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For 18,310 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 The Marshall Mathers LP
Lowest review score: 20 Graffiti
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15,355 out of 18310
  2. Mixed: 2,929 out of 18310
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18310
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prairie Wind
    Despite all of its strengths, neither the recording nor the songs are as memorable or as fully realized as his late-'80s/early-'90s comeback records -- Freedom, Ragged Glory, and Harvest Moon -- let alone his classic '70s work.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gold And Green
    Gold and Green may be the band's most approachable album, but as with all their releases, it's a charming reminder that experimental music doesn't have to sound like it was hard work to make.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    You Could Have It So Much Better probably would've been better if Franz Ferdinand had waited until they had a batch of songs as consistent as their first album, but as it stands, it's still pretty good.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Throw Down Your Arms
    Dynamite singing, a killer band, and wonderful material do a fine album make.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fall Heads Roll
    If you hack off the misguided finish, Fall Heads Roll proves they can still live up to their legend.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Return The Gift
    One thing that remains unchanged, to no surprise whatsoever, is the enduring vitality of the material.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Campfire Headphase
    The Campfire Headphase lacks the transcendent grace that made Music Has the Right to Children and even Geogaddi classics in their field.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rehearsing My Choir
    The album cements the band as a love-them-or-hate-them proposition, but the Fiery Furnaces remain true to themselves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Descended Like Vultures
    With Descended Like Vultures, Rogue Wave have become just another indie rock band, one that has delivered a strong album without a weak song on it, but a real band just the same.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Distortion
    The skimpy run time is noticeable and downright perplexing coming from an album that ambitiously delivers otherwise.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tiny Cities
    This is a gorgeous recording, one that in a very intimate way opens up an entire universe of possibility for understanding, integration, and brokenness. A fitting tribute indeed.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Akron/Family & Angels Of Light
    Pair Akron/Family with Angels of Light and what you get, apologies to the label-sensitive, is Grade A art rock.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light
    A debut that sounds a lot like New York urbanites the Rachel's and the Clogs, but a little more dangerous.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Confessions On A Dance Floor
    While she succeeds rather handsomely on those modest terms, it's more than a little odd to hear Madonna scaling back her ambition and settling for less rather than hungering for more.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Adults Against Suicide
    Somewhat more reminiscent of Rage Against the Machine than the Beastie Boys or Eminem, the group... is as good as any rap outfit at expressing anger; in fact, they're more eloquent than most.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Father Divine
    Overall Ladd has made a divine album indeed.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scab Dates
    Scab Dates is yet another intriguing window into the Mars Volta's world, instead of just a live album holdover.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
    The Mendoza Line have mined this kind of socio-political territory before, but never with so much fatalistic maturity.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Amarantine
    While Amarantine will do nothing to win over the wrongly pegged new age artist's many detractors, longtime fans will find enough moments of serendipitous pleasure to hold them over for another five years.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Family Myth
    The band's third record is consistent, but that also means that there's no standout song that can bring these guys into the limelight.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If Songs Could Be Held
    A lovely collection of Sunday morning melancholy that's as gentle as it is weary.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With Love And Squalor
    We Are Scientists come off well in being both snide and playful. Finding that balance is what makes With Love and Squalor a solid debut.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sun, Sun, Sun
    The sunshiny pop of Sun, Sun, Sun is more magical in comparison to Me First. It features some of Sennett's most brilliant work to date, and the band's overall summery sound is much more cohesive here.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rabbit Fur Coat
    It's a moody, atmospheric listen that never gets quite as melancholy as it suggests and holds together better than any Rilo Kiley album to date.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unpredictable
    Though he fits somewhere between R. Kelly and Ginuwine, Foxx has more than enough personality and talent to defend his music against accusations of opportunism.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For The Season
    While the album's ambitions occasionally get the better of the actual music, For the Season's intermittent brilliance is worth digging and waiting for.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For Screening Purposes Only
    For Screening Purposes is worth checking out for those who like their music prickly but with an undercurrent of pop to it, too.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lights And Sounds
    Lights and Sounds' good songs are very good, and the album ends up being the band's most accomplished work yet.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For Me It's You
    The sound of For Me, It's You, is less strident than that of the band's previous offerings, but it's edgier and digs deeper into older musics and styles.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    If his band had either a stronger musical viewpoint or more kinetic energy, or if their songs didn't play like a heap of riffs, such provincial shortcomings would be transcended by the sheer force of the music. But the music, while good, is not great.
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