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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A new, liberating vulnerability marks the more reflective songs. [May 2006, p.110]- Blender
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Has too many antiseptic beats and not nearly enough Timbaland. [May 2006, p.109]- Blender
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The handclaps will make you happy, but it's DFA's prog moves and knowing, if self-deprecating, nods that make this music for the head as well as the hips. [Jun 2006, p.147]- Blender
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The sugar is matched by splashes of vinegar thanks to untuned guitars and off-pitch vocals that toy with self-sabotage. [Jun 2006, p.137]- Blender
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Tapes 'n Tapes take not just their frazzled vocals but also their low-fi mixes, fuzzed-out guitars, semi-sequitur lyrics, falsetto refrains and general air of nearly falling apart from campus kings Pavement. [Aug 2006, p.114]- Blender
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A set of tuneful, atmospheric doom-pop gems that appealingly swirls stiletto-heel beauty and black-leather brawn. [May 2006, p.108]- Blender
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They're after something different here--it's just not as good as what they've left behind. [Apr 2006, p.110]- Blender
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His sonorous, self-assured drawl adds an air of unflustered authority to his alpha brags, and he pours it into unexpected patterns. [Jun 2006, p.147]- Blender
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There aren't many things worse than a pretentious hippie. [Apr 2006, p.112]- Blender
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Lerche originals... aren't starry-eyed vintage exercises. They're just swell new tunes. [Apr 2006, p.114]- Blender
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Tones down the spazziness and turns up the googly-eyed lyrics about marital bliss. [Jun 2006, p.141]- Blender
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This album is a model of aging, raging indie idealism. [Apr 2006, p.118]- Blender
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Whether cranked up high or turned down low, this music has a scrappy majesty. [Jun 2006, p.136]- Blender
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There's a lot of passion and red corpuscles surging just outside the music's clean, primary-colored lines. [Apr 2006, p.112]- Blender
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The unhurried, full-retail rock arrangements are splashed with lite-R&B syncopations and snazzy-jazz harmonies. [Apr 2006, p.111]- Blender
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A slice of British street life with strut, and guitars. [Apr 2006, p.112]- Blender
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[Moss'] raw, husky delivery [is] able to turn even throwaway lines like "I swam to the bottom of the sea for you/I climbed to the top of the trees for you" into high drama. [Apr 2006, p.111]- Blender
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[A] near-flawless suite of deep, dark and powerfully sexy tracks. [Apr 2006, p.112]- Blender
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On this sublime set, Case's own sweeping, backwoods melodies and bloodstained Southern Gothic lyrics finally match the drama of her wails. [Apr 2006, p.111]- Blender
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[Has] a relaxed good humor and a genuine feel for the pulse of Western swing. [Apr 2006, p.114]- Blender
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Most of the time he makes the profound sadness seem like the best party in either Nashville or Dublin. [Apr 2006, p.116]- Blender
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Woodruff is never anything but coweringly passive, a trait about as appealing as it is annoying. [Apr 2006, p.112]- Blender
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Even at its weepiest, his music, thankfully, stays vivacious. [Apr 2006, p.116]- Blender