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For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 The Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972
Lowest review score: 10 Uncle Dysfunktional
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 296 out of 497
  2. Mixed: 177 out of 497
  3. Negative: 24 out of 497
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Line On The Horizon
    No Line On The Horizon is a mature, tender, reflective record of great musical variety, depth and beauty that could only have been made by four people who've experienced just about everything that life can throw at you.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chemical Chords
    Stereolab learn to stop being boring and love the pop.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Viva La Vida
    Chris Martin and co. return with another album guaranteed to rock arenas across the world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hurricane
    80s clubland legend Grace Jones returns with Hurricane, a patchy but fascinating comeback record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Brief History Of Love
    Earthbound offering from hyped to the heavens duo.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Phrazes For The Young
    Strokes frontman ditches leather jacket, reinvents self as DIY Gary Numan.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Old, Familiar Friend
    Brendan Benson expertly assembles pop music using the manual.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Good Girl Gone Bad
    Truly, this is music for the ringtone generation.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Resistance
    It’s the closing triptych of quasi-classical numbers--the aforementioned ‘Exogenesis’ sequence--that transports Muse to a place beyond parody.
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These Four Walls
    Perfectly natural indie music from Scottish band.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lust Lust Lust
    Already dated, The Raveonettes 3-D thrills are temporarily diverting, but ultimately provide only the illusion of depth.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Washington Square Serenade
    Washington Square Serenade is another substantial chapter in what looks like becoming an epic songbook.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. Dreams
    The various elements are spun like syrup round a spoon; creating a deliciously moreish concoction, the sort you’ll want to dip into time and again.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mr. Lucky
    It's like he'd never been away after an absence of five years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Black And White Album
    The Swedish fivesome’s trademark sound is so ridiculously simple that you’ll be humming it all day, and with their quirky humour, probably with a grin on your face.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Honey
    Lucinda Williams provides instruction for those who feel fucked around and fobbed off at 40-something.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Laugh
    Food-obsessed lyrics tinged with medieval mischief.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Living And The Dead
    Former Be Good Tanya delivers modern americana nugget.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untitled
    Ho & bling free rap of the highest thought provoking order.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tentacles
    Raw, beguiling psychedelia from Californian newcomers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Is What Is
    Uber-producer makes sublime soundtrack to documentary film.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange House
    Strange House is actually an intriguingly intelligent debut.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Little Joy
    Despite initial misgivings, our reviewer found that Little Joy's album delivers an old fashioned pop feel with a little DIY indie sound.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chunk Of Change [EP]
    Michael Angelakos, aka Passion Pit, brings us a temporary electro pop classic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    LP3
    Lovely promiscuous electronica.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Evening New York City
    Great songs played well, but...
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album is a transitional rather than definitive piece of work, but one that sees them growing older with 'patience and grace'.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mr. Love & Justice
    Bragg is taking stock. He’s now doing it for himself, at his own pace. Those in search of revelation from an old punk with a new perspective will be left hanging
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Forth
    Men out of time, The Verve were a neo-psychedelic jam-rock outfit who got fortuitously swept up in the Britpop boom and stumbled upon a timely form of Big Music.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    March Of The Zapotec/Holland [EP]
    A game of two halves as Brooklyn world music troop go synth pop on split disc.
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