Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM)'s Scores

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For 779 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score:
The SMiLE Sessions
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
If Not Now, When?
Critic Score 18
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 688 out of 779
  2. Mixed: 78 out of 779
  3. Negative: 13 out of 779
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    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 39
    Young & Old
    The result is an album that is still adrift at sea, unaware of the musical landscape around them.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 38
    In the Grace of Your Love
    The Rapture show that they are as worthy of pupils as they have been for the last decade as teachers. But, unfortunately, they still have a lot to learn.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Critic Score 38
    Purple Naked Ladies
    The most disappointing aspect about Syd Tha Kid's delivery is her inability to create a remotely compelling protagonist - something Odd Future members have proved themselves more than capable of doing.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 35
    MDNA
    I'd say that MDNA is at the very least "not bad," but frankly, it's worse than bad: it's mediocre.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Critic Score 35
    POP ETC
    [The songs'] punchiness and repetitiveness can quickly get on one's nerves, depending on your disposition.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 34
    Longtime Companion
    With some rather boring compositions and hokey songwriting, this record doesn't have a lot going for it.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 33
    Torches
    Regardless, even the harshest of words are unlikely to stop this album from being a success. And that, well, is kind of depressing.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Critic Score 32
    I Love You, Dude
    I Love You Dude is offensive in its banality, and other than that it's so mundane that it's tough to even want to care.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Critic Score 30
    Lulu
    The whole thing comes off as either an expensive major label joke or nigh-impenetrable high art concept. Maybe both.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 29
    Future This
    Future This is stuck in some kind of awful, awful limbo between Robert Smith-less Cure and hyperbolic electro dance music.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Critic Score 28
    Wolf
    Wolf is a serious mess.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 25
    Tha Carter IV
    From an MC that would call himself King, shouldn't we all have hoped – nay, expected – well, better?
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 18
    If Not Now, When?
    It seems as though the band has completely forgotten to keep up with music in the years they've been off, instead producing some of the most banal songs by any rock band in recent memory.