Beats Per Minute's Scores
- Music
For 1,695 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? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,548 out of 1695
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Mixed: 129 out of 1695
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Negative: 18 out of 1695
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Three Mile Ditch is living proof that lightning does indeed strike the same place twice — and sometimes with a vengeance. Rumours of their death have been highly exaggerated, as The Wytches have never felt so alive.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 16, 2020
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It helps make clear that Endless Arcade is a quiet record that helps reaffirm Teenage Fanclub’s enduring appeal: their songs can help dull the pain. And pain there is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 6, 2021
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Yeah, that’s a decent album. Flags towards the end, sure. Some rippers on there, though. Glad I stuck with it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 10, 2022
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Her work is pure naturality with all its contrasts and quirks, but also all of its beauty and intimacy. Her melodies, even at her most unusual, are inviting and engaging, making for a body of work with a disproportionally low entry barrier for how much it rewards attentive listening.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Joy’All feels so light that, despite some of its heavier themes and perfectly-enjoyable atmosphere, it sounds like it’s a couple seconds from simply evaporating, effervescent, like the bubbles from your Jack & Coke.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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Though the nature of Covers makes it slightly scattershot, and nothing quite hits the heights of some of her past covers, it is decidedly more engaging and diverse than her last album, the lowkey-to-the-point-of-disappearing Wanderer.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 25, 2022
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There is plenty of fun and escapism of the sort that gave Jepsen her well-earned reputation in the popsphere, but in terms of her progression as an artist, its most striking tracks prove to be the ones that are more self-focused.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Gloss Drop may be a less solid and coherent album than Mirrored, but it is still a remarkably promising follow-up. As always, the music is cerebral, engaging, technically stupefying, and utterly original.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 10, 2011
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The album shows Danilova making a conscious and admirable effort to try take another step in the right direction and for the most part it's hard to fault her.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 4, 2011
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The lack of "slower" numbers doesn't really feel like a valid criticism, though, especially when the band really are at their best when they're riding a burst energy.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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In Our Heads is, at the end of the day, a signal that Hot Chip's masterpiece is still forthcoming.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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Nepenthe isn’t The Magic Place, but it certainly sounds like she’s found another special site of inspiration. Thankfully for us it’s just as prodigious and marvellous as anything else Barwick has put out before.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 23, 2013
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He remains an original, talented musician with his influences worn firmly on his sleeves; a contemporary proving that the past is still very much relevant.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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The album dissolves as it progresses, transitioning from upbeat fare to a visceral dream sequence of disoriented meditation set atop a versatile soundtrack.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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There’s nothing on this third round that shocks or surprises, it’s all standard formula Barnett except for her witticisms being down-played slightly, and maybe her watered-down mope-rock influences are a little brighter on her sleeve.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 15, 2021
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While A Foul Form honors the history of hardcore, it also occurs as smartly topical, the band’s turbid rage and anti-aesthetic stance conjuring a post-capitalistic malaise and the decay of global culture. And though this set marks a pivot from previous work, spotlighting the band as they navigate a fresh battery of sonics, it’s unmistakably them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2022
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The Marriage of True Minds is something of a record built for everyone, a fusion of sounds and ideas built from the thoughts and minds of lots of different people; there will be different moments that deter and attract different people, but there are more than enough of the better ones to keep you hooked for the album’s runtime.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 29, 2013
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It’s a shame there are a couple of tracks here that don’t quite meet the quality of the rest. ... Where The Loneliest Time works best is in its ability to provide sheer, plain honest fun.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 27, 2022
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Though he can be likened to a number of classic singers, some of the all-time greats might I add, his work is his own and ultimately original in its identity.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Her second album is an unpretentious thrill, the nature of its creation inextricably linked to its lyrical outlook, made by a woman who’s been through the wringer but has emerged from a period of turmoil daringly and undoubtedly herself.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 30, 2020
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The new directions that they have managed to find on No Color are certainly interesting to explore for listeners.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 18, 2011
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Lesser songwriters might stop there, and accept lyrical maturation as the only necessary step toward a sophomore effort, but Crutchfield also uses Cerulean Salt as a way to expand her sonic palette beyond the crackling acoustic guitar ballads that marked her previous work.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 6, 2013
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Comparing it to where they once were, somewhere middling between post-rock and meandering industrial ambient, the sound of Factory Floor is of a band that is now confident in their own original and entirely dominant sound.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 13, 2013
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As his name implies, Ghostpoet can be vague, mystifying, and a little bit of a downer--but ultimately the best art is the kind that makes you think and broadens your perspective, which this record does in spades.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 19, 2013
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The album remains enjoyable throughout, but too much of it feels a bit too been-there-done-that. Luckily, there are three tracks with guests, and this is where the album truly shines.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 9, 2020
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Mount Wittenberg Orca is uniquely and charmingly straightforward.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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Like a bottle of aforementioned white wine, it needs to develop within the container of people’s memory before it can fully blossom into the role of moody summer album that it aspires to be. The nuances are definitely already there.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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The songs on Jump Rope Gazers aren’t as immediately addictive as what came before, but The Beths’ natural intuition for emotive and melodic writing is still intact.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 10, 2020
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It's dark but inspirational, catchy but never kitschy. Most of all though, it's honest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Instrumentally, every song here is impressive, but the singing is pushed to the fore on the majority in an attempt to instigate a hook, which is only occasionally successful.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 16, 2011
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