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.
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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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Even when he tries to make a connection between pickup lines and international tension, in “Made of Codes,” Peñate never forgets that even quasi-protest songs need a good beat.- Blender
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Every track emerges as ugly and joyless as the one before. [Oct 2004, p.127]- Blender
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Their third albums smells less of revivalist chic than tribute-band nostalgia. New wave knockoffs have rarely sounded so old.- Blender
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The MC turns largely to the Neptunes for music, and their lithe, bombastic space-porno sonatas provide a vitality and playfulness he’s still capable of matching. But a string of increasingly awkward and thoroughly ludicrous sex jams finds him slapping asses, and may leave his devotees smacking their foreheads.- Blender
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The only standout is "Down On The Corner," built around the ear-pricking chords and lithe grace that stamp Marr's best work. [#14, p.139]- Blender
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Producer Desmond Child trips up the Meatman by valuing metal flash over the altruism of want-you-need-you humanity.- 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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Kracker's Southernisms feel a little rote and undigested. [Aug 2004, p.142]- Blender
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The default setting is funk-pop bombast augmented by horribly dated electronica. [Nov 2004, p.128]- Blender
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The production feels lethargic and unmelodic... and Foxx's lyrics are all corny come-ons and cheesy sentimentalisms. [Mar 2006, p.113]- Blender
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It's hard to catch much buzz off fun that sounds so much like work. [Dec 2006, p.170]- Blender
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More Bon Jovi than Blur, bloated with stadium-friendly power ballads. [Jun/Jul 2002, p.106]- Blender
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It's refreshing to hear a band approach the form's familiar imagery from a place of romance, not cynicism. [Oct 2005, p.138]- Blender
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Even the best of these tracks lack the grimy menace of the most thrilling Neptunes beats. [Sep 2006, p.147]- Blender
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It's fun enough, until the interminable breakup theme that drags down the second half. [Dec 2004, p.136]- Blender
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A long-winded, soulless soul album of the kind Levert might have once turned in. [#4, p.117]- Blender
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He sticks defiantly to formula, hustling a string of synth-heavy, syncopated club jams. [#14, p.134]- Blender
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While his band's skeletal, rattling rhythms, swollen with synthesizer and studio ornamentation, feel more multidimensional than ever, Davis is most compelling when he retreats into the third person to describe an unnamed, uninspired singer with a "dumb-ass song" ('Ever Be').- Blender
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Rimes's gigantic soprano never flags, yet remains best in ballads. [#11, p.140]- Blender
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Barely breaks a sweat as it revisits the lukewarm metal riffs, barely passable rapping and sunny Caribbean choruses of [their] previous seven studio albums. [Oct 2005, p.145]- Blender