain
    The winsome 'Too Tough' is the best song here. Like with the rest of the album, it's a joy to deconstruct the song's craft (woah! Nice interlude!), but more of one just to listen.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Slick Dogs And Ponies
    Though more adventurous than 2005's "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept," the band's sophomore LP, Slick Dogs and Ponies, still rings soulless at its core.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Just A Little Lovin'
    If the result isn't a classic album like "Dusty in Memphis," it's at least a reminder of why Lynne merits those comparisons at all
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pocketful of Sunshine
    Despite some attempts at quasi-uplift ('Freckles') and childhood nostalgia ('Backyard'), there's little here that's likely to reprise the slow-burning success of that inspirational smash ['Unwritten'].
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jukebox
    This album's pleasures stand as something warmly new from a major talent.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brighter Than Creation's Dark
    As is, it's a sporadically brilliant effort by an exceptional band whose reach still sometimes exceeds their grasp.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Distortion
    Distortion gets a lot right.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Made of Bricks
    Nash's lyrics are charming and skillful, with huge mouthfuls of narrative information crammed into unbelievably small spaces.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Some People Have Real Problems
    Some People is stuffed to the rafters with love songs but they're never precious or cloying, even when the arrangements soar to rousing string/brass/choir-laden climaxes, or when the lyrics are comprised of little more than a string of clichés .
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Angels Of Destruction
    Overproduction, unfortunately, doesn't fully account for its flaws. Too many of the songs invoke heavy-handed spiritual imagery.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Growing Pains
    She keeps her most salable characteristic, her emotiveness, under duress, which provides tension but no release.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
    For a collection of lo-fi home demos, Rivers Cuomo's Alone, in its better moments, sure does sound at times like a return to form.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    8 Diagrams
    The formula ain't broken and it occasionally still cracks with some of that old pharmaceutical majesty.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Solution
    Solution's unobtrusive yet menacing production--gothic keyboards, drum noises mimicking gunshots--nicely complement Sigel's musings on death, crime, and the urban landscape
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alive 2007
    While occasionally the duo seems to fall back on cranking up the merciless 4/4 kick until their audience begs for mercy, Alive 2007 actually does more to reveal their musicianship than almost any other Daft Punk release to date
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Big Doe Rehab
    Given that a relevant part of his appeal has always been his eccentricity and willingness to take risks, a record mostly defined by his adherence to the tried and true is bound to feel like a bit of a copout.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall
    By turns baroque, jazzy, morose, and enraptured, they're a perfect opportunity for Wainwright to showcase his capacity as a singer in terms of tone and melodic emphasis. And showcase he does, deploying his dulcet foghorn of a voice with subtlety, grace, and elasticity
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Boatlift
    For better or worse, the story of Boatlift concerns more the production and song structures than Pitbull's own rapping.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jordin Sparks
    Jordin Sparks is one of the strongest Idol debuts yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Free At Last
    It's what Freeway says that continues to disappoint, and it's not for lack of subject matter.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Black And White Album
    The band's ambition on Black and White is admirable and makes for an album that is, even in its less successful moments, never less than an interesting listen.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Taking Chances
    The laborious 16-track record purportedly finds the queen of adult contemporary-turned-Vegas attraction taking chances by modernizing her treacly power ballad sound with lots of overdubbed guitars and of-the-moment collaborators.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    System
    Price's remix work has always been more impressive than his original productions and System is no exception.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As I Am
    Keys isn't quite a superwoman come to save R&B from itself, but the timeless quality of As I Am is right on time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sawdust
    Sawdust will still fill in the void for fans--to which the album is dedicated, natch--while they wait for a new LP.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    American Gangster
    He's not a real gangster, but he is a real poet. And like the greatest of American poets, he admits that, very well then, he contradicts himself. American Gangster contains multitudes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Exclusive
    There's still nothing very "exclusive" about Exclusive at all.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untrue
    Machine music this unrelentingly intimate is worth the attention it requires.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blackout
    For every hot, of-the-moment track, though, there's something like the nonsensical 'Hot As Ice,' which was co-penned by the thoroughly talentless T-Pain and might have worked two albums ago but just sounds retrograde here.
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