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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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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Life For Rent
    Her bland-o-meter appears to be well and truly busted.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sheath
    LFO's gift is an ability to strip Detroit's electronic music of its soul, punishing any soft southern edges with a brutal attack of noise, while still managing moments of subtlety and consistently adventurous beat programming.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fatherfucker
    For reasons of quality, as well as the inevitable loss of the shock of the new, 'Fatherf*cker' isn't quite the album its predecessor, 'The Teaches Of Peaches', was.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gallowsbird's Bark
    A unique musical vision with a genuinely unique and beautifully skewed worldview to boot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Results May Vary
    Eventually, 'Results May Vary' could become a fascinating document - a frightening insight into the vacuous state of 21st century culture.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
    Their records sound very different, but they're both astounding.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    stellastarr*
    Essentially if you like the bands that have so clearly influenced Stellastarr* you'll like this record. But it's difficult to really love a band that haven't yet found a voice they can truly call their own.
    • 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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Permission To Land
    This is rock with a big fat drunken grin scrawled over its face in lurid red lipstick.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reality
    It's the sound of a man who's worked out how to be good again, who finally understands his own strengths and limitations.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It Still Moves
    Some are already calling it a landmark. This year's 'Deserter's Songs' or 'Soft Bulletin'. In truth it's probably better than both of those records.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amazing Grace
    Much of 'Amazing Grace' is the tired evidence of a man rehashing the same ideas - rather than sounds and movements - like a robotic, assembly line Andy Warhol.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You Gotta Go There To Come Back
    What some see as derivative, unoriginal bollocks others view as honesty, craft and a lack of pretension.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wolf
    The trouble is, the grandiose sounds he carves often sounds more polystyrene than pompous, no matter how many coats he applies.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Amateur Night In The Big Top
    It's the state of the great man himself that's truly depressing. If the slurring on 'Murder' (pronounced muurrrerrr) is an attempt to sound like a stroke victim, it's worryingly convincing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Take Them On, On Your Own
    A skull-numbingly dull record, utterly bereft of the anti-establishment rhetoric these boring fakers aspire to.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chain Gang Of Love
    The Raveonettes have something the Mary Chain lost around the time of 'Automatic': an understanding of how to make a tight three minute pop song feel exhilarating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love & Life
    'Love & Life' suggests "the queen of hip-hop soul" is truly now at the top of her game.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome To The Monkey House
    Here's the '80s revival long plotted by style journalists given an accessible alt-rock face, a deftness missing from most of the arid purveyors of sexy robot music.
    • 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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    truANT
    They now have more in common with Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers than they do their former mentors Papa Roach.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Greendale
    We should laud Young for taking such risks at this stage of his career but 'Greendale' sounds like the sort of small town you spend your whole life running from. Or the place you go to retire.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Youth & Young Manhood
    'Youth and Young Manhood' is nothing more than a great rock'n'roll album.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Haha Sound
    It's certainly very cleverly composed and constructed but ultimately sounds aloof and impenetrable and, as a result, somewhat devoid of emotion.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
    Musically, DC continue to improve, supplementing their acoustic, sparse approach with radio-friendly pop and tracks that subtly ebb and flow; just beware of a few lightweight and labouring moments.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
    Taken in three-minute doses, 'D-D-Don't Stop The Beat' sounds fantastic. Taken all at once, it's proof that too much fun can be hard to bear.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lovers
    Steele's self-conscious attempts to create a legend for himself only distract from what is actually a very good album.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strays
    New frontiers for rock aren't exactly broached, but then that was hardly the point.
    • 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.
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