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For 2,618 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Spiderland [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Amazing Grace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,168 out of 2618
  2. Mixed: 430 out of 2618
  3. Negative: 20 out of 2618
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Music Is A Hungry Ghost
    Sadly much of Music Is A Hungry Ghost is marred by a pebbledash of clicks and glitches -- that already overused signifier of au courant production. [#207, p.87]
    • The Wire
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Uh-Oh!
    [Tipsy] painstakingly process small episodes of manufactured excess and thoughtless musical effect into tracks evoking the giddy pleasures to be found in running your favourite party tapes at the wrong speed. [#206, p.81]
    • The Wire
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cydonia
    It's an extremely listenable record, full of stray moments of delightful mischief, but it's as innovative as a favourite old armchair. [1/2001, p.63]
    • The Wire
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fifth Release From Matador
    It's hard to shake off the suspicion that The Fifth Release contains more than a few offcuts and outtakes that never quite made the final cut of its more assured and inventive predecessor. [#202, p.55]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    More Light
    More Light is, on the whole, more of what made him great--songs with airhead titles like "Where'd You Go," which stretch glorious guitar solos over solid chopping riffs--but it's packed with too much filler. [#200, p.80]
    • The Wire
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
    On earlier releases, the traces of anger, sorrow or despair rippling through the found voices seeded roaring rock improvisations that empathetically rooted and resisted the calamities visited upon them. But the improvising on [Skinny Fists] falls within beat parameters too tightly determined to generate any really useful dissonance. [#200, p.66]
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