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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The selection here is at once so obvious and so inappropriate it feels redemptive.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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It's the rare guitar geek who acts like strings and horns are where he's always belonged rather than where he hopes he'll fit in.- 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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It's wish fulfillment for boys who make passes at girls who wear glasses.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The best of these seven songs is a Stones cover, only not by as much as you first think, and the second-best is the opener ["Astronaut"], ditto.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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two about his parents are juicier than the mother love gushing from God's Son. The Afrocentric pep song is so much deeper than the mawkish, misinformed new "I Can" that you believe he might yet get politics.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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It fleshes out its cohesive narrative and cogent ideas with beats that respect the spare antipop ethos without abjuring such wayward rhythm elements as femme chorus, bass-drum-whoop jam, and $20 synth loop.- 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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Her best bunch of songs since--not Broken English, that's ridiculous, but Strange Weather or A Child's Adventure.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The latest Old Person to forge Honest Music in the teeth of a Youth-Orientated Marketplace has lost his legendary voice, so what's the attraction?- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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It's not enough for Anthony Keidis to get all mature--he's supposed to say something interesting about maturity. And he's never had thing one to say about anything else.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Without resorting to anything so obvious as a hook she manages to maintain continuity and interest over an hour-plus of poetry-with-funk.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The overall effect is less grand than that of Endtroducing six years ago, popper and rocker and r&ber. But an overall effect there is, grounded in Shadow's trademark-tremendous bass 'n' drum.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Skeletal, fragmented, stumblebum, Kim and Kelley retain their knack for righting themselves with a tuneburst just when you thought they'd never do the limbo again.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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The Hives explode where a hundred other punk bands are proud to rock.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Mood music, maybe. How to be conscious and happy at the same time.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Eventually, the tunes fall into place. What never materialize in sufficient number are the billowing climaxes and cutting remarks that mark their best albums, meaning most of them.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Pop isn't an ambition for these smart people with other things to do, it's a discipline--the tunes strong, the beats solid, the vocals lightly yearning and pungently sweet.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Sure they're clever, but they're also as shallow as Britney Spears.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Even when the forced pronunciations turn gauche, she remains a good egg who's not afraid to put herself on the line.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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These are pop songs in the sense that they deliver their payloads in 90 seconds. But they're also confessional, dark, downtempo--and, OK, a little gauche sometimes, which just makes them seem realer.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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At 78 minutes this is too long, and especially given his history, "The Lost Children" is offensive. But the first three tracks are the Rodney Jerkins of the year, "2000 Watts" is the Teddy Riley of the past five years, and even the prunables offer small surprises.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Obviously it's not perky enough, funky enough either, but their best (and third) album in 15 years (and probably last ever) sounds an awful lot like what kids today call pop.- Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Here's one new rock record whose optimistic abandon is specifically conceived as a response to deprivation and attack.- 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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