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For 140 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Violet Hour
Lowest review score: 25 The History of Rock
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 109 out of 140
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 140
  3. Negative: 4 out of 140
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Asleep In The Back
    More in the vein of Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On than the latest Doves or Travis albums, Asleep is structured as an epic, almost prog-rock album that, once spun, reveals itself as a comfortable listen, containing a number of classic pop songwriting turns within its vastness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
    Its boisterous, melodic rock is invigorating to hear from a storm-weathered, 24-year old band.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    a ghost is born
    Over the course of this album, you may laugh, frown, cry, cover your ears, or reach for the remote to fast-forward. But then you'll want to listen to it again.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live In New York City
    While Live In New York City does nothing to diminish Bruce and his bandmates’ reputation as one of rock history’s finest live acts, it doesn’t offer many listeners a substantial reward for purchase.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Down With Wilco
    While not quite as satisfying as Wilco's 1998 collaboration with Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue, the new record is a great document of two groups that enjoy experimenting and pushing the musical envelope.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sleeping On Roads
    A gentle tremble of an album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
    Sounds how Radiohead should sound live: brutal (the cacophonous sample layering in “Everything in its Right Place”), catchy (the bass line of “I Might Be Wrong”), danceable (the beats on “Idioteque”) and mesmerizing (the simplicity of “True Love Waits”).
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    1972
    Rouse pushes the envelope in a completely different direction, and with modest, although not total, success, he delivers an album that will rival the New Pornographers' Electric Version as the -- for lack of a better word -- most fun album of the year.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    In Our Gun
    It's an okay album, not nearly as overproduced as Liquid Skin nor as unnecessary as Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline. It isn't anywhere near the stellar debut, though, which is quickly becoming a tag Gomez is sick of hearing.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Take Back The Universe (And Give Me Yesterday)
    The material is maddeningly inconsistent, sometimes in the course of the same song.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    White Pony
    With White Pony, the Deftones have crafted the kind of top-notch album that Tool and Korn have been wanting to make for years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
    A very pretty, measured album of slow, organ-supported mood crawls. And nothing else.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
    Certainly Blonde Redhead's most accessible yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Creatures
    Retains the experience of its formative years in the heyday of psychedelic collective Elephant Six, but expresses itself in more of a straightforward manner, with a set of agreeable pop-rock tunes.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Ancient Melodies Of The Future
    It's not that the music is bad, per se, it's just not very interesting.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Dog In The Sand
    Dog has a strong, old-school rock and roll feel to it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Mink Car
    The majority of the new songs are keepers.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Storytelling OST
    A rather haphazard collection of dialogue snippets, instrumental vignettes, and the occasional proper Belle song.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Wood/Water
    A glossy, major-label-sounding record that’s dull, atmospheric, frustrating, and beautiful in pretty much equal amounts.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Golden D
    Sounds more like a toss-off by a drunk band in the studio.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Covers Record
    The uninitiated will still perceive these songs as music to slit your wrists to, but The Covers Record is actually the first time Chan Marshall lets her hair down for more than one song per album.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Modulate
    Although the whole thing begins to make more sense after (many) repeat listens, the overall results are at best uneven, and at worst, absolutely baffling.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Golden Dove
    With her second solo album, Timony returns to earth, revitalized by a renewed sense of adulthood, while continuing the experiments with mood and texture.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No More Shall We Part
    Possibly a step forward from The Boatman's Call, but far from being a return to form.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Terroir Blues
    The album has enough setbacks that Terroir Blues cannot be considered on the same page as Trace, Straightaways, or anything he did with Uncle Tupelo.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Supper
    An odd, almost schizophrenic collection.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's All Around You
    It's an improvement over Standards, which sounded unfinished, but it's nowhere near the peaks of Millions, TNT, or even the self-titled first album's great "Tin Cans And Twine."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ecstasy
    The best record Lou Reed has made in a long time.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Rising Tide
    SDRE has always flirted with prog-rock machinations, but some of these songs are just too over the top to be written off as experiments in musical nostalgia.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Airs Above Your Station
    Most indie-somethings will scoff defiantly upon hearing the note-for-note schlepping of excerpts from Mogwai's Young Team or the Sonic Youth-isms dripping from some of the guitar build-ups. Still, the members of Kinski, like a stubborn weed in a thicket of thorns, grow past their numerous predecessors at times, unearthing moments of pure psychotropic bliss.
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