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For 628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 74% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Treats
Lowest review score: 0 Testify
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 561 out of 628
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 628
  3. Negative: 5 out of 628
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In The Clear
    Everything goes smoothly on In the Clear, with no real highs or lows, so to speak, and as such it unrolls without much fanfare or energy.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With A Cape And A Cane
    With a Cape and a Cane feels more like it was made by a band of salty old musicians hoping to revive a past success instead of a sophomore album.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ideal Lives
    Once through, we realize Ideal Lives does not feel unified, which is exactly what makes it so interesting but also so difficult to fully embrace.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dangerous Dreams
    Dangerous Dreams is a passable album that never achieves greatness, nor does it fail miserably, rather residing with the mundane.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Together
    For some reason, the band seemed to strip things down on this album, as the tracks are less sophisticated and experimental than on previous works, (which is fine for most bands, but for ones that aspire to keep their crown at the forefront of indie-pop, just not going to cut it).
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
    Decent and decadent, Good Apollo is still ultimately the least of the band’s 3 full lengths. It continues the band’s tradition for experimentation, with melodies breaking through the chaos but it is less successful and equally disappointing with no new tricks.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Make Believe
    Some songs are worth a listen, but the overall package sounds and feels redundant and, putting myself at the mercy of =W= fans everywhere, renders itself irrelevant.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out-Of-State Plates
    We know in their perfect pop moments, Fountains of Wayne can be inspiring, but Out-of-State Plates proves that in imperfection, they can wear even the most admiring fans out.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Palookaville
    Even the songs that rise above the simple looped-beat formula don’t have much to offer.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Closing In
    For devote metal heads, Early Man may represent a renaissance of the original, pure metal sound that started it all. For everyone else, Closing In will be received as a retro novelty rather than a serious musical accomplishment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An Other Cup
    Skipping over a few songs, such as "When Butterflies Leave" and "Whispers From A Spiritual Garden" — because who wants to hear spiritual babbling when Islam can sing so diatonically correct — the album flourishes into a masterpiece of sincerity to its core.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Return The Gift
    The problem is simply that Gang of Four got Entertainment! right the first time, whether they like it or not.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Secret Migration
    The Secret Migration has the power to cast a spell over you with its dreamy, wraithlike keyboards. Many won't fall for it, though, and will undoubtedly find them too melodramatic.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Backspacer
    Ultimately at this point, the songs that I'm most attracted to are still the slower, more intuitive weepers showcasing Vedder's voice, and alas, such simplicity is scarce on Backspacer.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Curses
    Cash grab? Perhaps. Phoning it in? Maybe. Or maybe it’s their attempt to open up to a new crowd - but whatever it is it’s better left as an experiment.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Can I Keep This Pen?
    They can't be accused of not making spirited music, but Northern State are still looking for the right words to express their sensible worldview.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Vapours
    Earlier pieces that amused or excited the listener have given way to more approachable sounds constantly on the verge of blending in completely. While seldom bad and almost wholly listenable, Vapours proves to be a bland disappointment from a group of usually creative musicians.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    The Monitor
    At times the running-on-fumes punk benefits The Monitor's overall sound. But the problem is that the songs that surround the defined centerpieces sound undeveloped or just plain fall flat, particularly early on when we hear about a supposed hero covered in excrement and piss as a dramatic plot-point.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    Once Upon A Time In The West
    Once Upon A Time is simply derivative, a rehash of the band itself.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Black Acetate
    Where Cale flaps up is in not allowing himself enough space for nuance atop his overdriven guitars, forcing the deployment of gaudy keyboard settings to match the guitars’ "intensity" and even fumbling into a bona fide mall-punk chorus in "Perfect."
    • 64 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Church Gone Wild / Chirpin Hard
    Hill’s disc captures everything that’s easy to hate about Hella.... Seim’s album, on the other hand, is easily the most fully-realized work to bear the Hella name.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Shut Up I Am Dreaming
    Shut Up’s biggest downfall is it’s speed, or lack thereof. The songs lilt and twirl with Krug’s yelp, xylophones and processed guitars, but rarely does the pace exceed ballad-like levels.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler is essentially a sequence of fourteen overproduced songs that bleed into one another. Mind you these are not bad songs... But there is an overwhelming feeling that he is merely going through the motions.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Let There Be Morning
    Too familiar, too gloomy and too bland.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Astro Coast
    Even at its best this whole record sounds like a band who wants to make an impact by trying to be everything to everyone. And because they're not too good at everything they do yet, this lack of a definitive identity that makes it difficult to take them seriously (or if this is their definitive identity, they're just boring).
    • 61 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Difference Between Houses And Homes: Lost Songs And Loose Ends 1995-2001
    A handful of these recordings show promise, and should prove enjoyable for diehards and newcomers alike.... These standouts sadly don’t compensate for the rest of the album’s general blandness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Let Them Drink
    Although they do show some potential, the Capitol Years do not rightfully deserve the hype they are getting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    In Our Nature
    As it is now, decidedly un-personal, In Our Nature falls flat.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Stealing Of A Nation
    Overly polished and far too artificial.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 54 Critic Score
    Wilco (The Album)
    To simply not want to skip tracks isn't exactly saying anything, and certainly not that Wilco has made any kind of return to relevance. But Jeff the person is doing just fine, and instead of chastising this release, let's be happy that the guy who gave us more serious, occasionally harrowing masterpieces such as Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot finally seems to be having some fun. Next time it'd be nice if he let us in on it.
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