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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dusk And Summer
    Dusk And Summer is proof that Carrabba's ability to drop hugely emotive choruses into three-minute pop songs has become its own form of classic American songwriting. [Aug 2006, p.199]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Return Of Dr. Octagon
    It's hard enough to decipher his demented verses without constant interference from squelchy synth-bass farts. [Aug 2006, p.222]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
    Sometimes it's pretty unpleasant, but it's the rawness that makes it so genuine. [May 2007, p.162]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fast Man Raider Man
    That rare double album with enough life in it to deserve that much real estate. [Aug 2006, p.208]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ganging Up On The Sun
    The sound of growing up has rarely sounded so self-assured. [Aug 2006, p.218]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brightblack Morning Light
    The 10 drone-y songs on Brightblack Morning Light sound more like a soundtrack than a traditional album. [Aug 2006, p.206]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    What really makes News And Tributes impressive, despite lacking the immediacy of its predecessor, is that it captures the Futureheads comfortable in their own skin. [Aug 2006, p.218]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Days Of Wonder
    Transcend[s] the alt-country tag. [Aug 2006, p.206]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Warning
    Hot Chip strip down their influences, reworking scores of sound into new, distinctly original machinations. [Aug 2006, p.222]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mo'Mega
    Pundits say there's too much hype for Def Junkies, but with records like this, there's good reason for it. [Aug 2006, p.224]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sun Awakens
    Finds [Chasny] in peak form. [Aug 2006, p.224]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rather Ripped
    Rather Ripped is the sound of a band no longer setting their distortion pedals on stun, and, as a result, the best songs are as low-key as a small town on Sunday morning. [Aug 2006, p.218]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Begin To Hope
    Did we say "hard to resist?" Make that "impossible." [Aug 2006, p.224]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stranger On The Sofa
    Much more songwriter-based than [his] early discs. [Sep 2006, p.230]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Be Your Own Pet
    For the most part, the band's jagged guitars and bludgeoning backbeats play by the punk rulebook. [Jul 2006, p.186]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free To Stay
    Shines with a matured level of song composition. [Aug 2006, p.208]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Who Loves The Sun OST
    While there are some nice moments of orchestral pop here, that's hardly enough to carry an entire album. [Aug 2006, p.208]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Now You Are One Of Us
    The whole glorious mess creates a dramatic Wagnerian opera that's (barely) held together by Congleton's yelping. [Aug 2006, p.206]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peeping Tom
    There's hardly a stinker in the bunch. [Jul 2006, p.206]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Drift
    Walker has gone as far into the atmosphere as one can travel while still being earthbound. [Jul 2006, p.210]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Don't Need To Whisper
    Whisper encompasses everything a rock band should be in 2006. [Jul 2006, p.202]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Obliterati
    Yet another rock-solid album. [Aug 2006, p.204]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Hundred Miles Off
    A Hundred Miles Off is nearly 100-percent on. [Jul 2006, p.204]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Find Me Gone
    Ageless and deeply affecting. [Jul 2006, p.210]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    The real pleasure here is hearing what Jack White can do when he's away from the confines of the White Stripes. [Jul 2006, p.202]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Enemies Like This
    What none of these songs has... is a hook that sticks with you. [Jul 2006, p.204]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Powder Burns
    Dulli is in peak form here. [Jul 2006, p.194]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    Though parts of the album veer a bit too close to the synthetic hippie pabulum you hear upon entering the Nature Store, there's enough dark charm on Espers II to make it essential listeing for those of us who prefer our CDs caked with actual resin. [Jul 2006, p.208]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Types Of Wood
    The band's anti-everything style can get annoying if you don't have the patience for heavy doses of idiosyncrasy in your rock. [Jul 2006, p.204]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Being
    The focus on time and its ravages may seem to place this in 35-and-over territory, but Sexsmith's songs are timeless. [Mar 2007, p.136]
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