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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Too often... Branch expresses loneliness or betrayal or yearning without the precision or detail that would make her sentiments memorable. [#17, p.132]- Blender
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Beneath the highlights, she's still a messy troublemaker whose brain is as spicy as the rest of her body. [#17, p.146]- Blender
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A strangely dispassionate exercise in record-collection rock. [#17, p.133]- Blender
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He's a full-fledged alternative auteur, skipping effortlessly from hypnotic electronics to refracted torch songs to balls-out alt-rock. [Aug 2003, p.134]- Blender
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The perfect introduction to Tindersticks' queasy, cinematic elegance. [Aug 2003, p.133]- Blender
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Only a few of Barzelay's tunes... are the equal of their sonic textures. [Aug 2003, p.121]- Blender
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Though their restraint can be alienating, Steely Dan sound hungry, relevant and full of ideas. [#17, p.147]- Blender
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A nearly flawless collection of hummable overtures. [#17, p.138]- Blender
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Bare might impress someone who thinks there should be more Cutting Crew records. Others should beware. [#17, p.136]- Blender
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The album seems resigned, defeated, passive -- like an hour-long sigh. [#17, p.130]- Blender
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Overall, this is the grimiest and grimmest of the band's Bob Rock productions. [#17, p.145]- Blender
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This free-wheeling debut has the potential to run and run, carried aloft on the shoulders of the overly emotional. [#18, p.131]- Blender
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McGrath sounds both sexier and more gentle, sensitive and more irresponsible. [#17, p.143]- Blender
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Not everything is as heart-stopping as the velvety, elegiac "Bitter Apple," but there's enough quality to suggest that Depeche Mode could use a few Dave Gahan songs. [#17, p.135]- Blender
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The first third of 0304 tries too hard to impress.... But soon she calms down and knocks out undeniable hooks. [#17, p.142]- Blender
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Ego War doesn't disappoint, offering an instant hit of raucous energy via choppy rave-house dynamics, high-density Daft Punk-style production and a refreshingly anti-epic approach to songwriting. [#16, p.114]- Blender
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Combines guitar-driven, slightly Weezer-esque songs with the odd moment of touching musical beauty. [#17, p.133]- Blender
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Refreshingly... [Northern State] would rather rhyme about feminism and softball than about hip-hop's tired polarities. [#17, p.139]- Blender
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14 Shades is nominally heavier than the group's two previous albums, though the band tempers its harsher instincts to let Lewis ruminate unmolested. [Aug 2003, p.132]- Blender
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Two things save Electric Six from becoming the alt-rock Weird Al: Their jokes hit home and their music is convincingly ferocious. [#17, p.134]- Blender
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Some of the brightest three-part harmony singing since Crosby, Stills & Nash first gathered around a mic 30-plus years ago. [#17, p.144]- Blender