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For 12,018 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4
Lowest review score: 10 Let Me Introduce My Friends
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,035 out of 12018
  2. Mixed: 2,909 out of 12018
  3. Negative: 74 out of 12018
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Herein Wild
    For the most part, it's an effective addition.... The only real snag here is Rose's voice, which sometimes sounds so detached as to be barely present. [Nov 2013, p.78]
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      • Posted Oct 16, 2013
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Golden Hour
    Predictably, it's all over the map, but The Golden Hour fizzes with invention. [July 2008, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Under the Spell of Joy
    Their latest brings welcome variations in tone and tempo. [Nov 2020, p.29]
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      • Posted Oct 2, 2020
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blakroc
    The Black Keys must take credit for negotiating the minefield of the rap/rock crossover without any serious casualties, but maybe an R&B/rock crossover would have reaped even greater rewards. [Jan 2010, p. 113]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better Day
    Biblical parable and bumptious force-of-nature feminism, ensure Better Day fulfills its upbeat mission. [Sep 2011, p.93]
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      • Posted Aug 18, 2011
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Colvin & Earle
    Quibbles aside, though, this appears to be a partnership with plenty of mileage left. [Jul 2016, p.70]
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      • Posted Jun 9, 2016
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Love Is Love
    Love Is Love really takes off when the brass comes out. [Jun 2017, p.38]
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      • Posted Apr 20, 2017
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kidsticks
    Simple but true. [Jun 2016, p.78]
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      • Posted May 10, 2016
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Overall though--a quality 'One More American Song' shares with the whole collection--this is a song with an understated, but crucial, element of hope. [Aug 2009, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mixing Colours
    The result is, as much as you'd expect, elegant and tranquil. [Apr 2020, p.27]
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      • Posted Mar 17, 2020
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Utopia
    Left to his own devices, Byrne comes home to a screwball hymnal mode that, for all the lyrical left turns, can feel a little too predictable. [Apr 2018, p.29]
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      • Posted Mar 1, 2018
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Horses In The Sky
    Haunting lamentations that owe as much to the Jewish Klezmer and US folk traditions as to Slint. [May 2005, p.110]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let The Dominoes Fall
    Thier latest dusts off their usual blend of late-'70s Clash-styled punk, ska and dub reggae, but applies topspin via 'Civilian Ways,' a bluesy folk exercise inspired by the return of Armstrong's brother from Iraq. [Sep 2009, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live on Ten Legs
    While there's not any unity of occasion to speak of, the cover of "Arms Aloft" by Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros is an impressively galvanising opener, new material sitting comfortably alongside older, more diffuse cuts. [Feb 2011, p.95]
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      • Posted Jan 24, 2011
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Some Cities
    Confirms Doves as the country's most innovative rock group. [Mar 2005, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    100 Lovers
    A joyfully inspired album from a band who give pomp a good name. [Apr 2011, p.78]
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      • Posted Mar 29, 2011
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise
    He's rarely sounded so utterly engaged. [Oct 2010, p.99]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another Fine Day
    Minus the lovely, stoned air, Another Fine Day doesn't quite reach the heights of its predecessor, but there's plenty to admire. [Aug 2006, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Night On My Side
    It's almost disturbingly accomplished. [Jul 2002, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slideling
    The best album McCulloch's had a hand in since 1984's Ocean Rain. [May 2003, p.96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Soundings
    Fall[s] somewhere between Talk Talk and the Bunnymen. [Sep 2004, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Up At The Lake
    A curate's egg of tested pop styles.... Though hardly the album-length E-rush of career peak Tellin' Stories, this approach still offers small gems. [Jul 2004, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    '64 - '95
    The tone is less whimsical, occasionally ecstatic, and at times reminiscent of big beat. [Mar 2005, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resilience
    It all suggests a sea change in attitude. [Sep 2005, p.114]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Descended Like Vultures
    What elevates Rogue Wave above the pale massed ranks of the wispy and fey, though, are melodies with real muscle, and a muscial ambition that flirts with the experimental, but remains joyously within reach of the FM dial. [Dec 2005, p.112]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At 89
    It proves a diverting tour round Seeger's perennial concerns. [Jan 2008, p.111]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Polar Bear
    This long-awaited follow-ups sees them improvising live as a quintet, with a few overdubs. [Sep 2008, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Friday Night Lights
    This is a hugely infectious debut. [Oct 2008, p.81]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Treasury Library Canada
    Treasury Library Canada feels less whimsical and more polished, although Hamilton still sticks closely to his signature mix of rich acoustic chamber-pop arrangemnts and quietly barbed lyrics. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Way
    Ian Brown follows an idiosyncratic path in keeping with My Way’s title--mixing up the kind of heavily synthesised rhythms learned from Jamaican dancehall with a curious cover of Zager And Evans’ dystopian folk oddity 'In The Year 2525,' some insidious grooves and, on closer 'So High,' a somewhat wayward stab at soul.
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