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For 468 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 23% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Black Mountain
Lowest review score: 30 Siberia
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 419 out of 468
  2. Mixed: 48 out of 468
  3. Negative: 1 out of 468
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Widow City
    This record's delightful and wholly original; no one else could possibly have made it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid
    If you like the Strokes, you should be spending this week’s CD allowance on Elefant’s first full-length recording.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fire
    Electric Six is the most exciting band to come tumbling out of Detroit since Kiss.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FutureSex / LoveSounds
    No modern-day male artist beats him when it comes to single-minded self assurance or suavity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Play It As It Lays
    The sharpest, most assured, and best record of her solo career.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everyone Is Here
    As an album, it probably won't spawn any MTV-hogging video classics--certainly, that was never the intention--but Finn fans in search of a mellow listen should find Everyone Is Here hits all the right buttons.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Red Light District
    Red Light District has its share of filler, but, track for track, Ludacris still delivers satisfaction.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ms. Kelly
    Ms. Kelly, though, has some points to prove, foremost among them that this songbird can rock.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3121
    Add 3121 to the mounting pile of evidence: Prince is the black Beck.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All That We Let In
    Their irritating habits remain as intractable as ever: must every romantic spat be framed against saving the whales (okay, the shrinking water supply) and the fight for clean air?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Going Way Out With Heavy Trash
    The results range wider musically than Heavy Trash have previously, without compromising the sonic squawl and psychobilly vocals that have long provided the duo's signature sound.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Walking With The Beggar Boys
    The quintet moves easily from straight ahead, if slightly-fractured rockers, to fine slices of cerebral sonics.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eleventh Hour
    Eleventh Hour, his largely self-produced fifth solo album--and first in eight years--lacks much of both the lyrical and instrumental verve of his best records.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stand Still, Look Pretty
    Solid songs all, delivered with a muscular vocal conviction that does considerably more than merely sell them.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back To Basics
    She's found herself artistically.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Corinne Bailey Rae
    Occasionally evokes the feeling of a '70s Bill Withers classic, while bringing inflections of Zero 7 and Alicia Keys to her grooves as well.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs For Silverman
    These are heartfelt songs: sometimes cheeky and occasionally heartbreaking.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    West
    West may well be her best album. It is easily her most musically adventurous, and often her most lyrically inspired.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lost Riots
    Hope of the States pull off the commendable trick of twisting avant-garde apocalyptica into bona fide pop songs. [Amazon UK]
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    29
    He continues to take chances and not all of them pay off.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow
    Coheed and Cambria's first three outings were smart, adventurous affairs that didn't eschew accessibility and No World for Tomorrow proves no exception.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New Maps of Hell
    New Maps is a terrific sounding record; at least two-thirds of it begs many repeated listens.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dylanesque
    Far be it for the imaginative contrarian to retrace Dylan's steps, and sure enough--despite an omnipresent harmonica--Ferry does just the opposite.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amazing Grace
    It may still sound beautiful, but too often Amazing Grace comes off as mere formula.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Libertad
    This album blows the doors off its predecessor. Save a pair of disinfected ballads ("The Last Fight," "Gravedancer"), Libertad is all about hand-grenade chords, drag-racing riffs, and circus-tent choruses.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amorino
    Amorino sounds like a lost soundtrack to some cool French film from the 1960s.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shotter's Nation
    Shotter's Nation, is surprisingly good and sonically upbeat (if not so much lyrically).
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Somewhere Down In Texas
    Somewhere Down in Texas could have benefited from the addition of an irresistible rhythm tune or another example of the western swing that Strait embraced so fervently early in his career.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    10,000 Days
    When Tool sounds as good as it does on ["Jambi" and "The Pot"] it's hard to get enough. Which makes it all the more baffling that a surprisingly large chunk of the disc is given over to mood-enhancing soundscapes like "Lost Keys" and "Vigniti Tres."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Shade Of Poison Trees
    Complete with its complicated lead and sprinkles of string instruments, it lies in contrast to the simplicity and blithe spirit of the record's remaining half-hour--but joins the other 11 songs directly in the wheelhouse of the Dashboard Confessional fervent.
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