Whatever, develop your own metric of the reviews as well that the releases. That's what everyone has to do anyway. DP is indeed enthustiastic but hey, that's cuz he likes the stuff! Is it contrived? Only he would really know, and I hardly expect someone to put as much time as he does into this stuff if he didn't really find all this stuff to be a lot of fun.
Years ago you never knew who was reviewing stuff except in some circumstances... I used to read reviews here from freak51 and stormbringer and slowly sorted out that their words had more impact for me. Nothing is changed but there are a lot more reviews, and I believe the reviewers are far more consistent in the way they do things... this makes reading them a lot less trouble. I tend to take DP's reviews with a grain of salt because I'm much more picky, whereas profane and I are usually on the same page. When you get to know these things, then the reviews are helping you out, right?
Truth as a concept isn't relevant to the subjective reviewing of music. It only matters whether we are truthful with ourselves.