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For 2,595 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Exit
Lowest review score: 10 The Path of Totality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,935 out of 2595
  2. Mixed: 572 out of 2595
  3. Negative: 88 out of 2595
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daisy
    Brand New found a way to create a complete, effervescent album.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unmap
    Despite being a solid, sometimes gorgeous album of songs from a very well-matched collaboration of artists, Unmap’s ultimate effect will be whetting appetites everywhere for the next Bon Iver record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eskimo Snow
    The second half of the album is much more consistent if you still feel like listening, but beyond a spare moment or two (“This Blackest Purse” is surprisingly touching), most of Eskimo Snow is easily surpassed by other songs from Why?’s catalogue.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Us
    As it stands, Us lies at a precarious crossroads of self-help preaching and black history compendium, succeeding at neither and exposing a serious disconnect between lyricist and producer.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Brief History Of Love
    The Big Pink’s A Brief History of Love will elicit a response of some kind. It’s just that kind of album.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Backspacer
    Pearl Jam's ninth album sounds a lot more optimistic and positive than the band ever has. More importantly, Backspacer sees Pearl Jam finally escape the slump they fell into with "Binaural" nine years ago.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Journal For Plague Lovers
    It's a shade better than Send Away The Tigers, itself heralded as a return to form, and in a year that hasn't really been anything special so far for straight-ahead rock, this is a standout.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sort Of Revolution
    Sort Of Revolution is nothing short of brodacious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Temporary Pleasure
    Temporary Pleasure is a glitterball of an album, shining just right when the light hits and falling where it doesn’t, but like any party, it’ll get you moving if you’re in the mood.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time To Die
    Time To Die has its heart in the right place, but the product is not as nearly lovable.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Resistance
    Even where the record shines--and it does at points--it really only does so against a background of blinding light from Muse’s back catalog, which is an unfortunate, but inescapable point.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Central Market
    Instead of rhythmic exploration Braxton is working with a variety of harmonic and melodic developments and in doing so has made a refreshing and similar counterpoint to 'Mirrored'. Central Market may not be as calculated, but it is more fun and in general more easy to digest.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The World I Want to Leave Behind
    With The World I Want To Leave Behind, Moneen have grown up and taken a turn towards a more mainstream sound. The concern has to be whether they have turned too far and become just another run-of-the-mill radio rock outfit.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Chair In The Doorway
    What can be viewed as a weakness can also be seen as a strength, and for the most part one can conclude that The Chair in the Doorway is a successful return to form.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Prism
    The important thing to note when it comes to In Prism is that as hiatus records go this is one of the best in the last couple years.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
    Everything about Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II demands worship and solidifies Raekwon as one of history's best with a continuation that exceeds his original debut in every way imaginable.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Curse Your Branches
    Regardless of the circumstances surrounding its creation, Curse Your Branches is Bazan's best album to date.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Artwork
    The Used have taken the best elements of their previous releases, refined them and delivered the strongest album of their career.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Humbug
    If Turner can return to his best--and there's reason to suspect he can't--then the possibilities open to them are potentially limitless. Then, Humbug will be seen a stepping stone. That's certainly how it feels now.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One Love
    While sounding more like a compilation of singles than a fully cohesive album, One Love could in fact be the release that finally wins over both the dedicated weekend club-goers, as well as the stay-at-home older generation looking to revisit their youth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
    Simply put, No More Stories… is accessible without being overbearingly so, experimental without sounding too abstract and ridiculous, and most importantly, one of the year's most endearing records.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Breakthrough
    Colbie’s soothing vocals, the warm sound of the music, and the memorable choruses are all well worth listening to this for when the mood for something easy hits you.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No Baggage
    A more confident, complete record than its predecessor, No Baggage sees Dolores O'Riordan building on old strengths, while broadening her artistic scope farther than it's been in thirteen years.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hospice
    It’s obvious Hospice is an album Silberman made for himself, one that we’re just privileged to listen to and enjoy. So sit back, listen, and consider yourself lucky, punk.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King Of Jeans
    Pissed Jeans have polished up their sound as much as is seemingly possible and because of that they've crafted their finest record yet.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luminous Night
    Chasny has completed the move started with "School of the Flower" into a more polished sound and Luminous Night seems to be the finest example from this new period of Six Organs of Admittance.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Can't Take It With You
    You Can’t Take It With You sounds like a proper album par excellence, gelling together with a cohesiveness so many strive for but never really hit.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A rousing vessel in which Wolf has finally had the chance to channel his newfound zany confidence into his most extravagant and captivating record yet.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slaughterhouse
    Slaughterhouse hearkens back to the early days of the New York hardcore underground, and it's a travesty that it does nothing more. With commonplace soul-influenced boom bap at the fore, compositions this anachronistic just don't cut it in 2009.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Post-Nothing
    Japandroids' (or JPNDRDS) first full length--Post-Nothing--is the perfect embodiment of the post-teen angst, excitement, anxiety and fuck-it artlessness of finally packing your bags and moving on, wherever the destination as long as it’s at least a million miles away from home.
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