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 |
Score distribution:
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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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It's hard to shake the feeling that this is a collection of dope beats in search of some rhymes. [Aug 2004, p.134]- Blender
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A couple of great amped-up stormers... and a lot of nearly identical songs. [Jun/Jul 2004, p.145]- Blender
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Classicism yields all the right stuff: alert sound with a lived-in feel, finely detailed tunes that shoot straight. [Aug 2004, p.140]- Blender
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Kracker's Southernisms feel a little rote and undigested. [Aug 2004, p.142]- Blender
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Organ-laced acoustic ballads like "Block Island" are a tad too drowsy for the disc's tough topics. [Aug 2004, p.134]- Blender
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The bulk of One Monkey finds the boys trying too hard to distance themselves from their former weirdness. [Aug 2004, p.132]- Blender
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While Banks's wicked wordplay is impressive, his one-liners get him only so far. [Jun/Jul 2004, p.134]- Blender
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Feels like an episode of her growing-pains TV show Moesha. [Aug 2004, p.130]- Blender
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On initial listen, the album is rather monotonous, a bunch of moderately singable tunes with some noise piled up around the edges.... After the fifth or twentieth listen, however, A Ghost Is Born starts to insinuate meaning. [#27, p.132]- Blender
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While none of these spare summer jams of knotty beats match his Marvin Gaye-sampling 2001 hit "Music," almost any would freshen radio. [Aug 2004, p.139]- Blender
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He's labored, bombastic and pitch-challenged.... The lyrics are embarrassing. [Aug 2004, p.143]- Blender
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The songs themselves don't amount to much... but they're basically an excuse for Ejstes's gloriously lysergic arrangements anyway. [Sep 2005, p.133]- Blender
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The ballads are clunky and ponderous. The groove stuff, though... exists in that blissy stratosphere the Dead visited so often. [Aug 2004, p.138]- Blender
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The mood is unsettling, exhausted and energetic at the same time. [Oct 2004, p.120]- Blender
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They're not the first--or even the fifteenth--recent band to draw on that era [of the 1980s], but they're among the most assured. [#27, p.138]- Blender
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Their most songful release since the major-label hellos Goo and Dirty, and by most standards their best since 1988's pivotal Daydream Nation. [#27, p.144]- Blender
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This album stands on its own, with... an emphasis on beats rather than technical tricks. [#27, p.149]- Blender
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If she lacks [Fiona] Apple's emotional complexity, her lovely and original debut finds the romance in despair. [Jun/Jul 2004, p.149]- Blender
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Angrier than ever, Bad Religion aim punk's adolescent fury at grownup targets. [Jun/Jul 2004, p.134]- Blender
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A terrific joy bomb of power chords and power-pop keyboard riffs. [#27, p.142]- Blender
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For an album almost four years in the making, it's frustratingly half-finished, like a series of preliminary sketches. [#27, p.142]- Blender
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Eighties punk-funk meets '60s idealism and reefer-toking? Make way for the hipster hippies. [#27, p.134]- Blender
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Full of the sort of twitchy New Wave pop that really gets the hipsters' hips a-shaking. [Jun/Jul 2004, p.148]- Blender