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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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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phantom Power
    Sure, it's a jumble, but, like the Beatles' White Album, it hangs together.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's All In Your Head
    It's All In Your Head reveals the band that is very much on top of things.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Red Dirt Road
    Everything about this album moves the duo up a level.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Heroes & Villains
    Some of the dreamiest pop to emerge on the U.S. side of the pond in recent years.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Elephunk
    While such willingness to experiment is admirable, in this case the attempt comes off as slightly desperate and too diffuse.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twice
    Twice is a sweet, mercurial foray into lip-quivering American indie-rock infused with the blissful aroma of Creation-style ambience and the woody scent of paisley-clad cosmic country.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Decoration Day
    The album boasts a handful of crowd-pleasing, party-starting cuts.... Yet more common are moments of startling beauty... and heavy doses of recrimination and regret.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bare
    A stylish tour de force.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hail To The Thief
    Like all of the band’s best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    O
    Lush, impossibly mature.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Run To Ruin
    The more Nastasia withdraws into her own world, the more attractive her music becomes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soul Journey
    Finds Welch showing more warmth, ease, and openness as both singer and songwriter.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In the Pursuit of Leisure
    These bawdy Peter Pans of rock are more appealing when they summon their innate raunchy power, instead of coming off like a 2003 version of the Beach Boys with the sand washed off.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paper Monsters
    Lyrically autobiographical, songs deal with Gahan's trouble with relationships and intoxicants and, though they lack Gore's sense of drama and perversity, they do have a maudlin charm.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shootenanny!
    By mixing sweet with sour, E's warm and fuzzy mope rock sounds great whether it's blasting out of a convertible on a sunny day or playing in the background on a rainy night.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trouble No More
    Mellencamp's rawest album to date.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    How The West Was Won
    Zep faithful will welcome the belated release as evidence for enduring loyalty, but younger fans may find its diversity and dynamics even more enlightening.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Precollection
    An impressive, mature effort that expands a predictable Brit-pop sound into something with varied textures, shades and nuance.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine & Ours
    An adventurous meeting place between the Smiths' guitar-driven anthems, the Zombies' vocally intricate garage-pop, and melt-in-your-mouth '70s Quaalude rock.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fire
    Electric Six is the most exciting band to come tumbling out of Detroit since Kiss.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Anthem
    As with the band's other releases, the music inspires clear feelings of love and hate.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out Of The Vein
    To his credit, Jenkins is much more interesting a songwriter when he's wounded, offering candor that's not evident on TEB's first two discs.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Good Mourning
    Another set of sad but very fun songs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slideling
    Slideling is McCulloch's best solo offering by a distance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Old Kit Bag
    Fortunately, this spare approach serves Thompson well because he's such a strong and varied songwriter plus a remarkably distinctive guitarist.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    While Albarn still has an ear for a melody, without Coxon's guitars to subvert them, most of these songs sound like the work of a new band.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Counterfeit 2
    The problem lies in Gore's lack of emotional and musical range.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine
    The limitations of Lanois’s vocals lend an engaging frailty, leavened with bleak, lonely, instrumental interludes.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Staying Out
    Another accomplished collection that adds richer arrangements and instrumentation to Cary's mix of rock, folk, and country tunes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Complex
    Fans of their live performances will appreciate its wall-to-wall rhythmic thrust and quirky textures, while aficionados and newcomers alike should welcome its surprising, seductive melodies and mature songwriting.
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