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For 2,213 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963
Lowest review score: 20 What About Now
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,863 out of 2213
  2. Mixed: 339 out of 2213
  3. Negative: 11 out of 2213
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chapter and Verse
    Springsteen has previously alluded to this [early] period of his career, albeit in the roundabout manner of fashioning songs (most notably on The River) inspired by the music he heard blaring out of jukeboxes in his youth. Similarly, formerly he has addressed feelings of emptiness and disillusionment on self-reflective songs such as Two Faces or 57 Channels (And Nothin’ On), although sat in front of a computer screen he has less recourse to clumsy metaphor.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Little Eden
    For all its retrospection and melancholy there's a determination on Saloman's part to relight past fires, face down the miseries of This Britain. [Oct 2021, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 15, 2021
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Capricorn
    The best showcase yet for a candid performer for whom the warts are the best bit. [Sep 2023, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 29, 2023
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clear Pond Road
    It's an album that rewards repeated immersion within its layers of acoustic guitar, questing strings and Mellotron. [Oct 2023, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 15, 2023
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Medicine
    It’s the Medicine we need, and it works best when they up the dosage. [Nov 2023, p.77]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Former Site Of
    A record of sophisticated electronic alt. rock, where the organic and artificial merge wonderfully. [May 2026, p.73]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 3, 2026
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eternally Even
    This time around, the woozy, comforting psychedelia of old remains, the songs trickling into one another, sleepy synths sighing, purring and pulsating. But Eternally Even comes with the biggest serving of soul he’s cooked up yet, sexy basslines sizzling even as he looks death in the face for We Ain’t Getting Any Younger Parts 1 and 2.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Where the Action Is
    A little unwieldy in places, but still pleasingly timeless. [Jul 2019, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 30, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things Are Great
    The result is a minor wonder of wit, weight and emotion - the Horses back to full gallop. [Feb 2022, p.82]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meliora
    Meliora is easily the sextet’s finest outing to date, a meticulously executed, artful collection of black-souled retro doom-pop, as heavy as Metallica, as melodically sophisticated as ABBA.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Terms of My Surrender
    It's lush, grown-up, thoughtful, funny and very good. [Sep 2014, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hackney Diamonds
    It’s a 21st-century record for a 21st-century audience that, with an old-school 48-minute duration, only ever leaves the listener hungry for more.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somebody's Knocking
    It's Lanegan's Americana growl that keeps the whole thing sounding ironically timeless. [Nov 2019, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 15, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Singles
    As evidenced here, experimental doesn’t mean inaccessible. This is music from the past that, while only looking forward, is still daring the present to catch up.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Atonement
    Nobody will pretend Atonement is a classic. But it is firmly fired up. [Sep 2019, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 20, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    50 Years of De-Evolution 1973-2023
    All nine studio albums are covered, although the sequencing defies logic. [Dec 2023, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 7, 2023
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jump for Joy
    Finally, there's a modicum of funky glide in his introspective alt.country slide. [Sep 2023, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 22, 2023
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Change Becomes Us
    This is the best Wire album of this century. [May 2013, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 21, 2013
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome 2 Club XIII
    For much of it they elect to look backwards, to formative times in their music story. [Jul 2022, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 2, 2022
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    S&M2 [Live]
    S&M2 is a success on the grandest of scales. [Sep 2020, p.84]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    World's Most Stressed Out Gardener
    It's ace, but he's not a man you'd trust with secateurs. [Jun 2021, p.83]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 30, 2021
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coda [Remastered]
    Coda itself a contractual hotchpotch of career-spanning outtakes, is the only reissue given the three-disc treatment, with a total of 15 extras as disparate as the album itself.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TANGK
    Despite its subject matter, the Bristol tykes are still sonically and vocally as visceral as ever. [Mar 2024, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 12, 2024
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Polygondwanaland
    This is a set of unlistenable, wigged-out, repetitive, directionless grooves in the main, but we love ’em anyway.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Loving the Alien [1983-1988] [Box Set]
    Padded out with uneven live albums, indifferent remixes and anodyne film soundtrack songs, this 120-track package makes for depressingly arid listening in places. That said, no anthology that includes the heart-soaring Absolute Beginners or the high-gloss Let’s Dance can be considered a total wash-out.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nocturnal Koreans
    Aat its best this reassuringly svelte and only occasionally sparse eight-track EP is a thing of beauty.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    FFS
    A brilliant record, combining as it does the herky-jerky, febrile near-hysterical wit of Sparks with that of Franz Ferdinand.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    2
    While it can’t match the last, extremely impressive Heartbreakers set, Hypnotic Eye, it’s a strong country-rock presentation from what’s not quite the sultan of side projects but rather more than Petty’s return-to-roots Tin Machine.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13
    It may not be the most important return of the year, but 133 serves as a reminder that Muir is a leader in the field of party starting. [Jul 2013, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 27, 2013
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brothers of the 4X4
    Brothers of the 4X4 is as lively as a flea with ants in its pants, fizzing with tongue-in-cheek humour, and his lawless punk attitude runs through it like a poisoned river. [Nov 2013, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 25, 2013
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