Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,264 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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 |
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Positive: 3,062 out of 4264
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Mixed: 1,147 out of 4264
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Negative: 55 out of 4264
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Gruff stuff... A few rockers lighten the load, but not by much. [Sep 2004, p.120]- Spin
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They add enough kinks to the old herky-jerk formulae to make their half-hour in the sun blaze by like nobody's business. [Dec 2004, p.124]- Spin
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This completely non-shitty '70s-Nashville country record reminds you why Adams was once a big deal. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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Juicing fragile melodies with weeping George Harrison guitar, frontman Luke Steele is pretty even-keeled for a spaced-out pop maestro. [Nov 2003, p.117]- Spin
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The ballads are still as pretty as her fan base of shy piano students and unicorns. [May 2005, p.110]- Spin
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Crimson... still has its share of macabre wordplay... but the real attraction here is the music, which sounds just as dramatic as the imagery. [Jun 2005, p.105]- Spin
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[Fox Confessor] shows that for all her versatility, she has a singular vision when it comes to her own music. And Lordy, it is dark. [Mar 2006, p.92]- Spin
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Albini, drummer Todd Trainer, and bassist Bob Weston lock in together one last time—a wiry whirlwind of concision, all jokes and referents (including a wink to the late Mark E. Smith of the Fall) and honed dynamics on their leanest LP, at 28 minutes.- Spin
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You just wonder how songs this miserable can sound so excruciatingly gorgeous. [Jul 2005, p.104]- Spin
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While Vitalic may add little to electronic music or its various subgenres, he interweaves effortlessly their prevailing styles into complex arrangements that are neither kinked-up innovation nor neutered homage.- Spin
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They find a woolly warmth and loopy generosity few English art-rockers have stumbled upon since the first Beta Band record. [Dec 2004, p.124]- Spin
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He's more grounded... and his evasive, abstract beats underpin his vocals less randomly. [Dec 2004, p.124]- Spin
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Frontman Ricky Wilson is an average singer but an extraordinary melodist. [May 2005, p.102]- Spin
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Cryptic and cutting. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Optimistic, ambient indie rock that floats between the bubble bath and the deep blue sea. [Sep 2003, p.115]- Spin
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Tankian remains the sort of agitprop trickster whom partisans on both side so fthe aisle are wise to distrust. [Jul 2005, p.101]- Spin
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Each track follows the Rage Against The Machine model: Make music for the masses without diluting it for the bosses. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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Tonally challenged singing, spastic electro beats, and boldly nonlinear, ideologically sharp rhyming. [May 2003, p.116]- Spin
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Grohl wrote the riffs, and he hammers like a god, letting his hero singers write the lyrics and man the bellows. [Mar 2004, p.91]- Spin
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Only later do you realize the cotton candy you've been enjoying is wrapped around a dildo. [Nov 2004, p.118]- Spin
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By ratcheting up their guitars and still singing about everyday themes, Coldplay are recasting their nerdy-student Britpop as Important Rock Music without sacrificing the homespun vibe that allowed Martin's fans to believe that he wrote a song for each one of them and called it "Yellow." [Jun 2005, p.99]- Spin