BBC collective's Scores
- Music
For 150 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Panic Prevention | |
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Lowest review score: | The Brave And The Bold |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 117 out of 150
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Mixed: 33 out of 150
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Negative: 0 out of 150
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The best thing about Garden Ruin is the way they look beyond country borders to engage with the wider world, both culturally and musically.- BBC collective
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The incessant hooklines cloy a little after repeated listens, but that’s hardly the most damning criticism of a pop band.- BBC collective
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The Loon owes so much to Stephen Malkmus and Frank Black that one imagines lawyers might be called.- BBC collective
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My Dark Places captures the offbeat brilliance that made the TVPs indie legends in the 70s, characterised by Treacy’s endearingly slapdash attitude towards singing in tune and playing in time.- BBC collective
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Love Travels At Illegal Speeds is good stuff that doesn’t drive you round the bend. It doesn’t pack any surprises either.- BBC collective
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This anthology of new and previously released 7” singles is inevitably somewhat dishevelled as an album, but then this extraordinary band has always worked best in bite-size.- BBC collective
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A more straightforward affair than previous works, and as such suffers from predictability.- BBC collective
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There are few dynamic surprises here, and no serrated edges, but this disc's strength lies in its building mass of lumbering, decelerated funk, its textures gluey and thick.- BBC collective
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It’s exciting stuff, simple yet deadly effective.- BBC collective
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Features an excess of accumulated ingredients with predictably indigestible results.- BBC collective
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This is cathartic, psychically haunted fare; pleasing and troubling in equal measure.- BBC collective
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Their sophomore album is surprisingly world-weary, but brims with an almost brutal rawness and betrays the pair’s striking talent for storytelling.- BBC collective
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Filling the gaps between Prince and !!!, this is for those who spent the last two decades shaking their hips rather than banging their heads.- BBC collective
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This mini album sometimes feels as if it’s thrown together like quickly-packed luggage.- BBC collective
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Sensuous, subtle but emotionally overwhelming dreamscapes, whose luminous beauty makes pigeonholing nigh on impossible.- BBC collective
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For Bonnie Prince Billy it's an atypically sexless affair with only his version of Richard Thompson’s Calvary Cross worthy of his previous covers record, More Revery.- BBC collective
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Stately, midtempo tunes whose immaculate production belies the darkness at their core.- BBC collective
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Upon starting Soft Bulletin--you’re instantly whisked off into the universe the Flaming Lips have created. The musical journey that ensues is nothing short of imaginary genius--simple as.- BBC collective
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