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For 12,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition]
Lowest review score: 0 nyc ghosts & flowers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10,500 out of 12767
  2. Mixed: 1,953 out of 12767
  3. Negative: 314 out of 12767
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Music For Imaginary Films
    Through a combination of Arling and Cameron's sharp studio skills, their sure feel for genre, and most importantly, an unfailing sense of humor, these two manage, somehow, to make the zillionth such retro LP sound fun and cool.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Midnite Vultures
    His most consistent and playful album yet.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When The Pawn...
    Her musical ideas and lyrics have caught up with the ability of her voice. The songs are well varied, and transition smoothly from one to the other.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    So...How's Your Girl?
    It's all good enough, but how many times, really, do you need to hear the term "rock the mic" in an hour? Not this many.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 39 Critic Score
    The Contino Sessions
    Death in Vegas wants to be a scary rock band. As such, they've crafted a scary album with scary guitars, scary beats, scary distortion, and scary Iggy Pop. But Death in Vegas isn't even a rock band. It's two pasty English DJ-type guys and some session musicians.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    69 Love Songs
    Each song contains its own small epiphany, but they never quite add up to the one big sweeping epiphany that you'd hope for.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Remedy
    I'm sure there are kids out there that think Basement Jaxx is great dance music, but the odds are, they don't know much about jungle.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Soft Bulletin
    This is one of those albums people are going to obsess over for many years to come.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Play
    In short, it's fun and functional, yet disposable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Black Foliage: Animation Music
    Insanely catchy '60s- inspired pop music in addition to sound collages, field recordings, drony ambience, cathartic noise, and outlandish production that makes Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" look like a cubicle divider.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    13
    Blur have finally found a sound to match their name.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Beaucoup Fish
    It shouldn't surprise anyone in today's age of shattered expectations that Beaucoup Fish is not as great as we'd hoped.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Keep It Like A Secret
    Recalls last year's fine Halo Benders release, The Rebels Not In, the album Martsch recorded with Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson and former Spinanes and current Built to Spill drummer Scott Plouf. And that's not a bad thing at all.
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