Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,703 reviews, this publication has graded:
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
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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: 1,555 out of 1703
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Mixed: 130 out of 1703
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Negative: 18 out of 1703
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Benny and the rest of Griselda are a force so reliable and prolific that they should be boring by now. But The Plugs I Met 2 suggests that we’re just getting to know them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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The whole EP feels weightless and aloft as if we have a clear view of the blinding blue gap between its heights and depths.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 7, 2012
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It's too bad it couldn't find release on a major, but still a victory. Yet, that doesn't make this album, as Saigon once declared it, the best record of the last 20 years. It makes it a good one.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Although it seems Jehnny Beth has decided to go solo to express more of her vulnerabilities, by the end of To Love is To Live it’s hard to say whether we actually feel any closer to her. However, it also shows her chameleonic abilities as a vocalist, as she’s working with different styles and productions yet still sounding urgent.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 12, 2020
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What an enormous room strikes as a means for Scott to prove to no one but herself that she can build her temple from scratch, embracing her inner non-conformist with steadfast spirit. Even within the sound of settling, Torres has plenty of charming things to say.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 1, 2024
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Brun has such control of her craft, and that is made brightly plain across these two albums [After The Great Storm & How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow]. Which one you prefer will likely depend on which genre or style you have deeper inclination for, but taken together, they’re both excellent representations of an artist honing her tested and true style while also venturing out into new waters, easily proving just how capable she is along the way.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 30, 2020
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No Taste basically checks all the boxes of what makes punk rock still a righteous, thrilling starting point for any young artist. It’s a record that frantically claws at the walls with concisely aimed fits of desperation, anger, scathing humor and gusto.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 8, 2021
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Where I was expecting a great album, I've instead encountered one that's merely very good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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The Ohio trio's fifth LP and first for Merge, sees Times New Viking maturing to an even cleaner sound, though never completely forfeiting the kill-yr-speakers aesthetic that made them standouts in the lo-fi community.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 26, 2011
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It's their breakthrough album and shows that with focus and confidence, the future could be pretty exciting for The Maccabees.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 19, 2012
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It possesses an innate ability to provide complex tapestries of sound and universal narratives of despair and triumph – though it is possible for audiences to get lost in the world they’ve captured without paying attention to the lyrics and still feel something ache within their chest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 28, 2021
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- Posted Apr 13, 2012
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It’s the document of two beloved alt-metal worlds colliding to head-shuddering effect; a record of skull crushing intensity in places, with merciless riffs conjured up from the deepest abyss, which are counterpoised with quiet, ethereal dark-folk introspection – a mix that shouldn’t really work but absolutely does.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 4, 2020
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This is rager music, the fun and frantic rock anthems that the weirdos and the geeks who have grown into successful entrepreneurs and innovators can dance to while the quarterback from their high school bags their groceries.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 30, 2021
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It sounds like fun; precisely what the Odd Future discography has been lacking lately.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 26, 2012
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Gone are the old voices of the city, the tales of the Wu-Tang and the sense that there is real struggle or strife. Instead it's a heterogeneous mix of international talent devoted less to teaching lessons or passing down wisdom as it is to making twenty-somethings dance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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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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Shields is both well-mannered and demanding, subdued but always bubbling under the surface.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 17, 2012
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Throughout Showtunes, Wagner demonstrates that theatricality and showmanship can manifest in many different and sometimes subtle forms. He may not draw in many new fans from this one-act performance, but it’s still one of the band’s most intriguing and well-executed productions nonetheless.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 25, 2021
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This is them coming to grips with their heritage and their age, although it’s no swan song. But American Head does what its predecessors haven’t been able to do – it shows the Flaming Lips still know how to write thoughtful and sincere songs that also tap into the psychedelics their fans have come to expect.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 14, 2020
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While Peaking Lights came into this album lurking largely in the hazy fringes of the consciousness of music fans, with Lucifer they've made an album that more clearly demands the active attention of those who might happen upon it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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Without any stylistic or conceptual thread tying these songs together (other than the generic tag of lo-fi pop) this album leaves just a bit wanting. It's a great album, but it's kept from being one for the ages based on that disjointedness.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 16, 2011
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Mumps takes a little while to sink in in a different way to previous albums.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 5, 2012
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Be Up a Hello can be a lot to take in at times, a rambunctious and restless effort from a man comfortable in his ability to make the dancefloor obsolete. But there’s more here than simply speed and density – there are strange currents working their way through the songs, hints are something deeper and more relatable than its superficial excess might suggest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2020
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Balancing stately pop ornamentation with more bombastically orchestrated moments, the album allows Meiburg to both indulge and scale back his dramaturgical impulses.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2022
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In Sickness & In Flames is one of The Front Bottoms’ most interesting records to date; it’s completely them – and obviously so – yet they change just enough to keep you guessing without alienation.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 25, 2020
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Yeah, some of the electronic and percussive flourishes might be a little tired in 2011, but Givers sell it with such wide-eyed abandon and indulgent wonder that it's hard not to give in to the cacophonous stew of bursting pop euphoria.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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The balance between these sounds is what makes it such a three-dimensional listen, as the percussion never overwhelms; despite building up torrential speed and power, this force is made beautiful by the spare-but-carefully-adorned melodic elements. ... The only moments on Contact that don’t open up a world of sensory exploration are the three title-track-come-interludes; “Contact (sukha & somanassa)”, “Contact (dukkha & domanassa)”, and the closing “Contact (upekkhā)”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 11, 2020
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Breathy vocals, immensely hooky songwriting and a brilliantly defined technicolor aesthetic established from the very beginning. Such description could have been thrown at Stereolab in the early '90s and at Broadcast in the early 2000s.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 1, 2012
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Taken as a whole, it’s the sound of a band reinvented, shrouded in autumnal atmosphere and containing depths that reveal themselves on repeat listens – whatever the truth may be, on their long-awaited fourth album, I LIKE TRAINS remain true to themselves.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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Sweat’s new album, All My Love In Half Light, follows from her debut, Mantic, utilizing the same setup albeit this time she sounds clearer, grander, and more in control of herself and the world she’s creating.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 7, 2013
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Every track on The Universal Want has a warmth to it that is absent on most reunion albums.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 11, 2020
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It's one of the most back-to-front solid and uncompromising Berlin techno full-lengths this year.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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The Defamation of Strickland Banks is most certainly a success.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 18, 2011
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Be Strong is a rather exhaustive album when consumed in one sitting, but if you've got the fortitude to reach the closing track "The Church" during that listen, it can be a very euphoric climax.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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The recycling of sounds from past eras of music has become a huge trend over the past few years, but when those sounds are successfully appropriated in new ways, like they are here, the result proves to be very worthwhile.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 24, 2012
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Sling may not offer many universal rallying cries or rousing choruses from artists that break through in similar fashion as Clairo. But it does compel you to lean in and listen a bit more closely to what Claire Cottrill has orbiting around her inquisitive mind. Sling is an intimate, tender heart-to-heart where muted confessions finally have their day.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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Where Wiki’s last album Oofie jumped around in styles with different beatmakers, Half God feels like one complete vision. With the marriage of a producer on a hot streak and a rapper who sounds revitalized, it’s a welcome addition to both artists’ catalogs.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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He [Chasney] may have made a misstep by not allowing the album to have that singularly defining moment but after his last few records, Ascent is a step up in terms of direction and execution.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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One Track Mind aims for the feel of a great dusty road-trip album, and only through its staggering consistency does it slightly fall short of such heights. But when it hits its highs, as if often does, the collection is a transcendent experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 22, 2013
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The triumph of Heady Fwends lies the way it sands off the rough edges off 2011's excess and whittles an honest, enjoyable set out of the mire while coaxing a wealth of unexpected voices into the fray without losing its way.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 30, 2012
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So while the year 2020 mourns the loss of good live music, Ohmme swoop in with a refined and immersive dose of chaotic pop rock, and it’s very satisfying.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 8, 2020
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- Posted Jul 10, 2013
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More often than not, this album is deeply enthralling, providing interesting textures, head-swaying grooves, tight rhythms, and an awesome display of synchronicity amongst the bandmates at almost any turn.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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Engine of Hell underscores her gifts as a songwriter and for minimalistic arrangement, also illustrating her talent for unadorned performance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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It’s a stunning and properly weird ending to a weird album, and though it may be one of their most succinct albums, Sun Racket still showcases what the Muses are up to so long into their career, and why they should keep doing exactly what they’re doing.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 8, 2020
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“Separate Ways” is a sweet beginning, reminiscent of “Out On The Weekend” with a slightly more bitter détour, which immediately reminds us that Homegrown should have followed Harvest. Emmylou Harris’ haunting voice in the background of “Try” sounds simultaneously evocative and familiar — a trait resulting from her frequent collaborations with the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, and Bob Dylan.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 18, 2020
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Free I.H. may have been Tudzin’s war cry, but Let Me Do One More is a comfort record. It shows resilience and passion from one of indie music’s most intriguing risk takers.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 4, 2021
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Cheat Codes captures the glory of rap’s classic era and brings it to the present through thick mesmerizing samples and the rapper’s incredible vernacular.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Although he's using sounds and influences from many of the musical hubs on the Earth, from Africa to America and plenty in between, with them he has created aural scenery that is so serene and heavenly that it couldn't possibly exist on our busy and frantic planet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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Heart’s Ease captures the Shirley Collins of the present day, and is in no way an attempt to recreate times passed. And yet the continuity is crystal clear: Collins’ devotion to the folk tradition is as strong as ever. She continues to bring new life to the musical artefact that is the folk song, and the fact that she brings so many years of her own to these interpretations makes them feel all the more authentic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 24, 2020
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It's not a bad effort at all, showing their ability to craft songs that are consistently solid.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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While Artist Proof never quite lives up to the expectations of being a masterpiece, it is a great example of how the country rock genre developed in tandem with the folk scene.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Everything here sounds tighter than before, with an emphasis on riffs and melody, allowing the experimental tendencies of Liars to take a step back for a moment. As a result, The Apple Drop will likely be labeled their ‘pop’ album, and that’ll be a justified assessment.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 10, 2021
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Yes, Romanticism isn’t quite as nuanced and colourful as the work of Vu’s younger self – it’s more physical, more withered and broken. But in that, it’s also an honest and genuine reflection of growing up, as in: facing trauma, grief, frustration and self-hatred.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 8, 2024
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Nothing here quite reaches the fizzy highs of something like “Come Together” or “Hey Jane”, and he can’t quite recapture the slow, sad, and syrupy balladry of past tracks like “Broken Heart”. But he can still kick up quite a storm when he wants to, and though perhaps a bit too streamlined for some fans, this is another fine album in Pierce’s and Spiritualized’s repertoire.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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The songs on Jump Rope Gazers aren’t as immediately addictive as what came before, but The Beths’ natural intuition for emotive and melodic writing is still intact.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 10, 2020
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On Storm Queen she’s an actor given complete creative freedom with a classic text; the voice of an avenging angel; a ballet dancer performing with a sharpened sabre in hand. Summoning thunderclouds and hurricanes with her inflections and rippling vocal cords, she is the Storm Queen through and through.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 18, 2022
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All that need really be said is that it is sublime; both in terms of execution and aesthetics.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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Pilgrimage of the Soul feels like a statement of intent from a band now entering their third decade of existence, and this is a fine record that both acknowledges past victories and shows desire to develop and progress to new ground.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 17, 2021
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We have heard many albums about the pandemic and life within it, but this is more about about life after it; how to pick up the pieces of the lives we had before it and transform them into this new life that just relentlessly goes on. Vile’s music is attuned to the unrelenting progression of life.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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Yet another impressive and experimental addition to Dawn’s discography, Second Line proves that this prolific artist is not running out of steam or fresh ideas any time soon.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 5, 2021
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A final gorgeous, understated moment to close out a record full of them. Even without Powell’s signature voice, it sounds like Land of Talk and no one else.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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Such is Krug’s way with words: deliberately or not, he’s weaving a huge tapestry that makes the author clearer to us. Julia With Blue Jeans On is another section in it and is a damned beautiful, it not great one at that.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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Cloud Nothings, the eponymous debut from the project of Dylan Baldi, is the work of another young mind who seems gifted beyond his years.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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Its fragmented nature is tied to its accessibility; each track stands alone on its own merits, albeit at the expense of the record as a whole. The more oblique lyricism allows for the possibility of wider interpretations here, where previously they have felt out of reach.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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The King is full of voices, both his own and those of the ones he sings about and for, and that communion is one of the album’s biggest strengths. It does maintain some habits that threaten to curdle the gravity of his songs into preciousness or melodrama, like his quivering vibrato and theatrical mannerisms (at times, the songs almost sound like folky musical theatre numbers). But, overall, these nitpicked conflicts don’t negate the sheer power of what Anjimile has constructed here.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 19, 2023
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It’s an evocative thrill ride and a captivating rumination on mortality that also asks questions of life afterwards. It isn’t an easy listen but it’ll soon become something you’re drawn towards time and time again.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 9, 2021
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Push the Sky Away has the ability to move without raising its voice above a whisper.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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He may not have superstar charisma on the mic, but his ability to create an enveloping, dungeon-like sphere of sound practically guarantees you'll be seeing his name pop up on plenty of great releases for years to come.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 19, 2012
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Maybe not every song here is as fully-realized as her best material, and maybe there are a few too many slow-moving ballads – but this doesn’t lessen just how delightful Planet Her ends up as a whole. It’s the type of pop album there should be more of: both playful and psychedelic, rich in intelligent production, and filled with charismatic and chameleonic performances.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 28, 2021
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It would be easy to say the album is carried by the collabs or FaltyDL, but that would be a lie. Mykki’s imprint is just as strong and powerful. Lyrics about spirituality or black queer politics add to the depth and joy of the record.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Many of the best rap records are monochromatically single-minded, but then the other half, embrace contradictions as a weapon, rage hiding insecurities, heartless satire shielding weakness, such as Earl’s hero, early period Slim Shady.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 27, 2013
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The "point," if there is such a thing with this kind of music, is that even during its most trepidatious or lonely nadirs, there is a beauty to experiencing love that overwhelms the heart. Windy & Carl seem to aim to replicate that overwhelming sensation through their music.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 16, 2012
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- Posted Mar 7, 2012
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To be fair, she's still in the process of resurfacing, rather successfully actually, and Body Talk is a fine dance-pop album.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 11, 2011
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It's not that Beams is a lighter listen than Black City, but it's certainly more honest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 31, 2012
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If the album in its entirety feels open-ended, well, that's because it is, but by any measure Family Perfume is a pleasantly disarming ride, loaded with great, barely noticeable moments.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 9, 2012
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Her third album leaves no stone unturned, turning darkness into sheer catharsis. Sounds like something we all could use.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 3, 2020
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There’s a constant fluidity, a continuum of becoming throughout IRE, and the band stubbornly, almost gleefully, refuse to return earthbound.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 10, 2022
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Album pacing, songcraft and the all-important killer chorus--all of these aspects have been considerably improved on since last time out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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This is a record unanchored by the lofty expectations of previous releases. It’s a series of notes and remembrances, fond and mournful and often whimsical in nature, which provides ample evidence that the band still hasn’t fully excavated all the mysterious beauty that pop music has to offer.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 21, 2020
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Think of Endless Now as a sturdy yet slightly uncertain move forward, but a step in the right direction nonetheless.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 31, 2011
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This all makes On&On Blumberg’s most accomplished and also his most mystifying work to date.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 4, 2020
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This record is a perfect soundtrack for any drunken destruction party, tantrum, or any other moment of great primitivism.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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At times it feels maybe a little too familiar sonically or compositionally, but all in all, The Land, The Water, The Sky is a potent portrait of a musician who only gets more impressive with each release.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 22, 2023
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It manages to take inspiration from a grab bag of styles and still create an unified, singular end-product. Earnest and unburdened, Time Bend is a staggeringly bold statement for a debut album. It would, indeed, seem as though we have not seen anything yet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2022
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Pharoahe Monch crafts an LP that not only serves as a protest to the United States' handling of the conflicts in the Middle East, but stands alone as a more than competent hip-hop record.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Outwardly, Gang of Youths’ third album is one about grief – specifically the grief stemming from the death of Le’aupepe’s father. But more than that, it’s a moving and deeply personal exploration of the innate flaws of the human condition; of failing the ones you love despite your best intentions, and of falling apart and beginning the slow and painful process of piecing yourself back together again afterwards.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2022
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These 12 songs deal with death and loss – themes that have never felt so tangible for so many. Yet, Field Music pull off this balancing act for one simple reason: this was their very gift to begin with.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 27, 2021
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Maybe the way the album begins isn't supposed to put its 10 songs into the context of a live show, but certainly it ends the way you'd presume a Wye Oak show to close down: reflectively, with the audience's appreciation at first silent in captivation. Then, though it might not be audible on Civilian, well-deserved applause.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 22, 2011
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It makes for one of the most challenging yet rewarding techno oddities of the year and we get the priviledge of seeing a producer honing his craft into something especially unique and cohesive.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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RTJ4 is every bit as explosive as one would have hoped, and whatever it lacks in diversity it makes up for with strong writing. It’s a record born out of generations of racial tension and almost four years of near-dictatorship in the USA.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 9, 2020
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It’s clear that every listener will read Midnights in their own way – the record is simply too rich to function as background soundtrack. It’s a blistering experience that demands commitment, concentration and deep engagement – it’s an artist banishing their demons.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 24, 2022
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It’s a rich tapestry of sound, message and meaning with multiple layers to unpick with each listen.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 17, 2021
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While Just Give In / Never Going Home benefited from a nuanced lyrical approach, any sense of Hazel English’s musical tentativeness is completely gone on Wake UP!.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 28, 2020
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A bracingly personal listen, As Long As You Are is as impactful as the follow-up to Singles should have been; it’s the sound of a band taking control.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 13, 2020
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With All Bets Are Off, Tamar Aphek has crafted an impressively eclectic project, forging elegant balances between minimalism and maximalism and coalescing her affinities for a variety of musical styles.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 3, 2021
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The Golden Age of Apocalypse is a great album that shows Bruner utilizing all of his bass wizardry.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 29, 2011
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