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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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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Drunk
    If Love Drunk's overall enthusiasm and high-energy pop doesn't win over even the snarkiest of reviewers after a few listens, then they probably don't have a heart. Everyone else will love it anyway. Pop-rock like this is popular for a reason.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Tourniquet
    Every song sounds like background music in an art-house film. [Apr 2006, p.207]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand
    While Pond reverts back to his laconic ways toward the album's end, the dazzling tracks leading us to that soft landing make up for the slight regression. [Mar 2013, p.92]
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      • Posted Feb 7, 2013
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ima Robot
    Goofy out-of-time tunes. [Oct 2003, p.136]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    X.O. Experience
    Occasional missteps keep X.O. Experience from being a bottle of the top-drawer stuff, though it'll still leave you with a good buzz. [Aug 2001, p.91]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Search
    It lacks the spark of the band's classic catalog material. [Apr 2007, p.191]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
    It's an engaging listen. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Weekend In The City
    They play things way too safe... which makes for a rather boring listening experience. [Mar 2007, p.142]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now Is The Time!
    Light years beyond any current dance-punk act. [Apr 2006, p.203]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Manic Expressive
    Both soothing and exhilarating. [Jan 2002, p.84]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everybody Wants To Know
    Boasts a sort of steady, creeping beauty, like a slower, groggier Failure without the loud arena bombast. [Nov 2001, p.97]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Touching Down
    He tweaks frequencies and shades his queasy bass lines like the Neptunes on a diet of Red Bull and espresso beans. [Jan 2003, p.100]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Market Music
    Charging rock songs and austere balladry make this album resonate more than the morass of bad music currently plaguing us. [#155, p.80]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Revolverlution
    An album that hangs together surprisingly well. [Oct 2002, p.90]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Xoxo Panda & The New Kid Revival
    This is a great record for staring out the window of a train on a sunny winter day. [Jan 2008, p.125]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Devastator
    It makes for a fairly entertaining show if you're willing to put down your hot wings for a second to sep outside to watch. [Nov 2008, p.162]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Synthesized
    Enjoyable throughout. [Dec 2012, p.92]
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      • Posted Jan 4, 2013
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Secret Machines
    Secret Machines is a bit of a misstep, failing keep their languid, explorative tracks from growing dull. [Dec 2008, p.148]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Empire
    Like a primer in recent rock history. [Dec 2006, p.200]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Twelve
    While Twelve's not an unlistenable record by any stretch of the imagination, it just begs the question: What's the point? [Jun 2007, p.158]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Constant
    On The Constant, SOTY have shown they've mastered their current sound. Here's hoping for a little more experimentation next time. [Mar 2010, p.95]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Santi
    It all works... simultaneously calling to mind Fall Out Boy and Franz Ferdinand. [May 2007, p.158]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Treble & Tremble
    Sweet and insubstantial. [Nov 2004, p.140]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Liberation
    They've beefed up their bombastic prog-rock guitars and grandiose, Teutonic synth motifs to new levels of virtuoso excess. [Feb 2004, p.93]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Delirium Cordia
    Patton's latest fantasy-headache is a one-song, 55-minute conceptual misfire that careens from acid-casualty chamber music to high-velocity cartoon metal. [Feb 2004, p.82]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soul Punk
    Soul Punk is a brave, bold statement on which Stump asserts his individuality. [Aug 2011, p.111]
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      • Posted Oct 21, 2011
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sleep Forever
    'Slow Race' is an example of how, while moody, their soundscapes still rock and--unlike many of their pensive prog-oriented peers--feel more like songs than dissertations. [Mar 2008, p.140]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Kiss & Tell
    Disastrous. [Oct 2004, p.144]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go
    Even if Oxeneers doesn't move you, it'll surely floor you. [Dec 2004, p.157]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Appeal To Reason
    It all boils down to the simple question of which songs grab you, so there are certainly reasons to give Appeal a whirl and decide for yourself. [Nov 2008, p.151]
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