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For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971
Lowest review score: 0 They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
  2. Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
  3. Negative: 55 out of 4305
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Queen
    Except for standouts “Barbie Dreams,” “Good Form,” and “Chun-Li,” Queen is full of songs that Nicki has more or less done previously and in better ways. It’s not that Nicki has become a worse rapper (“Lara been Croft” jokes aside) or that the production is bad, it’s that everything here is only adequate--nothing pops, no chances are taken, and there isn’t any notable magic in these records.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)
    Lovingly fastidious and packed with special effects.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sensuous
    Oyamada fuses a bristling spectrum of textures and rhythms. [May 2007, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    7/27
    Fifth Harmony’s talents do get their shine in spots of this front-loaded hodgepodge.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alpinisms
    Alpinisms' sweeping, ethereal pop owes a stylistic debt to My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins, but the debut album by former Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis' new project reveals a range of influences and a sophisticated approach to arrangement that sets the trio well apart from less imaginative latter-day shoegazers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Our Bedroom After The War
    The edge is smoothed down here, the bitterness outweighs the resignation, and strangely, the two sound stronger on their own. [Oct 2007, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Temporary Pleasure
    Regardless of which indie celeb is on the mic or which recreational drug best suits the beat, each track hints at hedonism without hangovers.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Fall
    At its best, We Fall treats its revolving door of guests less like a cavalcade of strangers than a band of familiar colleagues.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delirium
    Finally, she’s embracing the responsibility to provide stone-cold tunes without pretense.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    1984
    An odd gem in a catalog full of them, 1984 is a rewarding left turn from a band who’ve remained interesting for so long because they’re less likely to fall off than wander.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Garden
    The tracks that are anchored by [Sia and Jose Gonzalez] have a soulful edge, but elsewhere the instrumentals drift aimlessly toward the hotel jazz bar. [Jul 2006, p.90]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
    Even at just 42 minutes, Tonight is relentless, yet the comedown is exquisite.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mockingbird Time
    Ignore the mouth-breathing rock bangers, and Mockingbird is as comfortable as well-worn denim.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    To Dreamers
    On his fifth full-length, this '60s-pop obsessive mostly ditches the balmy homemade chorales of his earlier work for folk-rock verities, crafting his tightest, fullest-sounding record yet.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another Eternity
    The weight of Tucker and Roddick's reverb-drenched, synth-stuffed production is such that it's hard for their songs to consistently achieve the kind of liftoff that the pair desires.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Whip It On
    While most of the music on Whip It On is somewhere in the vicinity of cool, the vocals sound like two people trying out for a Jesus and Mary Chain tribute band. [Jan 2003, p.101]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A Drug Problem That Never Existed
    Traffics full-time in the kind of raw, godless punk rock that's relegated to a handful of cuts on Queens' albums. [Sep 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ether Song
    Conjure[s] the glum glamour of prime Coldplay. [Apr 2003, p.107]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Pinkprint
    Tracking and self-editing issues have always plagued her Minajesty's projects, but never more so than on this one, an album that probably would've landed with bigger fanfare had Minaj not so loudly touted it as all but an instant classic all year long.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    In Your Honor
    Both these records chronicle the physical and mental graffiti of figuring out how to emerge from some very large shadows, including his own, with nerve and power. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
    With Drive-By Truckers, singer-guitarist Jason Isbell learned to embrace some of those [Southern rock] cliches; on his gritty, vibrant second solo album, he begins to transcend them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
    When it comes to trap raps, he's coined and refined a slick, successful musical formula that TM103, easily maintains.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Join Us
    Their wit keeps maturing, but TMBG's gentle weirdness is forever young.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Empire Strikes First
    Good records from the Descendents and Bad Religion in one year? Joe Strummer's ghost must be keeping close watch. [Jul 2004, p.110]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Howl
    Howl is not exactly the group's Nebraska--BRMC dabble in too much "White Album" Beatlemania for that--but it's a general extension of that record. [Sep 2005, p.101]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tired Of Hanging Around
    Music this hard-partying can make for a tough morning after. [Oct 2006, p.105]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    in•ter a•li•a
    The fan service can only go so far, though. With each successive spin, the LP’s post-reunion giddiness recedes, revealing the overarching déja vu as a crutch.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    King For A Day
    A near-operatic concept record about fantasy and delusion. [Mar 2007, p.91]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Another Sound Is Dying
    There are traces of reverb and chicken-scratch guitar, but the band's drill-press instro-rock lacks thegenre's spacial dislocation and sense of thematic possibility. [Feb 2008, p.92]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Way
    Some newcomers might find Ecstatic Sunshine's loops tedious, but brain-melting repetition is the point. [June 2008, p.108]
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