Beats Per Minute's Scores
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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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If you're hoping for change here, give up now. Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager is also presented in five acts, and again has no real structure to justify them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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Taylor takes that responsibility as a solo artist and runs with it, throwing everything and anything into the mix; there are the standard sounds you’d expect from him, but there’s also country, blues-based hard rock, punk and some rap-rock thrown in for good measure. And therein lies the issue with CMFT: rather than those disparate influences somehow mixing to become a whole, they’re left to stand on their own. The more you listen to CMFT, the more it comes across as ‘Corey Taylor does (insert genre here)’ rather than something cohesive.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 11, 2020
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- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Songs like “Carpenter” and “Set the Fairlight” have some of that old-school Islands mentality, displaying Thorburn’s ability to write infectious grooves. But these moments are few and far between and easily overshadowed by the homogenous tones of “Natural Law Party” and the flighty “Marble”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 16, 2021
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Time and time again The Luyas set themselves up in a soft kraut-like groove and fail to progress the song into something different, allowing it to fizzle out after four or five minutes.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 26, 2012
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The National Health is not a poor effort, it's just woefully undistinguished.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 2, 2012
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Ian Parton is capable of more, and his poor decisions and lack of forward-thinking will keep The Go! Team from being more than a great live act unless change is sought for their next record.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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What remains is a record that feels all too groomed, all polished execution and often not well thought out. Music to nod and tap your foot along to, then turn it off and move on.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 7, 2022
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Based loosely around a theme of karma and betrayal, it’s possible that the attempt to tie everything together lyrically came at expense elsewhere. The sequencing doesn’t help: following the Lykke Li-ish opener “Love And Other Drugs” and nuclear trap of “WUACV” (which stands for “woke up and chose violence”) comes a Barbie pink, seven-song sampler of other peoples’ sounds. We don’t get to see Maidza again until the three bangers crammed into the back half, which is very late.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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Unfortunately, after years of anticipation, the reveal is an overtly tedious shell of everything Parker has ever charmed into existence. In fact, tedious may be an understatement.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2020
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Its biggest problem is that, from start of finish, it feels strangely reserved.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 14, 2011
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The timbre or the texture of the sounds they make is worth noting while working through Smilewound, but hardly worth returning specifically for.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 27, 2013
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With their influences in the right musical zone, we could be hearing some great things from Jacuzzi Boys in the future. Sadly, this release proves that they're not quite there yet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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As brief as the moments of goodness may be, they’re lost in a sea of noise that becomes near indistinguishable when taken in one sitting.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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- Posted Jun 22, 2012
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- Posted May 23, 2012
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Pedestrian may have similar mechanics to Yuck’s highlights underneath, but it’s stripped that fuzzy distortion and slathered in a thick layer of schmaltz as a replacement. The end result is a struggle, one that’s scattershot due to it’s need to include now-ancient methods to survive.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2021
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The experimental mindset is evident in moments of Right Thoughts, but only a select few, and like Tonight, it’s most prominent on the last few tracks.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 11, 2013
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Monthly Friend is serviceable indie rock at best, but it’s hard to meet it with anything greater than apathy and indifference.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 2, 2021
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What works for Lambchop in the case of TRIP is the level of consistency in their sound that they were able to achieve through years of playing music together. However, it does not exactly bring the album together, because the tracks are thematically very different, and the band’s decision to apply the same approach to them contributes to the plainness of TRIP.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 18, 2020
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ATUM is the most controversial and strangest of all Smashing Pumpkins albums: a record that defies expectations but often disappoints in how prosaic and calculated it is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 11, 2023
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The Wilderness isn't really a sum of its parts in that songs might sound okay, if not good on their own, but taken altogether it makes for an album that fails to make it off the ground.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 9, 2012
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Considering this is her first album since 2014, it’s unfortunate that it can feel a little one-note. A Romeo and Juliet-esque yearning wasn’t necessarily expected or desired, and it doesn’t always serve her best across this effort.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 20, 2024
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Beal appears determined to make his debut as inaccessible as possible. Intentionally crappy instrumentation holds the album back, stealing the focus from what is an incendiary voice--a lot of casual fans will be dumbfounded by this grating, uneasy listening.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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It's shiny but fluffy, and sure to be a disappointment to those hoping that O'Regan could build on the promise of Special Affectations.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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It sounds reaching, like the band is lost and looking desperately for an audience and a voice. I hope they start looking somewhere else.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Ákadóttir has made her own museum here, and each of the songs on the album are monochrome statues that we the listener get to walk around and view, but we leave the building indifferent to any real history and experience they represent. It’s like Night at the Museum, but without any of the magic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 4, 2023
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It sounds like he's trying to sound less weird, when he doesn't seem to understand that this very weirdness is part of what made him so endearing as a solo artist in the first place.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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As said, the songs benefit from being taken out of context and as much as that leads to just picking and choosing the moments worth going back for, the process of listening to the EP as a whole can almost be disheartening as much as it is unrewarding.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 3, 2011
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Maybe they don't care, but ultimately, without any variety or ingenuity on any future albums they might make next, Monotonix might be forever stuck in a rut with nothing to do but party hard.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 2, 2011
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