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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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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Just Enough Education To Perform
    The Stereophonics are trying to say something, expressing something more than the exuberant rock songs with which they made their name. Only time will tell whether their fans will lap up an album almost entirely starved of the big guitar sounds and sweeping choruses they've grown accustomed to.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Blowback
    When he's left to his own devices, he appears to be on firing form, creating music that sits happily between the frenzied aggro mantras of his darkest days and the beautifully evocative wonder of his debut.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Warnings/Promises
    Woomble’s lyrics, while literate, are never quite as clever as his supporters would like to believe.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Front Parlour Ballads
    Song after song, this is hardly an album that boasts of its riches but, in a determinedly low-key fashion, the music asserts itself in honest textures captured in naked performance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Last Night on Earth
    Far from Noah & The Whale lagging behind their popular folk peers, with Last Night On Earth the band are finally punching above their weight to create a sound that's altogether new and wholly theirs.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Secret Migration
    As with previous LPs, “The Secret Migration” works as a set-piece but, with the strings kept on a tighter leash and the production less fulsome, it’s easier to notice the details.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    MAYA
    She might be mouthy, trendy, shallow and opinionated without having all of the facts, but MIA creates terrific pop moments.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Made In Sheffield
    For long time observers though, the return of Tony Christie to the arena of mature balladry and lush production values will do plenty to gladden the heart.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slash
    Does it offer us an exclusive window into Slash's soul? No. Is it a neat CV and a sneaky way of auditioning the next Velvet Revolver singer? Probably. Like any other mixtape from a friend, listen to it in the car, then stick it in the cupboard under the stairs with the others.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    My Way
    Minor gripes aside, My Way is far better than anyone could have expected from a singer whose reputation is still judged by his musical contribution from 20 years ago.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
    It's warm, analogue production bolstered by Madlib, ?uestlove and the inevitable J Dilla exhumation that makes it a summer smash in waiting, not least on 'Umm Hmm''s exhortation to let your feelings show.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yes New York
    Cannibalising a musical canvas splattered with decades of paint, little here is truly original and the quality veers throughout, as is inevitable from the recordings of one - albeit artistically ferocious - city.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aw C'Mon
    Out of these two good albums, a great single album is fighting to break out. [combined review of both discs]
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Know Your Enemy
    A bit of judicious pruning to remove the filler tracks would have resulted in a cohesive, dynamic album that would have easily been their best release to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yours To Keep
    None of the songs on "Yours to Keep" lack a naggingly memorable chorus; none is remotely inaccessible; and none is less than excellently crafted.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Others
    "The Others" is no masterpiece, but it offers up a warm, beating heart where its rivals offer cold, cynical eyes.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Folie A Deux
    Folie A Deux is entertaining in moderate doses, like its predecessor "Infinity On High", where the band gleefully abandoned any last pretence to edginess.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spinnerette
    Where her former act just made sneering grunty fight-punk, Spinnerette have proper tunes, proper lyrics and proper choruses. Marriage to two proven master songwriters has probably helped. But whatever, it's a positive move.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From A Basement On The Hill
    A fine collection of songs from an immensely talented, tragically lost soul.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Waiting For The Sirens' Call
    While great songs is something “Waiting For The Sirens’ Call” obviously lacks, it’s still a cracking New Order album - albeit one performed by a group all pushing 50 and mostly written about Bernard Sumner’s yacht.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    From Here On In
    At 70 minutes, it could've done with a pruning.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Born This Way
    She has already made pop interesting just as it was declining into irrelevance; now it's time for her to make it great again.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    JackInABox
    Sweet, vibrant and sunny songs with just as much invention and passion as 2000's buzz-building early EPs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
    "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment" is quite the mesmerising sonic experience.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Gangster
    Hearing him coast is still better than listening to most rappers trying; but the Jay-Z of today sounds like someone for whom making music is an enjoyable hobby, not a burning need.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
    Although Bombay Bicycle Club can't quite hold a torch to the all-conquering returning Maccabees, they're an armful short of effortless anthems for that, but they prove themselves worthy of operating in their shadow.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Confessions On A Dance Floor
    The sound that [Price] has created for "Confessions On A Dancefloor" is simultaneously stylish, fun, hip and camp; all things a Madonna record should be.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Attack & Release
    Danger Mouse hasn't commandeered his charges' muse and forced The Black Keys to change, simply encouraged them to co-operate and collaborate for the first time. Clearly, company becomes them.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aaliyah
    Overall, aside from the crummy rock-out of 'What If', 'Aaliyah' is accomplished fluid soul, with nothing too jagged or startling to spoil the polished veneer.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Back Room
    "The Back Room" is, principally, a triumph.
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