Blender's Scores
- Music
For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
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39% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | Together Through Life | |
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| Lowest review score: | Folker |
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Positive: 957 out of 1854
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Mixed: 862 out of 1854
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Negative: 35 out of 1854
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There are no future standards, but no sugary returns to childhood, either. [May 2004, p.124]- Blender
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The only emotion here is the hothouse loneliness of an overintellectualized mind. [Nov 2006, p.154]- Blender
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Feels like an episode of her growing-pains TV show Moesha. [Aug 2004, p.130]- Blender
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Impressive at times... The problem isn't style--it's substance. Mraz's songwriting chops leave plenty to be desired. [Aug 2005, p.114]- Blender
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Even at its weepiest, his music, thankfully, stays vivacious. [Apr 2006, p.116]- Blender
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That's both the best and the worst thing about this album: The music is much more eloquent than the lyrics. [May 2003, p.112]- Blender
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A thrilling, frustrating souvenir of a band whirling out of control. [Sep 2004, p.130]- Blender
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A rather polite album... but it's also comprehensively gorgeous. [#27, p.138]- Blender
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In striving for Zen-like purity, the songs often end up eerily blank. [Jul 2005, p.122]- Blender
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The surprise is that the realist rage of material they had barely thought about in years feels so right in the age of Dubya. [#23, p.106]- Blender
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What makes this album slightly dry is its gorgeous conservatism. [Apr 2005, p.118]- Blender
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Those in search of a gloriously moronic keg-party soundtrack will wet themselves with pleasure. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]- Blender
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As hipsters, the Yorkshire quartet are still total non-starters, but [North] sees producer Brendan O'Brien honing their gonzo essence to more sizeable effect. [Nov 2004, p.138]- Blender
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The mellow rethink helps Cook get over his sweaty ’90s heyday, and his buddies sound equally liberated.- Blender
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Reborn, the track leads off the sardonic sextet’s fifth album of apocalyptic buffoonery shot through with metal, new wave and disco, all of it hilarious, none of it a joke.- Blender
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Bounce may sound flat in a few years, but by then its job--to see another million people, and rock them all--will be done. [#11, p.128]- Blender
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There are some surprising misfires here... but also some unexpected treats. [Dec 2003, p.147]- Blender
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Less scary but more melodic, Korn guns for hits, not street cred. [Mar 2006, p.113]- Blender
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The pulse underscoring the album keeps it hopping when the songs meander. [Nov 2004, p.142]- Blender
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Their grooves can sometimes roll on as if unattended -- which is fine for living-room techno, but not for the pop songs they're trying to emulate. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.114]- Blender
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The beat-programming is crystalline, the feeling is frozen, the soul is northern if it's there at all. [Sep 2005, p.136]- Blender
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Successful imitation requires a kind of talent, too. [#9, p.156]- Blender
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Unexpectedly clean-cut... the time-signature shifts and feedback swirls that earned them minor adulation are sidelined in favor of pushy, arena-sized choruses. [Mar 2005, p.136]- Blender
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These songs are pleasant, stripped-down and also a little limp. [Oct 2003, p.124]- Blender
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They've all but abandoned 4/4 grooves, discarded bass as an inefficient distraction and fractured their beats into splintery beatlets that detonate in flurries. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.105]- Blender