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For 18,293 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: 15,342 out of 18293
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18293
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18293
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gloriana
    Sometimes, this approach is entirely too slick, particularly when the rhythms are pounding too hard on 'Wild at Heart' and 'You Said,' but at their best, Gloriana can evoke the forgotten charms of '70s studio-centric soft rock in both its mellow and rocking incarnations.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Love You
    Unfortunately, despite a few great tracks and plenty of pounding productions, Blank hits a lot of familiar notes.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gary Go
    The fact that the end results sound similar to Go's machine-made rivals proves to be a double-edged sword, however, both attracting fans for its genuine approach and repelling others for its similarity to manufactured pop.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Time To Move
    Loggins may indeed come across like a male version on the breezy charms of Colbie Caillat but that means he's pleasant, placid, and likeable which is, in the words of the album's opening song, good enough.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gather, Form & Fly
    Megafaun are just as taken by quietly tortured dark-night-of-the-soul whisperings, lo-fi oddities, and shards of feedback shade as they are of banjos and summertime evenings, giving Gather, Form and Fly a bit of an unsettled edge at various points.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spring Tides
    Jeniferever shows some serious potential on this album, but much of it remains to be realized.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Up From Below
    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros have crafted a love letter to Laurel Canyon and all of its quasi-mystic juju that is as infuriatingly contrived and retro as it is forward-thinking and majestic.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keep On Loving You
    The bottom line here is that Keep on Loving You may jar some longtime Reba fans on first listen, but despite the record's sound it's all her in this mix, and they will more than likely celebrate this.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    King Of Jeans
    It's overrun by the dissonance of half-step progressions and minor-chord crunch, and it's constantly excruciating.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Breakthrough
    It's a creation that's slicker and sleeker than the debut, but fortunately, it's not quite at the expense of Caillat's simple charms.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Apple's Acre
    Nurses proceed to provide exactly what is expected of them and what their audience presumably expects.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Conditions
    Conditions runs out of juice during its second half, where the anthems of the A-side give way to minor-key ballads and middling rock.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Look To You
    What she undoubtedly is, is a pro--she sells these subdued glitzy productions, she makes boring songs interesting, she remains a forceful, tangible presence.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Artwork
    Hooks never mattered to the Used anyway, so having a higher grade of execution helps underscore the Used's point, which ironically just makes the whole thing uglier and harder to take.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alice And Friends
    Call it sloppy pop (or poppy slop), but even with the raw aesthetic and tinny resonance, the songs are entirely sweet and hummable, sometimes to the point of being unshakable.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rebelution
    Even if it's not the most persuasive mood album, once the party has kicked into high gear Rebelution will certainly keep it going.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Time To Die
    Time to Die is far from a bad album, but unpredictability still suits the Dodos better than trying to fit into a more recognizable indie rock mold.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Joy
    They sound more focused than on any of their ten previous studio offerings. Certainly, what's here is not for everybody, but this jumpy, well-constructed little set may even get Phish fans excited.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Drunk
    This is a much better record than their debut--and that in itself is an impressive feat.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
    Ride Again isn't a raucous rock & roll album, it's a relaxed good time, a little bit of cheerful nostalgia that's pretty charming.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Break Up
    Yorn and Johannson cut their album long before She & Him, but surfacing in its wake, they can't help but seem a bit like the polished, polite answer to the twee, precious charms of Zooey & M. Ward. Break Up does trump Vol. 1 conceptually, chronicling the dissolution of a romance as a series of duets, and Scarlett is a more-than-worthy foil to Yorn.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Draw The Line
    Draw the Line is essentially another cog in the folksy wheel he's been spinning since "New Day at Midnight."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Daisy
    Brand New may not be completely comfortable with the slow stuff, but Daisy's willingness to experiment is what makes the album so interesting, even as its furious rock songs continue to pack a punch.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Billy Talent III
    When they stretch farthest away from their origins, as they do on the plodding power ballad 'Sudden Movements,' their sound takes a turn for the best.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unmap
    Despite the occasional flaws, the album shows that Vernon (along with the guys in Collections of Colonies of Bees) has not only the desire to branch out but also the necessary skills.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Terra Incognita
    Juliette Lewis dials down the aggression, amps up the introspection, and adds a dose of weirdness on her third album, Terra Incognita. As always, what Lewis wants to achieve is apparent and admirable, but not necessarily quite what is achieved.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yeah Ghost
    Though Zero 7 are still not in the same class as Air (or even Phoenix), Yeah Ghost is an enjoyable record that shows them apparently on the way to something more unique.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Armistice
    This is essentially a thinking man's album, though, more indicative of the band's breadth than its ability to make hit singles.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The World I Want to Leave Behind
    Moneen's 2009 release, The World I Want to Leave Behind, is certainly a sign of the times in the rock world--intricate musical bits are combined with emo-like vocals, and in the process, the group never forfeits the importance of melody.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Christmas In The Heart
    Apart from the breakneck 'Must Be Santa,' which barrelhouses like a barroom, Dylan doesn't really reinterpret these songs as much as simply play them with his crackerjack road band, dropping in a little flair--restoring "we'll have to muddle through somehow" to 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,' singing the opening of 'O Come All Ye Faithful' in its original Latin--but never pushing tunes in unexpected directions.
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