Village Voice (Consumer Guide)'s Scores
- Music
For 223 reviews, this publication has graded:
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73% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 82
Highest review score: | Pick A Bigger Weapon | |
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Lowest review score: | A Day Without Rain |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 184 out of 223
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Mixed: 37 out of 223
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Negative: 2 out of 223
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Smile's post-adolescent utopia isn't disfigured by Brian's thickened, soured 62-year-old voice. It's ennobled--the material limitations of its sunny artifice and pretentious tomfoolery acknowledged and joyfully engaged.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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There's more bounce-to-the-ounce and less molasses in the jams, more delight and less braggadocio in the raps.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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His adolescent gulps and yowls are street-Brit with a Jamaican liquidity, as lean, eccentric, and arresting as the beats.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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No "Ms. Jackson," no "Rosa Parks," no "Bombs Over Baghdad," no "The Whole World" either. Just commercial ebullience, creative confidence, and wretched excess, blessed excess, impressive excess.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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This makes engrossing listening if the effort suits you, but it's useless as background music.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The Strokes' privileged formalism is annoying, so too their delight in romantic dysfunction. But they're smarter than the playa haters who aren't smart enough to target these blatant shortcomings.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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This album radiates positive energy, and in today's alt, that's a precious thing.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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There's plenty of detail, and feeling too--not just anger, tenderness.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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And that's how the album goes--too fond of drama, but aware of its small place in the big world, and usually beautiful.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Charming, civilized, childish, Kieran Hebden imagines an aural space in which electronic malfunction is cute rather than annoying or ominous.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Young people who think Kraftwerk were more important than the Ramones are free to satisfy their craving for the neu with this retreat into simplicity. But even Radiohead and Mouse on Mars contain more chaos.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Even the "jazz" and "punk" cuts are good for a few laughs -- total losers are rare indeed.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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If Nirvana and Robert Johnson are rock's essence for you, so's To Bring You My Love. But if you believe the Beatles and George Clinton had more to say in the end, this could be the first PJ album you adore as well as admire.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Although the album is definitely loud, it's also raw, with no hint of the symphonic, yet at the same time it's a melodic highlight of an honorably tuneful catalog.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Something much bigger than last year's Girls Can Tell, the breakthrough album skeptics like me took for a fluke peak.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Reduced to a tuneful 18-song essence that watches too much television, their mildness seems diverting and their Englishness definitive.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Not only is his willingness to express emotion commoner than indie denizens imagine, his failure to undercut that emotion with irony or humor is a spiritual weakness.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Not only does he create a unique role model, that role model is dangerous--his arguments against education are as market-targeted as other rappers' arguments for thug life.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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A band record, a groove record, a riff record; something lowdown, dirty, smoky.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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A thematically linked work where some of the sonic landscapes were entrancing (although not warm).- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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They've found it in their talent to put black music's long tradition of tune and structure into practice.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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No other Brazilian composer defies cultural boundaries so eloquently.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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This literature with power chords addresses not only the crucial matter of vanishing bohemias as cultural myth but also the crucial matter of re-emerging spiritualities as cultural fact.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Their tunes have always seemed too facile, but seven years divided by three albums doesn't equal glib, especially with those years deepening their lyricism rather than their cynicism.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Rarely do the settings distinguish themselves.... But a distinct voice delivering noticeable verbal content is a setting too--that's why you notice the content.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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There's that Ramones sense that songs should be short like life, and that XTC sense that songs should be complicated like life.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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