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For 2,395 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Promises
Lowest review score: 0 Lulu
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,129 out of 2395
  2. Mixed: 244 out of 2395
  3. Negative: 22 out of 2395
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    WE
    It opens with a piano motif that could’ve come straight from Chris Martin’s candle-scented fingers. The matching vocals are so annoyingly whispered, they practically qualify as ASMR. Halfway through, the song changes tack and starts courting the modern market for anxiety pop. ... More specifically, it makes you think, “Does this sound like a needy Mercury Rev, a ham-fisted Grandaddy, or Wings without the easy-going self-awareness?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Monsanto Years
    Not only are the concepts themselves reductive and half-baked and the lyrics risibly clumsy, but the songs appear to have been composed in less time than it actually takes to perform them.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Famous First Words
    Yet for all their bluster of writing anthems for a new generation and saving guitar music, the reality is little more than a damp squib.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Lousy with Sylvianbriar
    Lousy With Sylvanbriar is a drab, insufferably uninteresting album.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
    The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is a flatulent folly, humming with the sulphurous reek of self-indulgence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Confess
    On Confess his tired, joyless music and moribund, hackneyed and hankey lyricism suggests a man whose concept of romanticism would go nicely with a Nairn cracker and dab of quince jelly.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Wow! Signal
    The whole thing is so over-the-top it’s gone all the way round and back up the bottom. ... The production and mastering are so garish and compressed it’s surprising Andrew Watt isn’t involved.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Only Place
    Another eleven baseless mehs that belong nowhere else than on a blog that no one reads.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Come Ahead
    It would take a hell of a reinvention to pull back Primal Scream from this stinking brink. Come Ahead is a record that fails, fatally, to recognise that Bobby Gillespie was always Primal Scream’s least compelling element.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Relapse
    This new material represents not only their most heinous effort to date; it might in fact be among the most appalling things to ever exist, empirically speaking.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Lulu
    Not only is Lulu the worst thing any of the players have been involved in, it's quite possibly a candidate for one of the worst albums ever made.
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