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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
Highest review score: 100 Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969-1971
Lowest review score: 0 They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,099 out of 4305
  2. Mixed: 1,151 out of 4305
  3. Negative: 55 out of 4305
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Soft Spot
    Sound wimpy? Well, if you could write a song half as good as "Close The Door," we guarantee that your girlfriend would like you twice as much. [Sep 2003, p.115]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Decoration Day
    A raging, ragged Behind The Music--15 coal-black odes to the casualties that art leaves behind and that life can't avoid. [Aug 2003, p.111]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Deja Entendu
    A fresh, literate blast of nuanced screamers and mid-tempo heart purging. [Aug 2003, p.119]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Welcome Interstate Managers
    The lyrics explore suburban everyguyism, but the choruses explode like fireworks over a church picnic. [Jul 2003, p.109]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sumday
    A warm and deeply engaging snapshot of fractured relationships and existential dread. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hail To The Thief
    It feels more like a band playingto a multitude of strengths than the formal wrestling of Kid A. [Jul 2003, p.103]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    St. Anger
    This is the album Metallica lifers have been waiting for: an inspired return to the complex savagery of old. [Jul 2003, p.109]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    O
    His single, "Cannonball," will be there for you after your next breakup. [Nov 2003, p.117]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kill Them With Kindness
    Heartfelt guitar rock capable of punching you in the gut and patting you on the back. [Aug 2003, p.114]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In the Pursuit of Leisure
    The self-deprecation still rings hollow, but the hooks never do. [Jul 2003, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shootenanny!
    This is the kind of bedroom folk pop E's done prettier--and weirder--before. [Jul 2003, p.111]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    You Forgot It In People
    Optimistic, ambient indie rock that floats between the bubble bath and the deep blue sea. [Sep 2003, p.115]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dying In Stereo
    Northern State's skills and we-can-do-this exuberance transcend what otherwise might be shtick. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Yes New York
    A pretty accurate representation of the New York rock renaissance. [Jul 2003, p.110]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Rooney
    At times, it's as if he's looking over Rivers Cuomo's shoulder during a chem exam. [Jul 2003, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Built On Squares
    Mix[es] xylophones, spaghetti-Western trumpets, and quirky trick guitars to sweeping effect. [Jun 2003, p.109]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Anthem
    Often lives up to its title, but they ought to find a kind way to break it off with the horn section. [Jul 2003, p.110]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deftones
    This is less an 11-song album than a single long-form mope. [Jul 2003, p.105]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Out Of The Vein
    Shows a weakness for arena-rock voguing and Dawson's Creek-dipping melancholia. [Jun 2003, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Good Mourning
    Their best by a mile. [Jun 2003, p.100]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Politics Of The Business
    The harpoons that Paul hurls at the industry's blubber have lost their edge. [June 2003, p.105]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Movement
    [Vocalist Beth Ditto's] temper-tantrum vocals turn tired indie-rock poses into two-minute biblical epics. [Jun 2003, p.105]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Rounds
    Rounds is a more varied trip, with a darker vibe suggesting the influence of Hebden's labelmate Dan Snaith of Manitoba. [Aug 2003, p.118]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    One Word Extinguisher
    It's a busy, dazzling record, though more detours--like "Storm Returns," a dreamy guitar-and-beats collage--would help aerate things. [Aug 2003, p.118]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Black Cherry
    Goldfrapp downplay the "cinematic" strings in favor of buzzing live-wire synths. [May 2003, p.116]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    On And On
    He's got many peaceful, breezy songs about peaceful, easy feelings but lacks the hooks to hang 'em on. [Jun 2003, p.109]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Think Tank
    The album shuffles and grooves like Fela Kuti sloshed on gin and tonics. [June 2003, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    All Around
    Always charmingly dour and deathlessly romantic. [Jul 2003, p.110]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Baby I'm Bored
    Frank folk-rock songs that are too sketchy to be great but too good to write off. [May 2003, p.116]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    American Life
    A suite of faux-folkie electro that fuses the introspection of Ray of Light with Music's fast-food dance licks. [Jun 2003, p.99]
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