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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The arrangements are lean but wonderfully evocative... while Chapman's lyrics remain memorable and affecting. [Oct 2005, p.136]- Blender
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Odditorium buries its subtle hooks deep with endless, shape-shifting jams. [Oct 2005, p.136]- Blender
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This excellent collaboration plays to both halves' strengths. [Nov 2005, p.137]- Blender
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It's rather straight where [his 1970 debut] was eccentric and charming. [Oct 2005, p.139]- Blender
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On [Takk...], the band opens up emotionally, warming up their lengthy jams to a slow burn to create intoxicating, meditative rock. [Oct 2005, p.143]- Blender
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Gracefully balances dirty-South revelry with gorgeous graveyard reveries. [Oct 2005, p.141]- Blender
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Without playing "best since" games, just say it ranks near the top of the eight [albums] they've manufactured since 1980. [Oct 2005, p.142]- Blender
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At times, the writing feels almost too weightless. But repeat listening makes these songs reliably addictive. [Oct 2005, p.133]- Blender
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[OK Go's] sophomore album rocks most amiably when wordy frontman Damian Kulash loosens up. [Sep 2005, p.135]- Blender
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Is it uneven? Yes. Self-indulgent? Unbearably, at times. But that's what makes West one of hip-hop's most exciting, funny, and human stars. He's unafraid to make a big, fat mess. [Sep 2005, p.130]- Blender
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Sound[s] like bad Southern swamp songs covered by the world's most miserable bar band. [Sep 2005, p.131]- Blender
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Fink's pretty, dusky voice moves like time-lapse clouds over earthy beats that build to cymbal-crash storms. [Sep 2005, p.133]- Blender
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It's Twin Cinema's relative melancholy that makes it the band's best album yet. [Sep 2005, p.134]- Blender
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[Lopez's] wry lyrics and melodic flights lend the disc unexpectedly sharp, stirring edges. [Nov 2005, p.141]- Blender
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What keeps the songs interesting isn't his understated singing but his delectable arrangements. [Sep 2005, p.138]- Blender
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It shows the old ska formula to be an unimprovable invention. [Sep 2005, p.135]- 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
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Somehow, amid all of this assault, the band builds some excellent tunes. [Sep 2005, p.136]- Blender
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The real problem is sounding like Alice In Chains; afloat without a genre, the gang too often turn their emotional intelligence to making kinda dark, vaguely artistic middle metal. [Sep 2005, p.138]- Blender
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Takes Cursive back to their chickenscratch days. [Sep 2005, p.144]- Blender
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Fireflies' best songs are varied-tempo singalongs--this isn't hardcore but anthemic country. [Oct 2005, p.138]- Blender
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Happily, this structure is as mercifully loose as Penn's melodies are tight. [Aug 2005, p.113]- Blender
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Despite scattered flashes of uncharacteristic lightness, she rarely tempers the fury that drove the originals with the more accepting perspective that's guided her subsequent efforts. [Jul 2005, p.119]- Blender
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No new fans need apply here, but those who know and love his sound will find that this self-styled career summation, a nod back to late Husker Du with computerized updates, sprouts horns with repeat listens. [Aug 2005, p.112]- Blender