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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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Calling the World
    In the end, Calling the World left me bored as hell.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dead Drunk
    Dead Drunk sounds six billion times better in concept than in execution.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Joyful Noise
    It's a boring album, it's a depressing album, but it's also a deeply cynical album.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Decent Work For Decent Pay
    Decent Work for Decent Pay, a slipshod mélange of long-overdue remixes, is not what we're looking for. Unless you've been living in Kyrgyzstan without an Internet connection for the past few years, you likely wore out most of the tracks on Decent Work for Decent Pay long ago.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seconds
    Despite a heavy reliance on acoustic guitar, the album never rests on one sound and feels fresh throughout. Unfortunately, the songs that shape all these solid sounds don't quite come together.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Third Hand
    With experimentation comes error.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Ghosts
    Sure there’s a lot of questionable ethical implications with The Black Ghosts mixed in with a good ones, but a goth band with a rock conscious is successful even if their success in breaking through the mold of navel-gazing is Pyrrhic.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Morning Tide
    The band's debut full-length, Morning Tide--released on Chop Shop Records--allows that sound to sprawl and unfurl.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Release Therapy
    Luda has officially entered his "transition stage" as an artist. I hope it will produce better records than this uneven offering.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Heavenly Bender
    Sam Champion’s sophomore album, Heavenly Bender, is a worthy rollick.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Start and Complete
    While Start And Complete happens to have been recorded in just one day, lo and behold, it turns out to be album of relatively straightforward songs, staying largely within the musical and lyrical conventions of the pop/rock universe.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Talking To You, Talking To Me
    In keeping with this trope, Talking favors spare, shuffling jazz arrangements: the perfect complement to a powerful, emotive voice and heartbreaking lyrics, neither of which make a strong showing on this album.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Razorlight
    The thinness of the sound, the lack of any edge, and the fact that most of these songs start off terribly prove too much to overcome, but Razorlight is not nearly the disaster that it could've been.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Past Presents The Future
    Bianchi doesn’t seem to be traveling down any new paths.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Grey Oceans
    No matter your feeling on CocoRosie, whether love them for their innovation or hate them for their grating pretension, when you hear Grey Oceans you might find yourself missing those more challenging (or more inventive) days.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trilla
    Clunky, overblown, and decidedly Ross.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ghost
    While there are some great moments and promising songs, the album is hindered by its refusal to either commit to a sound or commit to trying new things. The tone of the album seems indecisive, and Ghost ends up marginalizing its own strengths.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tha Carter IV
    While it's likely to be a huge album -- and far more interesting than any other releases of its size -- it's not the leap forward his last couple albums were.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Songs About Girls
    What we get is a self-indulgent and silly album that never makes any lasting impression.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Timeless
    A predictable, oversimplified, boring mess.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    V Is For Vagina
    The problem with the album goes past its unmemorable music.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Killing Time
    What results instead is a solid offering full of familiar noisy-pop that with a little branching out might help the trio do something special next time around.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rolling Papers
    Maybe it's my lowered expectations for major-label rap debuts, or the fact that I never had Wiz pegged for out-and-out greatness, but Rolling Papers sure feels like a qualified success. The album's high points earn Wiz forgiveness for his mistakes.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So Amazin'
    So Amazin' may not be the huge leap in artistic achievement she may have hoped for, but it is a step in the right direction.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square
    This album is a detour from the straightforwardness of Per Second, which means that comparatively it also often feels disjointed and uncomfortable.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Welcome To The Dollhouse
    Ultimately the album is merely a reward for sitting through a season of reality-show high jinks.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In The Dark
    In the Dark is a big, loud, dumb record, filled with songs about not respecting women you bang on the bus ("Someone's Daughter"), feeling empty inside ("So Lonely" and "I Don't Even Care About The One I Love") and being for real ("I Am For Real").
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    No Mercy
    No Mercy is a valley, not a peak, in a career that has seen plenty of both.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The Black Belles
    Not to give the Belles short shrift (they play with skilled abandon), but the record sounds like White... straight-ahead crunching blues-based guitar hooks that sound as if they were ripped from Zeppelin II, staccato bursts of noise, oceans of feedback, driving back beats and howled vocals.
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