Alternative Press' Scores

  • Music
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:
3071 music reviews
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In simplest terms, this is emotional catharsis put to pop music. And it sounds fucking great. [Jun 2006, p.174]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ever wonder what an all-star band featuring Burt Bacharach, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd would sound like stoned on the final reel of 2001: A Space Odyssey? [May 2006, p.172]
    • Alternative Press
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A romantic, self-referential collection of songs that, even though we've heard this inimitable voice singing the same old tune for years, manages to avoid staleness. [May 2006, p.174]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stellar. [May 2006, p.176]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They do possess the skills to enhance everything they tweak. [May 2006, p.178]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Amid the highlife guitars and percussion that give Sea a delightful Afro-pop sheen... it's impossible to ignore the creeping conventionalism of the disc's best tracks. [Jun 2006, p.178]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The band sound bigger and and more self-assured than ever. [Jun 2006, p.190]
    • Alternative Press
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has a curiously timeless sense of eclecticism. [May 2006, p.166]
    • Alternative Press
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At once loud and elegant, Karmacode raises Lacuna Coil's heaviness tenfold without sacrificing a drop of the band's mystical ambience. [May 2006, p.168]
    • Alternative Press
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Show Your Bones is the sort of second album that, rather than being a sophomore slump, makes you anxiously wonder what albums three, four and five will sound like. [May 2006, p.176]
    • Alternative Press
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where [Interpol] often seem weighed down by their own miserable aura, Editors sound brightest in teh depths of their blackened pop gems. [Apr 2006, p.204]
    • Alternative Press
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The disc may be too weird for people who like their music categorically cut and dried, but adventurous listeners will want to bang Liars' Drum often. [May 2006, p.178]
    • Alternative Press
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While no Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, [it] will still placate fans excited to see where Tweedy takes Wilco next. [May 2006, p.174]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maturity beat[s] out playfulness. [May 2006, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their newfound nods to pop music... overshadow the expected balls-out rockers. [Apr 2006, p.220]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Infectiously noisy. [May 2006, p.166]
    • Alternative Press
    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Everything All The Time is almost pitifully lacking in soul, and it suffers from a few real snoozers, to boot. [May 2006, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Essex Green do a fine job of staying on retro's good side. [May 2006, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More fun than most of the original NYC no-wave bands to which the Seconds pay tribute. [May 2006, p.178]
    • Alternative Press
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coxon rocks it in a class of '77 Brit-punk style that'll make record-collecting fetishists in search of Adverts and Chelsea demos soil themselves. [Dec 2006, p.198]
    • Alternative Press
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Should you find yourself craving the fleeting rush of a dark, well-crafted pop song, Cuts Across The Land does wonders for, well, the spirit. [May 2006, p.176]
    • Alternative Press
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A more ambitious, punchier take on that electro-pop retro fetishizing at which Brits excel. [Mar 2006, p.138]
    • Alternative Press
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A compelling spin. [May 2006, p.164]
    • Alternative Press
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best record in years. [Apr 2006, p.218]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    While Mogwai once seemed too ambitious for their own good, Mr. Beast perfectly distills the essence of the band's raison d'etre. [Apr 2006, p.214]
    • Alternative Press
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A match-up like this one needs the right balance between angel and devil, and... Campbell's fragile alto is just no match for Lanegan. [May 2006, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An astonishing collection... that should leave Case's peers eating a cloud of Nashville dust. [Apr 2006, p.204]
    • Alternative Press
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A bona-fide motherfucker of a stoner jam. [May 2006, p.170]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hella fun. [May 2006, p.166]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    9BA have a sense of urgency that should appeal both to Anglophiles and to punk scenesters who also inexplicably like Oasis. [Apr 2006, p.216]
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