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For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Untitled
Lowest review score: 10 United Nations of Sound
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,005 out of 1511
  2. Mixed: 449 out of 1511
  3. Negative: 57 out of 1511
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phantom Power
    A dreamy, sun-dappled delight, blending pastoral folk, psychedelia, free-wheeling, West Coast Americana and orchestral pop with such apparent effortlessness that its darker lyrical themes - the workings of sinister, invisible forces and the destruction wrought by war - are uncovered only by careful listening.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness
    Nine fantastically-detailed, delicately-constructed and warm-sounding pieces that are far too slippery to fall into neat genre parameters.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
    This is an album that's far from complacent and what's most in evidence throughout is they're seeking to challenge themselves as much as their audience.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    It's not original or slyly crafted enough - a couple of songs could definitely have benefited from a quick edit from Damon - to feel truly classic, but it has a charm and a vibrancy that's impossible to resist.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
    It has fire in its belly and an admirable abandon and as a whirlwind tour of rock'n'roll decadence it makes, say, Jet look like the fey, foppish tourists they are.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Good Girl Gone Bad
    An album of class, depth and seriously hard grinding, it's a major transformation from pretty girl with potential to star turn.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kala
    Three loud cheers for her scattershot creativity, please.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
    Aside from the incredible sonics though, Phoenix's real triumph here is successfully contorting the songs into ever more elaborate and unconventional arrangements without losing any of their classy pop impact.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Facts Of Life
    Luke Haines, of nineties nobodies The Auteurs and Baader Meinhof, together with Sarah Nixey and John Moore, appear to have taken Saint Etienne's 'Like a Motorway' (from 'Tiger Bay') and driven away with it in a battered Ford Escort to a distant destination, a concept album about motorways and travelling.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gang Of Losers
    The Dears stamp enough of their own personality to make this one of the best and most vital alternative US albums of 2006.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Asleep In The Back
    You'll struggle to find any filler on a record that works magnificently as a whole.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Woman, A Man, Walked By
    It's clear that this is Harvey and Parish unpredictably unhinged. If there's one thing that you can't do with PJ Harvey is pigeonhole her. And why the hell would you want to?
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Level II
    The problem is that 'Level II' is a pretty fabulous album caught in the wrong time.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    "Make Believe" is classic Weezer, further refining the template of unthreatening heavy metal riffs... welded to smart lyrics, largely of satirical nature, and infectious melody.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Return To Form Black Majick Party
    There's barely a dull moment on this album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
    This is a valuable record from a troubling and potentially vital new voice.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beaucoup Fish
    Furious techno stomps and mellow streamlined electronica clash head on with Karl Hyde's often nonsensical vocal style, pushing the group forward yet sticking close to their original blueprint.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Way Down [EP]
    New album No Way Down is one of the year's best so far; its title apt for vertiginous synths and strings that litter the mix like vapour trails on pure blue sky.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Can Our Love...
    On a couple of tracks, on this their fifth and finest studio album, singer Stuart Staples doesn't actually sound like he's mumbling through the pain of all too recent root canal treatment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strange Little Girls
    She is at the top of her game, and hits it out of the park both concept-wise and musically.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Youth & Young Manhood
    'Youth and Young Manhood' is nothing more than a great rock'n'roll album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfmother
    A terrific gonzoid metal album.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Loyalty To Loyalty
    Cold War Kids are perhaps the only band out there ambitious enough to tackle head-on the contradictions and heartaches of America, past and present, and to do so with this passion and intelligence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shotter's Nation
    Lyrically, Shotter's Nation brims with the insight and eloquence with which Doherty continually surprises you.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hawk Is Howling
    These 10 songs evolve unhurriedly and, as with all Mogwai's best moments, like time-lapse photography from the heart of a dark storm.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chosen Lords
    The dark malevolent genius of "Windowlicker" may be lacking, but Richard D. James still walks that line between the accessible and the downright filthy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Letting Go
    Arguably up there with his greatest achievements to date, "The Letting Go" is business as usual for Oldham, but also a brand new start.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss
    What makes 'Paid Tha Cost...' such an unexpected joy is the way in which Snoop's comic persona offers all involved an opportunity to loosen up and have some fun.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Progress
    Epic, exciting, strange and unexpected, it's exactly what pop needed, but surely not quite what Gary Barlow had in mind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baby I'm Bored
    'Baby I'm Bored' is the album Dando's fans hoped he would return with.
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