MUSIC RATINGS SYSTEM:
5.0 Nearly perfect: as brilliant as ambitious, paradigmatic yet innovative, inexhaustibly deep.
4.5 Outstanding: only very minor flaws, but many truly excellent tracks, re-listenable, very engaging.
4.0 Great: Some excellent tracks, but small flaws or inconsistencies mar it, not entirely engaging.
3.5 Good: Engaging moments and good tracks, but nothing excellent, listenable but not inspiring.
3.0 Decent: Detracting flaws, some worthwhile moments, worth an occasional listen, somewhat forgetable.
2.5 Medicore: Dull, uninventive, forgetable, uninspiring, and unengaging.
2.0 Lacking: Major flaws, bad tracks, boring, the very few good aspects are buried in muck.
1.5 Bad: Not worth listening to, homogenous, irritating, no real worthwhile moments.
1.0 Terrible: Painfully bad, torturous to listen to, no redeeming qualities, utter crap.
.5 Horrendous: This represents a condemnation of the release as a moral and aesthetic outrage.