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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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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Idiology
    Idiology refuses to cohere so completely that it plays out as part of Mouse On Mars's very approach; the duo hop from style to style, treating them like so many stepping stones to no destination in particular. [#206, p.72]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Leaves Turn Inside You
    Marks a radical departure in its scope and overall sound.... Unwound have reinvented their music as Progressive hardcore, framing abstract conceits in rock solid structures. This brave, ambitious record retains its edge in a blur of invention. [#206, p.76]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No More Shall We Part
    A highlty nuanced album which is at once razor sharp, and rich in new openings and possibilities. [#206, p.60]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
    A splendid piece of work; compelling even when shorn of its conceptual and procedural backdrop, and infinitely more invigorating when considered as one with its making. [#205, p.58]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunny Border Blue
    Sunny Border Blue marks a return to a less considered, rawer style, and to lyrics which are nakedly confessional, mercilessly exposing her own and other people's weaknesses. [#206, p.67]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Red Thread
    Unremittingly bleak but absolutely compelling. [#204, p.68]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fixed::Context [EP]
    No great leap forward, but with a sound this distinctive, that's not yet a problem. [#205, p.59]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Standards
    If you value surehandedness, richness, immaculate timing and the occasional tilted eyebrow then there's a lot to enjoy on Tortoise's most assured set to date. [#204, p.65]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stephen Malkmus
    The album is not so much a departure as a continuation of Pavement, satisfying and occasionally inspired. [#205, p.59]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things We Lost In The Fire
    Low's original stark minimalism has gradually given way to a broader sonic range, without sacrificing their strangely accessible otherness. [#204, p.68]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Blues Dream
    Blues Dream is both a compendious evocation and synthesis of a range of genres that never sounds merely eclectic... It's one of Frisell's most ambitious productions to date. [#207, p.61]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country [EP]
    The comforting familiarity of the Boards' muted beats, synth washes and glowing keyboards is just as potent and valium soaked as it was on their brilliant 1998 debut. [1/2001, p.71]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pelo
    These heavily layered, smoothly produced compositions emit occasional warmth, but coolness is the prevailing order; the intricacies of arrangement demand admiration but fall short of engendering a more heartfelt response. [#204, p.68]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything & Nothing
    What emerges so strongly from this collection is evidence of gradual development over time--stumbling, erratic, silent and brilliant by turns--ultimately leading to a stage of maturity. [#200, p.68]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
    Given her capacity to align reinvention with a developing maturity, the 13 lucky songs of Stories deliver a complex text. It is certainly less frenetic, as if Harvey is finding new ways to exert her presence. In addition, its thoughtful spaces and pauses suggest room for doubt and manoeuvre. [#202, p.49]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kid A
    The sonic scribbles of Kid A are far more stimulating than their regular grind.... Along with Primal Scream's Exterminator, Kid A is a vital work. Anyone remotely interested in contemporary music should listen to it at least once. [#201, p.59]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oui
    Oui may lack songs as vivid as those found on the [Sam] Prekop and [Archer] Prewitt records, but it has enough charm of its own to recommend it. [#201, p.63]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bootleg: Detroit
    This recording attests to their powerful rock credentials. [#201, p.63]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    SelmaSongs: Music from the Motion Picture Dancer in the Dark
    For Bjork, this release marks a development in her craft.... SelmaSongs is a little big brave collection of songs that makes me feel better whenever I listen to it. [#201, p.58]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Ghost
    Abalanced, democratic collaboration, with neither unit dominating.... Ghost's faraway sound lends Damon & Naomi's straightahead arrangements a yearning, devotional air... [#199, p.56]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mirror Conspiracy
    Those expecting further dubwize excursions from this duo may be disappointed by their venture into the lounge rather than the yard. Unfair, really, as Thievery Corporation have embodied eclecticism from their beginnings, and the bass booms as sweetly as on any of their previous efforts. [#200, p.83]
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