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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Classics
    Things get a little dicier when they dip into the ’60s, as Deschanel doesn’t have the pipes to match up with the likes of Maxine Brown and Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers.... Throughout the rest of Classics, though, Deschanel is a delight, at times coy and romantic, and in other moments, moody and pensive.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everybody's Coming Down
    Everybody's Coming Down is a spacey rock record with noisy guitars and plenty of dynamics, with all of the endearing alcoholic romanticism that we have grown to love. [Sep 2015, p.97]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Aug 12, 2015
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Set the World On Fire
    There's no question Biersack and the boys are making an active decision to go after the Rock On The Range crowd with lunkheaded hard rock and painfully bland ballads that are just dull enough to strike a chord with middle America. [Jul 2011, p.106]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jun 9, 2011
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great Fire
    It's one hell of a ride.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World's Apart
    The least pretentious--and most accessible--thing AYWKUBTTOD have ever released. That's probably because it sounds a lot like your record collection. [Feb 2005, p.92]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed And B-Sides
    Laid-back and largely instrumental glitch-pop. [Jul 2005, p.186]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Singles
    The Singles is over too quickly. [Nov 2008, p.164]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Actual Fucking
    This restless, rootless disc suggests Cex hasn't settled on his future destination just yet. [Aug 2006, p.222]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Way Of All Flesh
    The vocals occasionally become rhythmic and robotic, as if filtered through a demonic Vocoder, but there's no denying this album's rich humanity. [Nov 2008, p.158]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Magic Magicians
    Powerful drum beats user along the sometimes-Jack White, sometimes-Mick Jones vocals, while the guitar croons expressively throughout these low-key, lo-fi songs. [Aug 2003, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life On A String
    If the wordplay occasionally misses the mark, the music (which includes calypso, funk, '40s jazz, and chamber pop) invariably carries the day. [Aug 2001, p.76]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    God Says No
    God Says No is the sound of a band heading toward the charts, full-speed.... This is a disappointing record for longitme fans; maybe new ears will dig it. [#153, p.81]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Can I Keep This Pen?
    Like "Paul's Boutique," the results are as unexpected as they are lethal. [Nov 2007, p.176]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Repo
    Teetering between genius and madness, Repo is a few hooks shjort of a successful fishing trip for experiemental music, left mostly with "experiemental" and not much in the way of traditionally defined "music." [Jun 2009, p.102]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Night People
    What remains on Night People is anthemic enough to keep people listening. [Feb 2017, p.82]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jan 6, 2017
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Old World Romance
    While it's enjoyable for what it is, you can't help but wonder where all the songs went when after an half-hour or so, you recall literally nothing. [Oct 2012, p.92]
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reformation Post T.L.C.
    A dispirited, half-baked record. [Jun 2007, p.156]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fire Songs
    When the twins harmonize, the results are sweeter than sugar-dipped honeysuckle. What they really need, though, is some fire in their bellies. [July 2008, p.151]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Antemasque
    There’s passion cooked into each Antemasque song, but it is curiously unmoving.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sounds Good Feels Good
    When compared to their debut, the maturity of Sounds Good is evident. [Nov 2015, p.95]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Oct 22, 2015
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    "Pussy Cats" Starring The Walkmen
    Pussy Cats reveals facets of the Walkmen's personality that their originals haven't explored. [Dec 2006, p.189]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Milk White Sheets
    Warm acoustic guitars and spookily ethereal vocals add up to understated soundtrack music for a road trip through the Scottish countryside. [Jan 2007, p.134]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barking
    The album can't sustain the energy of early tracks like "Bird" and "Scribble," but while the blaze lasts, it's definitely worth warming yourself up on. [Oct 2010, p.120]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dead Man Shake
    Even Westerberg knows that he can do better. [Jan 2004, p.108]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brilliant! Tragic!
    On Brilliant! Tragic!, Argos has channeled his inner Johnny Rotten, seemingly vacillating between contempt and boredom. Fortunately, the band play with a similar sense of toughened rawness. [Jun 2011, p.106]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted May 16, 2011
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dust
    Much of Dust is nearly indistinguishable from the British trip hop Muggs' tripped-out productions helped inspire. [Apr 2003, p.82]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glitter In The Gutter
    His best release ever. [Apr 2007, p.190]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fade Away [EP]
    Lyrically introspective, musically tight and vocally resolute, Fade Away is Best Coast’s best work to date.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Miracle Mile
    Miracle Mile is a danceable record on its own, but also a reminder to revisit STRFKR's previous albums for a deeper submersion into their cosmic dream world. [Mar 2013, p.93]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Feb 20, 2013
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hurry and the Harm
    It's as beautifully patient and thoughtful as anything else in Dallas green's expanding catalog, while carrying the same sort of modest insecurity and self-doubt that's made the project so warm and personable. [Jul 2013, p.98]
    • Alternative Press
      • Posted Jun 4, 2013
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