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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 An End Has A Start
Lowest review score: 0 D12 World
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 823
  2. Mixed: 198 out of 823
  3. Negative: 56 out of 823
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    lovehatetragedy
    The energy that spills forth from these grooves hails both the positive power of loud guitars and gorges itself on the general insanity of life, but nails it all home with a knowing melodic sense of the anthemic and a musical complexity which elevates the entire album beyond mere thrash and burn histrionics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Untouchables
    Even after one listen it's apparent that 'Untouchables' is a monster of a record.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heathen
    Whatever you're going to make of 'Heathen', you'll probably agree it's Bowie's most eclectic effort for some time - and a damn enjoyable, rockahula listening pleasure.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finelines
    It may well be too long and it might stick to its blueprint a little too faithfully, but singularity of vision can hardly be criticised on a debut record. 'Finelines' is a black-hearted but coruscating journey at speed.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dirty Vegas
    When they're good, they're alright, but when they're bad, they're unstoppable and Dirty Vegas' biggest mistake so far is that, sometimes, they're not nearly filthy enough.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Storytelling OST
    Hidden amongst the bilge, there are six proper songs here, with words and everything. But they only serve to prove how erratic Belle And Sebastian have become.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Broadcast
    Most of these songs sound like they're taking down whole walls of your average sonic cathedral and replacing them with huge stained-glass windows with a billion pieces in a hundred thousand colours that sparkle like angel's tears when the sun hits them, like. Yes, it is a bit evangelical. It's reverent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Private Press
    It's all good folks but let's be clear. IT'S NOT GENIUS.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Beginning Stages Of...
    Your new favourite record.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Snare
    But shorn of the spoken word indulgences and look-what-I've-just-found electronica it's a leaner, hungrier beast, a more focussed, more alluring, more dangerous, but still tender trap.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Eminem Show
    This is mainly an improvement on a brilliant formula.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Genetic World
    It feels too clinical, icy cold, almost sterile.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Title TK
    Not necessarily a fantastic album then, but a great excuse for a record, nonetheless.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    18
    An attempted retread that feels more driven by commerce than conviction and suffers as a result.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Alice
    'Alice' finds the twisted surrealisms of Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell offering both refuge and escape for the usual Waits suspects: vagabonds, low-lifes and beautiful lunatics.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blood Money
    Songs that shamble along in the gutter but can still bite your ankles if pushed.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TA
    By applying themselves to proper songs with words and everything like Mogwai did last year they've demonstrated why they still belong in the upper echelon of Outpoppers That Matter.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    About A Boy [Soundtrack]
    It's not all pleasant.... However, there are some total gems, as you'd expect.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    The most worth-the-wait long-awaited album in the world... ever? Could be...
    • 78 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Handcream For A Generation
    What once felt like maverick defiance on the part of the 'Shop now leaves them looking directionless, with Tjinder sounding increasingly like an unattractive combination of smugness and bitterness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Release
    This is a long soft sigh of an album, suggesting not a sudden relief of pressure but just a pleasant exclamation of contentment.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Come Get It I Got It
    It sounds oh-so-fashionable, but it isn't simply an instance of über-credible semi-celeb DJ/producer wanking all over his decks and a handful of records no one ever heard of; every single track is not only quality, but accessible.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Plastic Fang
    Ultimately, this is merely a straight-down-the-line rock'n'roll album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kinky
    Consistent and cleanly sexy stuff.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rings Around The World
    A triumph of style and content, a precious thing and proof positive that acid is well good for you.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    This will be one of the best things you'll hear all year.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Souljacker
    The mix of spite, beauty and pain in here is compelling and repulsive all at once.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Don't Be Afraid Of Love
    Make no mistake, 'Don't Be Afraid Of Love' is so much more ambitious and downright joyful than we had any right to expect that it's a flooring jolt to the system long after the first listen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Walking With Thee
    'Walking With Thee' is a smoothed-over cacophony where the surreal meets the jovial and declares it an octagonal fish - deadly seriousness with a hint of smirk.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    England, Half English
    As ever, he's on point, and brilliant.
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