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.
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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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Sparxxx is no producer's creation. His lexicon is deep, his diction clear and his words resolute. [Sep 2003, p.130]- Blender
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Her understated grooves... ooze natural-woman sex appeal. [Oct 2003, p.122]- Blender
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These songs are pleasant, stripped-down and also a little limp. [Oct 2003, p.124]- Blender
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There's rambling, digital fiddling and self-indulgent sprawl here, but a sense of purpose, too, even as her lips move on autopilot. [#20, p.114]- Blender
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Conley could use a few more breakups to check his sentimentality. [Oct 2003, p.126]- Blender
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Stone’s voice is remarkably authentic, and the atmosphere she conjures is smoky and sleazy, pure mid-’60s Detroit.- Blender
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The Darkness play old-fashioned metal with such elan that at times they ascend to pop music's Olympian heights. [Nov 2003, p.110]- Blender
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This is a classic 1970s-style headphones record that is both arty and unusually undisciplined. [Nov 2003, p.108]- Blender
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Like [Norah] Jones, Mayer never lets his personality talk over his elegant melodies, but unlike her, he has range. [Oct 2003, p.112]- Blender
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There are long, gloriously messy instrumental passages, and Coomes pulls off a bunch of swaggering guitar solos. [Oct 2003, p.126]- Blender
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Seal remains one of the best half-dozen male pop singers drawing breath. [Sep 2003, p.129]- Blender
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British Sea Power's vision makes most independent rock seem callow and weak-minded. [Sep 2003, p. 119]- Blender
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At 72 minutes, the gorgeous gloom of It Still Moves lasts a bit longer than it has to--but it offers a host of tarnished gems along the way. [Sep 2003, p.126]- Blender
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These tunes sound like they're built out of yard-sale detritus, salvaged and held together with masking tape, chewing gum, anger and sentimentality. [Nov 2003, p.112]- Blender
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Staggers under the unbearable preciousness of donkey-voiced singer Colin Meloy. [Sep 2003, p.122]- Blender
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The Wolf sets up Andrew W.K.'s post-partying career as motivational speaker for the bloody-nose set. [Sep 2003, p.132]- Blender
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Amid the fidgety guitars and twitchy rhythms are enough hair-raising hooks to reach far beyond the counters of independent record stores. [Sep 2003, p.128]- Blender
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An utterly original if slightly queasiness-inducing album. [Nov 2003, p.109]- Blender
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The dark spaciousness that boosted BRMC's uneven 2001 debut is replaced with garage-rock fist pumpers, which are all catchy but cramped. [Sep 2003, p.119]- Blender
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Chain Gang of Love promises racy thrills--and delivers them. [Sep 2003, p.128]- Blender
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Campbell and Millan use boy-girl harmonies to make a mockery of romance. [Jan 2004, p.109]- Blender
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Practically every song sounds as though we've heard it before--because, well, we have. [Sep 2003, p.122]- Blender
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It's not so much what Zevon says as how he says it: with an air of ragged, nothing-to-lose spontaneity. [Sep 2003, p.133]- Blender
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All of this might be more satisfying if the group's lyrics were strong enough to turn caricatures into characters. [Sep 2003, p.116]- Blender