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For 1,453 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 4.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Fed
Lowest review score: 0 Encore
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 987 out of 1453
  2. Mixed: 361 out of 1453
  3. Negative: 105 out of 1453
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Misery Is A Butterfly
    Despite the increased emphasis on production, like Blonde Redhead's entire catalogue, the chirping, child-like cords of lead vocalists Amedeo Pace and Kazu Makino act as the essential ingredient to the bands avant-garde concoction.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Slow Wonder
    Newman has created a record bearing all the traits that make him such an engaging musical personality in the first place: elliptical wordplay, unusual delivery, and obscenely catchy songs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Street's Disciple
    Street’s Disciple reveals Nas at a new peak, finally comfortable in the post-millennial hip-hop world.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [2004 Version]
    This is no cynical cash-in; every new track adds gestalt to an album which in its original incarnation was pretty damn great to begin with.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    So Stylistic
    One long sugar rush.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Body Language
    Body Language isn’t so much a massive artistic leap as it is a total distillation of her sound and style.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rejoicing In The Hands
    If Oh Me Oh My was Devendra’s stunning introduction to the wide musical landscape, then Rejoicing in the Hands further marks his emergence as the most unique and important new voice in the music today.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wolf
    Ultimately your reaction to the first album will define your reaction here. I can foresee a long cult career for Andrew W.K., devoted acolytes swearing he is the best thing ever, and everybody else ignoring him because they don’t know how to do anything else.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bubblegum
    It is, to be frank, one of the most remarkable and forward-looking rock albums that you will hear all year, and testament to Lanegan’s ability to take desolate lyrics and fashion beautiful, redemptive tunes around them.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dust
    Trip-hop has been brought into the 21st century, at last.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One By One
    There is no denying the power of this album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever
    Hyper-concept pseudo-narratives aside, Devin Dazzle is, in a word, shocking, where shocking = rocking and rocking = danceable and danceable = nuts and nuts = 80s kitsch-sex-funk-house-new-wave-punk-disco.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cold House
    This is, quite possibly, one of the finest releases of last year, and certainly one of the most overlooked.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Printz
    A directionless mess that never makes an obvious commercial ploy, never reveals any new ideas and never implies any forethought or central intelligence, yet somehow demands attention throughout, revealing new layers and engaging moments with every listen.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Tigers Have Spoken
    Neko possesses one of the most terrifically powerful voices in music today.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Daybreaker
    Yeah, she’s sticking with the formula that got her going six years ago, but when it actually works, why bother messing with it?
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Secret Wars
    Secret Wars feels like a keeper, like an album I’ll pull out and play and still love ten years from now.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Until The End
    Kittie's most fully-realised and, for non-metalheads, approachable album yet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Panda Park
    Panda Park might not be one of the easiest albums to get into this year, but given proper time, it reveals itself as one of the best.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Since We Last Spoke
    Much in the way Pete Rock or Kanye West reinterpret classic 70s soul for a new generation, Since We Last Spoke is RJD2’s trip through the AM dial 30 years ago, the songs of the period experienced anew.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
    The variety and talent this album offers is enough to recommend it to almost any rap fan.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dressy Bessy
    Dressy Bessy is their most forward, cohesive, and just downright pleasant release yet.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Duel
    Not just a great record, but a much-needed dose of country-rock reality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Me First
    He may not be the first to mix the bucolic with the mechanic, and God knows he won’t be the last, but here all the symptoms of overexposure sink under the unassuming grace of his gifts.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Venice
    Fennesz makes Boards Of Canada sound like Daft Punk and My Bloody Valentine sound like Oasis.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Franz Ferdinand
    Short of getting into a time portal and hurling yourself back to the late 70s, this is the closest you will get that sound in 2004.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Satanic Panic In The Attic
    One of those singular albums that is so richly dense, so unabashedly whimsical and so damned polished.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delirium Cordia
    I don’t see it as a release you can draw much from through repeated listening, but it’s a brave and powerful trip nonetheless.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romantica
    The songs are light, the production both relaxed and relaxing... the music breathes.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Heat
    The Heat compares favorably to PJ Harvey’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, offering the same NYCentric references (“9-11 baby boom”), gruff, understated guitar work and narrative aptitude. These are Malin’s stories from the city and they don’t disappoint.
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