Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,871 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: 3,241 out of 3871
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Mixed: 601 out of 3871
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Negative: 29 out of 3871
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A broad, diverse and enriching album, the ten tracks which make up Culture Of Volume are each distinctive but seamlessly connect and click together to produce a piece of work that will both delight and enthral.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 8, 2015
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What ‘Perfect Saviors’ succeeds in, however, it exploding those aspects ever outwards, renewing The Armed and emboldening their most ambitious, rewarding album to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2023
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One of our greatest living guitarists has conjured up something truly special.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 12, 2020
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Injury Reserve’s new album is a truly dystopian impression of despair, smashing together polar opposite genres to create something wholly new.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 17, 2021
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Makaya McCraven breathes new life into not only the album but Scott-Heron’s legacy.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 7, 2020
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A more concise LP that continues LUH's mythos, whilst also branching out sonically, Love Hates What You Become reinforces their necessary purpose. Fearless, life-affirming and without compromise, Lost Under Heaven's future blues have the potential to be a soundtrack of a generation.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 15, 2019
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A core message for hope in a fragile world (delivered via singers like Moses Sumney and Tawiah) completes this delicate musical tapestry perfectly, resulting in a quietly triumphant comeback from the British masters.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 13, 2019
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Her second album is an enchanting collection of beautifully raw songs, the faint trace of tape-hiss in the quieter moments combined with the rootsy feel of songs.- Clash Music
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Despite the visceral joy and catchy melodies of the music; it's Joseph Talbot’s lyrics that are the main event. Part social commentary, stand-up routine and motivational quotes lyrics.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 4, 2018
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- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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Fuelled by rapturous and disjointed guitar work and bittersweet lyricism, this record will easily be in the running for one of the best records out of the UK this year.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 4, 2022
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- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Showing clear progression and monumental ambition, TNP have crafted a stark and dense knockout performance.- Clash Music
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‘Coral Island’ is huge in scope and ambition, while also remaining staggeringly consistent. The bar is set high from the off, and they never fail to reach it. A lazy comparison: it’s as creative as ‘The White Album’ and as unified as ‘Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake’. A truly superb experience, it feels as though The Coral have painted their masterpiece – a one way ticket to ‘Coral Island’ is a truly an offer you can’t turn down.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 26, 2021
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The Betas were a formidable live band, and the radio session tracks here are as good as, and sometimes better than, their studio counterparts. There’s little in the way of actual rarities, though.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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‘The Family’ is the perfect BROCKHAMPTON album. It has a flawless balance on energy fuelled moments with more melancholic ones, and the departure in sound from previous efforts makes for a compelling full listen.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Whilst we aren’t handed the next chapter of The Libertines story on a platter, the beauty and tumult of the band is in the subtext. It’s in John Hassall and Gary Powell joining Barat and Doherty’s mythic duo on vocals for the first time on ‘Man With The Melody’. It’s in the closer, ‘Songs They Never Played On The Radio’, which was born in 2006 and finished for ‘All Quiet…’, one of the most beautiful Libertines songs of all time.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 2, 2024
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- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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It’s reality music, and while obviously tailored around the life and times of Shawn Carter, offers so many narratives that the common man can relate to in astounding measures.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 11, 2017
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Everything suggests that, on the strength of this set, The Land of the Brave won’t need a referendum to prove its independence.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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Stunning debut mixtape ‘Send Them To Coventry’. The 15-track project is a musical kaleidoscope, fusing elements of afro-swing, dancehall, grime, and rap. Sonically, it speaks to the fluidity of Black sounds.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 13, 2020
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‘MOTOMAMI’ blows away the lingering strictures of lockdown, and finds a true modern icon bathing in personal freedoms.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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The Bones Of What You Believe is an exceptionally strong debut where every track is a potential single.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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I See You is perhaps the bravest album of the band’s career, the one laden with the most changes, with the most prolonged journeys into the unexpected. Yet it also feels resolutely like The xx.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 9, 2017
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Some of the tracks cry out for a bar or two to be spat over, but when you hear that hollow synth on Teeza’s ‘Rum And Coke’, you’ll be sold on the grime renaissance.- Clash Music
- Posted May 14, 2013
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The pacing can get interrupted somewhat by the sheer amount of skits on here, and a Jay Sean featuring ‘Any Day’ slams on the brakes mid-album, but other than that this is a tightly packed, lightning-quick swing at the racism of British society. Riz Ahmed might now be more famous for his acting, but he’s been making music since he was a teenager – and on this album, it shows.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 5, 2020
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This isn’t download territory--it’s a journey, and if you buy a ticket, you have to put the time in to get to the destination. But what a destination.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 19, 2016
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Another impressive feather in one of the most versatile caps in Parisian pop music.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 22, 2013
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Cheeky, subversive ‘I Saw The Truth Undressing’ seems to sum up this wonderful, enlightening record.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 25, 2022
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Although 'Elephant In The Room' is not quite as diverse as his 2018 effort 'Pieces Of A Man' or as fresh as his breakout tape 'Wave[s]', there's a lot to love about the album, and it's likely to one that ages gracefully over time.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 9, 2021
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