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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
2213 music reviews
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From Out of Nowhere
    The wistfulness, the super-saturated sound, the layered harmonies and instrumentation, the timeless echo of pasts and retro-futures colliding. The humanity, the performed frailty at the heart of manufactured perfection. Lynne still has it. He still knows how to create the magic.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Everybody Loves Sausages
    A great version of The Fugs' Carpe Diem aside, Everybody Loves Sausages feels like an in-joke that was never funny to begin with. [May 2013, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 21, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Find a Way to Care
    Mayall’s own songs are self-reflective, particularly Ain’t No Guarantees and the title track. And while his voice increasingly betrays his age his Hammond and piano playing has lost none of its vigour.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Big Bad Blues
    He keeps his freak flag flying with this collection of bar jams and blues covers that is as flinty and steely edged as Gibbons himself. [Oct 2018, p.82]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 20, 2018
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Resurrection of Rust [EP]
    The good-natured, twangsome results prefigure Costello's more angsty work with Clover on Nick Lowe-produced My Aim Is True. [Aug 2022, p.71]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 22, 2022
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under the Midnight Sun
    This is a good record mostly because the two men at the heart of it all sound like they’re actually enjoying being The Cult again.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rapscallion
    A tangibly effervescent romp. [Sep 2022, p.77]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 25, 2022
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Repentless
    That Repentless is coherent and persuasively powerful is a tribute to the identity of the band.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An Odd Entrances
    All flutes and bubbles, A Jammed Exit could be a Jethro Tull B-side, and only dedicated lovers of the eight-minute free-form scree solo need apply to Nervous Tech (Nah John), which is essentially Frank Zappa having a fit. Run for the exits.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ogilala
    There’s little variation in sound over the 11 tracks, but bucketloads of yearning, wistful emotion that is elegant and uplifting, with just a touch of schmaltz.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In the Blue Light
    As a craftman's final flick on old canvases, it makes for a fine late Blue period. [Nov 2018, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 17, 2018
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Walk Through Exits Only
    There's no lioght, no shade, no nuance, no reflection--just a sheer onrushing, hurricane force. [Aug 2013, p.85]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jul 23, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tracker
    Knopfler's slide into the cosy vale of rootsy retro is clearly irreversible, but he certainly makes trad a luxurious place to get pampered for an hour. [Apr 2015, p.97]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 12, 2015
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sonic Soul Surfer
    His seventh album is another celebration of the simple things in life. [Jun 2015, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted May 12, 2015
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    XI
    The songs are tight and feisty, with guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof and Rick Van Zandt trading off each other with flexibility and style, Howe giving full vent to his range and depth.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monolith of Phobos
    It works, thanks in this case to an engagingly loopy clutch of lysergic psych-pop oddities created with Primus frontman Les Claypool.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surveillance
    Throw in the odd ambient curveball and you’ve got an album fizzing with life from experts in their field.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Talk About That
    Mayall’s never going to dislodge Beano, but it’s ridiculous for an 83-year old to sound this relevant.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kicks
    Great work. [Summer 2019, p.84]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 26, 2019
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    West Coast vs. Wessex
    Turner, then, by a knock out. [Aug 2020, p.87]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Aug 3, 2020
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peradam
    [Patti Smith is] in her element. [Oct 2020, p.83]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Sep 25, 2020
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Hear Georgia
    A couple of other unremarkable tracks leave this album just short of being a stunner, but for the most part Blackberry Smoke have done Georgia proud once again. [Jul 2021, p.80]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl Friends
    He enlists a pan-generational wish list and lets them shine. [Apr 2024, p.81]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Mar 18, 2024
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Film Buff
    A compulsive half-hour montage of dynamic Metric buzz-pop, Garage tech-rock, drivetime soundtrack sounds and pummelling grit metal. [Nov 2024, p.79]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Oct 11, 2024
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dream Into It
    Thematically it’s a steady path, although musically Dream Into It is fairly erratic and offers quite a disjointed listening experience as it jumps from style to style. [Jun 2025, p.70]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sun Structures
    Smart enough to avoid slavish imitation, Temples already sound strong enough to breathe new life into old forms. [Mar 2014, p.101]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Feb 4, 2014
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Man Upstairs
    To Turn You On and The Ghost In You sound uncannily like Nick Drake gone glam, but it works. [Sep 2014, p.94]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonderful Crazy Night
    A set of songs whose freshness reflects the spontaneous manner in which they were recorded.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lion the Beast the Beat
    The album gets better with every play. [Jun 2013, p.89]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Jun 25, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Day's War
    The Day's War is full to the brim with dramatic, radio-friendly anthems. [Sep 2014, p.93]
    • Classic Rock Magazine
      • Posted Dec 18, 2014
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