Beats Per Minute's Scores
- Music
For 1,704 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 2.1 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: 1,556 out of 1704
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Mixed: 130 out of 1704
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Negative: 18 out of 1704
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Aerial East is a talented songwriter with a signature voice, and Try Harder certainly includes its stellar moments. However, the project as a whole would have benefited from more melodic, tonal, and atmospheric variation, issues which could in part have been addressed via a greater use of recording options and a more hands-on production approach.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Where each song on Melodrama felt like rushing into the next room at a wild house party to discover a new scandal or hookup, each successive song on Solar Power feels like returning to the same yoga class day after day; there might be the odd new mantra or position, but there’s nothing truly revelatory.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 25, 2021
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Gloria is a frequently satisfying yet uneven statement of self-love and confidence that heralds a new era, both musically and personally, for Sam who proves that it is just as equally an act of vulnerability to show your happiness, as it is your sadness.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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This may be a confused record, but it finds its place through a universal truth it manages to hit: so Skinner can't quite find his way in this world: who among us can?- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Four sounds like an album created by a talented band that finally got back in a room together after a long time apart, and just seemed to put together all the various ideas they've all had without stopping to think too much about them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 28, 2012
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With snappier sounds and clearer EQs, the tracks on BlackenedWhite sound much crisper than anything on Goblin – a record that sounded too muddy for its own good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 3, 2011
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As an experiment, the album hints at expansion but it feels restrained, afraid to really push hard. Even still, Present Tense has a little something for everyone and is a perfect launching pad for the next one.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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It is arguably his most sonically interesting and personal project so far, but its inconsistency punches a few pot-holes in the listening journey. The experimentation here doesn’t always work, but when it does, it shows that Post is heading in some exciting directions for future albums.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Mixed Emotions seems served just too late, and comes off as regrettably stale.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 29, 2012
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The strange, yet awfully satisfying, collection of tracks certainly won't attract new listeners to the Gorillaz catalogue, but synth-infused pop tracks like "Revolving Door" or "Hillbilly Man" will appease most listeners.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 26, 2011
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Ultimately, Tracey Denim lives and thrives in the shadows of past greats, but is unable to escape them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 30, 2023
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Make no mistake; the album isn't a failure, it's just sacrificed a little too much to be a success.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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Throughout Fly Siifu’s, the duo offer nothing more than a chill rap record, which has highs and lows. It’s a fine record to put on in the background, but a slog to try to focus on, as so much of it blends together with hardly anything to standout in the end.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 18, 2020
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The fragmentation of characters, the dislocation and purposefully disruptive sense of a core musical identity on Warm Chris make this a collection of disparate songs rather than a body of work – for some this will be a boon, for others problematic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Exister succeeds at painting a portrait of his despair in charcoal. Unfortunately, as a piece of music to consume it’s just too choppy and incoherent to elicit a feeling. In the end it’s a risky exploitation of his frail psyche, a destination already travelled to and not worth revisiting all that often.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 27, 2022
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It's all very well-done, but it's not something that you'll feel much incentive to revisit over and over; an experience worth taking, but not necessarily one worth repeating.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 5, 2012
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No Witch might not be a particularly ground-breaking album, but it is a significant leap forward for this band, and that's most definitely a step in the right direction.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 25, 2011
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- Posted Apr 30, 2012
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For every fault that Neighborhoods has--and it has quite a few--the album is infectious and catchy.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 28, 2011
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What this results in is an album that is just as frequently successful as it is frustrating.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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These are pretty songs, but largely forgettable when amassed together, and though EYEYE is an honorable attempt at switching lanes yet again after a divisive fourth album, it mostly comes up short as a finished product.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 25, 2022
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The album's top heavy, and its finest moments come when T.I.'s able to look past himself, whether it be to attack the legal or education system. The rest is frustratingly mixed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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Fatigue, for all its many-sided intrigue and snatches of moving beauty, can be a bit like driving by a series of natural wonders at 150mph – too fast to truly appreciate what’s there. There’s a purposely otherworldly vibe to these 29 minutes, but the moments when Cheek the artist is most nakedly visible in the constellation are when Fatigue feels most successful.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 29, 2021
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Clark and Byrne are never fully on the same page. Instead they ricochet of each other, flying off on miniaturized tangents that never stray far from home.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 12, 2012
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While Ship has a few compelling moments, it's mostly lethargic and sinks into its own monotonous haze.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 14, 2012
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Soft Metals shows a ton of potential, and each track is polished with care, but it is hard to overcome the album's mostly simple pattern.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 11, 2011
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Her well of inspiration has always been deep, with songs about environmentalism, family troubles and small town gossip, but it seems now, when pressed too hard on the idea of maturity, Musgraves appears all too shallow, and no longer the three-dimensional character we loved and craved so much.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 14, 2024
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An ambitious concept, but not fully executed, Top Ten Hits Of The End Of The World is stuck somewhere in-between.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 15, 2012
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While Róisín Machine is probably the most straightforward album she’s made, and is clearly within her wheelhouse, it just leaves a desire that she had pushed things even further, as we know she’s capable of doing.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 5, 2020
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