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For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
  2. Mixed: 509 out of 2132
  3. Negative: 47 out of 2132
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Remember [Live]
    The songs blur into one another, edited to form a metal-machine grind of music that, while certainly exhausting--there’s even a disclaimer on the album: “Do not attempt to listen to all at once” -- maintains a kind of lurid appeal in its dogged attempts to capture a three-year journey within the constraints of a double LP.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Where You Go I Go Too
    Where You Go I Go Too takes the meaning of the term "full-length" quite literally, stretching his already epic electronic disco into works of effortless symphonic grandeur.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes
    Koster's ability to create charmingly imaginative song cycles out of instruments you might find in your grandparent's attic has granted him a fan base that has waited nearly a decade for his sophomore release. It was worth the wait.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Moody Motorcycle
    Moody Motorcycle is a deft reappropriation and re-imagining of the harmonic pop of the Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Repentance
    Repentance can be taken as prime party music, but if you dig deeper, it's much more rewarding.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Worried Well
    31Knots have produced a very good album--maybe even a great album--but one that simply does not reach the level it could have.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Strawberry Weed
    The problem is that making songs that are fit for beer commercials makes for an atrocious album full of half-baked ideas that are only good for 30 seconds of enjoyment.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Mugiboogie
    The music may not always be easily accessible, but it is almost always interesting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here With Me
    There is not much on Here With Me that surprises or overwhelms, but that is not Jennifer O’Connor’s brief.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fasciinatiion
    The band plays its own game of seduction throughout the album, giving us danceable, practically glandular beats while singing lyrics of fear and loathing.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Conor Oberst
    The result is a confident, tight batch of tracks that beautifully encompass a prosaic kind of ache.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Girls And Weather
    Girls and Weather is a rousing debut effort from a band that isn’t out to try to pull birds by acting like the Stones (or the Clash or the Libertines).
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Preteen Weaponry
    The incredible ride finishes not with a bang but with a whimper. Preteen Weaponry isn't much more than a 39-minute sonic experiment for a band seeking a new direction, but it's such a mindfuck to listen to, who cares where it ends up?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Airborne Toxic Event
    The Airborne Toxic Event’s gift is two-fold -- they manage to take the little things, the day-to-day ellipses of modern romance and elevate them to a level of art.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Waiting For The Sunrise
    Waiting for the Sunrise doesn’t signal the end of Vandervelde’s party, but one hopes he gets his second wind rather than becoming satisfied and heading off to bed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bits
    When Oxford Collapse pull off the throttle, the results are remarkable, and the songs are perfect for soundtracking the nights the band can’t remember.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Scars On Broadway
    For those who maintain that vocals are the most superficial element of pop music however, Scars on Broadway will be a surprise treat.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Old Days Feeling
    This collection of rarities is a window into the mind of a restless but inspired talent. She isn't for everyone, but she is a break from safe.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Life Processes
    A couple of moments are cool--the seamless transition to hard rock guitars in 'Gravity and Heat,' the intimacy of closer 'Spanish Triangles.' But there's not much else worth hearing on Life Processes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Partie Traumatic
    The Black Kids may only have one trick, but as long as they only pull it at a house party, it’s the only one they’ll need.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Donkey
    With its shameless pop-punk anthems and wonderfully irreverent lyrics, Donkey finds the members of CSS at the top of their game.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fate
    Fate exposes the larger problem with Dr. Dog’s catalog -- namely, that the band have become so comfortable where they are that they are content to merely play to type.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Flesh Tones
    In Flesh Tones is sensitive, unsure and guarded, yet it's comfortable and inviting despite this.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Certain Feeling
    As all over the map as A Certain Feeling is, it’s much more concise than the band’s 13-track debut, "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink." There’s not much extraneous fluff here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arrowhead
    Unsettling and unexpectedly ravishing in equal measure, Prurient’s latest is as accomplished an album as his followers have come to expect.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Love Extreme
    A Love Extreme giddily steals from and collides with a kaleidoscope of genres, all without a trace of modern guilt.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stay Positive
    Considering most of the album is spent describing what life’s like for the rest of us, it’s surprising Stay Positive ends on a relatively self-focused note, courtesy of album highlight “Slapped Actress.”
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Object 47
    Of all the bands in the rock canon, Wire may be the best embodiment of the term “forward-thinking” that is so vogue nowadays, and Object 47 keeps with the mantra with stunning results.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modern Guilt
    Modern Guilt doesn’t quite make it to that flashpoint, but it certainly points the way to a musical future brighter than the endless, mirrored hall of 'Devils Haircut' rewrites that songs like 'E-Pro' suggested was coming. And that is a sea change worth waiting for.
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