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For 101 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: 90 White Blood Cells
Lowest review score: 0 Duke Lion Fights The Terror!!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 74 out of 101
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 101
  3. Negative: 3 out of 101
101 music reviews
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beautiful Creature
    A small, intimate record that not only reminds us of Hatfield's sweet-n-wry junior high voice, but also her mature lyric writing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Figure 8
    Smith makes a valiant effort to match the austere beauty of XO... Still, he falls short on the most important element of his songs, the vocal melodies.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Return of Saturn
    Why, after going through a small army of producers and making us wait for half a decade, do you come back with a second rate album that seems geared towards the 13 year old girls in your audience?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ecstasy
    In twelve brutally honest and dark tracks, Reed revisits the best elements of his early work...
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gung Ho
    The album lacks nothing in substance, but in edge it could use a jolt.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Original Motion Picture Score for The Virgin Suicides
    A haunting through line of notes that impact wonderfully in stirring the darker recesses of the mind.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pieces In A Modern Style
    Orbit tackles the classics with a reverence that occasionally calls to mind the original work of Vangelis with it's sparse and delicate blips that are more refined than you would expect even from the most devout music historian.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
    Here the trio trade in the constant reliance on the fuzzed out guitars that led the charge of their steady rise through obscurity for the more subdued moments that have occasionally reared up in past projects.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bloodflowers
    Even as they approach epic length, the songs remain beautiful, dramatic, and above all else simple.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Night
    The album is in some ways visionary, but it many ways it is just another Morphine album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Am Shelby Lynne
    The weaknesses of this ten song collection come in the occasional over orchestration found on some tracks that would do well in succumbing to the subtlety that Lynne and her producer Bill Bottrell have mastered in other spots.
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