Blurt Magazine's Scores
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For 1,384 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison [Live] | |
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Lowest review score: | Collapse |
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Positive: 950 out of 1384
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Mixed: 427 out of 1384
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Negative: 7 out of 1384
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The good folks at Shout Factory didn’t opt to only offer these discs a second time around, but instead provided added enticement via two bonus extras, a stunning live recording from Nashville’s Polk Theater, recorded around the same time as I Feel Alright, and a live DVD from the Cold Creek Correctional Facility where Earle had earlier been incarcerated.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 5, 2013
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Somewhere along the line, this became an amazing band, and songwriting/arranging this masterful elevates Blur The Line to modern-classic status, fully justifying the 5-star rating applied at the top of this review.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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Listening to this stunning album will provide you with your own moment of clarity. Don’t let it slip away.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 13, 2013
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Skeleton Tree is a testament to his art, his flaying honesty and his persistence in the wake of devastating loss.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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Twenty-five years in, how well these two sides of a sung coin fit together and complement each other remains remarkable.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 29, 2016
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Stuart cut a slew of tracks at their studio, handed the results to J.D. Foster for mixing duties, and wound up with one helluva platter that’s even better than The Deliverance of… and, as fans will realize upon the first spin, slots perfectly into his Green On Red oeuvre.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 19, 2016
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The bold artistic statement that is this record will have people talking about it for years to come.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 21, 2016
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With Adore Life, Savages have built on the visceral, gut-shock impact of their first album with stronger songs and more varied writing. It’s an impressive step up for an already promising band.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 16, 2016
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[An] excellent record that anyone who wants to hear the graceful way by which hip-hop should age should add to their collections right away.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 3, 2012
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It’s a spellbinding portal into a horrific cultural experience that continues to burn and radiate spiritual sustenance to the world.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 15, 2015
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Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1995, has plenty of meat on the bone for the uninitiated as well as the seasoned psychedelic music listener.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 13, 2016
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Something so well crafted by a group of individuals that bleeds music and emotions makes me thinks/hopes this is just the beginning for The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 2, 2015
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Deep, brooding and magical, The Starless Room is simply one of the finest artistic statements of 2016.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 12, 2017
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Gold Panda seems most interested in the former on his DJ-Kicks mix, keeping the dynamics understated, but the results are consistently interesting, melodic, and effective.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 12, 2011
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There are any number of landmark albums that critics are quick to label as essential, but given the fact No Depression jumpstarted an entire genre, none deserve that label more. The kudos earned by this good Uncle are clearly well earned.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 6, 2014
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I Abused Animal is a real shocker and definitely an album you won’t easily forget.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2016
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Sometimes older and wiser just makes you harder and meaner. I Used to Be Pretty is the grungy, gangly, glorious result of hard-won maturity.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 6, 2019
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While this faithful tribute doesn’t lessen the sadness, it does remind us that genius is timeless and that the memories of those triumphs will linger long enough to inspire us forever. The fact that these performances serve to remind us of that fact is reason enough to rejoice.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 27, 2016
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Returns to Valley of Rain, then, is a start-to-finish delight. It’s technically a re-do of the original UK cassette version of Valley of Rain, which had 11 tunes compared to the 10-song US LP.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 22, 2018
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- Posted Aug 3, 2012
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Americana is damn near as excellent an album as Davies has delivered since the ‘70s, a set of songs that will someday be seen as among his best.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 28, 2017
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This is a portrait of a band firing creatively on all cylinders. Their time is now. Don’t miss out.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 17, 2015
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This album is a triumph, and with it, Protomartyr has pulled off the unlikely feat of making the rock record of the year, twice in a row.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 21, 2015
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- Posted Mar 28, 2014
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The new album's a stunning return to, and expansion from, seminal Ubu form.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 17, 2013
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There are plenty more excellent guitar janglers like The Pooh Sticks doing my favorite tune “On Tape” plus Pale Saints doing the dreamier “Colours and Shapes” and Choo Choo Train (Ric and Paul from Velvet Crush) doing the righteous “High,” all of which is one disc one. Moving right over to disc two The House of Love start things off with “The Hill.”- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 7, 2017
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Populated with smartly crafted, passionately performed songs, No Way There From Here stands as Cantrell’s best work to date and leaves the listener hoping that she doesn’t take as many years to make do her follow-up album.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 5, 2014
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It lacks consistency, but it works well often enough to make this a reasonably satisfying exercise in both 19th and 21st Century Americana.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 25, 2014
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It’s neither time capsule nor curio, but rather a valid projection into the collector-archival ether that should hold up for future generations.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 6, 2017
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- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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It’s obvious that a trip up to Memphis was just what the doctor ordered, as it most certainly has injected a new, creative energy into the band. Of course, the chemistry imbued by the helping hands and producer were significant to the end product.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 6, 2018
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This is the best punk rock record you’ll hear this year--never mind that it’s not wholly or even really a punk rock record.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 17, 2014
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They blast their way through what will be one of the best punk records you’ll hear this year, and their best album to date.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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It is chock-a-block with everything you have ever loved about the Boards over the last 15-some-odd years.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 3, 2013
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Steven Wilson has remixed the entire original album for this “Elevated Edition,” so Tull trainspotters will no doubt thrill to the opportunity to debate, anew, the myriad sonic nuances, nooks, hooks, hobbit-holes and crannies afforded by contemporary studio technology compared to a decade and a half ago. In one sense, the Swedish show is the main draw here--it’s been bootlegged extensively, but never with sound quality this superior.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 15, 2016
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This is one of the most beautiful albums you’ll hear this year or any other, speaking softly but resonating deeply and long after the last sounds fade away.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 10, 2015
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Somehow It’s Great To Be Alive seems like the essential set, given that it boasts some 35 tracks spanning all phases of their collective career. It shows them in their true element--raucous, raw and unapologetic, a combination certain to appeal to diehard devotees and practically anyone else whose taste in music is generally affirmed by frequenting sweaty beer joints and any local roadhouse bar.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols is a remarkably faithful, utterly transcendent take on what I will humbly submit is the beatific, unadorned side of Christmas music.... This is the holiday release of the year.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 23, 2014
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Albarn has just unveiled quite arguably the best album of his career--solo or otherwise--with Everyday Robots.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 30, 2014
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Examining the duality of our motivations and emotions elevates Parquet Courts above most of their peers. Not only do they avoid the Vinyl-style embalming of their source material, but the songs transcend the romanticized hipster baggage that the city--and Brooklyn in particular--currently carries with it.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 7, 2016
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For those of you not so enamoured of the lo-fi, early ‘90s garage/punk crud the Memphis trio so brazenly and brilliantly pioneered, feel free to plug in your own “1” or “0” stars.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 11, 2013
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He’s cut a broad range of material to date, everything from Delta blues to free jazz to blazing psychedelia. All that and more surfaces at various points on Eyes On the Lines, ultimately making the album a culmination and a celebration.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2016
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Tom Jones is almost 73 years old, is singing as well as he ever has while refusing to conform to his stereotypes, is artistically and perhaps spiritually searching and restless, and is recording perhaps the finest music of his long career.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 17, 2013
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Patty Griffin has clearly been saving the best of her own material for a long time, making this perhaps her finest hour.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2013
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There’s an uncommon depth here that hasn’t been evidenced on Williams records in ages, both in the sonics (an immaculately crafted blend of intimate and widescreen) and the lyrics, which at times are deeply confessional and others downright defiant as the songwriter stares down her demons, the vicissitudes of relationships and the rampant idiocy of the outside world.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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If you’ve never experienced Lucinda Williams before, this is a discovery worth making and music that will live in your heart and mind long after the disk stops spinning.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 7, 2014
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- Posted Jun 22, 2015
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Since that time in 1991, U2 has had other weighty tracks, sensualist personal soliloquies and dense production - but nothing better than this truly real thing.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2011
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He may not be looking to “kill Saturday night” anymore but, with Upland Stories, Fulks has composed songs that are richer and more rewarding.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2016
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The word “essential” is bandied about quite a bit these days in reference to landmark recordings. Yet, here it applies in every sense. CSNY 74 is one for the ages.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 11, 2014
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Northern Passages shines as yet another jewel in their crowning achievements, setting hope against hope, that it’s follow-up won’t take as long to arrive next time.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 13, 2017
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Mick Harvey deserves every accolade that will certainly be festooned upon this album for not only showing us Gainsbourg’s brilliance but his own as well.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 6, 2017
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1970-1975 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything is as inspiring as its title implies and absolutely essential to boot.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 16, 2015
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Ork Records: New York, New York opens a window to the past that you can’t go through or even really see through, but it is just wide enough to let the music in and that is a very good thing indeed.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 11, 2015
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The Prodigal Son lives up to its title, a return to his earliest archival sounds.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 7, 2018
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They’re as vital, fresh and relevant as they’ve ever been in 31 years.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 5, 2016
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Every tune serves the moment, like a series of self-contained filmic miniatures whose character sketches, though brief, are utterly memorable, with those sketches’ accompanying sonics just as resonant.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 10, 2014
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Along The Way sounds remarkably fresh and vital, in fact, the mark of a gifted musician trying to incorporate his philosophical yearnings into a concrete manifestation that can be shared at will.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 11, 2014
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They’ve created a complex and detailed world, and English Oceans adds more memorable characters to it.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2014
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The first sketches of songs that would later buttress both Dylan and the Band’s songbook--“Tears of Rage,” “Nothing Was Delivered,” “I Shall Be Released,” You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere,” Don’t Ya Tell Henry,” “Quinn the Eskimo,” “Million Dollar Bash,” “Lo and Behold!” and the like--offer a treasure trove of revelation, making the anticipation for acquisition well worth the wait.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 4, 2014
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Man, is this ever drenched in heart and soul. The first time I heard it, several months ago, I muttered to myself, “Think this gonna be in my top 10 of 2019.” ‘deed it is, folks.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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For beautiful execution of a beautiful idea for a tribute/concept album, try The Beautiful Old: Turn-of-the-Century Songs.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 2, 2014
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Ultimately American Ride resounds like a victory cry--urgent, enduring and unfailingly affecting.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 25, 2013
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Needing to prove nothing, Goat have created one of the most definitive musical statements of 2016.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 23, 2016
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Fantastic Plastic might just be their finest effort. This is the music that stirs your loins and flies in your face like the sweet bird of youth come home to roost. Fingers crossed that this isn’t their Final Vinyl.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2018
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The label unearthed a stellar collection of songs the band recorded over two night in 1968.... The CD set capturing all four shows is where you should spend your money.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 17, 2015
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This is a dazzling album, steeped in soul and brimming with an uncommon musicality, all rhythmic urgency and compelling melodies and anthemic choruses.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted May 29, 2013
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Lanegan doesn’t need someone to make him great, he does fine by himself and it shows with the anthology of his solo work Has God Seen My Shadow?- An Anthology 1989-2011 (Light in the Attic).- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 31, 2014
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They represent such a cool transitional period in Davis's career, as radical a creative juxtaposition to the jazz community as Bob Dylan blowing the minds of the folkies with the crackle of a guitar amplifier.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 8, 2013
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Leonard Cohen has made the best full album of his career (song for song, sound for sound, lyrical point for point; yes, this is true) and most certainly the best album of 2012.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 6, 2012
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What Thundercat has created with The Golden Age of Apocalypse is the sonic equivalent to a power-packed issue of Wax Poetics, bringing together several disparate elements of one nation under a groove to build a challenging and soulful playground for his indelible skills on the bass.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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This current incarnation of Swans swim across the salty sea of the group's three-decade strong catalog, executing a balance of grind and grace that casts a new light on old classics.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 10, 2012
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For those a bit put off by the overt club friendliness of The Field but intrigued by Willner's affinity for glitch, Loops is definitely your conduit into the abstract nature of this BPM bard's state of mind.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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This is fun music, gut music, music you can freak out to or just nod your head, depending on your mood.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 9, 2012
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Women & Work finds the Memphis band at complete ease with their mix of '70s outlaw country and plenty of punk rock attitude and swagger, making it easily the most consistently solid release in their already enviable cannon of music.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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On the group's third full-length Love Will Prevail, Ragon earns his rightful place alongside the works of the underground icons he flips for profit.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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While none of the songs are deeply political or poetic like the wartime bands that predated Tame Impala, they are no less poignant and often delve into a reflective sadness of longing to belong.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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This follow-up is even better & louder, on par with the dizzying heights of her old band.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Once again, The War on Drugs have crafted an album of the year, built not upon flash or novelty, but a new take on traditional rock and roll that is always pushing forward.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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- Posted Jan 3, 2012
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Yin & Yang is an earth shattering 45 minutes of street urchin dub punk that not only reveals This Is PiL for the anti-climactic milquetoast sham that it was, but re-establishes the true soul of Public Image as it was originally intended by the vast sum of its initial parts.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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Cancer4Cure is very much a window shattering Brooklyn rap record in every sense... [Meline is] busting loose some of the sharpest darts of his life.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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- Posted Dec 14, 2012
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The finished product is a beautifully fluid fusion of dub, jazz and micro-house zone-outs that continues to exemplify Oswald's two-decade strong aptitude as one of the great masters of repetitive groove theory.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2012
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On Wonder/Wander Koone transcends such dippy, blog-generated catch-phrasing, displaying a sense of genuine dominion within the art of experimental laptop pop.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch/Perro Verde) ranks not only among his very best releases, but among the best socio-political albums ever made.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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[The Cherry Thing] serves as a reminder that Neneh Cherry is a certifiable musical treasure.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 19, 2012
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Simply put, Tracer is a lovely, melodious, engaging work of electronic music that will play just as well in the bedroom as it will on the dance floor.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 28, 2012
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Co-written and produced by his missus Kathleen Brennan, Waits' songs--Bad as Me included--find their center immediately and stick like a record's skip.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 31, 2011
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This scorching set of amplified electro-acoustic spiritualism between the pair and the mighty Mats is an effective snapshot of the potential for what could have been.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 12, 2011
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- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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There's a warmth and life in these songs that goes beyond tribute or reenactment.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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This album is just a few hairs (a couple of tracks and/or segues) short of being a transcendent gem, or masterpiece.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 14, 2012
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Isidore doesn't really feel like a "side" anything. It's a main event.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 23, 2012
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Sweetheart of the Sun is something special, easily the second best album of their career.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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There were many musical spirits in the room when White and his Spacebomb band went to recording the seven farmhouse-soul spirituals found on Big Inner, but what ultimately renders this record truly special is the band's ability to synthesize all these elements into something that is uniquely their own.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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While it has been out in their native land since January and only recently been made available in this country through tiny New York-based What's Your Rupture?, this 12-track typhoon is exactly the kick in the ass our sorry punk community needs in the wake of Jay Reatard's untimely death.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 8, 2011
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Meat and Bone stands as quite possibly the band's best album to date. The Explosion breaks everything down to its root and reconstructs it all in a perfect way; it should show a generation of cool kids that may have missed him the first time around that Jon Spencer is among garage rock's main guitar slingers.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2012
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The textures of this material will transport its listener in ways that few albums of its ilk have achieved in recent memory, implementing the hallowed harmonies embedded in the Sunday mornings of Coldwell's Catholic upbringing to a new level of impassioned cohesion.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 26, 2012
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- Posted Aug 15, 2011
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