The Wire's Scores

  • Music
For 2,879 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 SMiLE
Lowest review score: 10 Amazing Grace
Score distribution:
2879 music reviews
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It takes a while to get on Friedberger's wavelength.... But his sheer love of a good tune is seductive. [Dec 2012, p.63]
    • The Wire
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Chosen topics prove less crucial than his relentlessly tedious delivery. [Feb 2018, p.51]
    • The Wire
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A deliriously infantile playhouse of sound. [May 2016, p.51]
    • The Wire
    • 45 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metallica's unrelenting sledgehammer style works as the perfect complement to Reed's vision of compassionless love, with monolithic chords deployed with almost surgical precision wile he dissects relationships w of masochism and power. [Dec 2011, p.63]
    • The Wire
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lil B's slower, more ruminative delivery here feels far braver for being more exposed and vulnerable. [Dec 2010, p.50]
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