Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,258 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: 3,056 out of 4258
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Mixed: 1,147 out of 4258
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Negative: 55 out of 4258
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If nothing else, the music is aggressively okay (there's coiled-spring potential in the crackling, anxious "White Teeth Teens"). But its overall unspecialness undercuts Pure Heroine's devotion to playing both sides of Lorde's "only 16" coin.- Spin
- Posted Sep 30, 2013
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It’s a better album than 2012’s conflicted, twilit Four, but Okereke’s new grace awaits an engine as powerful as the one enjoyed by his old gracelessness.- Spin
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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On their third album, these dizzying British metalcore chemists swing erratically in an effort to shake genre conventions, flirting with dystopic Max Headroom stutter, electro gloom, and tender indie-folk cuddles.- Spin
- Posted Dec 21, 2010
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Lifeline is a commanding, unjammy take on gospel-influenced rock, featuring his most spiritual singing since 2004's Grammy-winning collaboration with the Blind Boys of Alabama.- Spin
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On their third album, this San Francisco–based, Mark Kozelek–led bunch stumble over saccharine set-opener "Lost Verses" (which channels icky Young wannabes America with less success than Midlake) en route to a beautifully depressing array of funereal folk.- Spin
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The results feel tossed-off at times, but Iggy still flashes his charm and humor.- Spin
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Their smoky, atmospheric ballads are too languid by half, but Telefon Tel Aviv's bright melodic palette keeps Immolate Yourself from descending into a dull fog.- Spin
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Tortoise have erased virtually all of their music’s familiar signifiers, opting now for stylistic mashes that fall into anonymity as often as they reach new, exciting places.- Spin
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In the case of Twelve Reasons to Die II, the glass is slightly more than half full.- Spin
- Posted Jul 14, 2015
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The diversity of the players is reflected in the sprawling songs, many of feel like patchworks.- Spin
- Posted Sep 15, 2017
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The trio are certainly equipped for the challenge, since they're already experienced purveyors of foreboding, romantic, minor-keyed dreaminess; but their dub-tinged candle-flicker sometimes trades haunting for drab.- Spin
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Murray doesn't sound like he's going anywhere but straight home after last call. [June 2008, p.119]- Spin
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He’s chosen good material and done right by it. But Kill the Lights sees him both at an apex and a crossroad.- Spin
- Posted Aug 14, 2015
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If the studio stuff lacks punch, her live material pulls fresh meaning from her music's subtlety. [Feb 2002, p.110]- Spin
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As is, Uptown Special plays a little like a Spotify playlist on random--fun, and unexpectedly thrilling at times, but jarring and never totally satisfying.- Spin
- Posted Jan 14, 2015
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Craft can be a cage, and come the eleventeenth pleasant chord progression and workmanlike melody, the album's title may portend the listener's immediate future.- Spin
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The debut album from this London quartet, founded by laptop folkies Sam Genders and Stephen Cracknell, lulls you along with its sparsely melodic tinkering and blippy slow burn. [July 2008, p.92]- Spin
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In fact, throughout, older brother gets the best of his carefree little sibling. Breezier doesn't always equal better.- Spin
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The arresting second album from this five-piece trades the jangly folk rock of their only-pleasant debut for a harsher, more jittery approach.- Spin
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Ultimately, Wild Water never hits as hard as its predecessor, and can't match it in terms of either focus or breadth.- Spin
- Posted Nov 29, 2012
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Justin Timberlake, Timbaland anf Timbo's partner Nate "Danja" Hills, provide a reasonably good return on investment. [Dec 2007, p.118]- Spin
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Hip-hop-style braggadocio doesn't quite jibe with the band's relentlessly earnest outlook, which comes packaged here in songs no less hooky or propulsive than usual. It might have provided a jolt of excitement, though; even the amped-up standouts (like "Coffee and Cigarettes") are beginning to feel a bit by the numbers.- Spin
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It's more ideation than practice, which is why the too-cluttered American Beauty/American Psycho won't be this band's American Idiot.- Spin
- Posted Feb 6, 2015
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They're an American band that sound like British Francophiles, right down to the pip-pip accent in leader Jay Gordon's Gary Numan pout. [12/2000, p.223]- Spin
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So no, this is not a cohesive crew album, but has there really been one since Marley Marl's In Control, Vol. 1 came out 24 years ago?- Spin
- Posted Sep 18, 2012
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The follow-up proves Tunstall is no fluke.... but it also maks clear that Tunstall's glaring faults--dull lyrics filled with pedestrian phrases--aren't fleeting, either. [Oct 2007, p.112]- Spin
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His supporting cast has stabilized around multi-instrumentalists Emmett Kelly and Shahzad Ismaily, but song structures dissolve altogether on Wolfroy Goes to Town.- Spin
- Posted Oct 4, 2011
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