Beats Per Minute's Scores
- Music
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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A dense, sometimes challenging, but ultimately patience-rewarding listen.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 15, 2020
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A dimly lit, lo-fi hybrid, Shake takes its cue from some of Harvey's most successful past works, but has its own uniquely brash textures.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 23, 2011
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All Eternals Deck is as obvious in its quality as Darnielle is obvious in his earnestness.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 28, 2011
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If any record of this relatively young year demands your full attention then Shaking the Habitual is it, as it opens up as a vast chasm of unexpected possibilities, and despite any possible subconscious misgivings, you’ll immediately want to jump in without thinking twice.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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Cavalcade is an experience album, one that lingers long after it’s over. It calls to you from the basement.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Here, Lopatin excels at what he’s been doing since his first release as Oneohtrix Point Never, and what first brought us to him: drawing feeling out of the digital realm, instead of just channeling it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 18, 2013
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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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It’s noteworthy that this latest record is on par with those two [Soundtracks for the Blind and The Seer] in quality, because it marks his largest leap forward in a long time. By imagining a future without himself, Michel Gira has opened up an eternity of possibilities. He’s let the light shine in – and that is deeply moving. He’s found peace.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Ram's 2012 reincarnation sounds impeccable. Though the bonus tracks don't pack much punch, the LP's dozen original cuts, crowned by the breakthrough sensation "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey," arguably make this LP McCartney's seminal solo effort.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 20, 2012
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Her storytelling eye is sharp and her ear is honed to bring the most out of it melodically and instrumentally (with a tipped hat to Jonathan Rado’s excellent production). ... She is a torch bearer for our times.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Antidawn is alive, and it expresses itself in those short bursts of iconic moments that shine something back.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 11, 2022
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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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These tracks are sparse but airtight, haunting but unrelentingly gorgeous, both logical successors to the stunning second half of Aerial and completely unlike anything she's done.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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It's all dizzying and overwhelming, but the sheer brute strength of The Money Store stays tempered by a pervasive, unbridled sense of creativity.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 24, 2012
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The results are just about as great as expected. Perhaps more than ever, the rapper paints the world of the faded, the dense and the spacey are a labyrinth for Curren$y's creation.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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The resulting album is one that is deceptively simple, a send-up to the aggressive cultural awareness of old-school rap on the surface, filtered through a hundred different post-apocalyptic scenarios, musical and lyrical.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 4, 2012
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This is why Dye It Blonde is truly a success: the band have moved from the garage noise-rock sound to a much more atmospheric one wherein the noise is harnessed into multiple layers of melodic instrumentation.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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With Ritual Union, the band forges their own path and does not take the easy way out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 25, 2011
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It is a monumental piece that dextrously straddles his musical epochs; it is an account of history and a document of where he is now.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 7, 2020
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- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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The album is a widening and a deepening of the style we've come to expect of Walker – but it's also got elements of a brightening of that sound as well.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 3, 2012
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- Posted Mar 7, 2012
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There is so much to both genuinely appreciate and enjoy on Swing Lo Magellan that it makes you wonder why these have to sometimes be exclusive ways to experience an album.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 17, 2012
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I Know What Love Isn't is more than a great pop album – it's the most singularly rewarding statement from one of the more uniquely gifted songwriting voices of the past decade.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 10, 2012
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If there’s anything Mr. West finds completely alien to his person, it’s restraint, and Yeezus is the perfect, chaotic, and ultimately uncompromising dive into this world.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2013
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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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Haram feels like the truest representation what they set out to do at the start of their journey as a duo. As a result, it finds them asking the questions everyone is avoiding.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 17, 2021
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These nine songs will still speak to those willing to listen, speak of the arrogance of those claiming superiority, of the delusion of lovers and anger of those left by the wayside; of the loneliness of the mortally confused, and of the jealousy of those left behind.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 6, 2021
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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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Bad As Me is yet another sensational landmark on the long, well-traveled path of a man who simply refuses to age.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 25, 2011
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