Filter's Scores

  • Music
For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 71% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 96 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Lowest review score: 10 Drum's Not Dead
Score distribution:
1801 music reviews
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    • 66 Critic Score
    If you're a fan, As Is Now will probably fulfill all your medium-level expectations. [#17, p.105]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Completely non-offensive summertime pop. [#17, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    A charming if adolescent collection of bubblegum harmonies and none-too-complicated pop. [#17, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    One might be a bit startled by how much, well, more broken this new [album] sounds. [#17, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Ladytron have decisively transcended any particular froth of trend that may have sprouted up around them. [#17, p.98]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Z
    Z is a great record--more expansive than its predecessors and less tunnel-visioned too. [#17, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Welcome to the Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain of our modern indie times. [Filter Mini, Oct 2005]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    It's everything we love about Blackalicious, but with a little more neo-soul vibe than we're used to. [#17, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Less produced and certainly less poppy. [#17, p.97]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If this record doesn't break in a major way, it will not only be a shock, it will be a damn shame. [#17, p.99]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Though it may be too severe a downgrade for some, Tender Buttons is in fact a lovely ugly thing. [#17, p.96]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Like an aesthetic and visceral run through the hhistory of these most miraculous of musical visionaries. [#17, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Banhart's most straightforward recordings yet. [#17, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It is the sisters' old-timey voices that capture and carry the beautiful eeriness of these minimalist songs. [#17, p.103]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    A marked improvement upon the blank and boring pop they pulled out of the Monkey House in 2003. [#17, p.95]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    The results are compact, near-pop micro-anthems. [#17, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Their greatest album. [#17, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A continuation of the trio's lovelorn, earnest pop. [#17, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Feels exactly like a dance-less, British-not-Scottish Franz Ferdinand who have been deeply infused with Sgt. Peppers' '60s pop whimsy. [#16, p.90]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    DCFC is becoming a band that's worth noticing apart from Ben. [#17, p.93]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    A challenging record. [#17, p.97]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    One of the great pleasures of Twin Cinema is the way every morsel seems to have been scrutinized. [#17, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    What the crap is this? [#17, p.94]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    They've arrived at a more basic and touching--at times sleep-inducing--music that lingers for better and for worse. [#16, p.89]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Who else but Madness could pull off covers of the Supremes and the Kinks on the same record? [#17, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Let's just say the word "repulsion" doesn't fully sum it up. Enjoy the violence. [#16, p.96]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A high-pitched punky mess. [#16, p.103]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A welcome return. [#16, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    This is relaxed, realized, and startlingly gorgeous. [#16, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    It's really just kind of... nice. Soothing. [#16, p.94]
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