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? |
Score distribution:
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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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Nothing about the eight tracks on Humor Risk seems spare or accidental, as the record is expertly plotted and paced, never falling in to the samey or undifferentiable trap that his previous effort drowned in.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 8, 2011
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Local Business isn't a bad album, but it doesn't completely pull itself off either.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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When taken as a whole, and as an effervescent thumbing of the nose at the noise establishment, Total Folklore goes by like a breeze, even if the last 11 tracks (three of those ambient interludes) feel a bit overshadowed in the wake of “Ulysses”‘s monolithic, alien bliss.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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All of This Will End can be regarded as a riveting bildungsroman, the 25-year-old De Souza reflecting on archetypal initiations and processing essential insights, all the while reveling in diverse instrumentation and a seemingly endless supply of hooks.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 2, 2023
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This album is like candy; it's not great for you, but it tastes delicious and goes down easy. Plus, it's only 37 minutes long, so it's not like listening to it requires a huge time investment.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 8, 2011
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Death Dreams' loops of feedback, ghostly monologues and multipronged guitar attacks lash out, often in tandem, making the music feel big.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 7, 2012
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The dead air that seemed to sometimes crop up previously has been filled or chopped out completely, creating a record with taut and purposeful momentum.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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As a whole, Tomboy is a success, but its short runtime and somewhat underdeveloped arrangements leave the impression that Jurado was more concerned with just getting this set of songs released, rather than making sure they expand his extensive catalog in a meaningful way.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 30, 2020
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For those who regard May Our Chambers Be Full as a contemporary gem, The Helm of Sorrow will occur as one of rock’s anticlimaxes. One shouldn’t ignore the winning elements of this release and how the contributing artists’ gifts are alternately put on center stage, but if Chambers is the benchmark for this combo, then one has to point out that what rendered it near-perfect; namely, the seamless synthesis of styles and energies, is on the whole absent here.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 15, 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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Observatory is ultimately not the Wrens record we all wanted, but it’s what we have and it’s better than it has any right to be given all the turmoil of its conception.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 10, 2021
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Leftovers may not offer that something she was after, but it’s an undeniably pleasing document of how a surrounding life of family, friends, and personal encounters is perhaps the thing that is real. Only time can turn them into something else.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 22, 2021
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It preserves the trio’s history while serving us a matured Moderat. MORE D4TA is their cathartic work of loneliness and intoxication, indulging in a museum of sounds.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 20, 2022
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This album finishes right when it needs to. Any longer and there might be a genuine risk of someone having a hernia from all the physical carousing. As it is, we leave this magical island fully refreshed and filled with self satisfaction.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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Their insistence for organic compositions stands out thoughtfully on Open Door Policy, and it reminds us precisely why we fell in love with The Hold Steady in the first place. Despite them being slightly aged rockers, they haven’t forgotten what it means to rock out and to give in to the desire shout at the top of your lungs when you are struggling.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 22, 2021
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The Rip Tide, though, never bursts at the seams, and never feels too slight. Each number in the collection packs weight, and repeat listenings allow all nine to unfold their unique beauty.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 12, 2011
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The resulting album is at once a hodgepodge of ideas and a collection that is bound together by vintage synth tones NV and Deradoorian’s desire to explore the possibilities of their collaboration. It’s an entirely unpredictable but indefinably enlivening listening experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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It seems that with General Dome, Buke and Gase have managed to do just fine, and they’ve created a record that looks forward, as well as backward, to what indie rock has been and what it has the potential to be.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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While Major has a good solid handful of inspired moments, none of this material comes close to approaching the plane as that Fang Island were operating on before.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 31, 2012
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As transformation takes over and her approach to creativity changes, Magic Mirror shines boldly and brightly as the testimony of an adulthood that didn’t come at the cost of losing her spark of child-like enthusiasm. Pearl Charles has taken hold of that raw and bubbly energy, and skillfully turned it into a perfect silver sequin of her very own disco ball.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 19, 2021
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This tendency that Williams has of interweaving her inner emotional climate with the breathable aura of nature was on magical display through last year’s debut album, I Was Born Swimming, and it’s something she hones further here.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 8, 2021
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Their debut was filled with promise and, on their third album, Nation Of Language have kept that promise.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 18, 2023
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The artistic flair of The Center Won’t Hold and the tightness of Path of Wellness are still present, but they find a comfortable position between the two that feels somewhat familiar and certainly natural for Sleater-Kinney.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 22, 2024
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It's reassuring and delightful to have a debut this excellent to cement her place.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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Desire Lines is undoubtedly a Camera Obscura album, but it might be their first that is more suited to quiet winter nights inside, rather than the sunny side of things that dominated their sound on their previous albums.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 18, 2013
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The pure power and energy that’s imbued in each of these songs is perfect for a live environment and there’s a sincere hope that Dehd get the opportunity to tour this album. The band’s crisp, no-nonsense approach filters into every aspect of Flower of Devotion and it makes for a heady, light-hearted escape from the complications of the world today.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 24, 2020
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Some bits here are the starkest and most direct compositions of the producer’s career to date, and that’s more than saying something. Suffice to say, as corny as it may be to declare, the project is perfectly named, Magic, because it provides just that.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 12, 2022
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For a genre replete with posturing, it’s beyond refreshing to receive an album that so readily wears its heart on its sleeve, especially from a band so esteemed: with so much to potentially lose. Modest Mouse have made gains simply by being themselves. This is comfort food for the well-worn soul.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2021
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