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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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    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stealing Of A Nation
    The album's sinewy rhythms and monochrome production sheen start to fade into the background after a while, but as far as capturing a certain political and musical zeitgeist, "Stealing Of A Nation" does so accurately, and with more honesty and integrity than most.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Through The Windowpane
    With their grand orchestrations, love of idiosyncratic detail and self-consciously old-school dynamics, Guillemots sound refreshingly out of temper with the times.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Offend Maggie
    Offend Maggie revels in that tease between balls-out western rock and Matsuzaki's playful but resolutely coy vocal patterns.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Different Gear, Still Speeding
    Amongst the glam rockers and the tender janglers, it seems that Beady Eye have simply written a Supergrass album. Let's see if Noel has an answer for that.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Blueprint
    It's not radically new - although the Timbaland and the Trackmasters contributions are genuinely exciting - but it's exactly what a lot of people want to hear from a hip-hop album right now.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Waterloo To Anywhere
    The fear was always that Dirty Pretty Things would resemble The Libertines with a vital ingredient missing, and that's surely what's transpired.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Birth Of A Prince
    The latest in a long line of frustratingly hit and miss solo efforts.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Studio 150
    Sincere of intent and, as ever by Weller, stylishly and deftly delivered, "Studio 150" is a pleasant enough listen, which nevertheless will leave die-hard fans hankering for new Weller material.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hungry Saw
    What will draw fans old and new to this record, however, is the melancholia of Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples' vocals, which become especially poignant on the forlorn 'Other Side Of The World.'
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Machine Dreams
    Overall, Machine Dreams is bristling with invention and teeming with variety, a fantasy world you won't wish to quickly wake from.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Renegades
    Renegades' is a formidable parting shot. A Rick Rubin-produced collection of 12 cover versions selected to show the breadth of Rage's influences, it's an object lesson in being both inspired by musical history and remoulding it in your own shape.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is My Demo
    There's no denying Sway's dazzling verbal chops and it's not just the speed and flow of his delivery that impresses.... His musical backdrops, however, are very much less adventurous and anyone looking to "This Is My Demo" for grime's trademark, darkly paranoid, tacheometric beats will be disappointed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So Amazin'
    It's almost the perfect R&B album; cool, sexy, inventive and suitably stylish throughout. All that's missing is a couple of killer singles.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engineers
    Engineers here prove capable both of emotive songwriting and of virtuoso studio craft.... Yet it falls shorts of true brilliance, for the simple reason that the band steadfastly refuse to rock-out.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Is New
    Penate has gutted his sound and replaced it with something expressive, warmly empathetic and, best of all, blindingly spangly.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Red Light District
    Despite the clichéd lyricism and patchy production in places, "Red Light District" contains enough strength and fun to remain an enjoyable and uplifting ride.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thank Me Later
    A genre redefining album from the most innovative and exciting voice of a generation? Not exactly. Yet while predictably wide of the genius mark, at its best it does tag Drake a breath of fresh air.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Send Away The Tigers
    "Send Away The Tigers" is not only the most enjoyable Manics record in years, it's the most consistent.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mind Body & Soul
    “Mind Body & Soul” goes a long way to answering many of the questions her debut left hanging in the air, and most of them with a resounding ‘Yes’.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    St. Anger
    This is the sound of Metallica drawing back into themselves and their history.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    St. Jude
    St Jude may be occasionally derivative, but it's also solid, confident and, musically at least, rewarding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Years Of Refusal
    The question is whether Years Of Refusal finds Morrissey still opening his musical horizons and legs, or reverting to sour type. Predictably for a man whose solo career often seems to be a sadistic exercise in frustration, the answer lies between the two.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Manners
    there are many who will find this record torrentially annoying....But to many others, Manners will be a welcome zephyr of optimism ushering away the angst of epidemics and impending environmental oblivion.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More Than A Woman
    Braxton has gotten brave and ratcheted-up both the attitude and tempo.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exciter
    An emotionally exhausting, sometimes excellent album.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When It Falls
    It's almost all too familiar, so much so that it's hard to hear the tender songs and mesmerising instrumentals in their own right.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Killing Puritans
    In drawing on rock, hip hop, electro, drum 'n' bass and early electronic artists, Van Helden mirrors the developments dance acts have been making in the UK and Europe, rather than US artists.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kingdom Come
    This is far from being a bad album - Jay has never made one of those, nor given the impression he is capable of doing so - but it rarely rises to the levels he has consistently reached.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Accelerate
    "Accelerate" pushes along with urgency but a lack of bite - like background music to a bar scene in an indie thriller. "Horse To Water", however, has the machine-gun fast delivery of "It's The End Of The World…" and a cart-wheeling chorus redolent of old times.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Limbo, Panto
    There's every sense that Wild Beasts are happy embracing their own ridiculousness and there's enough cheeky humour here, "chocs away!" shagging scenarios and references to old boys and institutions to suggest that whilst there's serious musical craft at foot, the whole lark's just a jolly good old wheeze and "Limbo, Panto" is all the more fun for it.
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