For 1,600 reviews, this publication has graded:
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62% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | |
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Lowest review score: | The New Game |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,362 out of 1600
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Mixed: 176 out of 1600
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Negative: 62 out of 1600
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But where Jay-Z raps with style and elegance to spare, Eminem hits clunker after clunker on Revival, his clumsiest record to date. It’s not just the corny jokes and goofy puns, either, although those are plenty bad- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Unfortunately, Muse's efforts can barely get off the ground and wouldn't survive a war against a fly swatter.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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Overwrought with rap cliches, Fan of a Fan is a formulaic heaping of bouncy bangers primed for the strip clubs that likely inspired it. There isn't much here, besides expletive-filled musings on sex, drugs, cars, money and dangerous misogyny.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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She doesn't give you the sense that she's thought through the opposing themes in her music: the individual versus society, modernity versus tradition, dependence versus independence. It all feels as unexamined as her use of certain vocal patterns typically associated with black singers.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 14, 2015
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The aimless fragments on The Endless River, on the other hand, are so excruciatingly dull (even by Pink Floyd’s often-dull standards) that the band’s name on the cover feels like a straight-up bait-and-switch.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 12, 2014
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If Chapman restores some of Lady Antebellum's polish, he still keeps the group moving too fast with zippy pop-country arrangements that rarely allow Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott to harmonize as sumptuously as they're able.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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Shallow, deeply unimaginative renditions [of standards out of the Great American Songbook].- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Sep 29, 2014
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The record is a failure, a virtual what-not-to-do guide for both songwriters and spurned lovers.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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- Posted May 13, 2014
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Predictable and flavorless, these songs seem to realize a fear that unfairly gathered around Shakira in 2009 when her album "She Wolf" led some critics to suspect that the Colombian-born star was attempting to Americanize her sound (or had been coerced into doing so by forces in the music industry).- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 26, 2014
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- Posted Mar 4, 2014
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Here they sag under the weight of too many wind-swept piano ballads and booming productions seemingly modeled on Katy Perry's "Roar."- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 4, 2014
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Much of Britney Jean devolves into an abyss of electro-neutral bangers produced by the reigning kings of danceable obviousness, Will.i.am and David Guetta.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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The result isn't the clean-up job it might've been; Bugg, 19, still sings with a nasal edge that wouldn't last more than a round on "American Idol." Yet the songwriting here feels more evened-out, less appealingly pugnacious than it did last time.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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He does manage to out-Mumford and out-Sheeran his countrymen on the rustic single "Bonfire Heart" (ironically, co-written with super-pop penman Ryan Tedder). Whether you want to hear James Blunt plowing that field is a conversation between you and your god.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 5, 2013
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Full of dull riffs and saggy rhythms, Uncanney Valley makes you wonder why exactly frontman Travis Morrison reunited the group in 2011.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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Full of dull riffs and saggy rhythms, Uncanney Valley makes you wonder why exactly frontman Travis Morrison reunited the group in 2011.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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- Posted Jul 23, 2013
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Connick's music has none of the attitude the singer often summons outside the studio.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jun 28, 2013
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- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Contrasted with Lil Wayne's easy, seemingly effortless guest verse, 2 Chainz sounds like a rank amateur whose topics of choice -- strippers, money, drugs -- have been examined to death in hip-hop by others with a much more varied vocabulary.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Wild Ones has two of Flo's top 40-obliterating recent singles, "Good Feeling" (in which he hijacks Avicii's "Le7els") and the title track....The rest is serviceable work for the clubland meat grinder.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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Though saucier and sleeker than its peers, the Wanted isn't nearly as fun....But none of the guys has an especially charismatic--or even distinguishable--voice.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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The mediocrity taints the entire record and makes one wonder how it all went so wrong.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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- Posted Feb 7, 2012
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Yet for all the textural variety they provide, those welcome cameos rarely succeed in leavening Lightbody's pervasive gloom.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 10, 2012
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Dead Son Rising feels watery and without a center; it reinforces Numan's legacy, rather than his potential.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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- Posted Nov 29, 2011
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Every touch of lyrical bitterness is followed by enough sugar to mask the taste, which might be good in the short term but isn't a recipe for long-term health.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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The rest of it, though, is stuff that will probably sound just fine beneath NFL highlight reels but fails to gel when the volume is up and California 2011 beckons.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 30, 2011
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