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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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    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Deathsentences of the Polished & Structurally Weak
    While the idea of delving into the cars of local wrecking yards and their contents is an interesting one, the music that emerges from it is noticeably weak, in comparison to other works in the genre.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    So Amazin'
    So Amazin’ isn’t quite pop and it isn’t quite rebellion--it’s straight-up high school.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    New Danger
    When (and I mean, when) he raps, he's barely conscious.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 44 Critic Score
    Man Vs Machine
    You best spend your time listening to older Xzibit joints and wait around for the next one to buy new.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square
    There are dozens of bands that do this kind of stuff better, including Wheat themselves.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A Drink & A Quick Decision
    A Drink And A Quick Decision is a pill every bit as sweet as its predecessor, mining similar terrain to achieve equally sexy results.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    America's Sweetheart
    Hole’s original précis was to become something like Sonic Youth crossed with Fleetwood Mac, and America’s Sweetheart is the closest she’s come to creating that vision.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Riot City Blues
    They make two kinds of albums. File Riot City Blues under "Shite."
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    ...it falls apart
    For as honest and beguiling as Foster's almost feminine falsetto might be, the themes being touched upon and, more importantly, the way in which Forster dabs at them so simply... causes this otherwise fine artistic expression to be slandered significantly.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    TheFutureEmbrace
    What The Future Embrace lacks in terms of consistency, it makes up for with the feeling that Corgan has turned a corner, that his return to musical credibility is well underway, and isn’t nearly as inconceivable as it was one year ago.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Created Disco
    I Created Disco is a fun and mostly very listenable pop record which satisfies the modest ambitions it sets for itself.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Dead Media
    It begins to wilt with tedium as it continues, as the drum machines and synthesizers give way to unimaginative organic instrumentation and bland, stale melodies.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Let's Just Be
    Let’s Just Be is as poppy and willfully idiosyncratic as Arthur’s older work, but is both more conventionally arranged and more loose-limbed than ever before.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Zeitgeist
    It’s all just too "over-" - overcooked, overheated, whatever you want to call it.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    This New Day
    Each of their albums so far has been misleading because none of them have really caught what Embrace are about properly, who they are. This New Day, warts and all, finally does that.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    The Music
    The combined effect is gargantuan. It’s big, it’s fast, it’s loud, it’s got a backbeat you can’t move with a juggernaught and it’s definitely not clever.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Lies For The Liars
    Lies for the Liars is a funny, befuddling, and altogether unexpectedly enjoyable record.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Kpt.Michi.Gan
    The problems on the album don’t stem from creativity or intellect, but from execution.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Harmonies For The Haunted
    Stellastarr* pushes its new grasp of tension and release, and the album shows their increased sense of cohesion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Autobiography
    She sounds like she’s adopting characters and singing their songs, rather than her own. And, for a record with the name Autobiography, it seems like no bigger criticism could be leveled.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Curtis
    There isn’t an ounce of life in Curtis.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Sweet Escape
    No one listens to Gwen Stefani to hear her rap. Or sing a sentimental power ballad. In fact, if there’s a Gwen song that can’t be described by putting two (or more) genres together, I’d suggest skipping it altogether.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    D12 World
    The problem with D12 isn’t that all of them are crap, its just that they’re not given enough room to breath and prove themselves to be better than average.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Schizophrenic
    On Schizophrenic Chasez attempts to reanimate early-80s electro, disco and new wave back into pop.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 22 Critic Score
    Slow Motion Daydream
    Mostly consists of generic rock, the sparkling production wiping clean any trace of roughness or originality in the group’s sound.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
    In some ways is a step backwards towards their rockist, meat-and-potatoes roots, and in other ways is a quantum leap into the unknown.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Road And The Radio
    He sounds ragged, out of tune in places. He simply doesn't sing as well as he used to.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Feedback
    By making a bad album that also tries so assiduously to distance themselves from the backpacker movement that they unintentionally pioneered, they may have cut off their most fervent and loyal supporters and the chance of gaining a mainstream audience.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
    We find Jewel going through the motions rather than providing us with a noteworthy movement and in the end these songs here are less artistic pronouncements and more the conclusion of a specific product line.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Welcome To The North
    The baggy beats and techno touches that occasionally made their eponymous debut seem slightly forced and naïve are stripped away, O’Brien’s production giving the band a more expensive, professional sound, just as massive and frenetic as the wilful teenage strafing they used to create, but with infinitely more control.
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