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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Where 2001's Discovery coyly gene-spliced cock rock and New York garage, Human merely cuts and pastes. [Apr 2005, p.105]- Spin
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Frontman Ricky Wilson is an average singer but an extraordinary melodist. [May 2005, p.102]- Spin
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Offers modest formal thrills without much depth beneath its glimmering surfaces. [Apr 2005, p.107]- Spin
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Romantic defeatism can be charming if you infuse it with enough daydreaming, art-school blues. [Mar 2005, p.92]- Spin
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This time around he's tryin' too hard to be everything to everybody. [Apr 2005, p.97]- Spin
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Like Coldplay killing time with the Happy Mondays at Manchester's Hacienda club. [Mar 2005, p.92]- Spin
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Frances explores an explosive groove Comatorium only implied. [Mar 2005, p.83]- Spin
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Doesn't build much on the Buffett ease and placeless island rhythms of Johnson's previous albums, but hey, ambition is for the ambitious. [Apr 2005, p.102]- Spin
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And while he may never amount to more than Aesop Rock-minus, there's some black magic lurking between his bitter introspection and his myriad producers' "goth-hop" illuminations. [Apr 2005, p.108]- Spin
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Though they fit snugly inside their vintage genes, the Kings manage to make room for a surprising amount of heart. [Mar 2005, p.85]- Spin
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Flat... only a few songs flirt with her previous brilliance. [Apr 2005, p.102]- Spin
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The rapper's inborn goofiness just gives his words more bite. [Mar 2005, p.85]- Spin
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Songs like "Fast Cars"... are gregarious, just like the beats, which are playful where Bazooka was ponderous. [Mar 2005, p.85]- Spin
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He's got an excellent ear, a savvy way with hooks, and an untrained voice that knows its limitations. [Mar 2005, p.88]- Spin
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Definitely not as funny or crazy as they think they are, but problably more than they need to be. [Apr 2005, p.108]- Spin
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The grimy, blues-black nuggets [PJ Harvey] pounds into armor for Faithfull are song-for-song stronger than Harvey's own 2004 album, Uh Huh Her.... But Cave's songs are a little too pitch-perfect. [Jan 2005, p.96]- Spin
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Between these boy-noise roils you can see how much the band want to be their generation's Yes. [Feb 2005, p.87]- Spin
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On these subtly lovelorn songs, his voice quavers with a grounded, lived-in authority. [Feb 2005, p.92]- Spin
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Most of Digital's songs seem somewhat suffocated. [Feb 2005, p.85]- Spin
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An often-great set of songs about loneliness. [Feb 2005, p.85]- Spin
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It's the album on which the Chems relax into a comfortable maturity, secure in their status as elder statesmen. [Feb 2005, p.87]- Spin
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She's become masterful at painting in the blues and grays of everyday emotion. [Feb 2005, p.92]- Spin