Beats Per Minute's Scores

  • Music
For 1,686 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 38% 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: 100 Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe]
Lowest review score: 18 If Not Now, When?
Score distribution:
1686 music reviews
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    One of those rare, near-flawless works of art that only grows finer with age.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Somehow, allowing it its true moment on the shelves has solidified the record's historical importance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 97 Critic Score
    No one's asking bigger questions of himself or more from himself in music than Flying Lotus is. These records are the only appropriate answers and Until The Quiet Comes is his most accomplished yet.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes have become a band who will not stop pushing, who will challenge themselves to avoid stagnancy, who will work with both their instruments and their minds. Because of that, the audience is able to reap the fruit and feast on it together.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Both Ways Open Jaws will strike you as both new sounding and classic, as both fresh and rooted in tradition. Most importantly, it will strike you as a treasure, and probably, as the best album you have heard in a long time.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    If, as the artist himself has recently hinted, Kaputt really does mark the end of Destroyer, then it succeeds as a triumphant swan-song.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    We Buy Diabetic Test Strips goes deeper, darker than any of Armand Hammer’s previous albums. It even eclipses woods and Kenny Segal’s stellar Maps as the best hip hop record this year, at least so far.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    It’ll be hard to outdo this 20-track masterpiece, but at this point it’s impossible to bet against them.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    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.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Kelela‘s second album is a transformative work of art that merges house and ambient, soul and dance, and resides within interzones – like the titular animal, a mediator between the material world and the realm of the spirits. It’s a vast canvas of cultural expressions, emotional tones, erotic exploration and musical brilliance.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Fucked Up actively refuse any sort of definition, and David Comes To Life proves that they're more than capable of shouldering that burden.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    In addition to being one of the year's most soberingly bleak R&B releases, Channel Orange is also one of the prettiest.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Centipede Hz is dense and unforgivingly full-throttle--you'll find no "Loch Raven" or even "Chores" here – and home to some of the band's best and most involved lyrics to date.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    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.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Shabazz Palaces have pushed the music forward, so that it once again can be raw, real, and unconventional.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Burst Apart is full of wonderful little surprises like this, that add up to two big ones: that The Antlers didn't try to follow up Hospice by repeating themselves, and nevertheless, that they have delivered a more than worthy successor.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    It's bold, cathartic, and essential; a candidate for not only one of 2012's best, but one of the most important records in all of American soul.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    There is the obvious notable contrast between Roberts' blunt delivery and the lushly treated instrumentation. But there's a pillowy negative space between all the divergent aesthetics that creates a resounding heft and felt resonance.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Low prove once again they are the sweet antithesis of that: a band who have had decades to hone their work within their own slow and deliberate pace and environment, making their most vital, forward-thinking music at an age where it can be utmost nurtured.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Whether approached with the utmost skepticism or the most fervent zeal, m b v proves itself not merely a reputable album, but a spectacular and unforgettable experience.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A record that far surpasses the necessity of any and all comparisons. With their highly-anticipated record, this ballistic band birthed from the Brixton Windmill have constructed their own world, where self-abnegation abounds and anxiety festers, yet experimental ingenuity shines a light through all its darkness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is a record that begs patience and understanding of its listener, but for those that put in the time required, it offers the most bountiful emotional rewards of Nandi Rose’s career yet. This is an album for being lost, as well as healing. Much like its title, it is what you need it to be.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Excavation is vivid and physical, each moment meticulously and purposefully crafted.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Just be thankful that the new Swans are as clever, as terrifying, and as proficient in their craft as presented on The Seer.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's a thoughtful and meditative affair with a meaningful and felt collaboration at its core.