Filter's Scores
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For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
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71% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 75
| Highest review score: | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | |
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| Lowest review score: | Drum's Not Dead |
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Positive: 1,648 out of 1801
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Mixed: 137 out of 1801
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Negative: 16 out of 1801
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Sure politics can be a bit boring... but the intense symphonic crescedos and bombastic drums on this record are exciting enough to keep even the most apathetic of you on board. [#12, p.103]- Filter
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One of the most inspiring and triumphant projects of the year, and perhaps the last 30 years. [#13, p.89]- Filter
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Still, without the pirate blouses and eyeliner... it's just homage, isn't it? [#12, p.99]- Filter
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Everyone--yes, everyone--should buy this version of London Calling, because in this form, audio and video, it acts as a veritable design for living. [#12, p.96]- Filter
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Gelb and the band make great strides in musicianship, shifting tempos, languages and sounding disjointed, elegiac and hallucinatory all at once. [#12, p.98]- Filter
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[Van Dyke] Parks' masterful touch transforms the Thrills from barroom favorites to starry-eyed chancers with a shot at the big time. [#12, p.105]- Filter
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Silkworm's brand of rock isn't overly complex, it's just smart. [#13, p.104]- Filter
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The Handler is no doubt marred by some tasteless postcoital nyuks... and outdated references. [#12, p.97]- Filter
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Where it seemed the individual songs on Danse Macabre filled out and stretched the seams of its pop confines, Wet From Birth proposes a more intricate and ambitious space. [#12, p.93]- Filter
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More of the same meaty riffs meet familiar sweaty rhythms to take you down to the Midwestern delta one more time. [#12, p.95]- Filter
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Weightlifting isn't unusually exceptional; it simply keeps the chain of magnificence unbroken. [#12, p.101]- Filter
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Doubtless the closest she'll ever come to letting you dance in the madfields of her mind with her. [#12, p.94]- Filter
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Some kind of Californian 5th Dimension/Phil Spector hybrid. All apologies, guys, but it comes off about as genuine as Phil Spector's current legal defense. [#11, p.94]- Filter
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It's ultimately a pop album, reflective and thoughtful, and these songs are just that: songs. [#12, p.97]- Filter
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The Blue Album is buxomly abundant with the Orbital's usual cinemascopic electronic psychedelia. [#12, p.100]- Filter
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It takes willpower and endurance to swim down these dark, dimly lit streams of misery. Even as a listener. [#11, p.98]- Filter
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Despite the '80s tag and influences worn plainly on sleeves, Phoenix always come across strangely earnest and never cheesy. [#11, p.98]- Filter
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Sounds like something made by a gifted producer who has a great voice, an earnest way with words, a vast well of fantastic ideas, and a serious OCD complex. [#12, p.95]- Filter
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It's not that the foursome have truly lost their claws--they're just keeping them retracted, the better to surprise you with as they lash out on tracks with the old vitriol. [#11, p.97]- Filter
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There's an organic component that coexists along with the machines, giving them a warmth few acts have been able to unearth. [#11, p.93]- Filter
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It becomes evident towards the latter half of the album that genre-splicing gets dull... fast. [#12, p.101]- Filter