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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Comparing him to other rappers is pointless: there are other guys with much more technically-sound flows (although Ye is as wickedly funny as he's ever been), but nobody else possesses the combination of hubris, imagination, neuroticism, and drive it takes to make a record like this.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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Ultimately, the legacy Pinkerton leaves behind is it being one of the most emotional and raw albums ever made. It's an album that many can relate to, even if you're not on the same level of crazy as Rivers was back then.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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The bonus material on discs five and six of the box set (which also includes Achtung Baby's severely underrated 1993 follow-up Zooropa and two pointless discs of remixes that likely won't be of much use even to die-hards) only serve to illuminate how much had to go right for the album to be as good as it was.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 16, 2011
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Time has only been kind to Life's Rich Pageant, and, hopefully, not much more time will be required to it to take its place in the rock and roll canon as the practically perfect album that it is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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One of those rare, near-flawless works of art that only grows finer with age.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Somehow, allowing it its true moment on the shelves has solidified the record's historical importance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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No one's asking bigger questions of himself or more from himself in music than Flying Lotus is. These records are the only appropriate answers and Until The Quiet Comes is his most accomplished yet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 28, 2012
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Fleet Foxes have become a band who will not stop pushing, who will challenge themselves to avoid stagnancy, who will work with both their instruments and their minds. Because of that, the audience is able to reap the fruit and feast on it together.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 3, 2011
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Both Ways Open Jaws will strike you as both new sounding and classic, as both fresh and rooted in tradition. Most importantly, it will strike you as a treasure, and probably, as the best album you have heard in a long time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 28, 2011
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If, as the artist himself has recently hinted, Kaputt really does mark the end of Destroyer, then it succeeds as a triumphant swan-song.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 26, 2011
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We Buy Diabetic Test Strips goes deeper, darker than any of Armand Hammer’s previous albums. It even eclipses woods and Kenny Segal’s stellar Maps as the best hip hop record this year, at least so far.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 3, 2023
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It’ll be hard to outdo this 20-track masterpiece, but at this point it’s impossible to bet against them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 11, 2022
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Sunbather is a future classic, no matter where you pigeonhole it, and that’s the mark of a true sonic masterpiece. Black metal, not black metal, just call it what it is: perfect.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 27, 2013
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Kelela‘s second album is a transformative work of art that merges house and ambient, soul and dance, and resides within interzones – like the titular animal, a mediator between the material world and the realm of the spirits. It’s a vast canvas of cultural expressions, emotional tones, erotic exploration and musical brilliance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Fucked Up actively refuse any sort of definition, and David Comes To Life proves that they're more than capable of shouldering that burden.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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In addition to being one of the year's most soberingly bleak R&B releases, Channel Orange is also one of the prettiest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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Centipede Hz is dense and unforgivingly full-throttle--you'll find no "Loch Raven" or even "Chores" here – and home to some of the band's best and most involved lyrics to date.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 4, 2012
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woods has transcended the line of being a great artist and entered the realm of genius. With Kenny Segal’s help, he has conjured a work that is wholly its own, both in the artist’s discography and in the rap genre.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 8, 2023
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Shabazz Palaces have pushed the music forward, so that it once again can be raw, real, and unconventional.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Burst Apart is full of wonderful little surprises like this, that add up to two big ones: that The Antlers didn't try to follow up Hospice by repeating themselves, and nevertheless, that they have delivered a more than worthy successor.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 9, 2011
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Grӕ is so rich in content and so vast in musicality it would be impossible to unpack everything in a single review. It is complex yet universal – comforting yet unsettling. It lives in an incorporeal realm of its own, and somehow, Sumney has gained complete and utter command over it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 14, 2020
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It's bold, cathartic, and essential; a candidate for not only one of 2012's best, but one of the most important records in all of American soul.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2012
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There is the obvious notable contrast between Roberts' blunt delivery and the lushly treated instrumentation. But there's a pillowy negative space between all the divergent aesthetics that creates a resounding heft and felt resonance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Low prove once again they are the sweet antithesis of that: a band who have had decades to hone their work within their own slow and deliberate pace and environment, making their most vital, forward-thinking music at an age where it can be utmost nurtured.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 10, 2021
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Whether approached with the utmost skepticism or the most fervent zeal, m b v proves itself not merely a reputable album, but a spectacular and unforgettable experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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A record that far surpasses the necessity of any and all comparisons. With their highly-anticipated record, this ballistic band birthed from the Brixton Windmill have constructed their own world, where self-abnegation abounds and anxiety festers, yet experimental ingenuity shines a light through all its darkness.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
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This is a record that begs patience and understanding of its listener, but for those that put in the time required, it offers the most bountiful emotional rewards of Nandi Rose’s career yet. This is an album for being lost, as well as healing. Much like its title, it is what you need it to be.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 1, 2020
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Excavation is vivid and physical, each moment meticulously and purposefully crafted.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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Just be thankful that the new Swans are as clever, as terrifying, and as proficient in their craft as presented on The Seer.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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It's a thoughtful and meditative affair with a meaningful and felt collaboration at its core.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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