Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,885 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,255 out of 3885
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Mixed: 601 out of 3885
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Negative: 29 out of 3885
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Valtari is glistening, subliminal and sounds as if it's balanced on a falling raindrop.- Clash Music
- Posted May 29, 2012
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It’s overwhelming in its grandiosity, and though it has its virtues, Foxygen’s latest LP is best enjoyed as a bite-size hors d'oeuvre instead of a main course.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 23, 2017
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Spanning an array of genres including worldbeat, jazz, classical, blues, rock and new-age, 'Duets' is an solid collection from one of the UK’s most prolific singer-songwriters.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2021
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A rejig and a little more fire could have elevated this collection to something that’ll get the heart racing.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 29, 2016
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- Posted Apr 10, 2015
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- Posted Jun 23, 2014
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Begin may be more of a reverential piece of art than a novel creation, but there is enough substance here to surmise Lion Babe’s future promise.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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The pair still aren’t in that DFA1979 category of combatively brilliant, just yet.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 18, 2014
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From opener ‘Cheap Talk’ onwards, this is never anything but the purest DFA1979, served flaming hot. Which was just fine back when--but it’s definitely a disappointment to not hear the band even hinting at an expansion of their stripped-raw sound, just deep-groove bass and heavily hit drums.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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Rave horns echo like WW2 sirens being played on a fucked-up ghetto blaster while the cast of House Of 1000 Corpses do their best Gucci Mane impressions--an interesting, if perhaps slightly contrived, oddity.- Clash Music
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Call this a mismatch, a contradiction, if you want, but only he can fully acknowledge this seriousness, this complexity. And if this is a ‘coming-to-terms-with’-type record, it does suggest he is starting that process, even if--musically--the progression remains somewhat tender.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 26, 2018
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The Incessant has a wealth of great ideas baked into the sediment of a wholly unremarkable collection of songs but boasts enough personality to still be worth giving the benefit of your doubt.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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While this might not be the most fun album to listen to, Neil Young and Crazy Horse deliver solid performances that elevate it from seven songs of despondency.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 8, 2022
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The songs are largely beautiful, the vocal performance is mostly impeccable and the recording generally captivating, but so was its predecessor.... not quite as good live album.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 13, 2014
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- Posted Oct 30, 2012
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Little Fictions, in the end, though a welcome sign of elbow gently progressing with their formula, is a step forward feels too hesitant.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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- Posted Aug 18, 2014
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- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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It’d be interesting to hear what this band comes up with if they stepped away from a doomy signature sound, but right now this is an assured album and a satisfying follow-up.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 11, 2014
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‘The Loneliest Time’ feels a far cry from the saccharine star that launched Jepsen’s career but proves her musical pliability.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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This new album, then, is the perfect piece of fan service. It’s Aubrey on the mic, 21 Savage in full flow. The roll out – which pirated a Tiny Desk session and copied a Vogue cover – was pitch perfect, two artists subverting the expectations placed on them...It’s a shame, then, that ‘Her Loss’ often feels entirely predictable. The foes that punctuate their bars are well-worn – less talented adversaries trying to gain clout; love interests who leech on their wealth and prestige – and while it’s nice to hear Drake unleashed, at times 21 Savage can feel like a passenger.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 4, 2022
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The undeniable influence of Krautrock in the drone, dirge and motorik beats interspersed with passages of ambiance make for a deliciously diffused, shimmering, summery psyche salad.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 28, 2014
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There's a great Rick Ross album in here somewhere. If only the boss had abstained from some of his extravagant habits and used his editing sheers more cuttingly.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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As a musique concrète or experimental electronica album, Burials In Several Earths is an above average attempt that contains myriad intricacies and points of interest. As something to carry on a peerless lineage, however, it feels like an unnecessary move.- Clash Music
- Posted May 26, 2017
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While the playing is never less than exceptional – displaying Mark Knopfler’s assured rhythmic sensibility, and his lyrical lead styles – the arrangements on ‘One Deep River’ can sometimes falter.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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With an energy and ambience that ebbs and flows in waves rather than exploding in peaks and crescendos, this is edgy, kaleidoscopic lounge music for the Digital Age.- Clash Music
- Posted May 29, 2014
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It has bassline crunch, and a very distinctive space-age exterior; so why does The Vision sound like it's playing catch up?- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Denmark's Kölsch repeats the trick of 2013's '1977', hanging on the coattails of the EDM set with a less extravagant set of fireworks but with plenty of instantly recognisable and effectively crafted signposts and set pieces.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 11, 2015
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It is an interesting concept -that could have become a beacon for the perspectives of (male) feminists in music- that failed because it was executed poorly a few too many times.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 5, 2019
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While casual listeners might find the overall listen a bit sparse, there’s no doubt it’s the perfect soundtrack to a Halloween party, or indeed a Halloween Movie™️.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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