Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,257 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | To Pimp A Butterfly | |
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Lowest review score: | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,055 out of 4257
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Mixed: 1,147 out of 4257
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Negative: 55 out of 4257
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Everything presents a harder-edged JT, who tries a little of everything over 77 minutes but adds remarkably little to the pop landscape.- Spin
- Posted Mar 19, 2024
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There is nothing new to be learned from this album burdened by crudely formed raps about his already exhaustively covered life and deeply muddled politics. ... Still, the music at times almost makes it worth it.- Spin
- Posted Jun 5, 2018
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Its smug, unexplored sense of intellectual superiority is pretty much all it has to offer. Musically, it’s an hourlong misallocation of the considerable resources that made a nu-metal minor classic out of 2000’s Mer de Noms.- Spin
- Posted Apr 25, 2018
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The failures of his latest effort don’t simply center on that side step from audacity to reckoning. It’s in how that move has somehow left him struggling to write a listenable song.- Spin
- Posted Dec 19, 2017
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The sourness of their newfound perspective might be one thing if the music sounded any good, but doesn’t. Arcade Fire have re-committed to running away from their once sky-scraping stadium sound, further experimenting with the island sounds and disco grooves that bloated 2013’s Reflektor.- Spin
- Posted Jul 31, 2017
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Witness is an album full of bizarre choices--both the DJ Mustard and Hot Chip-produced tracks are, for some reason, ballads--that has the inherent appeal of a spectacular failure, but that’s about it.- Spin
- Posted Jun 9, 2017
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Whether the album’s title is a plea or a warning does not matter, as the effect is the same: The Chainsmokers have one song, and if you don’t want to hear 12 versions of it, please do not un-click the latch holding this box closed.- Spin
- Posted Apr 10, 2017
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The most standout feature of Nine Track Mind might be its rhythmic consistency, an exercise in deceleration.... inoffensive dross.- Spin
- Posted Jan 29, 2016
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Some songs feel unfinished, especially on disc one. Much of the production on both halves is terribly derivative and some great samples get mangled.- Spin
- Posted Oct 16, 2015
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Maybe the entire album is a meme itself, a grand existential joke critiquing the all-conquering rise of Internet culture by parodying its overwhelming randomness. Whatever it is, though, it's a bad rap record.- Spin
- Posted Dec 10, 2013
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Britney Jean may chart respectably because it leads the most musically uneventful December in years, but it will soon fade like "Perfume," because there's zilch in the way of humanity here.- Spin
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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The result has to feel like a studio adventure! Whereas Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories was lavishly rich, Smith’s treatment of his session players manages to flatten all human serendipity and rhythmic nuance.- Spin
- Posted Jul 9, 2013
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Hotel California is inexcusable. It may be the least creative major-label rap album in recent memory.- Spin
- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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Clinging to the guest stars is crucial to getting through this thing--pros like Courtney Noelle provide basic hooks where the headliner's own horrible mantras ("I got so much," "Fall asleep") fail completely.- Spin
- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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Kreay indulges the full breadth of her influences, turning Somethin into a series of wan genre studies.- Spin
- Posted Nov 30, 2012
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Maybe the Ting Tings have pulled some sort of Lou Reed maneuver here. Maybe this is their Lulu.- Spin
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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Sir Paul McCartney has made an utterly forgettable, featherweight record designed primarily to appeal to Sir Paul McCartney.- Spin
- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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We get big-budget bloat, lifeless lines, and none of the warmth or reality that would cause any label to take interest in the first place.- Spin
- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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It's "disappointing" only because it isn't dreadful in funnier, more interesting ways.- Spin
- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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There is Michael Jackson bad, there is Ed Wood bad, and then there is BAYTL, a union so unholy that it cries out for a show on Bravo.- Spin
- Posted Dec 21, 2011
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Over brutish synths and hammy bleats, the puerile brosefs' third album shares, among other witticisms: Gonna have a house party in my house.- Spin
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Playing to splintered attention spans, This Is War insistently splices bits of other artists' work into a facile crescendo of mega-angst and ephemeral drama.- Spin
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Turgid even for the genre, Artwork will make you hate yourself for singing along with tricky standouts like 'Empty With You.'- Spin
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Here's the Crystal Method with a not-so-fresh batch of rave-rock jock jams seemingly designed to advertise a car you can no longer afford.- Spin
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Amid spoken-word interludes and I'd-like- to-buy-the-world-a-Coke-style choirs, only Lee's innate melodic gift saves him from total embarrassment.- Spin
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The emo-punk angst is cut with little of the band's trademark wit or ingenuity: Most of the songs plod bloodlessly to an inevitable, pointless climax of noise, sour humor, and teen nihilism.- Spin
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The rest of the album plods with formulaic, hormone-heavy Kelly Clarkson outtakes, or perhaps Liz Phair during her bleak, sparkly descent.- Spin
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If singer Justin Warfield had a sense of humor about himself, that wouldn't be such a bummer; as is, Forever seems to go on for about that long. [Nov 2007, p.124]- Spin
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Bring on the Comets is ultimately a bland regression. [Sep 2007, p.138]99- Spin
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Soul-free, thirdhand melodies housed in songs that any halfway decent bar band would reject without a second pass. [Feb 2007, p.85]- Spin