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
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    With Crimes, the Bloods have built the sturdiest bridge between the hardcore underground and indie-rock elitists. [Nov 2004, p.144]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Ian Curtis had stuck around for Zoloft and Hot Hot Heat, Joy Division's Closer might've sounded a lot like this album. [Dec 2004, p.158]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The songs last twice as long as they should. [Dec 2004, p.152]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Music Club are as morose as ever. [Dec 2004, p.150]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sounds like the updated fourth side of Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On. [Nov 2004, p.142]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, the band overcompensate for all the testosterone with modern-rock romps like "Some Say" and with bland ballads like "Slipping Away." [Dec 2004, p.142]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Darker, glitchier and garage-punkier... a gamble that doesn't always strike gold. [Jan 2005, p.114]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Offers yet more fun funk/blues-rock mashups for unpretentious gatherings of all sorts. [Nov 2004, p.156]
    • Alternative Press
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Undercut by passion and urgency. [Jan 2005, p.113]
    • Alternative Press
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs like "16.12" are so captivating, you'll barely notice they're over 10 minutes long. [Dec 2004, p.162]
    • Alternative Press
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A record of bittersweet delights that resonates with the brain and the heart. [Nov 2004, p.149]
    • Alternative Press
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A satisfying and surprisingly profane comeback. [Jan 2005, p.114]
    • Alternative Press
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If you're confused and bewildered by Power, you're probably not alone. [Dec 2004, p.146]
    • Alternative Press
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Charlotte have obviously put a lot of effort and imagination into Chronicles, and if it comes off as slightly awkward in parts, well, isn't that part of growing up? [Nov 2004, p.135]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He seems hell-bent on sabotaging his amiable, acoustic-guitar-based songs with the sort of distortion and static that drive most engineers up the soundproofed wall. [Jan 2005, p.114]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like Merzbow jamming with a broken dishwasher through a short-wave radio. [Nov 2004, p.146]
    • Alternative Press
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Contributions from Chuck D... and Dan The Automator... elicit[s] enough blips on the heart monitor to keep the album from flatlining. [Dec 2004, p.158]
    • Alternative Press
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweet and insubstantial. [Nov 2004, p.140]
    • Alternative Press
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A rewarding art-pop risk. [Dec 2004, p.148]
    • Alternative Press
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Clogging their previously supple grooves with banal guitar bluster and noxious singing, VHS Or Beta don't set the Night On Fire; they just dampen your spirits. [Oct 2004, p.148]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Even if Oxeneers doesn't move you, it'll surely floor you. [Dec 2004, p.157]
    • Alternative Press
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Amount[s] to little more than a facsimile of their forefathers. [Nov 2004, p.149]
    • Alternative Press
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eight near-impeccable tracks. [Nov 2004, p.140]
    • Alternative Press
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    One shudders to think how wack the rejects are. [Nov 2004, p.156]
    • Alternative Press
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Man, this thing sucks. [Oct 2004, p.146]
    • Alternative Press
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's the urgency of [Dizzee's] brash Brit patois that dares you not to decipher it. [Jan 2005, p.114]
    • Alternative Press
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strikingly beautiful pop songs. [Nov 2004, p.142]
    • Alternative Press
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another strong outing. [Oct 2004, p.148]
    • Alternative Press
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Often feels like the soundtrack for a party that's running short on ideas. [Oct 2004, p.132]
    • Alternative Press
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Takes a step back to the crossroads of the accessible and the head-scratchable. [Oct 2004, p.148]
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