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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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Songs From Black Mountain
    It's sad to see a once-promising band reduced to dribbling out a mewling, half-baked effort such as this, an album with no redeeming value beyond soundtracking your next visit to Supercuts.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Peeping Tom
    A collection of infantile, forgettable stripper anthems and not even guest spots from Rahzel or Kid Koala can keep this shit from sounding like Linkin Park.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Taking The Long Way
    It's not just Rubin's production choices that fail, though--it's the songwriting.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    So Amazin'
    The only personality displayed on So Amazin' is that of her contemporaries and predecessors.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bitter Tea
    Less a rebound from the indulgent for-friends-and-family-only nightmare of Rehearsing My Choir than a lateral side-step, Bitter Tea sounds like a desperate plea to be labeled as "clever."
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Daniel Powter
    A reminder that "adult" pop can be every bit as vapid and formulaic as its teenage counterparts.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Vision Valley
    The Vines ultimately come off as nothing more than a proficient Nirvana cover band, lacking a perspective of their own or a voice that really demands attention.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    For Me It's You
    "Get Out" and "Am I Reaching You Now" strive for massive arena-rock grandeur, and, while Train is slick and professional enough a band to pull that off, what prevents the album from working even as marginally as X&Y and certainly not as well as The Constantines' Tournament Of Hearts is the banality of the songs' lyrics.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    All Jacked Up
    What All Jacked Up ultimately confirms... is that Wilson is a one-trick pony whose trick will only impress those with exceedingly low expectations.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
    So off-putting as to alienate the band's fanbase.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Fireflies
    Fireflies is flat-out terrible, the end-all be-all example of how the major labels on music row have diluted the soul out of an entire genre of vital popular music.
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