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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He's more vehement than ever before, and the music feels rag-and-bone honest. [Sep 2004, p.136]- Blender
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These rough, bitter, ruminative songs are slower, longer and wordier than those on Decoration Day. [Sep 2004, p.139]- Blender
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Sturdy (and bland) anthems built on overused U2 chords and several barnstorming R&B vamps notable for thowback horn riffs and Aretha Franklin-style backing vocals. [Sep 2004, p.138]- Blender
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Here, [Saliva] temper their mid-tempo crunch with '80s-metal guitar heroics and Southern-rock fundamentalism. [Sep 2004, p.141]- Blender
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WFTD occasionally give in to the urge to crank up the fuzz and play straight-up indie rock, but the narrower each song's scope is, the more it feels like it should go on forever. [Oct 2004, p.131]- Blender
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Snoop sounds great without saying anything he hasn't already said many times... Which is a testament to his abilities, but it's a bit disappointing, too. [Sep 2004, p.132]- Blender
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Only on the album-closing "Summer Never Ends"... do the gals sound like they're relaxed and doing their own thing--not trying to make Paula's Boutique. [Sep 2004, p.140]- Blender
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The momentous band [on the 1980-81 disc] stretches out and jams, both celebrating and escaping the band's trademark anxiety. [Sep 2004, p.158]- Blender
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[Their] constant shifts in perspective aren't distracting, they're divine. [Oct 2004, p.126]- Blender
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Where they once spun enveloping hood verite, here they just list gangsta signifiers without building a world from them. [Aug 2004, p.136]- Blender
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Many beats... sound cheap, and many rhymes... trade drama for tough-guy same-old. [Oct 2004, p.128]- Blender
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Listening to these tales of failing relationships feels like eavesdropping, but it's irresistible. [Sep 2004, p.136]- Blender
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Lanegan has finally produced his long-threatened masterpiece. [Oct 2004, p.125]- Blender
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These songs create a series of vivid but minimal soundscapes. [Sep 2004, p.140]- Blender
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Get past the sometimes cloying pastoral arrangements and the often cornball sentiments and there are moments of ragged glory. [Sep 2004, p.132]- Blender
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The Texas combo strings together images that never add up to cohesive narratives. [Aug 2004, p.137]- Blender
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Handled with less love, this could feel like a smug wander through an ironic record collection. Here, it becomes sexy, life-affirming pop. [Aug 2004, p.141]- Blender
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The doggedly retro approach ultimately muzzles the Noise COnspiracy's radical bite. [Nov 2005, p.136]- Blender
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It flows like a scrapbook rather than a novel, but it portrays them as diligent experimenters and meticulous melodists who have been liberated by embracing restrictions. [Sep 2004, p.155]- Blender
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The Hives aren't mere jokers, because they mix their novelty-band brio with the genuine anger and disgust of punk rock. [Aug 2004, p.126]- Blender
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There isn't a song on her debut that doesn't paint in huge strokes. [Sep 2004, p.143]- Blender
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Save all this stuff for when you're in front of the mirror, kids. [Aug 2004, p.131]- Blender
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Benefits from a fatter recording budget, with swooping symphonic arrangements and dazzling melodies. [Aug 2004, p.138]- Blender
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Even the most hardcore riddims here percolate with moments of silky soul, pop and gospel. [Aug 2004, p.128]- Blender