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For 223 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 82
Highest review score: 100 Pick A Bigger Weapon
Lowest review score: 16 A Day Without Rain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 184 out of 223
  2. Mixed: 37 out of 223
  3. Negative: 2 out of 223
223 music reviews
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    New Danger
    Here the defining flow is sonic--a shadowy, guitar-drenched tone poem of the streets.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    America's Sweetheart
    An album as invigorating in its contempt for rock professionalism as Neil Young's Tonight's the Night.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Devil's Night
    These ill jockeys are just a two-inch ruler for Marshall Mathers to measure his dick against.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tight Connection
    Bad laptop Blondie.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Harmonies For The Haunted
    What gave Shawn Christensen and his botched tonsillectomy the idea of joining the exalted ranks of Robert Smith and Simon Le Bon?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Travistan
    Morrison's predictably intelligent solo debut puts personality where the Dismemberment Plan's synergy used to be.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dirty Vegas
    Deeply anonymous.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Chronicles Of Life And Death
    Beyond some rich-and-famous irony, not a single suburban detail soils an hour of good intentions. And you know the music overreaches too.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chapter II
    The sole outright attraction of her pathologically modest follow-up is "Then Ya Gone."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Invincible
    At 78 minutes this is too long, and especially given his history, "The Lost Children" is offensive. But the first three tracks are the Rodney Jerkins of the year, "2000 Watts" is the Teddy Riley of the past five years, and even the prunables offer small surprises.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Winning Days
    Inferior to not just Nirvana but Oasis.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    A Day Without Rain
    Yanni is Tchaikovsky by comparison, Sarah McLachlan Ella Fitzgerald, treacle Smithfield ham.... Like Master P or Michael Bolton only worse, she tests one's faith in democracy itself.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Never Gone
    Lest you doubted it, this is grotesque.
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