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
    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    A disturbingly precise evocation of its barbarian time. [#12, p.105]
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    • 95 Critic Score
    One of the most inspiring and triumphant projects of the year, and perhaps the last 30 years. [#13, p.89]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Still, without the pirate blouses and eyeliner... it's just homage, isn't it? [#12, p.99]
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 46 Critic Score
    In the end, this record is frustrating. [#9, p.111]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Gelb and the band make great strides in musicianship, shifting tempos, languages and sounding disjointed, elegiac and hallucinatory all at once. [#12, p.98]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    [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]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Silkworm's brand of rock isn't overly complex, it's just smart. [#13, p.104]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    This is nowhere near a bad album. [#12, p.95]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Handler is no doubt marred by some tasteless postcoital nyuks... and outdated references. [#12, p.97]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Try as you might, there's no pushin it out. [#12, p.101]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Hook after hook after string of '60s jukebox melodies. [#12, p.104]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounds sometimes Dylan and most of the time Starbucks. [#12, p.102]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    More of the same meaty riffs meet familiar sweaty rhythms to take you down to the Midwestern delta one more time. [#12, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Goddamn if the entire mess doesn't sound great. [#12, p.93]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weightlifting isn't unusually exceptional; it simply keeps the chain of magnificence unbroken. [#12, p.101]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Doubtless the closest she'll ever come to letting you dance in the madfields of her mind with her. [#12, p.94]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Their most melodic and probably their best record yet. [#11, p.94]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    It's ultimately a pop album, reflective and thoughtful, and these songs are just that: songs. [#12, p.97]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Blue Album is buxomly abundant with the Orbital's usual cinemascopic electronic psychedelia. [#12, p.100]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Boldly, magnificently, unabashedly sappy. [#12, p.104]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    It takes willpower and endurance to swim down these dark, dimly lit streams of misery. Even as a listener. [#11, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Despite the '80s tag and influences worn plainly on sleeves, Phoenix always come across strangely earnest and never cheesy. [#11, p.98]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    It becomes evident towards the latter half of the album that genre-splicing gets dull... fast. [#12, p.101]
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