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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Workout Holiday
    Superficially then, White Denim might, on first listen, ape the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion but unlike garage revivalists like The Hives--whose studied revivalism has all the innovative spirit of a 19th century theme park--they've kicked all the best things about red-blooded rock into exciting new shapes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Viva La Vida
    Well, reports of the death of the old Coldplay have been much exaggerated.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Strength In Numbers
    Kasabian and their brass-necks have long since appropriated The Music's mantle of anthem-whoring psychedelic horsemen and there's barely a moment over the course of 12 tracks here where they contest that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    19
    As is to be expected given Adele's tender years, thematically things are a bit monochrome.... All this, however, is forgiven with a listen to the highlights, such as the sweet acoustic guitar-led 'Daydreamer.'
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diamond Hoo Ha
    This isn't a bad record, it's just a laboured and peculiarly joyless one, all those things that Supergrass were once the opposite of.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    You Cross My Path
    The Charlatans have cottoned on to the electro-is-back wave, but not in a cool, Spank Rock or New Young Pony Club sense, but a magpie parody, a homage.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
    The Canadian-American boho remains as feisty and red-blooded as ever, her hewn-from-marble voice--part-cowgirl part-Patti Smith--crooning and bawling tales of feckless lads and late night disappointments.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Evil Urges
    Evil Urges isn't a bad album by any stretch of the imagination but it still manages to fall well short of expectations when applying the benchmark set by this fine band.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here We Stand
    The Frat pack are back with the impressive, Here We Stand, a confident, storming, guitar-driven rollercoaster of an album with more hooks than the North Sea fishing fleet, all bobbing along on a blitzkreig of overdriven, pop guitars.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seeing Sounds
    A few club chants ("You jump around like you ADHD! ADHD! ADHD!") and heavy beats crop up throughout but, in the main, N*E*R*D ironically struggle to break out of their own defined anything-goes freedom on what's just a solid record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Survive
    An uncompromising work from an uncompromising artist, To Survive doesn't zip or sizzle. But yield to its gentle undulations and its hypnotic, brooding and utterly original genius becomes clear.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Lie
    "The Beautiful Lie" isn't without its merits but their appearances are few and far between.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Started Nothing
    We Started Nothing sounds exuberant and chiefly concerned with pleasing itself. Which--as is always the way--only makes it more pleasing to others.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Takes
    All in all, this a whimsical, unhurried and enchanting effort.
    • 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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Velocifero
    But the failures are the exception, and what's remarkable about Velocifero is how convincing and cohesive it is.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Weezer (Red Album)
    On this, the third eponymous Weezer record (see, they are incomparable wise-asses) and sixth in total, there are contained some of their most pronounced moments.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    Ironically, though defined sartorially and sonically by this short window in history, the songs on their debut album are mostly timeless. Few better will be released in 2008.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Declaration
    Nelly and Akon do a reasonable job of making 'Body On Me' sound almost like a single, but it's not enough to change the fact that what could well be the best album of Ashanti's career is almost certain to be her most overlooked.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Bake Sale [EP]
    We'll take it any day over the bloated, self-important MOR of the Big Rap Stars (stand-up Nas) but hipster rap still has a way to go if it's to prove more than a passing fad.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Can Do Anything
    Its eclecticism does make for disjointed listening though, which almost distracts from their songwriting skills. But ultimately it's all so assuredly done that The Zutons make it almost impossible to not be swept along for the ride.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here I Stand
    So smooth nothing sticks, there's no guts, no depth and no matter how much he protests to the contrary, nothing to believe.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Songs in A&E
    The lumbering, ponderous nature of both music and vocals elsewhere makes you wonder if much of Songs In A&E wasn't actually recorded in hospital.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Emergency
    Emergency isn't quite the great leap that was expected but does at least carry a few optimistic signs for the future.
    • 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.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anywhere I Lay My Head
    Scarlett Johansson has proved herself as much a rock queen as a roll queen.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rockferry
    Rockferry works as a very promising calling card.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
    For a moment one can hear Mraz's real soul, rather than a factory-assembled version. Sadly, it's too little and too late to save this queasy record.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All We Could Do Was Sing
    All We Could Do Was Sing does exactly what it say on the tin - an astonishing album, rich in storytelling and fables; woven with 11 brilliant songs by a band apparently driven by nothing more than the sheer love of performing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Couples
    Couples is simply a successful attempt to sound both different and better.
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