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For 18,323 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: 15,367 out of 18323
  2. Mixed: 2,930 out of 18323
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18323
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Poem
    For those of you that like to dress in long trench coats, leave trails of incense, hang out at Borders, sip down inflated decaf mocha javas, and quietly (but not too quietly) discuss the contradictory, post-modern feminist and Marxist attitudes in last week's Buffy episode while keeping an eye out for all those moody sorts perusing the tattoo section -- Poem will sound amazing. For the rest, it's a ponderous machine of put-upon tribal chants and cod-industrial loops that runs on empty from start to finish.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Waves Are Universal
    The record is rather safe, lacking an adventurousness that is only touched upon and possibly kept under wraps for the sake of not seeming like too much of a departure.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oracle
    This is an average album by a promising band who needs to find a distinct identity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vapor Trails
    Vapor Trails does an amiable job of signaling the welcomed return of Rush.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kamikaze
    It's actually a fair album for two main reasons: the new lead single, "Slow Jamz," and the killer guest productions of Kanye West.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kiss Of Death
    No matter the number of bright moments, you can't help but feel that Jadakiss has his best days ahead of him.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Patience
    There's an excessive attention to detail to each song, and that tunnel vision means each song runs about a minute or two longer than it should.... That's unfortunate because the core of the album is quite good.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Built On Squares
    The Starlight Mints weren't excessively ambitious in the studio and the coolness of Built on Squares makes for a pleasant listen while capturing a band in the making.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Conspiracy of One
    The Offspring's most musically mature collection to date. The arrangements are tight and don't bore, which is sometimes the case with albums that feature similar-sounding songs.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's All In Your Head
    It's All in Your Head doesn't have the punch that Eve 6's previous albums possessed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One By One
    It's hard not to wish that the songs stuck in your head the way they used to, even if it's still enjoyable as a whole.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
    It's hard to shake the feeling that the National is highly influenced by and studied in the bands it emulates, but the album is still worth a listen for fans of moody country-tinged lounge music.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You Can Feel Me
    You Can Feel Me is a genuinely funky, finely produced album that often bypasses white b-boy cheekiness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When I Was Cruel
    Outside of the Bacharach album, it's his best in a long time. But in order to know that, you will have to have dilligently listened to everything from Spike on -- and if you got off the bus around then, it's harder than ever to get back on.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hotel Paper
    The album doesn't have the detail of character that made Michelle Branch so appealing the first time out.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Animositisomina
    Still dour and humorless, but pruned of its experimental tendencies, Ministry delivered its first solid record in a decade.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Come Feel Me Tremble
    A genuine disappointment after the creative comeback of Stereo.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Boomkatalog One
    Boomkatalog.One is a clever marriage of technology, creativity, and straight-up sass that gets away with being much more enjoyable than it might deserve.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fall Back Open
    Despite some tedious melodramatics, Fall Back Open is a decent sophomore effort.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fire In The Hole
    Few will ever refer to this as a classic, though even fewer will ever think of this as a poor showing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In The Zone
    She may be older now, but she still sounds like a little girl, which undercuts both the glistening, sensual midtempo grooves that dominate the album and the big, booming uptempo cuts that offer a change of pace.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ima Robot
    Ultimately too derivative to fully enjoy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Liz Phair
    There's nothing wrong with a change of pace, but there's a startling lack of depth in either the words, which are entirely too literal, or the music, whose hooks are at once too obvious and not ingratiating enough.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mechanical Wonder
    The problem is that the songwriting has gotten a little mannered, a little undistinguished, and the performances, while sturdy, tend to be slightly flat.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Phantom Planet
    This willfully noisy, messy album is ultimately just as contrived as the band's glossier sound was, and the shift from The Guest's winsome pop -- which was also a shift from their debut's heavily Weezer-influenced sound -- makes it difficult to get a grip on the band.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
    Uneven, especially compared to their earlier records, and less ambitious than the "bring it on" misinterpretation of the title might make you think.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Summer Make Good
    Its quietness and moodiness make Summer Make Good Múm's most demanding album, but also, fortunately, a rewarding one too.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse
    Though his raps can't compete with the concentrated burst on The Blueprint, there's at least as many great tracks on tap, if only listeners have enough time to find them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Empire Strikes First
    The Empire Strikes First isn't a return to Bad Religion at its most vitriolic and unstoppable -- whether that could ever really happen is unclear, and probably unnecessary.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The End of All Things to Come
    The musicians still churn out standard-issue heavy metal thrash à la Metallica to support Chüd's nihilistic pronouncements, usually sung in an enraged howl.
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