Alternative Press' Scores
- Music
For 3,071 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | LANY | |
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| Lowest review score: | Results May Vary |
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Positive: 2,331 out of 3071
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Mixed: 695 out of 3071
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Negative: 45 out of 3071
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With Crimes, the Bloods have built the sturdiest bridge between the hardcore underground and indie-rock elitists. [Nov 2004, p.144]- Alternative Press
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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]- Alternative Press
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Sounds like the updated fourth side of Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On. [Nov 2004, p.142]- Alternative Press
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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]- Alternative Press
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Darker, glitchier and garage-punkier... a gamble that doesn't always strike gold. [Jan 2005, p.114]- Alternative Press
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Offers yet more fun funk/blues-rock mashups for unpretentious gatherings of all sorts. [Nov 2004, p.156]- Alternative Press
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Songs like "16.12" are so captivating, you'll barely notice they're over 10 minutes long. [Dec 2004, p.162]- Alternative Press
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A record of bittersweet delights that resonates with the brain and the heart. [Nov 2004, p.149]- Alternative Press
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If you're confused and bewildered by Power, you're probably not alone. [Dec 2004, p.146]- Alternative Press
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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]- Alternative Press
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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]- Alternative Press
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Like Merzbow jamming with a broken dishwasher through a short-wave radio. [Nov 2004, p.146]- Alternative Press
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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
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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]- Alternative Press
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Even if Oxeneers doesn't move you, it'll surely floor you. [Dec 2004, p.157]- Alternative Press
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Amount[s] to little more than a facsimile of their forefathers. [Nov 2004, p.149]- Alternative Press
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One shudders to think how wack the rejects are. [Nov 2004, p.156]- Alternative Press
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It's the urgency of [Dizzee's] brash Brit patois that dares you not to decipher it. [Jan 2005, p.114]- Alternative Press
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Often feels like the soundtrack for a party that's running short on ideas. [Oct 2004, p.132]- Alternative Press
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Takes a step back to the crossroads of the accessible and the head-scratchable. [Oct 2004, p.148]- Alternative Press