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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This is a troubling record. There are some stellar moments, but it's mostly just troubling. [Jul 2004, p.105]- Spin
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If you're going to crossbreed Built To Spill and the Flaming Lips, then you might as well have fun doing it. [Jul 2004, p.110]- Spin
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Unfortunately, the elements that clicked so well on "Giuliani" prove an awkward fit on !!!'s sophomore full-length. [Jul 2004, p.111]- Spin
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She tries to be jokey, warm, even friendly on occasion--but she also sounds awkward. [Jul 2004, p.105]- Spin
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The monster-chomp guitars and semiauto percussion are still in effect, but somebody spilled a little Pantene in the Pantera. [Jul 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Cryptic and cutting. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Spin
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A Kleenex-grabbing, chain-smoking, staring-out-the-window, in-bed-for-days breakup record. [Jun 2004, p.106]- Spin
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Tical 0... takes that voice and plugs it into more than a dozen tried-and-true rap templates. [Jun 2004, p.104]- Spin
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The live guitars and drums--and vocals more emo than robo--give off an irresistible warmth. [Aug 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Though they've traded some of the unhinged thrash of 2002's Black City for keyboardy atmosphere, the band's Goteborg gloom can't hide the hooks. [Jun 2004, p.108]- Spin
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The Jane's Addiction album Jane's Addiction should have made last year. [Jun 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Evokes Bjork as a Latina wallflower, sketching gossamer balladry with acoustic guitar and oddball synths. [Jun 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Beautifully arranged and produced yet feels like something on display behind milky glass. [Jul 2004, p.112]- Spin
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At 57, Smith can still find the ecstatic in the everyday, and she's no longer adrift in the mandolin wind. [May 2004, p.109]- Spin
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But if the rote button-pushing gets bleak, the beats and battle rhymes are state-of-the-art. [Jun 2004, p.103]- Spin
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The toughest record ever made by a former mainstream country artist.... If all the songs don't rival her finest work, the arrangements pull them up. [May 2004, p.105]- Spin
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Without French accents or anime babes, this kind of thing just feels incomplete. [Jul 2004, p.110]- Spin
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Inches compiles them all, from the high-voltage shriekathon "Blackouts on Thursday" to "Hold on to Your Genre," where a churning bass line meets shimmery guitar worthy of a new-wave Edge. [Jun 2004, p.108]- Spin
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A bruisingly great collection of demented 1988-style boom-bap. [May 2004, p.107]- Spin
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This stuff may be lo-fi, but in Anderson's case, the hissy fits. [Jul 2004, p.112]- Spin
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For all their sonic salad-tossing, Tortoise can't fade guitarist Jeff Parker, the band's secret weapon and the one dude whose instrument connects them explicitly to their college-radio roots. [May 2004, p.107]- Spin
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Evidence and Iriscience remain so humorlessly hard they could guard Buckingham Palace. [May 2004, p.108]- Spin
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Half expansive, burnished radio-rock, half swampy Delta hoodoo-hollerin' that reeks of Brock's Southern sojourn. [May 2004, p.103]- Spin
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