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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Just Be
    A diverse collection that often has a life force all its own. [Jun 2007, p.150]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Year Zero
    Reznor sets his machinery on "kill" and points it toward authority and herd mentality. [Jun 2007, p.158]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Grinderman
    11 tracks that scorch the earth lesser bands traipse on. [May 2007, p.150]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cassadaga
    [Cassadaga] finds Oberst cultivating a sophistication usually found in records made by people old enough to be his grandparents. [May 2007, p.150]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jarvis
    A ripe thriller, the work of a facile talent with a newfound fecund baritone that goes places where Pulp could not tread. [Jun 2007, p.150]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Traffic And Weather
    It's something they've done better before. [May 2007, p.158]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Because Of The Times
    They've honed their sound perfectly, hitting every mark they set and making Because Of The Times kick so much ass that it demands you respect them as new rock royalty. [May 2007, p.152]
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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reformation Post T.L.C.
    A dispirited, half-baked record. [Jun 2007, p.156]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Good Morning Revival
    Good Charlotte have become caricatures of themselves. [Apr 2007, p.175]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sound Of Silver
    Merely okay. [Apr 2007, p.194]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    Much of We Were Dead feels like a culmination of the sound that Modest Mouse have spent the last decade or so honing. [May 2007, p.145]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Drums And Guns
    One of the better nuanced and layered compositions we're likely to see before 2007 ends. [May 2007, p.152]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living With The Living
    Living With The Living takes steps back to New Jersey, with the sort of big rock 'n' roll, free of subcultural claim, that'd make the Boss proud. [Apr 2007, p.176]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Glitter In The Gutter
    His best release ever. [Apr 2007, p.190]
    • Alternative Press
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Why Bother?
    Mediocre. [May 2007, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'll Sleep When You're Dead
    It's full of the old-fashioned care and craft hip-hop has largely forgotten. [May 2007, p.160]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out Of The Woods
    Woods is the best record EBTG never made, a new peak for Thorn in a career full of heights. [May 2007, p.162]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Person Pitch
    It's the glorious melodies and cavernous, quasi-dub-like production that conspire to make Person Pitch one of the most beguiling, intoxicating releases of 2007 thus far. [May 2007, p.161]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Western Xterminator
    Teenager music for people who were teenagers in the '70s. [Apr 2007, p.190]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yours To Keep
    Even when he's sticking closest to the sound that made him famous, it's a kinder, gentler variation. [May 2007, p.150]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Myth Takes
    Their most accessible and uncompromising album.... !!! deftly balance adventurousness with fun--a potent combo that too few bands achieve. [Apr 2007, p.192]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pocket Symphony
    The baby-making music never reaches above its already-set guidelines to become something truly special, preferring to explore already charted (and re-charted) territory. [Apr 2007, p.180]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon Bible
    While devotees of Funeral... will surely enjoy Neon Bible, the album does have a decidedly different feel than its predecessor--mainly, there seems to be less of an emphasis on choruses. [Apr 2007, p.182]
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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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    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Weirdness
    I'm listening to "Free And Freaky"--the third track on this new, horrible Stooges album and possibly the worst song ever written by anyone anywhere--and I can't believe you actually just rhymed "Obama" with "Dalai Lama" and "baby's mama." [Apr 2007, p.191]
    • Alternative Press
    • 60 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Third Hand
    That's why artists like RJD2 are important: They're brave, they're risk takers, and modern music needs more of them. [Apr 2007, p.192]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lynn Teeter Flower
    Lynn Teeter Flower finds Taylor shaving away some of the layers from her solo debut 11:11 for more subtle ornamentation and experimentation. [Apr 2007, p.182]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Abandoned Language
    [Dalek] have harnessed their noise fetish into a sound that's more sedate, but just as unnerving. [Apr 2007, p.194]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brand New By Tomorrow
    A collection of crisp, melodic pop tunes that showcase not only his musical abilities, but his vocal skills as well. [Mar 2007, p.145]
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