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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As eclectic as these 13 songs are, they all sound of a piece: Experlty cut and finished with fine details. [Nov 2004, p.135]- Blender
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[Case] settles into a relaxed dive-bar groove. [Nov 2004, p.130]- Blender
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With help from someone who’s been through it all and had time to think about it twice, Carlton has made music for growing-ups that is neither cloying nor pretentious.... Yet a sneaking sense remains that she can reach deeper.- Blender
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Picture a protest of the World Trade Organization led by Bananarama. [Nov 2004, p.131]- Blender
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The samey, smothering beats make it inaccessible to anyone without a pacifier in their mouth. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.111]- Blender
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Around the midway point, just as APC seem handcuffed to despair, they remember that a good protest song should stir the spirit rather than sink it. [Dec 2004, p.140]- Blender
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Disparate dance genres mesh with impressive (and infectious) ease. [Oct 2004, p.113]- Blender
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The results range from stupid to sexy to irresistably stupid. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.103]- Blender
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Despite their surface similarities, Knapp's wide-eyed songs lack the unnerving distinction and eccentricity that are [Conor] Oberst's stock-in-trade. [Nov 2004, p.142]- Blender
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The kind of boiling, roiling blues the Bad Seeds haven't cooked up in years. [Nov 2004, p.131]- Blender
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The pulse underscoring the album keeps it hopping when the songs meander. [Nov 2004, p.142]- Blender
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The real hero is Sean Eden, whose lyrical lead guitar--a bit Harrison, a bit Morricone--makes even the silliest songs sound majestic. [Nov 2004, p.138]- Blender
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Here, their frustration with scheming girlfriends and negligent boyfriends boils over into a cathartic froth. [Nov 2004, p.132]- Blender
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The proceedings get a little bit samey, but the band's fearless optimism and knack for a bookish groove are hard to deny. [Dec 2004, p.140]- Blender
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If Borrell's originality ever equals his confidence, Razorlight might be as good as he thinks they are. [Nov 2004, p.141]- Blender
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Every song has hooks so polished you can see your reflection in them. [Dec 2004, p.142]- Blender
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Slower into its stride, with tune-free twittering and dull homages to FX-pedal rock making up the first half. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.123]- Blender
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Much of [Sheets] sounds like a pop-punk update on Springsteen. [Nov 2004, p.137]- Blender
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[Frontman Jim] Adkins loosens the reins with darker themes and longer songs... but the guitars and harmonies have never been brighter. [Nov 2004, p.139]- Blender
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They just sound cranky here, and their beats are mostly perfunctory. [Nov 2004, p.137]- Blender
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Beans's themes may be everyday, but thankfully his wit isn't. [Nov 2004, p.129]- Blender
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As hipsters, the Yorkshire quartet are still total non-starters, but [North] sees producer Brendan O'Brien honing their gonzo essence to more sizeable effect. [Nov 2004, p.138]- Blender
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His bleakness was never this naked or all-consuming. [Nov 2004, p.143]- Blender
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The default setting is funk-pop bombast augmented by horribly dated electronica. [Nov 2004, p.128]- Blender
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The best of Shadows lives in murky half-light where texture matters as much as melody. [Oct 2004, p.112]- Blender