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For 18,312 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: 15,357 out of 18312
  2. Mixed: 2,929 out of 18312
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18312
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The OF Tape, Vol. 2
    Hype warranted, the mystery continues, and while no kid should write "666" on their forehead before getting their driver's license, Odd Future remains a vital force in the hip-hop underground.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Made of Bricks
    What impresses the most about Made of Bricks are her deft sketches of deteriorating relationships.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To The 5 Boroughs
    If there are no classics here, there's no duds, either, and given that the Beasties' pop culture aesthetic once seemed to be the territory of young men, it's rather impressive that they're maturing gracefully, turning into expert craftsmen that can deliver a satisfying listen like this.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Coral Fang
    Coral Fang has its fair share of flaws, but it's impassioned enough to have plenty of bite despite them.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In A Safe Place
    LaValle retains his heavily textural, impressionist flair, but has begun to repeat himself heavily, with none of the freshness or vigor of previous material.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    blink-182
    An unexpected and welcome maturation.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Shock'n Y'All
    Keith is happy to be a dirty old SOB, cracking jokes, drinking beer, and flirting with the ladies, and that makes Shock'n Y'All a fun, rough, rowdy album that wins you over despite your better impulses.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3D
    Perhaps 3D doesn't blaze trails like their other albums, but it never plays it safe and it always satisfies, and it's one of the best modern soul albums of 2002.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gorillaz
    The slow rumble of Nakamura's production, Hewlett's outstanding graphic model, even Albarn himself all fuse into a convincing gestalt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Varcharz
    Jagged, fractured, splintered, and downright violent-sounding, it's easily the most extreme music the duo has made.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    S-M Backwards
    Smalltown Supersound has done fans of the band and of the modern shoegaze sound a huge favor by putting them together and putting them out, extras or no.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Five American Portraits
    The RK has been making weirdly wonderful recordings for over 40 years, but this one, as lovely and angular as it is, is one the of the strangest. Yet, it’s also -- if you stick with it -- among their most enjoyable.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cowboy's Back in Town
    Cowboy's Back in Town reveals that this singer can do one thing well; but he does it really well -- and that's offer tough, utterly masculine, contemporary country-rock -- check the closer "Whoop a Man's Ass" -- convincingly.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Drug in Me Is You
    This combination of a tight, talented band and a tortured frontman doesn't necessarily make Falling in Reverse a revelatory band, but is does make The Drug in Me Is You a very solid album that will give fans of Radke's a chance to get reacquainted with the notorious post-hardcore bad boy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wishful Thinking
    For all their technical skill, there's something terribly generic about this band, who don't seem to have a fresh or distinctive move in their entire repertoire as they bounce through their cookie-cutter tunes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Path Tonight
    At times, the production carries an adult contemporary air reminiscent of Daylight Again, elsewhere it's as spare as he's ever been, and the two aesthetics blend into a record that's comforting yet not complacent. Nash is no longer looking at the past; he's looking at the future and he's embracing all the changes to come.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Episodic
    On the whole, though dedicated dream pop fans may be disappointed in the adjustment to the band's sound, Episodic's energy and lush melodicism should hook its share of ears with what are, style preferences aside, solid songs.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young Narrator in the Breakers
    Pavo Pavo have achieved a collection that eschews the obvious, being undoubtedly hip yet simultaneous geeky in its references, and the resulting work is a real gem.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Parallels
    Parallels is the sound of an artist regaining perspective after a devastating setback, and while he still makes music to drift away to, it's more focused than ever.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    DJ-Kicks
    While DJ-Kicks doesn't quite have as much personality as those prior releases, particularly Time Spent Away from U, the mix proves that Seinfeld isn't interested in being pegged as a one-trick pony, and that his scope is rapidly expanding.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lust for Youth
    While Lust for Youth proves that the duo is among the best acts updating synth-pop for the 21st century, it also suggests that it might be time for Norrvide and Fischer to broaden their horizons once more.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kiss My Super Bowl Ring
    The Garden are definitely not for everyone and the Shearses' talent for disguising their actual talent behind pranky hipster exercises can be irritating, but repeated listens reveal more craft than they'd probably like to let on.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thyrsis of Etna
    Even with the compilation-like format of a new voice on every song and unexpected left turns of style and sound, Thyrsis of Etna quickly becomes a singular world of its own, guided by Miszczyk's spacious production and the environment it creates for his collaborators to take chances with their performances.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    MOSS
    If overlong, MOSS is lovely on average and improves over the debut by committing to a design that suits Hawke's vocal qualities.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Thing
    Kinetic and heartfelt, Beautiful Thing lives up to its name and delivers some of Taylor's finest solo music yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Facts Emerge
    New Facts Emerge is still rowdy and absorbing stuff, and proves that Mark E. Smith and his compatriots are growing old in a gloriously ungraceful fashion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Turn Ons
    It’s a hell of a good time and it does what a great covers album should: the band never lets their deep, enduring love get in the way of inspiration or imagination.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Apple Years: 1968-75 [Box Set]
    It's hard to deny the ups and downs to be found here, but combined they paint a picture of Harrison's complexities and contradictions, and the music has never sounded better--and each album has never looked better--than it does here.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Natural Forces
    As before, Lyle gravitates toward gentle, moody songs, with Tommy Elskes' slyly sarcastic blues, 'Bohemia,' being the liveliest of the bunch, opting to give Natural Forces some humor and tempo through his originals.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pinewood Smile
    Pinewood Smile should be all killer no filler, but late-album offerings like the vapid "Happiness" and the infantile no-fatties ballad "Stampede of Love"--Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom" was ludicrous and infantile, but it wasn't cruel--suck some air out of the room, making the whole thing feel a little stale, which is the last thing you want from a project that so fetishizes another era.
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