Spin's Scores
- Music
For 4,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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AC are all about the sometimes blissful, often uncanny intermingling of song and space. [Nov 2005, p.98]- Spin
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Tanglewood roars back to life with a massive band, a detailed sound, and a voice that sounds ravaged but right. [Oct 2005, p.142]- Spin
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This time they come dangerously close to conventional rock. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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Here, he just wrecks shit... occasionally stopping for moments of necessary reflection. [Sep 2005, p.109]- Spin
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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]- Spin
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Elizondo's zippy production effectively pushes Apple's tendency to plod. [Nov 2005, p.96]- Spin
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Sounds exactly like what you'd expect. [Oct 2005, p.132]- Spin
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In spite of all their stony sonic exploration, they never let Z turn into Zzzz. [Oct 2005, p.133]- Spin
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This album is closer to 1998's whitechocolatespaceegg: mature and complicated. [Oct 2005, p.136]- Spin
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If there's a method to this madness, you definitely won't find it here. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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At times, it seems like mid-level fame yields too many tour-based gripes for Slug. [Nov 2005, p.103]- Spin
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Plays like a poppy salvo against [Broken Social Scene's] cerebral forays. [Oct 2005, p.138]- Spin
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Each track follows the Rage Against The Machine model: Make music for the masses without diluting it for the bosses. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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This completely non-shitty '70s-Nashville country record reminds you why Adams was once a big deal. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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Grandaddy's Moogy, moody music still sounds like ELO as HAL-9000. [Oct 2005, p.137]- Spin
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What passed for refreshing last year is merely rote here. [Dec 2005, p.105]- Spin
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Listening to this disc sorta gives new meaning to the phrase virgin sacrifice. [Oct 2005, p.142]- Spin
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Banhart brings the peace and love, but not the understanding. [Sep 2005, p.104]- Spin
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They make each shimmer of postnatal whimsy seem like an eternal gulag of the spotless mind. [Sep 2005, p.109]- Spin
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Odditorium... is a chance to repair their cred, and insofar as they have any, they do all right. [Sep 2005, p.102]- Spin
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A little swing moves these songs along in otherwise unobscured directions. [Nov 2005, p.101]- Spin
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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]- Spin
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Their fatalist slow jams get more rickety as the minutes pass, but they're prettiest when they break down. [Sep 2005, p.109]- Spin
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