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For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Together Through Life
Lowest review score: 10 Folker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 957 out of 1854
  2. Mixed: 862 out of 1854
  3. Negative: 35 out of 1854
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
    Brand New took a huge step forward in 2003 with Deja Entendu, tossing away everything predictable about emo. But the leap on their third studio album is even bigger, and gutsier too: using rock’s earthly forces to amplify the heart’s greatest loves and fears, and in the process summoning the kind of grandeur that blows minds in bedrooms and raises fists in stadiums.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elephant
    They break their own rules, even adding expansive guitar solos, to keep themselves interested and fans off-balance. [May 2003, p.123]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kittenz And Thee Glitz
    An intentionally ludicrous Eurotrash concept album about the sweet life. [Apr/May 2002, p.113]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spend The Night
    They're like the best party band at the best party you can imagine. [#11, p.130]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Revolution Starts Now
    He's more vehement than ever before, and the music feels rag-and-bone honest. [Sep 2004, p.136]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alegranza
    El Guincho has only himself to get along with, but you'd never know it just listening to his album. [Dec 08/Jan 09, p.78]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paper Tigers
    Overflows with heart and hooks. [May 2005, p.116]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Youth Novels
    It's Li's confidence to stray that gives this album its depth. [Sep 2008, p.82]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    X.O. Experience
    The weirdest hip-hop album since OutKast's Stankonia. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.112]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
    While it can tend toward the tuneless, the upside is language that differs plenty from a Jay-Z or Eminem but stands beside them in terms of power--a flow that, once you get used to it, becomes its own form. [May 2006, p.110]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Shepherd's Dog
    The whiff of apocalypse is unmistakable. Yet the scent of wildflowers and lovers’ musk wins out.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trust
    They still emphasize meditative atmosphere and near-whispered melody. [#10, p.120]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    With 81 chronologically ordered tracks... With the Lights Out can be a slog. But for Nirvana fans, it's also a necessary rite. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.119]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Magic Numbers
    Resistance is useless. [Oct 2005, p.139]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pretty Little Head
    Though she seems to be done with rapping, her hip-hop loops and restless genre-mixing still save her from vintage-dress purgatory. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rooty
    Rooty boasts a raw, bustling edge and compulsive experimentalism closer in spirit to the hypersyncopated, R&B-flavored two-step garage currently ruling London clubland. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melody A.M.
    [They] channel post-adolescent despair into 10 groove-centric tracks that will gladden anyone who misses Play-era Moby. [#11, p.141]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loose
    It has at least seven killer tracks. [Jul 2006, p.101]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Rainbows
    In Rainbows is far more pensive and reflective than its predecessor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kiss Of Death
    Jadakiss' flow is impeccable throughout. [Sep 2004, p.137]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stone Love
    Classicism yields all the right stuff: alert sound with a lived-in feel, finely detailed tunes that shoot straight. [Aug 2004, p.140]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let Go
    Lavigne splices the angst of Alanis Morissette and the snarl of Courtney Love into a debut full of sunny guitar pop. [#8, p.115]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heart
    Campbell and Millan use boy-girl harmonies to make a mockery of romance. [Jan 2004, p.109]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
    [A] dense, inventive disc. [Oct 2005, p.134]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hypermagic Mountain
    The world's heaviest band turn out to have metal's lightest touch too. [Nov 2005, p.137]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Big Doe Rehab
    Fresh off his triumphant "Fishscale" series, the thinking-thug’s MC once again shows why he’s the alpha Wu-Tanger: palpable street authenticity, classic taste in R&B (Stax, Motown) and the breakneck rhyme virtuosity of hip-hop’s golden age.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rook
    [Meiburg] applies this Audubon-ish enthusiasm to his songs, too, crafting a rich, occasionally macabre, fantasy world populated by starlings, gulls and solitary falconers.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
    Not all connect, but a bonus disc, the soon-vanished 2002 full-length Nothing to Fear, compensates. Buy this before it vanishes, too.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot Shit
    There are long, gloriously messy instrumental passages, and Coomes pulls off a bunch of swaggering guitar solos. [Oct 2003, p.126]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kala
    The impact of M.I.A.'s music isn't in what she says, but how it arrives: in tracks so irritating they're irresistible. Anything but naive, M.I.A. brings a connoisseur's ear to her beats.
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