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For 18,280 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: 15,329 out of 18280
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18280
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18280
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nuthin' 2 Prove
    Only with "Who Want the Smoke?" does the first half rise above the preceding album, yet Yachty's the third wheel, eclipsed by verses from Cardi B and Offset. He's more at ease on the lightheaded "melodic" tracks of the latter half, back to goofy-vulgar observations, musical crib-mobile melodies, and occasional openhearted moments that sound natural rather than forced.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Midsummer Station
    With just a few exceptions, The Midsummer Station's would-be mainstream anthems of youth, love, and longing come off generic, hollow, and barely enjoyable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
    That he fails is not the fault of his individual performance; it's the fault of botched execution.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Awakening
    Until Morrison manages to infuse some of this raw honesty and emotion into his sound, he's always going to struggle to create that one great record that his impassioned and soulful voice deserves.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Balcony
    Beneath their poppier melodies and anthemic choruses underlies the D.I.Y. garage-rock ethic that inspired their quick ascent, and it's this mixture that places them firmly between the pop charts and dingy rock club basements.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    It may be a spiritual cousin to Pinkerton, yet it's far removed from the raw, nervy immediacy of that album.... This has a lighter, brighter feel than any of its predecessors, not just in the music but in its outlook.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Circle
    A knack for oversized choruses remains hardwired in Bon Jovi, but in this gloomy context, they act as reminders that they once sounded like they were a working band for working men instead of rich men fretting about a world they've long left behind.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    Not terribly different [from 'Human Conditions'], though certainly more pastoral and perhaps more middle of the road.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    J. Lo
    Essentially, this is the same album as On the Six, only a little longer with a little less focus and not as many memorable songs. This lack of winning singles becomes a drag, since at over an hour, the record meanders much longer than it should.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Seventy Two & Sunny
    Largely absent of originality.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Slipway Fires
    Enjoying Slipway Fires requires a suspension of disbelief, a conscious separation between the band's past and the somewhat ludicrous present.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Boxes
    This is a record that attempts to unfold but remains grounded within its own humble limitations.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sounds from Nowheresville
    Sounds from Nowheresville shows that the Ting Tings have more range than their debut suggested, but while it's more ambitious and crafted, it's just not as coherent as We Started Nothing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Is Me... Then
    The feel is sexy, stylish, and fun, and there are numerous highlights, all feeling effortless.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pressure Chief
    Smart, subtly subversive, and always catchy - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Soulbook
    It's all pleasing enough, flowing better than the American Songbook albums, and not feeling as karaoke as the Rock album, but it's so comfortable, so easygoing, it verges on the forgettable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood Like Lemonade
    Blood Like Lemonade exceeds expectations, coming in a close second behind fan favorite Big Calm.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Introduction to Escape-Ism
    If Introduction to Escape-Ism lacks the punch of some of his band projects, this he is as purely himself as you could hope for, and hearing him work his songs over his own thrift store soundscapes is an engaging experience.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Devil's Playground
    The odd thing about Devil's Playground isn't that Billy pretends Cyberpunk doesn't exist -- frankly, any artist with sense would do that -- it's that he now pretends that he's always been a metalhead, as if his posturing in the '80s was more than an affectation.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Client
    Anyone with an Adult. or Add N to (X) album, or even Berlin's Pleasure Victim, know it's been done better.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pop Trash
    Some of the smooth, spacey ballads that were characteristic of their 1993 self-titled release show up here, but more often than not LeBon is lost in a swamp of over-production.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    SuperHeavy
    Perhaps if the album actually had some kineticism to its eclecticism, or at least a hook or a tune, it would earn its wannabe evangelism, but the untrammeled indulgence turns this into a gaudy multicolored circus.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Incredible Machine
    The Incredible Machine is a collection of (mostly) competent if unremarkable songs, held together by slick -- often sterile -- production.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Latest Record Project, Vol. 1
    As always, his saving grace is his expert control of his voice and good musical taste, qualities that prevent Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 from being as sour as its creator.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brave
    It's nothing more than modest music for mellow good times, but it's lively enough to be fleeting fun, with enough good tunes for a mild party, preferably one that's held at home.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Size Matters
    It isn't necessarily memorable, but as an exercise in measured, even artistic rage, it's classic Hamilton.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Astronaut
    Even with a handful of forgettable songs... the album is easily the best one credited to the Duran Duran name since 1993's Wedding Album.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Matthew Morrison
    Though it has plenty of appealing moments, it just doesn't capitalize on Morrison's vocal and star power.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    New Glow
    The entire album has a general lack of excitement that could be Matt and Kim mailing it in, or taking one step too far toward the pop mainstream and losing the punkish edge that made their music pop like bubbles in a bottle of shaken-up soda.
    • 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.
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