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.
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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: 1,556 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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It's an album that ceaselessly overflows with love and a desire to reach out and relate, and it's this that makes such a heavy album so accessible and so resoundingly good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 24, 2012
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Nü Sensae are one of the most formidable punk outfits working right now and Sundowning is the work of a band whittling themselves down to occupy the very tip of fury.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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God Save the Animals’ production approaches are understated compared to those employed in previous work yet still precisely rendered. What stand out – prominently and unabashedly – are Alex’s impeccably crafted and irresistibly delivered songs.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 23, 2022
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It's rare that an artist finds a voice in the unsaid. You could call her loss our gain.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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The effort put into creating the dark atmosphere is gratuitous, but in the context of the album it works perfectly. Add to this the fact that every song carries a killer hook and you have one of the must-hear albums of the year.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 13, 2011
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Allelujah! seems more immediate and more organic, but instead of feeling blown away by it's unreachable drama and grandeur, with a decade of age behind us and the band, it feels inhabitable in a way Godspeed never has before.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 15, 2012
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Sigur Rós have already proven themselves across their lengthy career, and now, they’re peaking their heads out yet again and making clear they shouldn’t be counted out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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With additional help from fellow musician and frequent collaborator Justin Vernon (whose vocals are the only overdubbed aspect of the music), the songs on To See More Light are as devastatingly personal as they are emphatically otherworldly--inhuman sounding even. This stark dichotomy of sound and intent throws Stetson’s music into austere relief.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 2, 2013
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Fans of the harsher tone and aesthetic may grumble at him leaving the sound of NEGRO behind, but it couldn’t be clearer that his nearly manic, uncontainable sense of creativity is not only still present, but is grasping further, sounding more expansive and less controlled than ever here. For those in a rut over the seemingly endless absence of Kendrick Lamar, you need look no further for boundlessly creative and irresistibly unique hip hop than GUMBO’!.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 19, 2021
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With true, human conflict between happiness and sadness on full display, Man Alive! is unequivocally King Krule’s, or better yet, Archy Marshall’s most sobering work yet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2020
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He achieves a lot with a little. He never gives us filler. He continues to innovate. He has provided us with a great album, one that is a sure sign his velocity has not been slowed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 7, 2011
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The dead air that seemed to sometimes crop up previously has been filled or chopped out completely, creating a record with taut and purposeful momentum.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Life is Good the most exciting Nas album to come around since It Was Written.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 24, 2012
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The album may be a little homogenous for some listeners, but this is a narratively and emotionally precise set of songs, set to sneakily indelible melodies. Nastasia has never written with such vivid truthfulness, such earthen brutality.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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2 finds Mac DeMarco growing as an artist, settling into a workman-like rhythm and puttering through some of the catchiest tracks of the year.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 15, 2012
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This resilience against the facts of life wavers from song to song, giving us a divine spectrum of her fragile existence at the time of their creation. ... It’s in the final three tracks of songs where the membrane between songwriter and broken-hearted woman is at its thinnest, where Lenker renders her deep, soulful ache in the most poignant of ways.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 26, 2020
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Yeah Right’s dual interests in songwriting and guitar explorations end up being its greatest strength.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 6, 2013
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It has the potential to sidle next to records like Movements and We Are Monster as a genre classic, but it's just as assured to find a broader audience as well.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 8, 2012
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For all its horror trappings and flat-out aggression (the album-closing title track even ends with one last fakeout jump-scare blast to the face), We Are Always Alone is a deeply emotional record. It is catharsis writ large; a writhing, wailing, violent resistance against the injustice of a cruel world full of self-serving people.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 2, 2021
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So much talk of tempo and expectation must not overshadow the greatest triumph that 4 has to offer: progression.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Shrines functions just fine as a collection of Purity Ring's work thus far, but it also functions as a singular, cohesive artistic statement, a capital-a Album, and that's much more rewarding.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 23, 2012
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Unpredictable it is not, but taken as a study of sound and mood, it’s kind of perfect.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 20, 2013
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- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Tramp is simply her most fully-realized album yet, and that's all there is to it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Labyrinthitis is Bejar’s best work since Kaputt. At this point, Bejar has several classics under his belt, so there’s no desperation here to create another one, but he manages to do it with ease.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 29, 2022
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It is an unmistakably raw first album of ripe potential, and one of the more memorable releases of the early weeks of this year.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 11, 2011
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Possibly the most intelligent album about love this decade, Water Made Us gently and disarmingly humanizes Woods while maintaining a me-positive stance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 16, 2023
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Hopefully Slave Ambient will do for The War On Drugs what Smoke Ring For My Halo did for Kurt Vile and place Adam Granduciel as one of the musicians with serious talent and songwriting acumen in modern indie rock.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 19, 2011
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YTILAER finds Callahan at his most personally enigmatic, taking inspiration from his own life and filtering those experiences through a prism of modern folktales. He offers us all the most enticing details but manages to keep it wonderfully vague at the same time, a treasure trove of musical obscurantism.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 14, 2022
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It’s not an album that immediately reveals itself, but when it lets you in it’s hard to find your way out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 22, 2013
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