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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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    • 100 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    London Calling [25th Anniversary Legacy Edition]
    The demo versions... sound like an incompetent Clash cover band rehearsing in a sock.... If you're considering buying this glorious record for the first time, save 20 bucks and go for the basic version. [Oct 2004, p.136]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Niño Rojo
    It's Banhart's gift for melody that ultimately carries the day. [Nov 2004, p.128]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outta Sight / Outta Mind
    They are still greasy rock & rollers who know how to keep a party going. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let's Bottle Bohemia
    A strained, washed-out, sluggish record. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It'll Be Cool
    Severe... it's hard rock rigorously stripped of frivolity and glamour. [Oct 2004, p.128]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweat
    Sweat... is more fun, but that's the point. [Oct 2004, p.126]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In The World Of Him
    You sense Timms has seen it all. [Oct 2004, p.130]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
    Every track emerges as ugly and joyless as the one before. [Oct 2004, p.127]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Suit
    By turns sensual and despondent. [Oct 2004, p.126]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Handler
    He's got some solid grooves... but a lot of them are borrowed. [Sep 2004, p.136]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Showtime
    Some of Dizzee's insecurity is replaced by newfound swagger. But swagger works, too. [Oct 2004, p.112]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Funeral
    Reveals added nuance with every listen. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wet From Birth
    Perspiration trumps inspiration, as madly sawing strings and short-circuiting robot bleeps compensate for the lack of hooks. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Everything
    Sounds like it's been held in a vault since her heyday. [Oct 2004, p.112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What I Do
    Could be the best album he's ever made. [Dec 2004, p.146]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stealing Of A Nation
    Roman's politically spiked lyrics sound shrugged-off and flimsy. [Sep 2004, p.141]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    HoboSapiens
    He is clearly invigorated by the tensions between pretty and ugly, simplicity and chaos. [Nov 2004, p.130]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Folker
    A poorly-recorded collection of lazily-written songs recorded by an artist whose muse deserted him long ago. [Oct 2004, p.131]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rubber Factory
    Auerbach's fat, rocketing riffs are rivaled only by his Delta-dipped drawl. [Oct 2004, p.114]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Living Things
    Lush and idyllic. [Nov 2004, p.142]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Getting Away With Murder
    His band remains unsubtly one-dimensional... but Shaddix funnels a newfound sensitivity into gashing, coarsely melodic emo-metal that aches as much as it breaks. [Oct 2004, p.126]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The DEFinition
    Mostly, he's outmuscled by the production. [Oct 2004, p.122]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Libertines
    A thrilling, frustrating souvenir of a band whirling out of control. [Sep 2004, p.130]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Medulla
    It's conceptually daring, but beyond a few ecstatic moments... the sound is familiarly Bjorkish. [Oct 2004, p.113]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Straight Outta Ca$hville
    Laces the Unit's thugs-to-riches formula with chunks of the Dirty South. [Aug 2004, p.143]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Alive & Amplified
    This is rock theater of the most uninspired kind. [Aug 2004, p.136]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Happy People / U Saved Me
    These records are too dramatic, too personal and, well, too much. [Oct 2004, p.110]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Welcome Back
    The album is livelier for its contradictions. [Oct 2004, p.124]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Winchester Cathedral
    All very beguilling as long as you really, really like the sound of a melodica. [Sep 2004, p.134]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Business Casual
    For Beep Beep, New Wave means not zippy synth-pop but the brute force of '70s punk turned into screwed-up yet finely calibrated outbursts. [Sep 2004, p.134]
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