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
150
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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga sees Britt Daniels channelling his persecution complex into more piano-driven 60s pop songs, screaming "Don't make me a target!" at the heavens as his girlfriend walks out. His band prove surprisingly versatile.- BBC collective
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The subject matter takes them closer to Nick Cave than ever before, yet, whereas he displays a knowing black humour, Low’s earnestness sometimes makes them unwittingly hilarious.- BBC collective
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This Japanese power trio possess a lurking sense of Metal traditionalism, producing a scabrous wall of guitar noise, crunching, dense and turgid.- BBC collective
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Shorn of the orchestral lushness that distinguished their previous effort, The Dears now have little to recommend them.- BBC collective
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Lyrically, Allen spins the street-slang tales of blowjobs and booze told with varying success by everyone from The Streets to Shampoo.- BBC collective
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No doubt fans’ll love it, but virgins shouldn’t expect to swoon at this end-of-the-pier jamming.- BBC collective
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The first few tracks work a treat, melding glitchy beats and stomping brass bands in the best tradition of Björk or Sigur Rós. After that, however, things start to feel a bit overwrought.- 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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Raymond Raposa, the ex-surfer behind the ever-shifting line-up, sounds like Neil Young after spending a few nights on a park bench, his decayed folky croak the perfect thread to link these hushed laments.- BBC collective
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Just Like… is no classic, but it’s enough to make for a teary goodbye.- BBC collective
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It's Christmas come early, and None Shall Pass won't disappoint his fervent admirers.- 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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The bubbly cartoon funk of single Cell Phone's Dead is a winner, but tracks like 1000 BPM and We Dance Alone are mid-paced, cautiously funky numbers with neither the bare sentiment of Sea Change nor the ribald lunacy of Hansen’s late-90s bombs.- BBC collective
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Features an excess of accumulated ingredients with predictably indigestible results.- 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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Occasionally veering into rakish skiffle in an annoying hat, it’s not quite the righteous sword-slash of vindication prayed for by fans; still, it’s a relief to see Doherty’s muse in surprisingly rude health.- BBC collective
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Stately, midtempo tunes whose immaculate production belies the darkness at their core.- BBC collective
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For what both of Guillermo Scott Herren's alter-egos are concerned with is sound's texture rather than its structure, rendered here through the soft caressing of acoustic instruments instead of circuit board torture.- BBC collective
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All whoops and yelps, their third album jumps skittishly from primary-coloured electro to punk to poolside cabaret, with an impressive sense of its own silliness.- BBC collective
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It's still heavy on the harmonies and hummable choruses, of course, and does meander into happy-clappy, round-the-campfire territory too often for those of us with a low saccharine threshold.- 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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It’s an evanescent experience, for whilst you’re awestruck by the sonics beneath the electronic sheen, you can’t remember anything much about them after they’ve evaporated at the end.- BBC collective
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The sense of clutter, not to mention a recurring high-pitched motif, makes Preparations feel like being trapped in someone else’s nightmares too long.- BBC collective
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While it’s a bit hit and miss, the sheer bullishness of this album is impressive.- BBC collective
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Caught between essentially meaningless singalongs and trying to actually mean something, what you get is average power-pop with crass attempts at poetry.- BBC collective
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What seemed fresh and charming on 2005's Noah's Ark sounds like an interminable racket this time round.- BBC collective
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There’s some great stuff here – specifically Relax, Take It Easy’s sublime falsetto hook - but elsewhere buoyant pop is sunk by relentless vocal mugging and production which wears its influences much too heavily.- BBC collective
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