BBC Music's Scores
- Music
For 1,831 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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28% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Live in Detroit 1986 | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,531 out of 1831
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Mixed: 293 out of 1831
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Negative: 7 out of 1831
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It’s a breath of air... and, mostly, that air is crystalline fresh.- BBC Music
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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This third studio album struts in on a crest of rollicking beats and wearing the kind of snarl that even in this new century is likely to delight fans of balls-out, raucous rock‘n’roll.- BBC Music
- Posted Jul 29, 2013
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Things remain pared back, but an ambition nurtured by classical training keeps things interesting.- BBC Music
- Posted Jul 26, 2013
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Peace take the past and swish it about with a bit of swagger, and the results are just dandy.- BBC Music
- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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This is the most exciting and substantial Coleman release of the last few years, rigorously challenging, pumped with insinuating melodies, sleek with propulsive energies and pulsating with a uniquely globular funkiness.- BBC Music
- Posted May 9, 2013
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Those unfamiliar with ancient Greek literature need not be daunted, as knowledge of the book is not necessary to appreciate the moods and melodies of The Sirens.- BBC Music
- Posted May 2, 2013
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Whether as the fanfare arrival of a unique new voice or the peculiar indulgence of a future cult classic, this is an album that has to be heard to be believed.- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 29, 2013
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When To Dust takes flight, you don't have to squint your ears too far to imagine Alice Russell as a worthy successor to that notional throne [of British soul].- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 23, 2013
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While keeping his music fantastically fresh and of the moment, this often causes a speedy ageing process.- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 2, 2013
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Shaking the Habitual is something else, but it’s hard not to find that profoundly exhilarating.- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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While Sempiternal isn’t the equal of another genre-bending record Date has worked on, Deftones’ White Pony, it represents significant and successful progression for its makers.- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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Everything is meticulous, not a note out of place--but this studied delivery is successfully supplemented with resounding soul, proving infectious indeed.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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Vanishing Point proves the quartet is still a thrilling proposition, in love with the simplicity of mayhem and volume.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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The British producer’s fifth full-length is a worthy successor to his celebrated 2010 set Black Sands.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 27, 2013
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Meir is an album that will be regarded with such reverence that it’ll be a marker for other acts’ work to be compared to in the future.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 26, 2013
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Both as performers and songwriters, these guys have upped their game, and Head Down puts them well ahead of the pack.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 22, 2013
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Thirty-odd years after singing about ripping it up, then, Collins is calling on the past to help him through. It’s working brilliantly.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 22, 2013
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Fly Zone is streamlined, its production consistently excellent despite numerous contributors.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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Nostalchic has a certain airiness, a focus on floaty atmospherics, that aligns it with the work of other washed-out boudoir crooners such as The Weeknd and How to Dress Well.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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The way Marnie plays is fresh, but she does hold true to some central tenets of rock’n’roll in her fizzing songs: invincibility and defiance.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2013
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The songs here might take a little longer to unlock than their predecessors, but none of them strike a false note.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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ASIWYFA sound like they’re having fun shaping and performing this music, and you’ll want to be part of it.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 15, 2013
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Unfortunately, most of 20/20 falls into a rut; it sets the mood, but then fails to create tension.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 15, 2013
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Stick with this 10-tracker, please, as while its first number isn’t the most arresting of curtain-ups, what comes afterwards is entirely captivating.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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The vivid nostalgia remains, with these all-original cuts sounding like they could easily have been laid down back in the golden ages of the 1950s and 60s.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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Produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, The Invisible Way is warm and organic, melodic and fragile. Twenty years into their career, and Low have created one of their best albums yet.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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