Blurt Magazine's Scores
- Music
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 |
Score distribution:
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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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This is a very enjoyable round-up of shoegaze, shoegaze influenced and vaguely-similar-to-shoegaze bands, including some material you’ll know well and some that will likely be less familiar.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2016
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The music is superb, but it’s Mead’s subtle, witty lyrics that really take center stage on this record (like all his previous solo offerings).- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 16, 2019
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This isn't the sound of a once-renowned band trying to cash in on their glory days; it's the sound of a band invigorated.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 2, 2013
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If your idea of African music is Paul Simon playing out his colonial lord fantasies amid a bunch of syrupy melody and chipper rhythms, well… this note’s for you. And there are some surprises awaiting.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 11, 2016
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- Posted Oct 30, 2013
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- Posted Mar 13, 2014
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Berkeley To Bakersfield is the perfect shotgun rider for any road trip. With the breadth of its variety no other music passengers need be invited along for the ride.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Feb 2, 2015
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Manipulator represents a defining statement from a musician that should enjoy a long, healthy career to come.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 28, 2014
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Why Make Sense revels in ‘80s dance, R&B, hip hop and pop throughout straddles between sheer musical delight and melancholy as the upbeat music balances earnest lyrics.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jun 24, 2015
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For a primer in what went right in the ‘70s prior to punk and hip-hop, you won’t find many LPs as successful at recapturing the diversity of those rich sonic playgrounds as Mangy Love.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 21, 2016
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Like its MCA spiritual predecessors, Modern Country shows what a great musician can do when he decides his skill is the least important part of the package.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 1, 2016
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Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar is the all-encapsulating masterpiece we all knew Robert Plant the solo artist had in him the entire time.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Sep 16, 2014
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- Posted Aug 11, 2014
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Sweeping and stirring in its emotional depth, Sing the Delta happily finds DeMent testifying to her beliefs with feeling.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 4, 2012
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The last song, a sparse electric guitar ballad, identifies another dualism: it's called "Get It Wrong, Get It Right," and like most of the rest of this unsettled album, it gets it right.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 4, 2011
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It may not carry quite the swagger of Sweet Apple’s first album, but The Golden Age of Glitter still proves to be shiny indeed.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 24, 2014
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Here’s an album from guys who have been making trouble for more than 20 years, and if they haven’t gotten better behaved with time, at least they’ve gotten better at it.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 18, 2015
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It’s not as bleak as it may sound, though--there is freedom and catharsis in the acceptance of those human traits, a key element in Eve.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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Unseen alludes to The Handsome Family’s darker realms, but the beauty it boasts is so unerringly mesmerizing, it begs repeated hearings simply to soak it all in.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 10, 2017
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- Posted Jun 5, 2012
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Regardless of the narrative you attribute to the running order of an album after listening to this record, I felt as if I had genuinely experienced something groundbreaking, elemental, and thoroughly thought-provoking.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 25, 2017
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The music that survived war, immigration and poverty flourishes even among the hipsters, a happy ending for a tale of struggle.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Aug 23, 2012
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She long ago proved herself worthy of the family legacy, but Carter Girl would be a highlight of her substantial discography regardless of familial stamp.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 1, 2014
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Dire and descriptive, You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To numbing melancholia is uncommonly compelling.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2016
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Consolidation more than innovation, The Glowing Man still presents the current incarnation of Swans in its best light, as if this is the record the band has been working toward these past seven years.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jul 29, 2016
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Almost by accident, it seems, you can hear memory, skill and poetry converging in a lonely kitchen with a baby sleeping nearby.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 17, 2014
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Williamson’s voice is arresting, a haunted amalgam of Karen Dalton and Tanya Donnelly, but don’t it distract you from her very fine guitar work.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Dec 13, 2016
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A sense of quiet triumph pervades: this may be the prettiest Mountain Goats album yet.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 1, 2012
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That's the modesty and humility typically missing in all those acclaimed geniuses. But it's precisely what allows Henry access to the truths that make his songs unforgettable.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Scholarly stuff this, but also an intriguing reinvention that makes this an ideal marriage of folk and finesse.- Blurt Magazine
- Posted Jan 25, 2013
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