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For 403 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 La Foret
Lowest review score: 10 Underwater Cinematographer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 287 out of 403
  2. Mixed: 104 out of 403
  3. Negative: 12 out of 403
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Awfully Deep
    Awfully Deep, on the whole, is a bold, ambitious swing for the fences. But, like it or not, the game's done changed, and Manuva '05 sounds way too much like Manuva '01.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Untilted
    The results are not for the faint of heart – beats stutter uncomfortably, disappear without warning, and practically scratch out the walls of your speakers from the inside.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Otto Spooky
    Otto Spooky is designed not so much to be enjoyed as to be a spectacle.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    Even the most hardened, poker-faced purists will crack a smile at AIH's ridiculously catchy, hook-riddled dance-pop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alligator
    Part of the problem with Alligator is that it echoes so many other records, but part of its satisfaction is that it sets itself apart so well.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Micah P. Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress
    Impressive despite its occasional lack of maturity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    D.U.M.E. [EP]
    A set that flat out refuses to be ignored.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Open Season
    Furthers the high concept lyrical talents of the group with an added twist: a more atmospheric, slightly new wave sensibility.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lost And Safe
    Although Lost and Safe would be a crowning achievement for any band, The Books show no sign of running out of beautiful musical ideas to convey.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    Suspended Animation, on the whole, is a technical marvel; a kaleidoscopic foray into death metal, Looney Tunes sound effects, and an alarming balance of slapstick and pathos.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Horses In The Sky
    As grounds for our own wandering imaginations and protesting voices, Horses' six songs are not as fertile as what's come before them.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Comes After The Blues
    If Blues isn't as immediately classic-sounding as Molina's 2003 pseudo-debut, it still harbors enough affecting songs to make you pause and admire the man's craft.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Darkness At Noon
    It all recalls a traveling Klezmer troupe, unsure of its audience, warming up with tributes to "Schindler's List", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and "The Godfather", while waiting to find out if they're playing a festival or a funeral.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Sheep Boy
    By album's end, two coming-of-age stories are complete: the boy has grown into a black sheep man, and the literate musicians have become a hell of a rock band.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Guero
    It's endearingly all over the place, but depressingly self-referential.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arular
    Arular is what The Coup’s second record set out to be but wasn’t: Party Music, both for the warehouse hedonists and the basement dissidents.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Picaresque
    While the music is as delicious and diverse as ever, the Decemberists' meal ticket is Meloy's unmatched lyrical prowess, which borders at times on mod-Shakespearean.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Let Us Never Speak Of It Again
    Songs walk a delicate tightrope between the brain and the hips, and the libidinal release of the beat is denied, suggested, suppressed, and finally let loose to sweat it out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Surrounded By Silence
    Silence's instrumentals - choppy samples, organs, and horns, set to the tune of a staccato digital pacemaker - sound great, but they hardly stray from the formula laid down by Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard
    Second disc Chirpin' Hard is the crowd-pleasing Speakerboxxx to Hill's less-accessible Church Gone Wild.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Press The Spacebar
    Unfortunately, the band is not able to match their vitriol with memorable tunes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    B-Sides & Rarities
    Newcomers may want to start investigating with something less daunting, but even the casual fan of Cave's work will find this collection indispensable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Earthly Man
    No Earthly Man demonstrates that all the glitz and studio production techniques used in making many records aren't really necessary to craft a compelling document.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Needle Was Traveling
    While the new album doesn't quite topple 1998's Silur from its Tarwater throne, The Needle Was Traveling is certainly a more than credible addition to the band's discography.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    10th Avenue Freakout
    Occasionally, you might wish for a more generous-sounding lead vocal or concise song structure, but 10th Avenue Freakout is populated with stimulating, rather than easily accessible, music.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flies The Fields
    Restraint and frustration are the dominant themes, but the short, aggressive outbursts don't always offer enough release to justify the fatiguing buildups.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
    Throughout, Doe strikes just the right balance. He's confident but not arrogant; laid back, yet full of vitality.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fallen Leaf Pages
    The Radar Brothers have been called "pastoral," "wandering" and "spacey." Their latest, The Fallen Leaf Pages, adds nothing new to this mix of descriptors.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Exquisite Corpse
    Where Corpse works, it's merely a repeat of past successes. The few tentative steps into unfamiliar territory are marked failures.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blue Eyed In The Red Room
    Two tracks focusing on guest vocalists are stand-outs.... The other eight songs are more hit-and-miss, often depending on whether Bip's headed toward rock (the blah "Eyelashings," which sounds like a mediocre U2 song, without vocals or a chorus) or hip-hop ("The Move," a nice piece of synthesizer and vibraphone chemistry).
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