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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    50:50@50
    Time may have dulled some of their digital dexterity but their enthusiasm is undimmed, as is their ear for what makes a good Fairport song.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Burials in Several Earths
    Sections within Things Buried In Water 1 and The Stranger’s House suggesting melody, the rest an offbeat, thrumming sound collage.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fantastic Plastic
    The Groovies are indeed back, still majestic, supernatural and magnificently defiant, and as a result the rock‘n’roll world feels back on its axis.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Fall
    American Fall is their eleventh studio album since the band formed in 1996, and there’s no compromise, no backing down. The anger keeps churning, the hooks keep building. ... It’s sometimes reminiscent of Green Day, but none the worse for that.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Find a Light
    There are plenty of great songs on here, but no stone-cold classic. [May 2018, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 6, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Will Know Nothing
    A spicy, heady, mostly satisfying brew. [Summer 2018, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 26, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Things Change
    Things Change positively aches with melancholy and regrets, but, like the finest outlaw country crooners, Barham manages to find slivers of light in the darkness. [Summer 2018, p.86]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 2, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    ATW
    Overall ATW seem "smaller" somehow, where previous records were... well, bigger. If it were anyone else we'd be more impressed, but ATW can do better. [Nov 2018, p.80]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 17, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another Winter Alive
    Not quite a "new" album in the proper sense, but still a warming introduction to their world. [Dec 2018, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 29, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another State of Grace
    While they might not whip up the same adoration, Another State Of Grace shows that there continues to be life beyond Lizzy. [Sep 2019, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 11, 2019
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dealing With Demons I
    There’s little to distinguish its 10 tracks from each other, beyond Wishing’s stark, startling verses. It’s a shame, because Fafara clearly believes in what he’s doing, and this is far from a bad album. It’s just not enough to reach beyond the faithful.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wreckless Abandon
    In short: 13 hugely enjoyable songs that all sound like old friends. [Dec 2020, p.85]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    W.L.
    A game of two halves. ... Could please all. Or none. [Apr 2021, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 13, 2021
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Life in Your Glass World
    Beautifully angry tunes cunningly made more accessible through the application o killer dance grooves. [Jun 2021, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 29, 2021
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Translation
    It's not exactly in Rikki's nadir, but neither is it exactly rock. [Jul 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 7, 2021
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bummer
    A debut rich in raw potential.[Summer 2021, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 22, 2021
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    9
    A richly dense experience that also channels syncopated avant-pop, semi-symphonic prog and luxuriant soft-rock. [Sep 2021, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 4, 2021
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete
    He's still creating an introspective mood, even if the threat of hardcore eruption seems to bubble under the surface. [Nov 2023, p.78]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 18, 2023
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mandrake Project
    It may have been a long wait, but The Mandrake Project is easily one of Bruce Dickinson’s boldest projects, and it goes to show there is almost nothing that this band frontman/fencer/pilot/author can’t turn his hand to. [Apr 2024, p.82]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Self Hell
    Bolder and more confident in its experimentation. [Jun 2024, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 26, 2024
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Halo Moon
    Stephen Lawrie grumbles dutifully over the anticipated Spacemen 3 guitar squalls, and tracks like Shake It All Out and This Train Rolls On do their traditional misery-in-motion thing. Nothing Matters suggests an out-take from Iggy’s The Idiot that was ditched for resembling Dum Dum Boys too closely. [Oct 2024, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 3, 2024
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Million Knives
    Their hearts are in the right place, but their percussion needs pumping. [May 2025, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 2, 2025
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    God Of Angels Trust
    Offering no major reinvention. That said, it kicks harder than a mule in lead boots. [Summer 2025, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 1, 2025
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Look Out Live!
    Overall this live album confirms how solidly he has established his post-Smiths identity. [Oct 2025, p.78]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 1, 2025
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wasted On Youth
    The hooks go off like petrol bombs too. [Mar 2026, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 9, 2026
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engines Of Demolition
    The most interesting bits of Engines Of Destruction are the moments when the beardy berserker mask drops. [May 2026, p.74]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Apr 16, 2026
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spencer Sings the Hits!
    Still scuzzy, still weird, long may Jon Spencer walk his own unique path. [Nov 2018, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Nov 2, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn Blue
    For diehard fans and the inevitable new army of converts, however, this blue period is one to marvel at. [Jul 2014, p.94]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anarchic Breezes
    Brilliant. [Summer 2013, p.95]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 23, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Concrete and Gold
    The finished product is actually more like AC/DC having a crack at making their White Album, in that it’s as varied, expansive and crammed with drug-crusted invention as a band embedded in blues and hard rock can get. For a record relatively light on pop-rock stadium slayers, it’s also easily the Foos’ most elemental album yet.
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