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For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 LANY
Lowest review score: 0 Results May Vary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,331 out of 3071
  2. Mixed: 695 out of 3071
  3. Negative: 45 out of 3071
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
    An album that's for neither hardcore hip-hop fans nor punk rockers, but for everyone. [Nov 2005, p.224]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Street Punk
    Slowly, Bogart is inching closer to mainstream appeal. [Aug 2013, p.88]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jul 22, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They Threw Us in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top
    This album's fucking great, like a sharp stick in the eye. [Sep 2002, p.81]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Taking Back Sunday
    This album is most definitely not Tell All Your Friends II: Electric Boogaloo. That said, it most assuredly doesn't come anywhere close to sucking, either.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Silver/Lead
    Another solid addition to a nearly peerless discography. [May 2017, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Apr 6, 2017
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Have You Surrounded
    The album may have neen best served as an EP; it's an uneven mix of energetic jams and unfocused duds. [May 2008, p.132]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gliss Riffer
    As the songs lengthen the transitions grow more subtle, their epic weight intensifies. [Mar 2015, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Feb 4, 2015
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Serpents Unleashed
    Skeletonwitch are in the metalhead-pleasing business, and the classicist genre fusion of Serpents Unleashed more than does the job. [Nov 2013, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Nov 1, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Family Myth
    An upbeat garage-pop act who are never cloying. [Dec 2005, p.204]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LP3
    LP3 hits life-affirming pinnacles upon its insistent yowls. [Nov 2014, p.98]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Oct 29, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In a Dream
    The music the two make has taken a huge creative leap forward. [Oct 2014, p.100]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Sep 4, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once We Were Trees
    The pop smarts practically shimmer throughout. [Dec 2001, p.83]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dents And Shells
    It's moody as hell, with an aching, nameless despair and all the intimacy of a crack-up. [Jan 2005, p.108]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Late Great Whatever
    Reverbed aggression never sounded so good. [Mar 2013, p.92]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Feb 27, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Object 47
    The serrated serenades of Object 47 offer all the compact joys of past Wire classics like "154" and "Chairs Missing," but amplified and digitalized for the internet age. [Sep 2008, p.149]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Undercard
    While much of contemporary music fixates on flash and bang, it's refreshing to hear emphasis on what the singer is saying. With a lyricist this gifted, that more than suffices.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Women As Lovers
    It's about as close a facsimile of the fractured and foreboding scattershot thoughts that haunt most of us at night as one can capture on record. [Feb 2008, p.115]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Everything Will Be Alright in the End
    He used his left brain--logic--to access his right brain--emotion--to create what might not be the best Weezer album, but most definitely is the perfect Weezer album, at least right now.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sacred Fire [EP]
    Cliff hasn't sounded this loose and giddy in years, and it's a thrill to find that side of him back in the music game.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    El Pintor
    If the songs blend together a bit, that's called a style, and Interpol have always had that on their side. [Oct 2014, p.100]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Sep 3, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unravelling
    The band are writing songs still riddled with emotional turmoil, but they seem more jaded and contemplative. [Nov 2014, p.100]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Oct 8, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ixora
    It's a fairly strong, welcomed return from one of the decade's best bands of its kind. [Jan 2015, p.91]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Dec 17, 2014
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bury Me In Philly
    It showcases a wise and occasionally raw Hause sharpening his veteran punk chops into rousing and often smoothly melodic fare. [Mar 2017, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Feb 3, 2017
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rose Mountain
    The finest moments om the buzzsaw riffage category arrive via the majestic "Triumph," a waking Siamese (Day)Dream, and the skin peeling darkness of "Ripe." [Mar 2015, p.94]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Feb 23, 2015
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tarot Classics [EP]
    Really, Surfer Blood always reminds us so much of the Pixies, and that isn't changing much with Tarot Classics. [Dec 2011, p.124]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Nov 1, 2011
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Human The Death Dance
    He rhymes like a champ. [Jun 2007, p.160]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Crosses
    Against Me! were great because of their flaws, not in spite of them--White Crosses just isn't that much fun to listen to. [Jun 2010, p.102]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    Coxon's solo career has long suffered from the Bob Pollard syndrome of self-indulgent quantity over quality--a setback that, unfortunately, also plagues much of Happiness In Magazines. [Mar 2005, p.132]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The '59 Sound
    Fallon's lyrics continue to embrace the Americana ethos that is sucessfully married with a soulful punk sound as timeless as the sentiments that inspire him. [Sep 2008, p.148]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Chaos
    While some of the songs from 2008's "This Is Not The World" seem encumbered by big production, the 11 tracks on The Chaos sound more rough and immediate, allowing the band's natural energy to come through naturally. [Jul 2010, p.126]
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