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For 491 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Lowest review score: 32 Something To Be
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 427 out of 491
  2. Mixed: 59 out of 491
  3. Negative: 5 out of 491
491 music reviews
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Panic Movement
    The Hiss is certainly one of the most promising of the current wave of rock revivalists; it's easy to see why this disc is already a hit in the U.K.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    a ghost is born
    Despite being one of the weaker albums Wilco has released, A Ghost is Born is nonetheless the most fascinating.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Aw C'Mon
    If Aw C'mon pales in comparison, it's due to a pronounced downbeat atmosphere and an over-reliance on cutesy, clunky titles.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Live Like You Were Dying
    It's all very commendable, but one wishes McGraw had taken a few more chances with the material, most of which is as lightweight and ultimately disposable as much of modern country.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    At its best when working under the three-minute mark, the Scottish four-piece still has nothing relevant to say, but has managed to serve up a tighter collection than its crazily hyped debut.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Skywatching
    Droge delivers his melodies with an audible grin that lets us know he accepts these songs for the cheerful foot-tappers they are; nothing more, nothing less.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Love Kraft
    Unhurried, smooth and easy on the ears.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Cripple Crow
    Cripple Crow does a wonderful job expressing the range of Devendra Banhart’s musical interests, uneven though the actual payoff may be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    1972
    1972 has less urgency than Rouse's inconsistent but promising debut, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, and save for the last two tracks doesn't approach the earnest, careworn sublimity exhibited on Under Cold Blue Stars. It is, however, one of his most polished releases.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    La Foret
    This isn’t a band looking to be loved so much as it desires a swift kick in the teeth.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Long Trip Alone
    An album that feels a bit self-conscious in its adult-contemporary skin.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Everyone Is Here
    More than 40 years of combined experience results in an album that works well as music for the road or for a party thrown by discriminating baby boomers.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Alternative To Love
    Doesn’t sport as many memorable tunes as 2002’s Lapalco.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Set Yourself On Fire
    Fusing elements of Human League’s sophisticated new romantic aesthetic and Belle & Sebastian’s unapologetically arty preciousness, Montreal-based Stars deliver their most consistent effort with Set Yourself on Fire.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse
    It's [Kim] Gordon's tracks that make the strongest impact.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine A Light
    Though trite lyrics too often undermine strong instrumentation, Shine a Light is a promising sophomore effort from a group that clearly has the chops to blaze even brighter.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strangest Things
    A full three-fourths of the record feels more like the work of a band that hasn't yet staked out a sonic identity.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Feels
    Feels doesn’t trump earlier, more intimate Animal Collective releases. It’s just louder and messier.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Take Them On, On Your Own
    In streamlining the elements of B.R.M.C., it jettisons the wrong half of the equation, eschewing substance for angular, affected form.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    The moody “Together” reveal[s] what’s possible when White and Benson join forces. If only collaborations in this vein had been given greater consideration, the Raconteurs might have had something truly revelatory beyond a whimsical side project.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    Frenzied throwaways like “Modern Art” and vapid observations like “popular culture no longer applies to me,” from “Bad Weekend,” keep Bang Bang Rock and Roll from attaining that rarified feel of unveiling something truly special.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let It Be... Naked
    The casual fan could do just as well building his own sequence from the 1970 original, Naked and the third Anthology disc.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sacred Love
    Sting's most adventurous disc as a solo artist.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    School Of The Flower
    School of the Flower is as pretty as its titular place of higher learning intimates and as substantive as bongsmoke.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American V: A Hundred Highways
    No one expects an album full of songs about death to be fun, but overall this set feels more ponderous than it should.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Let's Bottle Bohemia
    Fans of So Much for the City's warm, Beach Boys-esque charms may be disappointed with The Thrills' musical progression, but most should enjoy Bohemia's varied charms.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wincing The Night Away
    The hooks are much more muted than on the band’s debut Oh, Inverted World, and overall Wincing the Night Away assumes a less assertive stance than sophomore standout Chutes Too Narrow.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ether Song
    It may not be the most exciting work you’re likely to hear this year, but as a lazy-afternoon chill-out record, it should have few peers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    News And Tributes
    Promising but safe.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Live @ The Fillmore
    Considering that Fillmore isn’t drawn from a single show, it’s baffling as to why the slower numbers are bunched together and the more exhilarating songs pushed nearly an hour into the listening experience. As a result, the album falls somewhere between Thin Lizzy and Zeppelin on the double live barometer.
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