Spin's Scores

  • Music
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
Score distribution:
4305 music reviews
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    AC are all about the sometimes blissful, often uncanny intermingling of song and space. [Nov 2005, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Tanglewood roars back to life with a massive band, a detailed sound, and a voice that sounds ravaged but right. [Oct 2005, p.142]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Doom's playing it safe. [Oct 2005, p.133]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    This time they come dangerously close to conventional rock. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Here, he just wrecks shit... occasionally stopping for moments of necessary reflection. [Sep 2005, p.109]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Though these faux-naif hipsters genuinely worship the wizard of Ozzfest, they don't have the chops to do much about it. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Elizondo's zippy production effectively pushes Apple's tendency to plod. [Nov 2005, p.96]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A multifaceted, densely layered sound. [Oct 2005, p.138]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sounds exactly like what you'd expect. [Oct 2005, p.132]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Z
    In spite of all their stony sonic exploration, they never let Z turn into Zzzz. [Oct 2005, p.133]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    This album is closer to 1998's whitechocolatespaceegg: mature and complicated. [Oct 2005, p.136]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    If there's a method to this madness, you definitely won't find it here. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    At times, it seems like mid-level fame yields too many tour-based gripes for Slug. [Nov 2005, p.103]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Plays like a poppy salvo against [Broken Social Scene's] cerebral forays. [Oct 2005, p.138]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Each track follows the Rage Against The Machine model: Make music for the masses without diluting it for the bosses. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    This completely non-shitty '70s-Nashville country record reminds you why Adams was once a big deal. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Unsurprisingly buoyant. [Oct 2005, p.137]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Grandaddy's Moogy, moody music still sounds like ELO as HAL-9000. [Oct 2005, p.137]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    [A] pensive disc. [Oct 2005, p.137]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    What passed for refreshing last year is merely rote here. [Dec 2005, p.105]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Listening to this disc sorta gives new meaning to the phrase virgin sacrifice. [Oct 2005, p.142]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Banhart brings the peace and love, but not the understanding. [Sep 2005, p.104]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    They blaze with scene-satiric brilliance. [Sep 2005, p.109]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    They make each shimmer of postnatal whimsy seem like an eternal gulag of the spotless mind. [Sep 2005, p.109]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Odditorium... is a chance to repair their cred, and insofar as they have any, they do all right. [Sep 2005, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A little swing moves these songs along in otherwise unobscured directions. [Nov 2005, p.101]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There is no more transportive band working in music. [Oct 2005, p.140]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    People from New York trying to sound like people from England trying to imagine what Neil Young would sound like if he were in Coldplay. [Oct 2005, p.137]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Their fatalist slow jams get more rickety as the minutes pass, but they're prettiest when they break down. [Sep 2005, p.109]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    As ornate and bloated as West's ego. [Sep 2005, p.99]
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