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Neumu is a music website that features news, reviews, columns and downloads. The website was founded by Emme Stone and Michael Goldberg, who currently serves as the Editor in Chief. [1] The site's album reviews are excerpted by Metacritic and used as part of that site's average album score from professional reviews. [2]

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Neumu's rating system for albums is as follows: [3]

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References

  1. http://www.hybridmagazine.com/music/0701/goldberg.shtml
  2. "Neumu.net's Profile". Metacritic. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  3. "+++ neumu [ 44.1kHz ]".