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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Twin Cinema
Lowest review score: 20 Liz Phair
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 362 out of 474
  2. Mixed: 100 out of 474
  3. Negative: 12 out of 474
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eve-Olution
    Buried at the 11th track on the compact disc, "Satisfaction" makes everything else on this album seem better by its presence. It's the one true standout cut, giving the album a jewel in the glittering, if ersatz, moving-outta-the-ghetto hip-hop-princess crown that Eve places on her own "bombshell" brow.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Rush Of Blood To The Head
    It recalls U2's The Joshua Tree, and not just for its stunning guitar work but for its wild passion and spiraling tension-and-release dynamics.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lost In Space
    This is a rare record that simply responds to the quiet masses who maybe feel just a bit to much too often, and offers them a soothing, downbeat source of comfort without preaching or apology.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Love Life
    The instant pop buzz Pulp have concocted in the past is largely missing, but each listen reveals another layer, another level, another reason to love it. Highly recommended.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eternal Youth
    Eternal Youth is broad and ambitious. Merritt's singing is missing; his baritone would have added a male perspective, not to mention an added playfulness. But Gonson suffices.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blacklisted
    Blacklisted proves that Case's musicianship has evolved alongside her songwriting skills.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They Threw Us in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top
    Whether they're shrieking or pleading, dancing or shivering, they're always exuding an intensity that never fails to find a way to hit you hard, really hard.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kill The Moonlight
    Moonlight, which grows more and more likeable with repeated listens, is Spoon's strongest effort yet, topping 2001's Girls Can Tell and even 1998's A Series of Sneaks.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    One Beat
    All of One Beat is strung loosely together by a common plea: for awareness, for understanding, and, most of all, for holding onto hope.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Son Of Evil Reindeer
    Throughout the album's dozen tracks, the sentiment Lightbody conjures evokes real pain and real beauty.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
    It is, in such, truly great, or truly arrogant, or truly conceited, or truly preposterous, or truly confused, or truly bemused, or truly profound, or truly magnificent. Or maybe all of these things. At once. Or at times.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Miss Fortune
    The strength Moorer has shown from first album to second album and finally to this genre-leaping experiment in self-recreation is enough to not only merit a listen, but to make sure we pay attention to the fourth album when it arrives.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Daybreaker
    Daybreaker bears all the strengths and beauty of the earlier Orton CDs, but it also shows some growth.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Rising
    Like all his best work, the whole of The Rising is better than the sum of its individual songs.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Highly Evolved
    It's hard to figure out exactly why everybody is so excited about this record.... There is something there to like -- plenty, in fact. But it is also disjointed and sometimes maddening.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    While appreciating Yoshimi for its merits poses little problem, actually enjoying it is more difficult.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs [EP]
    Their sound is dirty and raw, sexy and wrong.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Torino
    The chaff-to-wheat ratio remains distressingly unbalanced on Torino.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Murray Street
    Written with some basic, inviting rock structures, the album replaces the hyper energy and angst of older material with slowed-down, complex textures and delicate grooves -- but still rocks out intermittently.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Storytelling OST
    [A] tired, uninspired collection of music and songs.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Broadcast
    The Last Broadcast is big, intelligent, irony-free music that demands an open mind -- and rewards the heart quite well. Magnificent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Private Press
    The Private Press is full of rollicking beats, spectral tone colors, and enough subtle textures and supple surfaces to fill a textile warehouse.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Title TK
    There's a lot of empty space in these songs, the better to focus on Kim and Kelley's up-front vocal harmonies and classically off-kilter lyrical ideas.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    On A Wire
    Their new pop direction finds them drifting about, directionless as opposed to eclectic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Maladroit
    Maladroit is the emo equivalent of '70s arena rock -- a bracingly cocky attitude that tag-teams with its partner, navel-gazing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    TA
    TA have now officially run out of original ideas.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    About A Boy [Soundtrack]
    With About a Boy, Badly Drawn boy has grown up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When I Was Cruel
    Ultimately, I suspect Costello non-devotees will find that too much effort is required to get into these songs and there may not be sufficient emotional payoff to justify the investment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Music for Courage and Confidence
    Lacking the startling mark of cool-hearted covermongers such as Cat Power and Mark Kozelek, this is still an easeful album of mostly slow-blooded tunes.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    YHF is a fierce record.
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