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For 1,091 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Pink
Lowest review score: 0 Last of a Dyin' Breed
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 956 out of 1091
  2. Mixed: 88 out of 1091
  3. Negative: 47 out of 1091
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Citrus
    Although Citrus allures with its dizzying waves of sound and airy melodies, the band never let those elements become tangential or spiral off into cul-de-sacs of pointless theatrics.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Peeping Tom
    The effect is as scattershot as the guest list.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    It’s better this way, all apologies to Meg White.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    At War With The Mystics
    At War with the Mystics is as accessibly odd as Yoshimi but more scattered and darker.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
    In a genre dominated by sensitive boys in sneakers and second-hand cardigans, Rainer Maria have had an edge: ... There’s barely a male voice to be heard on Catastrophe Keeps Us Together.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Six Demon Bag
    They’ve gotten good at re-creating in the studio the sound of a dingy rock venue in full throb.
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