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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Elbow's lifeblood is equal parts rain and alcohol. [Mar 2006, p.111]- Blender
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What elevates the Monkeys into a class of their own is Turner. [Apr 2006, p.113]- Blender
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They've... picked up the tempo, sweetened the tunes and upgraded the rhythm section. [Mar 2006, p.109]- Blender
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Even the strongest songs... are hobbled by sickly vocals and Mick Jones's pallid, needle-thin production. [Mar 2006, p.109]- Blender
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What's missing so far... is the offbeat charisma that would make the Subways into something more than a high-school cover band that got lucky. [Apr 2006, p.118]- Blender
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The ballads, which are copious, are dull. [Mar 2006, p.115]- Blender
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They're old-fashioned ballads, all very tasteful, but few hooks poke through the froth. [Jun 2006, p.139]- Blender
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Without goth glamour or Fall Out Boy self-flagellation, Voices gets mired in a modern-rock middle. [Mar 2006, p.113]- Blender
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Sits squarely in the middle of B&S's comfort zone: never bad but rarely inspiring. [Mar 2006, p.109]- Blender
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Submit to these tongue-in-cheek disco-rock readymades and it's as if you're hearing irony and an ass-kicking backbeat for the very first time. [Mar 2006, p.112]- Blender
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Orton still oversteps the foul line that separates affectingly vulnerable from irritatingly feeble, but this is a step twards something more distinctive. [Mar 2006, p.114]- Blender
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There are two even matched KT Tunstalls on her debut album: One borrows from Chris Martin's bag of shopworn metaphors... The other one is more unsettling and more intriguing. [Apr 2006, p.118]- Blender
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Though lighter on star power than its predecessor, this compilation... still packs weird extraterrestrial punch. [Apr 2006, p.118]- Blender
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Not much happens, which seems to be the point. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.96]- Blender
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A low-rent version of the Streets without Mike Skinner's wit, they're just a couple of palookas mouthing off in the pub. [Nov 2005, p.131]- Blender
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These amply melodic songs offer a style manual of orchestral pop and twinkly genre touches. [Mar 2006, p.112]- Blender
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The record has the relationship to "genuine" roots music that its titular ratty heirloom implies--it's a perfect fake, dyed to match the sensibility of a skeptic who won't give up. [Mar 2006, p.108]- Blender
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New touches only further dilute P.O.D.'s already watered-down sound. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.96]- Blender
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A band that traffics in momentum can't afford to take their foot off the gas as often as Yellowcard does. [Mar 2006, p.112]- Blender
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No, it ain't rocket science. But when they're headlining arenas, it's gonna look fairly brilliant. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.98]- Blender
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Earth is the sound of a band coming to that inevitable realization: five patrician perfectionists who've resolved to sound sloppy, even (or especially) at the risk of fucking up. [Jan/Feb 2006, p.98]- Blender
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Her ardent love songs ultimately come off not as love songs but standard ache-and-pain Mary tracks--making this album not quite the breakthrough it might have been. [Mar 2006, p.109]- 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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Less scary but more melodic, Korn guns for hits, not street cred. [Mar 2006, p.113]- Blender