For 2,075 reviews, this publication has graded:
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4% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 71
| Highest review score: | Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album |
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Positive: 1,597 out of 2075
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Mixed: 443 out of 2075
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Negative: 35 out of 2075
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Pastoral doesn't quite describe it; this seems to come from some place more eco-protected than any in existence. [24 Oct 2005]- The New York Times
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It's a messy, sometimes insane CD... [but it's] mysterious and subtly seductive. [8 Dec 2005]- The New York Times
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Ms. Blige brings together hip-hop realism and soul's higher aspirations, hip-hop's digitized crispness and soul's slow-building testimonies. [19 Dec 2005]- The New York Times
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"First Impressions of Earth" is their most openly impassioned album. As they lower their emotional guard, they redouble their musical ingenuity, then crank up their attack. [2 Jan 2006]- The New York Times
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It's more coherent [than its predecessor] by a mile. It's longer, and its group songwriting blends better. [20 Mar 2006]- The New York Times
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This album doesn't match the weird, woozy brilliance of "Supreme Clientele," from 2000, and there are a few too many guest verses from rappers who don't come close to upstaging their host. Still, this might surpass his 2004 CD, "The Pretty Toney Album," though it's too early to tell: when you get a new Ghostface Killah album, the only reasonable reaction is to get lost in it. [27 Mar 2006]- The New York Times
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Memorable refrains, hard beats, elegant rhymes: this album succeeds mainly by sticking to a simple but effective formula. [3 Apr 2006]- The New York Times
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"White Trash With Money" is one of his best albums, partly because it finds a lighthearted way to smuggle recent years' redneck pride into this year's love-song boom. [6 Apr 2006]- The New York Times
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Nothing about this dense, jumbled, energetic, totally inorganic, quite brilliant word- and note-stuffed album is to the point. [17 Apr 2006]- The New York Times
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A good, sometimes glorious collection of loud pop songs and quiet punk songs... after 11 years, they've made their most exuberant, most youthful-sounding album. [13 Apr 2006]- The New York Times
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Now as ever, Pearl Jam takes itself seriously. But it delivers that seriousness not with the sodden self-importance of rock superstardom, but with the craft and hunger of a band still proving itself on the spot. [1 May 2006]- The New York Times
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The music brims with a creative euphoria almost shocking for a band that has been around since Ronald Reagan's first term.- The New York Times
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On "Son" she shows off a new confidence, even a willfulness, as she sets free her voice and her sonic wit. [29 May 2006]- The New York Times
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"Be Your Own Pet" is smart and crafty, but most of all, it's a wild-eyed blast.- The New York Times
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Imagine the Postal Service, but far more danceable and quirkily experimental.- The New York Times
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"Loose" is an addictive, deceptively lightweight album of electronic pop; at different points it evokes Janet Jackson, M.I.A., Gwen Stefani and Gnarls Barkley. [19 Jun 2006]- The New York Times
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The album is a perfect introduction for latecomers to this essential New York band.- The New York Times
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Angst has rarely sounded sweeter than it does on "Ganging Up on the Sun," which swirls with classic vocal harmonies, vintage organs and lightly strummed guitars.- The New York Times
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Mr. Mayer has been writing songs again, good ones, with all the leanness and directness that distinguish his strongest work.- The New York Times
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The album has a kind of demented gravity, and the music bears it out: it is the most concentrated, focused Slayer record in 20 years.- The New York Times
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"Blood Mountain" is a strong record by a powerful band nearing an ideal of cohesion.- The New York Times
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Los Lobos has swerved away from the upbeat music it plays on the jam-band circuit, harking back to its quietly startling 1992 album, “Kiko.” [25 Sep 2006]- The New York Times
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Another warm, gentle album, one that should attract Norah Jones fans and Trisha Yearwood fans alike. [9 Oct 2006]- The New York Times
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Here’s the thing about Nas’s old-fashioned approach to hip-hop: It still works.- The New York Times
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He’s still singing with his usual soft, focused concentration, and in the rough textures and gaping silences of the band are strong melodies that point back to his simpler records from the mid-’70s, like “Qualquer Coisa” and “Joia.” Embedded in it too are some of Mr. Veloso’s best lyrics of the last 20 years. [22 Jan 2007]- The New York Times
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