Blender's Scores
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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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This is one helluva piece of singer-songwriter art. [Nov 2005, p.129]- Blender
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The album's plush and detailed enough to invite extensive exploration, and varied enough to not get exhausting. [Oct 2005, p.135]- Blender
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It'll do just fine for now. But here's hoping for a torturously difficult third album. [Oct 2005, p.140]- Blender
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The band's warm way with weirdness remains; it's just flashier now. [Oct 2005, p.140]- Blender
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For [O'Connor] to record a full reggae set, covering each song exactly like the original, rivals Gus Van Sant's odd shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's Psycho. [Oct 2005, p.141]- Blender
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The arrangements pound and lurch through acrid garage-punk riffs with crazy sureness. [Dec 2005, p.145]- Blender
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The struggles to get over energize [Slug] far more than the perks of minor celebrity. [Nov 2005, p.131]- Blender
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A spirited, gutsy evolution from the formalist new wave of Metric's first album. [Nov 2005, p.138]- Blender
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Beneath their steel-wool guitar tone, the songs swing like a slammed door. [Nov 2005, p.137]- Blender
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Putnam lays fragile vocals and haunting piano melodies over tightly wound postpunk rhythms that add immediacy to lyrics about missed opportunities and broken relationships. [Dec 2005, p.151]- Blender
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It's the sound of a New Yorker coming home for a breath of country air. [Nov 2005, p.130]- Blender
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It sounds as bitter and cynical as most of Chilton's solo stuff since Big Star originally imploded. [Oct 2005, p.134]- Blender
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Full of clever wordplay one moment, kind of pretentious the next. [Oct 2005, p.134]- Blender
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Wildflower is assiduously intimate: lushly orchestrated, strictly mid-tempo and abundant with musings about balancing freedom and love. [Oct 2005, p.136]- Blender
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A vehement kiss-off to California's Central Valley. [Nov 2005, p.136]- Blender
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The songs are weirder and darker than their gentle melodies indicate. [Nov 2005, p.141]- Blender
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It's fed-up and proud at the same time, a kind of Desperate Housewives meets Trailer Fabulous. [Oct 2005, p.144]- 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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Easily Kim's strongest work since her pheromone-thick 1996 debut. [Nov 2005, p.136]- Blender
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The nu-metal and new wave sendups are too conventional to work as either comedy or music--and the nonstop woman-bashing becomes repugnant fast. [Nov 2005, p.131]- Blender
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Certified would be pretty great if it weren't for one huge mistake: his suite of god-awful sex jams. [Nov 2005, p.131]- Blender
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[A] dense, inventive disc. [Oct 2005, p.134]- Blender
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[The songs'] unrelenting wallop, growling guitars and mock-operatic choruses tend to blur together even as they're kicking your ass. [Oct 2005, p.137]- Blender
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