Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,698 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 2.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
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: 1,551 out of 1698
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Mixed: 129 out of 1698
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Negative: 18 out of 1698
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Ultimately, the legacy Pinkerton leaves behind is it being one of the most emotional and raw albums ever made. It's an album that many can relate to, even if you're not on the same level of crazy as Rivers was back then.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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Somehow, allowing it its true moment on the shelves has solidified the record's historical importance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Comparing him to other rappers is pointless: there are other guys with much more technically-sound flows (although Ye is as wickedly funny as he's ever been), but nobody else possesses the combination of hubris, imagination, neuroticism, and drive it takes to make a record like this.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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With a little help from an impressive array of collaborators and producers that include heavyweights like Pharrell Williams, El Guincho and Frank Dukes, Rosalía takes clear and complete control of her voice by getting her ideas across without being too caught up in them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 21, 2022
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Albums like this are rare and special, highlighting pop’s capacity to sculpt our emotions and steer us towards something better beyond the horizon.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
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SAULT force us to focus our attention instead on the music itself and the messages that come with it. More than writing simple protest songs, they are creating what is arguably some of the most life-affirming and confrontational music released in recent years – and all of it comes at a much-needed time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 15, 2020
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Time has only been kind to Life's Rich Pageant, and, hopefully, not much more time will be required to it to take its place in the rock and roll canon as the practically perfect album that it is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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The bonus material on discs five and six of the box set (which also includes Achtung Baby's severely underrated 1993 follow-up Zooropa and two pointless discs of remixes that likely won't be of much use even to die-hards) only serve to illuminate how much had to go right for the album to be as good as it was.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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What rides at the top and takes your attention pretty much all the time is Taylor herself. Her words are honest and palpable, but also unflinchingly direct.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 28, 2021
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This overall reduction in the reliance on guitar riffs allows for greater flexibility of sound, and as such BCNR wring out more staggering peaks of emotion from Wood’s lovelorn words.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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Sunbather is a future classic, no matter where you pigeonhole it, and that’s the mark of a true sonic masterpiece. Black metal, not black metal, just call it what it is: perfect.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 27, 2013
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They’ve managed to pace their listeners through sonic wreckage while being a little more daring in doing so. Synths, chipmunked vocals, and R&B flair don’t suggest this is the future of hardcore, but these elements do indicate that the genre’s future is more encompassing, and it will have this record to thank.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 30, 2021
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In addition to being one of the year's most soberingly bleak R&B releases, Channel Orange is also one of the prettiest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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For an album called Carnage, on the surface it appears to have none, but the inner turmoil of Nick Cave’s psyche is full of it. He fantasizes about long lost loves, but also about shooting you in the fucking face, and it’s this toying with our emotions makes Carnage one of Cave’s most maddeningly beautiful records.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 3, 2021
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But The Greater Wings, for all its inevitable connotations, is not a downer. It’s a beautiful testament to life and to the people we love and that keep us going, physically and spiritually. It’s also a testament to moving forward with grace and strength, and rediscovering that longing to live.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2023
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Beyoncé has given us her most excessive body of work to date. It is unfocused, it swerves and changes directions, yet delivers quality in so many different ways no part of it can be called inessential. While one could choose a cynical route and think their way into not appreciating the full product, the truth is history will be kind to Cowboy Carter as yet another classic album from Queen Bey.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 3, 2024
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A dense, sometimes challenging, but ultimately patience-rewarding listen.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 15, 2020
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It’s an album expressing the joys of love – physical, verbal, musical, familial and all the other kinds. While she’s the one in the spotlight throughout the album, this isn’t a record about her – instead she’s honouring all those people who find themselves through the release provided by these communal spaces. And damn, it’s a hell of a good time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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For all its indulgence and fluid musical expression, Sex, Death & the Infinite Void doesn’t even crack 40 minutes in length. Creeper accomplish a lot in that time, and their new record is a suitably triumphant return.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 5, 2020
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- Posted Sep 13, 2023
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It may take a few years for SOS to ascend to the heights, but if 808s & Heartbreak was the breakup record of the 2000s and Blonde was the 2010s examination of loss and trauma, then SZA might have produced that emotional breaking point for the 2020s.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 16, 2022
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The main difference between Stranger in the Alps and Punisher is simply maturation of her writing.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 19, 2020
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The album’s brevity only adds to the allure, as it is stripped of any excess, and devoid of a single misstep. It is a distinct departure, but ultimately unsurprising in its flawless execution.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 14, 2023
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English Teacher’s debut album is delicate, accomplished, and complete.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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woods has transcended the line of being a great artist and entered the realm of genius. With Kenny Segal’s help, he has conjured a work that is wholly its own, both in the artist’s discography and in the rap genre.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 8, 2023
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Grӕ is so rich in content and so vast in musicality it would be impossible to unpack everything in a single review. It is complex yet universal – comforting yet unsettling. It lives in an incorporeal realm of its own, and somehow, Sumney has gained complete and utter command over it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 14, 2020
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The vast majority of Ware’s fifth LP serves as a masterclass in following up a beloved previous album – taking What’s Your Pleasure’s core elements and stretching them into wilder and weirder directions. Now, that feels good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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It’s a seamless and natural progression from when the band released squeaky-clean interpretations of their beloved 2020 album Brave Faces Everyone, just last year on Brave Faces Etc. But they’ve buckled down, tightened things up, and now observe sheen and a bit of grit with an impressive balance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 18, 2023
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This is a band operating at their highest, most infectious potency, and the end result is riveting.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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There is certainly potential here, but this first Bloodmoon record definitely feels like a testing ground. There is an uncertainty in tone, and a clashing of sensibilities that is thrilling at times, awkward at others.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 19, 2021
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