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For 789 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 One Day I'm Going To Soar
Lowest review score: 20 Last Night on Earth
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 495 out of 789
  2. Mixed: 280 out of 789
  3. Negative: 14 out of 789
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Long Way Down
    He specialises in staggeringly banal lyrics ("Grow old with me", "When you hold me in your arms I can feel your heart") delivered in an overwrought cry-baby warble, and song structures with big predictable sub-Keane, sub-Arcade Fire crescendos.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Borrell 1
    He sounds utterly burnt out. Poor.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Stars Dance
    It's a pop record, which means one killer track would redeem everything. Predictably enough, it never comes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Havoc and Bright Lights
    Morissette is the sort of woman who does yoga to ensure she can still gaze at her navel... Self-obsessed.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Last Night on Earth
    Even if it's a joke, it's a joke you don't wanna hear.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Famous First Words
    This debut is so lame, it makes the Beady Eye album sound like Let It Bleed.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Overexposed
    The sooner this bunch of plums fade back into obscurity, the better.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Kisses on the Bottom
    Suggests that McCartney lacks anyone to tell him when he's had a terrible idea.
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