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 point 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 genre experiment that might encourage more sceptical listeners to err on the side of caution, but if you’re willing to let yourself be swept away, then the rewards are worthwhile.- BBC Music
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It attempts to create a context of isolation from all that, an aquarium-like zone of contemplation, in which audiovisual detail can be savoured, in stillness and without fear of missing out for a few seconds on the relentless info-stream of modern life.- BBC Music
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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Here, they deliver a sequel as successor, less a follow-up and more an outright usurper from the underworld.- BBC Music
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This raucous collection of three-minute knee-tremblers, however, is as close as it gets [to a live show]. Swilling whiskey and spitting gravel, over-driven and over here, this is aural Prozac for the 21st century.- BBC Music
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Vultures isn't an album we'll be talking about 20 years from now, but for thrills, spills and hair-raising heaviness, it gets the job done in style.- BBC Music
- Posted Oct 23, 2012
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Just because it is not music that shouts about itself, that dazzles with pyrotechnics or showboating guitar solos, its profundity and emotional heft is nevertheless, and perhaps even all the more, striking.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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This is an affecting and intelligent record: neither Folds nor Hornby should be shy about suggesting a sequel.- BBC Music
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For all its battalions of writers and producers, Right Place Right Time is a surprisingly coherent affair.- BBC Music
- Posted Dec 3, 2012
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There are no excursions into dubstep, no guest rappers and no raunchiness, just good clean wholesome party (as in jelly and ice-cream) fun.- BBC Music
- Posted Sep 18, 2012
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Thanks largely to the instrumental work, there's a satisfying amount of entertainment value on this release--even if major revelations are not forthcoming.- BBC Music
- Posted Apr 15, 2011
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It's an album that largely triumphs with a black snake moan and the revitalised, tempestuous twin snarl of Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been.- BBC Music
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- Posted May 4, 2012
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This album doesn’t bristle with the sonic daring of Dangerfield’s usual work; instead, it offers love songs, largely unadorned with stylistic quirks or brash arrangements, a document of a life pulling into focus.- BBC Music
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A wide array of producers means that Recovery isn't as consistent as Eminem's best albums--his second and third--but there are significantly more highlights here than on either of his previous two.- BBC Music
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The major achievement of this record--produced by Slipknot desk-jockey Ross Robinson--is the broadening of Dananananaykroyd's sound, prising it clear of the numerous shouty young bands to have followed their lead.- BBC Music
- Posted Jun 14, 2011
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Her songs fall easily on the ear, her rhyming schemes are adroit and she writes intelligently on serious subjects.- BBC Music
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Immersion takes Pendulum further still from their roots. It offers more rock and more dance, but most importantly more fun. And when it's good, it's very good indeed.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 14, 2011
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There's plenty to raise a smile over these 12 songs, and that's no doubt exactly what She & Him intended from them.- BBC Music
- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Despite the lyrics failing to improve upon previous efforts, elsewhere Fever represents a significant step forward, and practically guarantees that BFMV will fulfil the expectations preceding its release.- BBC Music
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- Posted Mar 8, 2013
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There's little crowd-pleasing electro or fashionable dubstep on Higher Than the Eiffel, but Audio Bullys have made a welcome, well-produced and lively returning album that delivers the goods far more often than even fans could have expected.- BBC Music
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Steadman's vocal stands out--its tremulous quality may be a hangover from, as the story goes, embarrassment at being overheard singing as a kid, but it heightens the sense of an authentically troubled spirit exorcising his demons in the quietly devastating manner of a Nick Drake.- BBC Music
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These are strong, conventional songs full of clever flicks and feints, deliciously produced by Ed (Suede, Pulp, White Lies) Buller.- BBC Music
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But when he's in his element – ruling over frenetic beats with rhymes that cut right to the bone – it's clear that Yelawolf's star is sure to shine for the foreseeable.- BBC Music
- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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[Beacon] is the mark of a band who know their sound, have a newfound confidence, and are well-equipped to do some serious damage to the chart this time around.- BBC Music
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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Remind[s] you just what a good singer the rocking knight can be. And after years of personal and professional earnestness, he sounds like he's having fun.- BBC Music
- Posted Feb 3, 2012
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Language is a sturdy and well-produced collection which, given the right exposure, sounds like the sort of thing that could be very large indeed.- BBC Music
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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Seemingly, emo is no longer a moody sub-culture, as one can't help but smile when a record is this brilliantly bombastic.- BBC Music
- Posted Mar 28, 2011
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It's like these songs have had their windows cleaned, a few crows' feet ironed out.- BBC Music
- Posted Oct 30, 2012
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It's brilliantly realised, thanks to Del Rey's extraordinary delivery, her ability to slip from deep-toned haughtiness to breathless ecstasy to velvety vamping – often in the same gorgeous melody.- BBC Music
- Posted Jan 26, 2012
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