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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plague Park
    The nine tracks run a tad samey-same, but that's at least part of their charm. They and assert Boeckner anew as a prescient, skeptical voice, coarsely toned and draped in machine-sounding music even as he inveighs against the post-modern world--technology and urban living and traffic and so on.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Power To Believe
    Disciplined, varied, and often mind-blowing playing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another Day On Earth
    Another Day on Earth is a more personal album from the ambient avatar, a recording of rare and meticulous maturity.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Try This
    As unlikely as the collaboration [with Tim Armstrong] looked on paper, it works perfectly because the Pennsylvania native has always brandished a punk sneer beneath the corsets, gaudy hair color, and naughty girl demeanor.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    Get past the more pedestrian fare like "Yes/No" and "Return of the Berserker," and the full scope of the Futureheads' ambition reveals itself, particularly in the poppiest track, "Skip To The End."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Between Here And Gone
    Carpenter reestablishes herself not only as a world-class poet, but as an artist of the first order.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Talk To La Bomb
    Brazilian Girls maintain the same kinetic thrust and hook-laden melodies as before, but they've turned up the rhythmic aggression and electronic squelch to 11.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Or Give Me Death
    Imagine the Long Winters if they were far more in love with the synth and guitar textures of the '80s than the precious pop sounds of the '70s and you'd have this, a hard to pigeonhole album which greatly rewards multiple listens.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Precious Memories
    A moving, eloquent gift to Jackson's entire audience.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Loose Screw
    Seldom do you get to see an artist exorcise her pain in public with such poise and fearlessness.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Duel
    As with all great country music, exquisite execution, splendid sound, and depth of feeling combine to create a cathartic, redemptive result.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultimate Victory
    His limber voice and way with a lyric serve him well.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shock'n Y'All
    It’s hard to remember that he once wrote well-crafted ballads of romantic infatuation.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another Country
    Elements of rock, folk, and blues pervade, and producer George Drakoulias (Black Crowes, the Jayhawks) stays out of the way, allowing Merritt’s voice to embody the songs, all 11 of which flow from start to finish, uninterrupted and primed for full-on stardom.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Voxtrot
    There's an undeniable, infectious energy at work here which is put to great use with the self-deprecating humor and immense pop chops.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
    Another Public Enemy album is always good news for hip-hop fans, and How You Sell... carries the torch.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Step Forward
    For the most part though, One Step Forward is more self assured and richly textured, nicely refining a winning formula that will no doubt enchant the many fans of its predecessor.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leona Naess
    Less immediately ear-grabbing than the previous disc, this self-titled record nonetheless sinks in deeply after a mere handful of plays.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anthem
    As with the band's other releases, the music inspires clear feelings of love and hate.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Quebec
    There's something here for everyone, to be sure--but closer to Ween's antic hearts, something to annoy everyone as well.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Love To Admire
    The black-clad New York quartet still sounds inflexibly menacing, grasping tighter than ever to its doomy post-punk influences and delving further into frontman Paul Banks's emotional unrest.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Memory Man
    He's an expert at creating mesmerizing, sophisticated pop.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    How We Operate
    It's as if they peeled away a layer or two in order to reveal more of the pop band beneath the off-kilter country-rock trappings.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Keep On Your Mean Side
    In a sea of pretenders, the Kills are capable of providing some genuine competition for the White Stripes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Master Of Disaster
    His richest and most consistently satisfying release since the late '80s.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Free To Stay
    Free to Stay is loaded with complex harmonies and awesome distorted keyboard sounds (hey, this is what Quasi were supposed to sound like!).
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Light At The End Of The World
    Most of Light at the End of the World works within the familiar confines of the vintage Erasure formula, drunk on everyman synthesizers, listing through painfully vague and obvious rhymes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Not Dead
    Where this translates, then, is with those willing to man up and embrace what makes Pink Pink: her spellbinding ability to render rebelliousness in all the many colors of the rainbow.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Out-Of-State Plates
    [The] consistent quality belies any notion of the extraneous.
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