For 2,072 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 | |
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Lowest review score: | Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album |
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Positive: 1,594 out of 2072
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Mixed: 443 out of 2072
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Negative: 35 out of 2072
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Unfortunately his slurry vocals are often mixed too low, and his world-weary bons mots are undermined by jaunty melodies and tempos.... But Mr. Barât packs an electrifying amount of rage and misery into 33 minutes of music.- The New York Times
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Subtle sounds -- acoustic instruments, electronic tones, environmental noises, distorted echoes -- well up around her, and they open up pockets of shadow around her usual pinpoint clarity. Now the atmosphere is as important as the words.- The New York Times
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The album has a kind of demented gravity, and the music bears it out: it is the most concentrated, focused Slayer record in 20 years.- The New York Times
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He seems to be a better thinker than a writer and a better writer than a rapper. [24 Jul 2006]- The New York Times
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For about half of “Highway Companion” Mr. Petty’s reticence opens the songs to a sense of mystery. For the rest, he just sounds reserved and cagey, singing about restlessness but sounding all too settled. [24 Jul 2006]- The New York Times
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Originality seems less important to Mr. Franti than moral directness. [24 Jul 2006]- The New York Times
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Ms. Germano’s music is beautifully haunted and composed, but almost too claustrophobic to bear. [17 Jul 2006]- The New York Times
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It’s the sound the band became known with: big guitars playing suspended chords, crisp drums, barked verses and carefully sung choruses. [17 Jul 2006]- The New York Times
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The album is a perfect introduction for latecomers to this essential New York band.- The New York Times
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The music isn't afraid to call for tears, but it does so through understatement. Cash's voice is always exposed, whether it's full-toned or faltering, and most of the tracks are folky and reverent, placing measured finger-picking above churchy chords.- The New York Times
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"Loose" is an addictive, deceptively lightweight album of electronic pop; at different points it evokes Janet Jackson, M.I.A., Gwen Stefani and Gnarls Barkley. [19 Jun 2006]- The New York Times
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Angst has rarely sounded sweeter than it does on "Ganging Up on the Sun," which swirls with classic vocal harmonies, vintage organs and lightly strummed guitars.- The New York Times
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Imagine the Postal Service, but far more danceable and quirkily experimental.- The New York Times
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On this album, then, the bad news is the same as the good news: Busta Rhymes is still Busta Rhymes. Which means that this CD contains about a half-dozen songs so infectious that they obliterate all the rest.- The New York Times
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The Sun Awakens" is best described as a doom-folk record, encompassing the thick sludge of hyperdistorted electric guitar as well as the rattle and vibration of double-stopped riffs from his acoustic guitar.- The New York Times
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It is a fully legitimate, clear and strong rock 'n' roll record in the band's own style. And it may really be the best one.- The New York Times
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The songs are pretty on first listening, and some of Ms. Spektor's straightforward love songs, like "Fidelity" and "Field Below," reveal a gorgeously unguarded yearning. But she doesn't hide her quirks elsewhere.- The New York Times
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On "Son" she shows off a new confidence, even a willfulness, as she sets free her voice and her sonic wit. [29 May 2006]- The New York Times
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"Decemberunderground" is less cohesive than its predecessor and apes the band's influences far too obviously for musicians of this caliber. Even so, it's vastly entertaining.- The New York Times
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"Be Your Own Pet" is smart and crafty, but most of all, it's a wild-eyed blast.- The New York Times
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Mr. Toussaint's florid yet precise New Orleans piano, the way he can make a horn section laugh or sigh, and the stubborn idealism and canny humor of his songs temper Mr. Costello's convoluted earnestness.- The New York Times
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Given his abrasive experimentations with Mr. Bungle and Fantômas, his fascination with mildly skewed beatscapes is a surprise, fun but passé. [29 May 2006]- The New York Times
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"The Drift" sets out only to follow its own obsessions; it's both lush and austere, utterly personal and often Delphic in its impenetrability.- The New York Times
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Mr. White shares the songwriting, and the spotlight, in the Raconteurs, but it sounds as if he's still the wild-card inspiration, the one who puts the structural quirks and guitar fireworks into the songs.- The New York Times
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His voice, hinting at Ray Davies and Tim Hardin along with Paul McCartney, wavers and droops with a breathy modesty that only makes him sound more sincere. [8 Jan 2007]- The New York Times