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For 1,854 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Together Through Life
Lowest review score: 10 Folker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 957 out of 1854
  2. Mixed: 862 out of 1854
  3. Negative: 35 out of 1854
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangers
    The music is cheery even when the feelings are miserable; it's like rainy-day Smiths driven by pianos instead of guitars. [Mar 2005, p.140]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    These bluesy spirituals are so raw they bleed. [Mar 2005, p.136]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Before The Poison
    Faithfull could use more stories to work with: she's a better singer of narratives than exotic phrases. [Mar 2005, p.140]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    World's Apart
    Unexpectedly clean-cut... the time-signature shifts and feedback swirls that earned them minor adulation are sidelined in favor of pushy, arena-sized choruses. [Mar 2005, p.136]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
    Mostly, these electro trances... sound like an ill-advised quest to make a Williamsburg version of Dark Side Of The Moon. [Mar 2005, p.132]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    Despite all the lonely missives and political outrage, Oberst comes off more like a troubadour of hope. [Mar 2005, p.132]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Push The Button
    The missing links between club night, rock show and 2001-style cosmic experience, these boys are still worth digging. [Mar 2005, p.138]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Knuckle Down
    DiFranco seems less the compulsive confessor here, more the storyteller. [Mar 2005, p.139]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nightbird
    One can't help but miss Erasure's old-school glee. [Apr 2005, p.116]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    The boldest album of their career. [Mar 2005, p.141]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Right Here Is Buck 65
    Buck ingeniously borrows from dub, metal and country to capture his characters' woozy worlds. [Mar 2005, p.137]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be As You Are (Songs From An Old Blue Chair)
    The tone of these literate tunes remains as light as Chesney's singing of them stays soulful. [Mar 2005, p.136]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All Rise
    Her woodwind-like voice and lucid sensiblity are hardly weird, but Andrews pushes her toward a dreamy and daring edge. [Apr 2005, p.117]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Documentary
    The Documentary is like a hip-hop Jurassic Park: a big-budget homage to a place most of us thought was ancient history. [Apr 2005, p.118]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Seven Autumn Flowers
    Austere in its beauty and a little wearying. [Mar 2005, p.143]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weapons Of Mass Destruction
    Xzibit reinvents himself as a rapper invigorated by current events. [Nov 2004, p.146]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Concrete Rose
    Monotonous in its R&B pleasantry. [Mar 2005, p.137]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Red Light District
    A letdown after Chicken-N-Beer. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.111]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    One
    Exhaustingly awful. [Dec 2004, p.140]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Street's Disciple
    The beats throughout are deliriously varied. [Dec 2004, p.138]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lonely Runs Both Ways
    The utterly flavorless repertoire she sings here... steers her toward Lite FM. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.106]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
    It nearly always feels fresh, the way a new flame does. [Dec 2004, p.132]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love, Angel, Music, Baby
    An only sometime thing. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With The Lights Out
    With 81 chronologically ordered tracks... With the Lights Out can be a slog. But for Nirvana fans, it's also a necessary rite. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.119]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Powerballin'
    The lack of pretense on his second album makes him an approachable Everypimp, and he gets nothing but love from [his] guests. [Dec 2004, p.138]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Destiny Fulfilled
    It's fun enough, until the interminable breakup theme that drags down the second half. [Dec 2004, p.136]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MM..Food
    The result is unkempt and challenging, but it works. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.109]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Want Two
    The mood is so uniformly droopy it seems to be affecting Wainwright's drowsier-than-ever vocals. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.113]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
    His flirtations are mostly asinine, autopilot-Lothario stuff... but his voice is, as always, a hypnotic melt of menace and charisma. [Dec 2004, p.145]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Encore
    With Encore, Eminem rediscovers his sense of play and lets it run naked and screaming across the stage. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.100]
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