Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,704 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
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Positive: 1,556 out of 1704
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Mixed: 130 out of 1704
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Negative: 18 out of 1704
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In Standard Definition is possibly going to be far too weird an album for some, but those that are curious about what d’Ecco has to offer should definitely go on this zany musical experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 27, 2021
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These 12 songs deal with death and loss – themes that have never felt so tangible for so many. Yet, Field Music pull off this balancing act for one simple reason: this was their very gift to begin with.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 27, 2021
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Sweep It Into Space has all the ingredients for a pleasant listen, while doing little to separate itself from the rest of their discography.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 23, 2021
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His newest resembles an above-average B-sides compilation: something to tie over the diehards while they wait for his next official album.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 22, 2021
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Instead of wry irony or wallowing in hopeless abandon, Pale Horse Rider achieves something more like a fellow soul joining in on watching a fire in the distance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 21, 2021
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It is the soundtrack to rousay’s year of insularity, isolation, and adaptation, and harmonises beautifully with anyone who’s undergone similar feelings of repression and growth during this period.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 19, 2021
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This music is fast and hard, but there are fewer risks than it might at first seem. Those hoping for the band to push themselves in a new direction are going to be slightly disappointed, while those who have vibed with this collective since day one will likely appreciate ULTRAPOP for what it is – another album by The Armed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 16, 2021
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- Posted Apr 15, 2021
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With “Get Up! Come Walk with Me/Composition 7” – as with Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection in its entirety – White, Holley, and a cast of energized musicians question the post-human age while celebrating the creative process.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 15, 2021
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- Posted Apr 13, 2021
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The band’s shape-shifting compositions create a forward momentum well suited to a journey through different levels of Hell on Earth.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 12, 2021
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Iglooghost surveys beyond the sensory, straining to activate neurons in unexplored areas of the brain. As a result, elements that shouldn’t work somehow end up sounding cohesive, vibrant and new.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 8, 2021
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That’s what How Many Times is: another record about lost love. Yet, what saves Rose’s version from sinking into tired banality is the earnestness of it all: she displays the full gamut of her emotions in the songs, from longing to anger, yearning to acceptance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 7, 2021
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For such a prolific, genre-blurring artist, we are lucky as listeners that all the pieces Ryley Walker’s set up over the past decade could coalesce in such a fine, tight 40 minutes.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 7, 2021
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Dry Cleaning seem a working-class band, but they are not a political band in that same sense. This concept is mimicked across many post-punk bands past and present, but instead of trying to stay firmly between those politically-charged guardrails they have stepped outside of them and created their own scenic route.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 6, 2021
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Head of Roses, also Wasner’s Sub Pop debut, is her most direct record yet, full of what is definitely her clearest, most emotionally stirring work to date.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 5, 2021
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These tracks strut with a more upbeat cadence and disposition, without straying from the same earthbound concerns that marked Erez’s previous material.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 2, 2021
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Is 4 Lovers is the band’s most playful album to date too, oscillating between The Beatles, Lenny Kravitz, Big Black, early (aka: good) Muse and The Rapture.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 2, 2021
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The tracks on G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! share a sense of triumphalism brought about by the communion of music. The album soundtracks the end times, while offering glimpses of hope.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 2, 2021
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On Half A Human, they’ve taken steps to create songs that better reflect their states of mind and, as a result, have uncovered a new confidence and self-assuredness. Regardless of their music’s reception, their changing circumstances, the world at large, they’re right where they want to be.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 1, 2021
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What Silberman’s managed to accomplish with Green to Gold is admirable. Instead of quitting music he’s pushed forward and accepted his limitations in pursuit of his passion.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 1, 2021
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sketchy. may not be their out-and-out best work, but it’s proof that they still have the guts and the songwriting ability — as well as their ever-present, obvious earnestness and candor — to do what endeared their work to so many in the first place.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 1, 2021
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Collections From The Whiteout excels in storytelling and lyrics but doesn’t always prove the easiest experience. However, this is an album that becomes more comfortable with each progressive listen, unwinding in the listener’s consciousness like the sung stories themselves.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 31, 2021
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It’s clear that OH NO will not be remembered as one of Xiu Xiu’s most stellar records. Yet, as usual with collaborations, it’s likely that each listener is likely to find their own tracks they ditch, just like different ones will stand out, given the varying degrees of artistic touches these additional musicians bring with their own aesthetics and histories.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 30, 2021
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Most of this review has been spent trying to use genre to back the record into a corner, but there is still so much ineffable that can’t be captured in words. Menneskekollektivet is impossible to pin down. That’s the thrill.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 30, 2021
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“Movement 9”, at just two and a half minutes, puts a resplendent cap on proceedings, the LSO’s strings tying things off with forlorn grace and pomp. It’s like an echo of what’s come before, the tremors from the encounter between Sanders and Shepherd resonating out into the infinitude. It leaves us in no doubt that we have just witnessed a meeting of monolithic proportions.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 29, 2021
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Benny and the rest of Griselda are a force so reliable and prolific that they should be boring by now. But The Plugs I Met 2 suggests that we’re just getting to know them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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There’s some pleasure to be had here, but for all of those except those of us pawing the floor with anxious, somewhat embarrassed memories – and as the album cover even seems readily to acknowledge – this is perhaps a pill best left unswallowed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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It’s effortlessly buoyant, especially now that he’s reclaimed his image; he’s not the sad and desperate crooner he was once made out to be. Wise sounds more liberated because he is. This serpent is brandishing new skin, redefined and transformed, not by the will of others but by his own love-led volition.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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Most of the takes on Songs From Isolation are engaging, if not provocative alternatives to the originals. Some are less successful, even if they constitute an ambitious undertaking. It might have been worthwhile if Williams had picked at least a couple of tunes more essentially divergent from her own style and energy.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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