AllMusic's Scores
- Music
For 18,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
| Highest review score: | The Marshall Mathers LP | |
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| Lowest review score: | Graffiti |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 15,369 out of 18325
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Mixed: 2,930 out of 18325
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Negative: 26 out of 18325
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- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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While parts of Too show FIDLAR trying to find their footing, it's all part of their evolution and is not without its charms.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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Discreet Desires is a fascinating debut album, demonstrating the right way to transition from an underground, 12"-only electronic producer to a full-scale album artist, greatly expanding upon previous ideas while avoiding sounding overblown and remaining rough and exhilarating.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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This excitement can be exhausting over the course of nearly 90 minutes, but that's also an attribute: this version of Against Me! throws everything it has into a performance and while that passion may be overwhelming, it's also potent and thrilling.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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Fleming may have lost some of the outsider charm that bubbled through the first Diane Coffee record by going big, but he went big in such a sure-handed and spectacular way, it's hard to complain too much. In fact, an album this crazy and good deserves nothing but praise and adulation.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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"Girls" illustrates the dance between jealousy and affection simply and brilliantly. Moments like these make All Yours Widowspeak's most self-assured and vulnerable album yet.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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Substantial enough to require three pieces of vinyl (the CD version is a single disc with three fewer tracks), it's more outward-looking than Toeachizown, not only through its dizzying and multigenerational list of collaborators, but also through Riddick's increased ability and confidence as a vocalist who promotes positivity, whether it's blissful escape or strong-willed perseverance.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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While the songs are good--there's canny craftsmanship behind the Stylistics salute "Stay in My Corner" and the steady crawling "Put a Flower in Your Pocket"--it's this immersive, trippy atmosphere that distinguishes the Arcs and makes Yours, Dreamily live up to its name.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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With repeated listening it earns shelf space with their finest records.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 4, 2015
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In trying to re-create the music he's long admired--all at once--through The Last Hurrah!!'s kaleidoscopic persona, he's moved beyond the trappings of mere nostalgia. Via the music of Mudflowers, the historical past is vital and ever present.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 3, 2015
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These aren't quite the track listings from 2008 but they're close enough and, more importantly, they offer a bunch of songs that were not on Five Guys.... That's good bang for the buck and a good enough reason for the die-hard fans to pony up for this music one more time.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 2, 2015
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If Lemmy croaks or wheezes more often on Bad Magic than he has before, it suits his tales of foul-minded bastards and their despicable deeds, and it's a fine fit with the bloody-minded attitude that has always been Motörhead's stock in trade.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 2, 2015
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Add a short runtime and You Disgust Me feels like an inflated EP of lost tracks and hidden heat, so marvel at their more crafted and conceptual albums, then come back here for a more free-form sampler of strange.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 1, 2015
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While it could be argued that listeners don't turn to Buckcherry for variety, it is nevertheless a welcome sign of inevitable maturity for these legendarily sleazy L.A. scuzz rockers.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 1, 2015
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In all, Cranekiss is a beautiful pop fantasia that finds Tamaryn expressing her music's passion and sensuality in exciting new ways.- AllMusic
- Posted Sep 1, 2015
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While Carry the Ghost is a sullen work, with lyrics that deal head-on with reality, and processing rather than wallowing, Gundersen hits a beautifully wistful sweet spot in tone both lyrically and musically.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 31, 2015
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Pickpocket's Locket is less furious than most of Frog Eyes' body of work, but if the music doesn't kick as hard the emotions are still there in abundance, and Carey Mercer's songs of love and hate remain compelling and rewarding stuff.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 31, 2015
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The commercial strides are obvious. The creative advancements are less apparent, obstructed by some unappealing measures, but they're in there.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 31, 2015
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Even if it lives up to the bewilderment in its title now and then, Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied is the kind of playful, unpredictable set a band can make once it reaches its fourth album.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Barely out of their teens, the band's enthusiastic aping of their idols can be forgiven (they even go so far as to build the largely nonsensical "Le Song" around the lyric "come a little bit closer," which is the refrain from the Walk Among Us gem "Vampira"), but they'll need to dial down the hero worship on future endeavors if they ever want to establish their own legacy of brutality.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Drawing on the classic amped-up sound of '90s acts like Sum 41 and New Found Glory, Neck Deep are at the vanguard of the pop-punk revival.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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The ten-percent of the album that isn't a sparkling slow jam or midtempo cut is a swift and uplifting jam that approximates a super session with Dâm-Funk, the-Dream, and 1984 Prince. It leads off--both a sly fake-out and a hell of a way to open one of 2015's most pleasurable debuts.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Taken all together, the set is a fascinating document of a band you see change from the kind of band who'd release a cassette in weird packaging to a band making a grab for the brass ring of success. Along the way, there were considerably more hits than misses, though, and any fan of Flying Nun will find much to love here.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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The instrumental interludes between tunes--the aimless meandering of "Muddy Dune," the squiggling "Ash Toke," and the squall of "Pincher"--are just long enough to distract and blunt the twisted, head-crushing impact of Kunk somewhat.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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For the most part, Silicon works, delivering strange sonic pop candy that feels a bit too distant to warm the heart, yet is strangely comforting in its isolation.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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The result is not only satisfying, but adds to the already unclassifiable depth of his artistry.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Bookended by a pair of moody cuts replete with intoned prayers spoken in the background, Abandoned plays to the severity of the Catholic faith, and if Defeater's thematic tendencies have begun to wear a bit thin, they still manage to pack a pretty big punch on a musical level.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 27, 2015
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If Stuff Like That There isn't as revelatory as Fakebook, it's a splendid, beguiling album that's perfectly suited for late nights and rainy afternoons, and a welcome reminder of one of the many, many things Yo La Tengo do so well.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 27, 2015
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Highest Point is the kind of album that's easy to love as background music, as a soundtrack for a lazy summer day, or anytime good, catchy tunes with no rough edges are required.- AllMusic
- Posted Aug 27, 2015
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