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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
    As good as anything out there. [Nov 2005, p.220]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apollo Sunshine
    What Apollo Sunshine may lack in cohesion, it more than makes up for in spirit. [Nov 2005, p.218]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broken Ear Record
    It's the best post-retro, pre-futurist, avant-antiquarian psychedelia of 2005. [Nov 2005, p.226]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Plans
    Seamlessly picks up right where 2003's Transatlanticism left off. [Nov 2005, p.208]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oh No
    Their songs are categorically contagious and surprisingly smart. [Sep 2005, p.164]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gods And Monsters
    Thinking-person's Britpop. [Oct 2005, p.166]
    • Alternative Press
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Howl
    Disappointingly forgettable. [Nov 2005, p.218]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Invisible Ones
    A confident and bold album... [but] it unfortunately expends so much energy being spooky and otherworldly that most of the anticipated enchanting beauty is nowhere to be found. [Sep 2005, p.156]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Menos el Oso
    There's a constant sense of forward motion to Menos El Oso that suits the whole metaphor of growing up and growing out. [Oct 2005, p.156]
    • Alternative Press
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twin Cinema
    The least imaginative album of their career. [Oct 2005, p.158]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bright Ideas
    Both exhilaratingly rocking and gorgeously pensive. [Nov 2005, p.210]
    • Alternative Press
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blitzkrieg Pop
    Pop's dirty-bassed rock may expand T.'s audience, but it's diminished his art. [Sep 2005, p.170]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pixel Revolt
    Vanderslice's detached delivery of this riveting material, combined with the somnolent string arrangements, makes Pixel Revolt feel like a chilled-out remix of a book-on-tape recording. [Sep 2005, p.158]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Infiniheart
    As edgy as singer-songwriter pop gets. [Oct 2005, p.158]
    • Alternative Press
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Inside/Absent
    Nuanced, sophisticated pop somewhere between Ben Folds and Spain. [Oct 2005, p.168]
    • Alternative Press
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Warnings/Promises
    Idlewild undeniably sound like a once-great band helplessly slipping into their confusing middle years. [Sep 2005, p.164]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quit +/or Fight
    Most of the songs... aren't nearly as interesting as the album's title, offering only random snippets of truly engaging music. [Sep 2005, p.156]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Difference Between Houses And Homes: Lost Songs And Loose Ends 1995-2001
    Too often, Kasher is lost in his screamy, overdramatic posturing. [Sep 2005, p.154]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Spelled In Bones
    Second-rate Shins. [Aug 2005, p.164]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Body Of Song
    There's some decent stuff in the second half. [Sep 2005, p.164]
    • Alternative Press
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resilience
    A great summer album. [Oct 2005, p.170]
    • Alternative Press
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alpine Static
    Dizzying psychedelic bong-fodder that requires neither psychedelics nor bongs. [Aug 2005, p.176]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Understanding
    Bland and undistinguished. [Aug 2005, p.178]
    • Alternative Press
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reads The Books [EP]
    Exactly what you'd imagine. [Sep 2005, p.170]
    • Alternative Press
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Underwater Cinematographer
    Not many albums make you smile so much your face hurts. [Oct 2005, p.156]
    • Alternative Press
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Illinois
    It's ridiculously ambitious--and consistently surprising. [Aug 2005, p.164]
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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]
    • Alternative Press
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pajo
    Immediately memorable. [Aug 2005, p.164]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's A Fire
    Fire's beauty often feels distant and untouchable. [Sep 2005, p.164]
    • Alternative Press
    • 59 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    TheFutureEmbrace
    Some of the most engaging music of his career. [Aug 2005, p.172]
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