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For 18,282 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: 15,331 out of 18282
  2. Mixed: 2,925 out of 18282
  3. Negative: 26 out of 18282
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautiful Creature
    Melodic, wistful, whimsical, reflective, yet clever, the album showcases Hatfield at her peak, crafting fragile, endearing post-jangle pop songs that reveal themselves shyly and sweetly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Is Here
    Each song soars with intricate musicianship and melodic lushness.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Free All Angels
    At times, John Barry conducting the Buzzcocks; at others, EMF covering Petula Clark.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wooden Leather
    Fortunately they never swap their emphasis on some serious crunk-drawling for rap music's usual curb-sitting; in fact, the group expand their purview to look lovingly at lower-class life from several viewpoints.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All For You
    This is her sexiest-sounding record, thanks to Jam and Lewis' silky groove and her breathy delivery, two things that make the record palatable throughout too many spoken interludes and songs that just don't quite click.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Foliage: Animation Music
    If the preceding Dusk at Cubist Castle was the Olivia Tremor Control's very own White Album, then the labyrinthine Black Foliage is their Smile -- it's an imploding masterpiece, a work teetering on the cliff's edge between genius and madness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    C'Mon Miracle
    C'Mon Miracle isn't as showy as some of her previous outings, but it does show that Mirah's music works on both a large and small scale.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Reverie
    The band's poppiest and most upbeat and musical record yet.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let It Come Down
    Let It Come Down is another masterfully made Spiritualized album, but its very ambitions sometimes overwhelm it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Logic Will Break Your Heart
    Partly glamorous and fully imaginative.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain Is Love
    What makes it a slightly better album than Rule 3:36, though, is the album's consistency.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pru
    She freely mixes hip-hop, Latin, R&B, rock, and trip-hop into a uniquely enticing mix that quickly identifies her as an adventurous artist along the line of Angie Stone, Jill Scott and Lauryn Hill.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So-Called Chaos
    It's brighter, denser, catchier than either of its immediate predecessors, and boasts her most assured singing yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
    An invigorating and glorious mess of undistilled Rock fury.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Time Around
    Much of This Time Around feels like a conscious attempt at furthering their craft, defining their sound, and honing their songwriting skills. In other words, it's a stab at maturity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throwing Muses [2003]
    Their loudest, noisiest, most immediate album yet -- and it's one of their best.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soft Spot
    Clem Snide has crafted another gem.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tour de France Soundtracks
    Tour de France Soundtracks is a successful record on anyone's terms; it's one that fans won't need to cringe from, and one that newcomers will be able to enjoy for what it is.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twisted Tenderness
    Certainly a vast improvement from their sophomore effort... what makes Twisted Tenderness so vibrant is how Electronic placated their lushness for more of a moody demeanor, mysteriously similar to the likes of U2's electric distortion found on 1997's Pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Winds Take No Shape
    It would have been nice to lift the haze with an uptempo track or two, but at only ten songs and 37 minutes, the album never drags. It is a rare reinvention that comes across as well as this.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chinatown
    Feels like an evening well spent with old friends.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alone With Everybody
    He has moved on from the effervescent prettiness of his former band to make music for himself -- something the Verve might have done somewhere in time, but it wouldn't have been so honest or stripped as this solo jaunt
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Atlas
    With Atlas, Latin rock quintet Kinky move closer to actual rock than the electronic pop of their 2001 debut allowed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    This self-produced major-label debut boldly plunders a reverb-and-white noise course previously trampled underfoot by long-gone British bands of the late '80s and early '90s (the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Verve, Ride, the Stone Roses, etc.).
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Faded Seaside Glamour
    Faded Seaside Glamour trades in the band's dreary English roots for radiating waves and rays of '60s California pop. It's a slick transition, an honest presentation soaked in Delays' crisp musicianship and the foursome's lush harmonies.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happenstance
    It is an unabashedly lush, deeply textured pop record that makes no apologies for its radio-friendliness or its adornments.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    High Society
    Though they may be more focused, Enon will never be straightforward, but that's one of the band's, and album's, strengths.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
    The allegories and metaphors of her previous work are replaced with direct, vulnerable lyrics, and the album's production polishes the songs instead of obscuring them in noise or studio tricks.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ego War
    Like the best in commercial dance, Audio Bullys are excellent, distinctive producers, though their songwriting isn't in the same category.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Haunted
    Sadly, Poe's work might not be welcomed in the mainstream, which is disappointing because her original compositions have the makings for a new music revolution alongside the likes of Radiohead's Kid A. Haunted is in its own class of twisted intelligence and beauty.
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