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 |
Score distribution:
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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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Offers few intriguing instrumental twists and only the faintest percussive pulse. [Aug 2004, p.106]- Alternative Press
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It's a unique psychedelic experience only the most headstrong will be able to handle. [Aug 2004, p.122]- Alternative Press
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Most of Boroughs feels like they're sampling themselves. [Aug 2004, p.120]- Alternative Press
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The Fall rock with scalding fury, as if it were 1981 again. [Aug 2004, p.116]- Alternative Press
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This Is For Real is the album Aerosmith might make if they were back on the sauce. [Jul 2004, p.146]- Alternative Press
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The band only falter on Fuss' slower, boring numbers, which consistently lack the zest and vibrancy of their uptempo counterparts. [Jul 2004, p.146]- Alternative Press
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Sonic Nurse is better than 90 percent of new rock, but with younger combos like Lightning Bolt and Liars stealing their thunder, these well-meaning vets come off as old and in the way. [Jul 2004, p.134]- Alternative Press
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The songs have the urgency and vitriol we've come to expect from the band, but there's one major problem: the spit shine production. [Jul 2004, p.128]- Alternative Press
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Without the usual suspects, The Slow Wonder just seems like a well-produced demo of songs he's readying for Electric Version's follow-up. [Aug 2004, p.116]- Alternative Press
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Often reaches back to the unfettered rawness and earthy seduction of earlier albums like Dry. [Aug 2004, p.116]- Alternative Press
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[Weikel and Summers] positively push forward, blissing out with an educated northern soul and a highbrow glide-guitar jones that finds them creating their own space in time. [Aug 2004, p.106]- Alternative Press
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If bastard of ceremonies Nic Offer would shut his piehole, Louden Up Now! would improve 50 percent. [Aug 2004, p.106]- Alternative Press
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Riff-roaring and exuberant, this album funnels the sprawling noise of the band's previous discs into one direct aural javelin aimed for your brain. [Jan 2005, p.112]- Alternative Press
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The duo have crafted a disc that grafts underground rawness (garage rock, no wave, electro, classic '80s goth) to their taut dance grooves. [Sep 2004, p.140]- Alternative Press
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The band's music is comparable to early Police material that everyone mistook for punk. [Jul 2004, p.146]- Alternative Press
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Acoustic without being folksy, poppy without being pandering, and quirky without being annoying. [Oct 2004, p.144]- Alternative Press
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The disc's bread and butter is Auf Der Maur's smoking riffs. [Jun 2004, p.106]- Alternative Press
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Imagine a pagan Danielson Famile on magic mushrooms, or a folk-rock cLOUDDEAD. [Aug 2004, p.122]- Alternative Press
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A heartbreakingly brilliant album that unravels itself slowly if you just stop and listen. [Jul 2004, p.132]- Alternative Press
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Their noisy attack has downright melodic elements, and the album exudes an energy that was mostly sporadic in their previous material. [Sep 2004, p.140]- Alternative Press
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Plays out like a tepid, second-rate version of Iowa, which pretty much makes it a third-rate anything else. [Jul 2004, p.142]- Alternative Press
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Delivers huge hooks, metronomic riffs and driving drumbeats, all of which enhance the Kadanes' amplified whispers. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Alternative Press
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There are a number of joyous moments of six-string clang and rhythmic dynamism... that are positively invigorating. [Aug 2004, p.104]- Alternative Press
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When Red Bedroom ditches the choppy guitar riffs... the results are as much of a buzzkill to Bedroom's jumpin' vibe as cops busting up a raging house party. [Aug 2004, p.116]- Alternative Press
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The music you'd imagine might play as you ascend to heaven--or the soundtrack to the WB's next teen drama. [Aug 2004, p.118]- Alternative Press