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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hello Love
    While the trio hasn't managed to outshine their spectacular debut, Hello Love is a CD filled with cross-generational charm and musical riches.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ole! Tarantula
    Hitchcock has made a return to garage rock not heard since 1989's Queen Elvis.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under The Skin
    Strange, alluring, and disarming.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live A Little
    Pernice's unblemished voice is the key instrument.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Okonokos [Live]
    Rather than getting bogged down in concert-album fashion, Okonokos plays spanking new, almost re-studio recorded.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like Red On A Rose
    If there's a downside to this brilliant, if unlikely pairing, it's that Krauss's somber program could benefit from something a tad more libidinous or uptempo.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nashville
    This is the kind of album that clicks right off but continues to grow on you.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From This Moment On
    When standards are done like this, there's just nothing like 'em.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Return To Cookie Mountain
    Almost wholly brilliant.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FutureSex / LoveSounds
    No modern-day male artist beats him when it comes to single-minded self assurance or suavity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meadow
    [It] has more powerful and propulsive arrangements than is often the case with the artist.
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Half The Perfect World
    Fans of Norah Jones should gobble up this album, but Peyroux is no mere imitator: She's her own, very real thing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back To Basics
    She's found herself artistically.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yell Fire!
    It's easily Franti's best album yet.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Savane
    His unsentimental, voluptuously masculine, spirit-guided magic is captured at its best, for all time, in this magnificent farewell.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Silver Lining
    Sport[s] a trace more big league sparkle, but with the frayed cleverness and rock-solid musicianship that their fans know best.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American V: A Hundred Highways
    The songs have a measured, elegiac intensity, the sound of musicians choosing their notes carefully and making just the right choices.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
    All of it works, and works wondrously.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nineteeneighties
    The less successful interpretations simply fail to differentiate themselves from the spirit of the originals.
    • 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.
    • 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."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Getting Somewhere
    For all of the music's surface catchiness, the writing is some of Moorer's deepest to date.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Big Bang
    Busta has never sounded so mature.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Begin To Hope
    It's a consistently intelligent and daring record, yet remains enormously listenable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The River In Reverse
    What could have been a curiosity is instead a hallmark in the catalog of each artist.
    • 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!).
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's Alive!
    The result is an energetic paean to the Cars' power-pop heritage, capturing the band's classic feel-good vibe with all cynical subtexts intact.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Who Loves The Sun OST
    Hollywood producers and directors could learn a lot from this deceptively modest score.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Taking The Long Way
    On first listen, Taking the Long Way seems too somber--in need of a bit of levity and more than a couple of uptempo songs (like the sexy, '60s-flavored "I Like It") to resonate for the long haul. It also seems to lack the writing quality that Darrell Scott, Patty Griffin, and Bruce Robison brought to Home. But on repeated plays, those concerns dissipate.
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