Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971 | |
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| Lowest review score: | They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
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Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
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Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
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Negative: 55 out of 4305
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Unerringly lovely, but best when the drums heat up. [Feb 2006, p.87]- Spin
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By staying on his uniquely off-kilter game, he's become an unlikely career artist. [Mar 2006, p.95]- Spin
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[He] has a goofy sense of humor and an excellent feel for the dance floor but virtually no knack for song form. [Sep 2006, p.114]- Spin
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It's so London-specific that it almost requires an England-to-English translation for us Yanks. [Feb 2006, p.92]- Spin
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After only a few spins, The Greatest sounds like another [masterpiece]. [Feb 2006, p.84]- Spin
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It's weird how this spiral of genial melodic plaints can sound so weak and self-pitying when it's sung by a pushy dude and not a smart, empathetic woman with a voice. [Feb 2006, p.87]- Spin
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The frail bodyslams on the band's debut album throb and stagger as if throbbing and staggering were against the grain. [Feb 2006, p.88]- Spin
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Like your favorite dive bar, it feels uncomfortably familiar. [Feb 2006, p.87]- Spin
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Nix the emo sea-chantey stuff and these two CDs... would be pretty excellent. [Mar 2006, p.95]- Spin
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Their gutsy spirit, while not "soul" exactly, does allow the band to dodge flippant dismissals of poseurhood. [Jan 2005, p.90]- Spin
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These pop dirges are comforting until they get preachy about sins and healing. [Jan 2005, p.91]- Spin
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First Impressions may not be the best Strokes album, but damn if it doesn't feel like the last. [Jan 2006, p.88]- Spin
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Too often, Blige's voice doesn't get the space it needs to cut loose with emotion. [Feb 2006, p.85]- Spin
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Cut Mr. Hansen up, and he reassembles nicely, but weirdly enough, it's tough to out-Beck Beck. [Jan 2006, p.92]- Spin
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[A] more toned-down, at times strikingly sincere, follow-up. [Dec 2005, p.104]- Spin
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An impressive balancing act that name-checks Ween and cracks wise about Stevie Wonder's vision while spinning bighearted melodies and harmonies over quirky beatscapes. [Jan 2005, p.89]- Spin
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For what it's worth, Hypnotize is the project's better half. [Dec 2005, p.102]- Spin
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The best bummer-country band of this sucky century. [Dec 2005, p.107]- Spin
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His agile attack still lacks Jigga's precision, 50's swagger, or Kanye's cocky confessionalism. [Jan 2006, p.92]- Spin
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With its surges and dips, Confessions mimics the rising/falling action of, say, a DJ set, a hit of Ecstasy, or Madonna's own career. [Dec 2005, p.106]- Spin
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Not since Grateful Dead's Europe '72 has there been a live double album in which intimacy and expansiveness, guitar mess and piano reflection commingle this sweetly. [Dec 2005, p.107]- Spin
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Instead of updating psych garage folk, they allow its corpus to fester in skronky breakdowns, churning feedback, and... a wicked spirit-medium session. [Jan 2006, p.91]- Spin
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Whether Eleanor echoes her grandmother or provides a less mature counterpoint, her gravity melds with Sarantos' gusto for a dissonance that's never entirely discordant. [Nov 2005, p.100]- Spin