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For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 A Hero's Death
Lowest review score: 0 Gemstones
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
  2. Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
  3. Negative: 78 out of 8545
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Perseverance with the rougher sound and jerky arrangements will be rewarded. [Dec 2004, p.129]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Beekeeper
    For every riveting set piece... there are meandering nonentities such as the title track. [Mar 2005, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Transistor Radio
    Both melancholic and gleeful, down-home yet artful. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Gemstones
    As worthless as it's possible for music to be. [Feb 2005, p.100]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    End Of Love
    A winning collection of giddy, C&W laments. [Jun 2005, p.111]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Cosmic Game
    Here the diverse mix of everything from jazz funk to Pink Floyd seems better realised. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Woman King [EP]
    Maybe not as consistent as previous efforts, but when Beam harmonises with his sister Sarah, in particular, Woman King is really a very lovely thing indeed. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003
    Inevitably, though, there's an unevenness to the improvised soundscaping. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Feathers
    Too much of Feathers sounds like extended noodling jams. [May 2005, p.121]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nashville
    These are great songs, regardless of categorisation. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fast Cars, Danger, Fire And Knives [EP]
    Impenetrable in the extreme. [Apr 2005, p.118]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LCD Soundsystem
    The key is that Murphy, unlike his peers and the bands he's produced, is more interested in excellence than cool. [Feb 2005, p.96]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Take Fountain
    Inevitably, it sounds dated. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outside Closer
    A modish conflation of acoustic guitars, violins, subtle electronics and artfully detached vocals, located somewhere near Amnesiac-era Radiohead. [Feb 2005, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Healthy Distrust
    Finds him in fine rhyming form... even if the beats aren't always there to back him up. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
    Given time and a little effort, [his songs] begin to cast their own rewarding chamber-pop spell. [Mar 2005, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strangers
    The intensity of his pain is inescapable in this exhausting explanation of what really becomes of the broken-hearted. [Oct 2004, p.124]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    His simple, unadorned songs of longing, belonging and love are so striking that contributions from such distinctive guests... pass almost unnoticed. [Apr 2005, p.118]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Others
    Alas, they're not very good. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pushing The Senses
    An album that could finally establish Feeder as major league players. [Feb 2005, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness In Magazines
    The best Graham Coxon imaginable. [Jun 2004, p.97]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Before The Poison
    The worthiest addition yet to her legendary status. [Nov 2004, p.119]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    World's Apart
    Their most coherent statement yet. [Feb 2005, p.100]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Emoh
    Lack[s] both the energy of Sebadoh and the quirkiness of his Folk Implosion project. [Mar 2005, p.98]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
    Experimental and confusing... Oberst's voice struggles to hit home through the effects. [Jan 2005, p.129]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
    The finest alt-country album this side of Gram Parsons. [Jan 2005, p.129]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Push The Button
    It's like they've just put all their old sounds together in a slightly different order. [Feb 2005, p.101]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Knuckle Down
    Deliberately sparse and bare. [Mar 2005, p.99]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Nightbird
    They just sound bored. [Feb 2005, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Great Destroyer
    While a generic indie rock sound is flirted with, an amicable relationship deelops between that and their trademark hush. [Mar 2005, p.100]
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