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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Far
    Frankly it makes our blood run cold with images of Sunday supplement purgatory, Spektor trading soft-focus licks with Katie Meluah from out of suburban glove compartments for decades to come. Thankfully the reality is nowhere near as bad as that.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mr. Beast
    There are no huge surprises on this album - it sounds and feels exactly how you'd expect - but somehow "Mr Beast" still seems vital and forward thinking.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here Come The Tears
    Disappointingly, there's little here to startle the natives.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alphabetical
    Full of heat haze lethargy and sun scorched sing-alongs, it’s a resolutely romantic vision of the all American singer-songwriter as viewed through unmistakably French eyes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Let It Come Down
    You could get lost for days in the depths of these arrangements, and still find something moving and transcendental at every gilded turn. It's a towering achievement...
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Beatific Visions
    We're all for experimentation, but please: Nashville?
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangers
    If relationships were straightforward they’d be no need for albums like this. Thank god they aren’t.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Again
    Nguyen has created what will probably be one of 2003's best albums. 'Again' is a dark and sexy record that reveals itself seductively over time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soul Sessions
    It's a record that benefits from the homogenous, warm feeling such an intimate set-up can make for, the tracks setting up Stone's remarkable voice rather than intentionally distracting from the singer's limitations.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bridging the Gap
    This second album from rappers Will.I.Am, Apl.D.Ap and Taboo is served with a hefty helping of soul sensibility and there are pinches of jazz and calypso thrown in for good measure.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Because Of You
    It's a case of too many beats failing to earn their keep.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Plat du Jour
    Certainly, "Plat De Jour" is one of the most ambitious records that will be released this year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Road To Rouen
    A beginning to end enchanting and addictive album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Doctor's Advocate
    An album that will satisfy everyone who enjoyed his debut.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Neptunes Present... Clones
    Ruthlessly, relentlessly refined, the surprise is that you don't get sick of what is, despite its surface changes, a fairly predictable formula. Rather, you want to hear it again. And again. And again.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weezer [2001]
    An album of two halves, 'Green' has its pop, counterbalanced with its noise-outs but above all, it's a very traditional, straightforward tunesome half hour which slots in effortlessly with its predecessors. A welcome return? Oh yes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crazy Itch Radio
    "Crazy Itch Radio"... is the sound of an act running out of steam as it settles for the lowest common denominator with a nonchalant shrug of the shoulders.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rolling Blackouts
    It's mixed-up, mashed-up and flagrantly, unapologetically odd. It's everything we want The Go! Team to be. But with added extras.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Astronomy For Dogs
    What is certain is "Astronomy For Dogs" is a magic-dusted delight and that Anderson is a wizard and a true star.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stadium Arcadium
    Attempting such an ambitious concept in an age of diminished attention spans should no doubt be applauded, but overstretching itself in a stab at immortality, "Stadium Arcadium" marks a step backwards from 2002's "By The Way".
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Magic
    Sometimes it's almost too much "classic Springsteen"; too many songs seem like retreads.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rain On Lens
    A harsh, almost hollow collection of songs, that are as darkly unsettling and violently disaffected as anything our rather self-absorbed Chicago-based outcast has committed to tape thus far.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    OST
    Mostly though this is bland Hollywood fodder masquerading as something more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tour de France Soundtracks
    Not quite what we might have hoped for from such historically important innovators. But not quite as bad as it appears, either.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    G.O.A.T. Featuring James T. Smith: The Greatest of All Time
    G.O.A.T.' is depressingly bereft of considered content. There's nothing outrageous or offensive, just plenty of the unthinking and inarticulate sex talk that L's been spouting between the brags for years.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird)
    Essentially, it's "Lovers" part two.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dark Night Of The Soul
    For the most part, it sounds like the most joyous exploration of death and madness since, perhaps, "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!"
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Attack Decay Sustain Release
    Not a bad record by a long stretch but a disappointment nonetheless.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is Not The World
    Even as the band grow tighter, their insecurity deepens. That's not prevented them from making a fine record which is loaded with instantly memorable hooks.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    We Are The Pipettes
    Trouble is, despite the band's concerted efforts to beef up and broaden their schtick with a radio-friendly production, too many aspects scream "novelty act".
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