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For 3,122 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: 1,692 out of 3122
  2. Mixed: 1,319 out of 3122
  3. Negative: 111 out of 3122
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's A Bit Complicated
    The band's arrangements show a more robust sense of melody than they did on their debut.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eat Me, Drink Me
    Eat Me, Drink Me is a bona fide creative rebirth.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Girl Gone Bad
    Lyrics are once again an Achilles high heel for Rihanna.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Double Up
    Unsaved by anything resembling an acceptable musical hook, Kelly's lyrics are uniformly dumb.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sweet Warrior
    The tightness of Thompson's compositions grounds the explosive, whimsical meandering of his improvs; Sweet Warrior, and "Guns Are The Tongues" in particular, captures that glory as well as anything else from this century.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Boxer
    Boxer works best as a mood piece; it's also the first National release to work as a whole, and it's the best album I've heard so far this year.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mirrored
    Elaborate time signatures and clever tape manipulations abound, and there's some fun trying to guess which instruments are synthesized and which are authentic, but Mirrored suffers from being too bright and spirited.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Plague Park
    For as well as the album's minimalism works, the kind of modern disconnection that the songs tap into is definitely something that could be fleshed out more.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Release The Stars
    It feels more like a collection of tracks than a cohesive work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sky Blue Sky
    Though it may not fit comfortably alongside any other albums in Wilco's catalogue, Sky Blue Sky is further confirmation that, even at their most retro, they're among contemporary pop music's most vital acts.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One Of The Boys
    While One Of The Boys isn't a good country album by any stretch, it also isn't offensive or reductive in any of the ways that made her two prior albums such problems.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Volta
    Every song on Volta sounds like it was birthed in no fewer than 10 months, if not five years. "Fun" hardly has an opportunity to enter the picture when Björk's now seemingly permanent fastidiousness remains her métier.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    God Save The Clientele
    There's nothing to object to and much to admire on God Save The Clientele, but there's also little to celebrate.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Boy With No Name
    The band may have paved the way for the likes of Coldplay and Snow Patrol, but they still haven't found their "Clocks" or "Chasing Cars."
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Magic Position
    The Magic Position is a euphoric listening experience not even being a critic can spoil.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Doll Posse
    If still too uneven and entirely too overstuffed to rank among her most essential albums, American Doll Posse is certainly Amos's most ambitious record, both for the breadth of its sound and for the scope of its driving concept.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond
    It's in between the showboating, when Mascis demonstrates his folk and country-tinged melodies and subtle but elaborate leads that you realize what you're listening to is pretty fucking close to genius.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Reminder
    Though jangly uptempo ditties are nothing new for the Canadian singer-songwriter, it's these kinds of songs, seemingly constructed for radio play, that mar the otherwise radiant Reminder.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Because Of You
    The album is almost identical to Ne-Yo's promising debut, last year's In My Own Words, but, while it starts off strong with the thumping yet melodic title track, nothing here matches the smooth pop of "So Sick" and "Sexy Love," and there are at least two other young stars out there doing the MJ thing better.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
    Brash, insightful, wry, and, above all else, smart, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend confirms that Miranda Lambert is far more than just the latest in a long line of bad girls: She's a country music legend in the making, and the most vital artist Music Row has produced in a generation.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Twelve
    These songs are rendered so faithfully they may as well be karaoke.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dumb Luck
    The beats are so incongruous and unnecessary that the only way to read the album is as a quirky novelty.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Best Damn Thing
    The Best Damn Thing is a big step back for an artist who was just starting to grow up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Year Zero
    Reznor seems to eschew depth for surface explosions and instant gratification, and the result is a finished product that, while decent on an individual track, doesn't hold up as Year Zero progresses.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spells
    Their songs are cute and brisk and, despite its foibles, Spells won't put anybody to sleep.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cassadaga
    One hopes that the next LP will pack a little less filler, and Bright Eyes will drop a 40-minute work as tight as their best four-minute works.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Because Of The Times
    However admirable and surprising the band's ambition throughout Because Of The Times may be, not every experiment works so well.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dignity
    Dignity is bland by any standard.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Timbaland Presents Shock Value
    Shock Value recycles many of the same beats, melodies, and other sonic ideas that were used (better and most recently, with help from co-producer Danja) on Timberlake's album.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Big
    Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), Gray's already weathered voice is more worn than ever; she struggles to reach and sustain notes that should be comfortably within her range.
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