Early reviews. Critics give You Can Do Anything an early B-Side Breakdown of 60 (D-), from 5 reviews so far. It will settle as more outlets weigh in.
The verdict on You Can Do Anything
Most critics weren't won over: 1 of 5 liked it.
- Highest 80 AllMusic
- Outlier 40 NME, 20 points below the next-lowest score
- Career #3 of The Zutons's 3 albums with a Breakdown
| The gist | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllMusic via Wikipedia | 4/5 | 80 | ||
| musicOMH via Wikipedia | 3/5 | 60 | ||
| The Independent via Wikipediaby Andy Gill | 3/5 | 60 | 2008 | “Like its predecessor Tired of Hanging Around, The Zutons' difficult third album features another cast of flaky characters culled from the seedier corners of David McCabe's imagination, though the inevitable…” |
| The Guardian via Wikipediaby Ian Gittins | 3/5 | 60 | 2008 | |
| NME via Wikipedia | 4/10 | 40 | 2008 | “Come in, Zutons, your hit-making days are over. According to our schedule, you’re due to be put into pop’s knacker yard and boiled down to make the plastic casings for…” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Approval is the share of critics who scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not how many critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Published is the date on the review itself, read from the outlet’s page, so you can see whether an album’s reputation came at release or years later. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number. Scores marked via Wikipedia are archive ratings, mostly for older albums, taken from the “Professional ratings” box on the album’s Wikipedia page (published openly through Wikidata); each links to the original review when we can find it online, and to that Wikipedia entry when we can’t. When an outlet reviewed an album twice, years apart (often for a reissue), both scores count, each labeled with its year.
A-Side marks the critics’ top tier. An album earns it automatically, from its numbers alone: a Breakdown of 90 or higher, from at least 5 reviews, with at least 75% approval. Nobody hands it out and nobody can buy it; if new reviews pull an album below the line, it loses the badge.
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