Under The Radar's Scores
- TV
- Music
For 5,871 reviews, this publication has graded:
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40% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
| Highest review score: | Kid A Mnesia | |
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| Lowest review score: | Burned Mind |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,062 out of 5871
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Mixed: 1,679 out of 5871
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Negative: 130 out of 5871
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The bolstered instrumentation doesn't hide some of her weakest songwriting.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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On the whole, the album feels like a parody of music's tropes, limping along with no real soul.- Under The Radar
- Posted Sep 20, 2011
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They reportedly had some difficulties securing a label for this release. And Unfortunately, it's easy to see why; Girls hits the panic button pretty early on. [Jul 2011, p.78]- Under The Radar
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The new sounds end up grating against the vocals, which will always sound whiskey-soaked, and playing against the band's strengths. [May 2011, p.88]- Under The Radar
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For the most part, Hauschka's attempt at turning the piano into a percussion instrument falls short. [May 2011, p.84]- Under The Radar
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The listener is left with a couple handfuls of mid-tempo ballads that fail to even qualify as guilty pleasures. [May 2011, p.88]- Under The Radar
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Art for art's sake may impress at parties, but recorded it brings teh good times to a screeching halt. [Feb. 2011, p. 70]- Under The Radar
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While Ashcroft should be applauded for trying something entirely new, TUNOS is overly eager to please, overly stylized, and falls way short of honoring the genres for which Ashcroft clearly cares deeply. [Feb 2011, p.70]- Under The Radar
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A mighty attempt at thinking outside the box, ultimately Anika is simply an attempt at sound and fury, signifying nothing.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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Unfortunately, they're not quite tall enough yet to ride the same coaster as Editors, much less Interpol, much, much less Joy Division.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 21, 2011
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...Featuring might make a great stocking stuffer for mom, but even she might have trouble swallowing over an hour of Jones; innocuous and predictable soft rock. [Year End 2010, p.77]- Under The Radar
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It's not easy to describe what's going on here, if one can even figure it out anyway.- Under The Radar
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Thieves are excellent hijackers, but you could just pick up a New Order or Joy Division album for a more authentic experience.- Under The Radar
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Sia's latest full-length We Are Born, is, in a word, confusing. [Summer 2010, p.85]- Under The Radar
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Over the wandering course of these 11 tracks, Francis is the aural equivalent of a boxer who's had five too many concussions coming out for one last payday. [Spring 2010, p.68]- Under The Radar
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More often than not, Michael Grubbs' painfully bland vocals cause the whole thing to come crashing back to earth. [Winter 2010, p.72]- Under The Radar
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Real Life Is No Cool plays more like a tug-of-war as singer and producer struggle to find harmony between two disparate sounds. [Holiday 2009, p.81]- Under The Radar
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They rarely let loose with their old 4AD/post-punk strafing runs. [Holiday 2009, p.80]- Under The Radar
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Raditude is just the latest and fullest articulation of Cuomo's wincingly sad desire to become a mainstream success, [Holiday, 2009, p.79]- Under The Radar
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Aside from the obvious point that it is strange hearing Dylan, née Robert Zimmerman, singing Christmas songs, it is often just awkward to listen to the elder's scraggly croak making its way through commonly known carols.- Under The Radar
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Between the shrill, semi-anonymous voice of Elly Jackson, and Ben Langmaid's clunky paint-by-numbers beats, La Roux's eponymous debut already feels dated. [Fall 2009, p.74]- Under The Radar
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The fragments don't fit together, and one ends up dreading the next mistep. [Fall 2009, p.74]- Under The Radar
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The brashness of the band's seminal debut is gone, and what's left is a band that seems to have rushed an album out only in order to get back on stage to try to make it interesting. [Spring 2009, p.79]- Under The Radar
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A Woman A Man Walked By is a side project in the worst sense of the term; a slight diversion that's really for Harvey completists only. [Spring 2009, p.66]- Under The Radar
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Bloated with too much self-absorption, Japan's Mono have lost sight of their original intent. [Spring 2009, p.77]- Under The Radar
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This sixth studio set is so generic that it doesn't just sound dated, it makes them sound old. [May 2009, p.91]- Under The Radar