Clash Music's Scores

  • Music
For 3,873 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Dead Man's Pop [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Wake Up!
Score distribution:
3873 music reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pure pop is an unforgiving master and a slight dip in quality results in the flaccid 'Patient' sounding like a blighted Go West off-cut. Fitfully good.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Enthusiasts will salivate over another uncovering of tainted treasure.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Surprising and satisfying, we'll even try to forgive the spoken word interlude.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This record sounds like every catchy guitar song you've ever heard.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, other than aiding nostalgia, there's not much else nice to say about The National Health.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    ["Night and Day" and "Flutes"] are glimmers of liveliness on an otherwise decedent record.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Valtari is glistening, subliminal and sounds as if it's balanced on a falling raindrop.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The only maturity in their sound is towards a more ambient quarter. Elevator music not quite, but rising out of the background might be an issue.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The hallmarks of Simian Mobile Disco are present - huge beats and house loops take centre-stage - but many of the tracks just feel like they're missing a vital component.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Most of these tunes are neither dog turd nor diamond. They're decent-ish disco-punk stompers sold by the vocal.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It all feels a little weary and, whilst there's clear commitment and execution, the material suddenly sounds oh so dated.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good, but for completists.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An honest and admirable collection that merits some attention.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Wonky has] not improved on any of their previous work. They are merely chasing the shadows cast from their own trademarked head torches.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's far from perfect - 'Ghost Note' sounds horribly like Skrillex in places - but there [are] enough interesting sonic detours to suggest that these agitators of sound are more than just another over-hyped gimmick band.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Studio gloss and sanitised drums too often leave things sounding a little safe.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    More Transworld Sport than Chariots Of Fire.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, the resultant package is very cleverly constructed and yet maddeningly dull.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album that could be the soundtrack to the most fucked-up cowboy movie yet to be made.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They could do with a couple more uptempo nuggets like 'The Kids Were Wrong'.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So many of the risks taken are either unevocative or plain annoying, particularly when the tracks are structured with so little sense of development.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's got a sweet, easy intimacy.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lee ... continues his proclivity for sonic innovation with a plethora of funky grooves and drum lines - with no loops in earshot. AM's psychedelic guitar licks, basslines and vocals underpin an overriding '60s vibe.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The over-riding impression is that this is a tired, conservative and weirdly insular album.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's more a relic of the past than a record of the future.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With clean production and virtuoisitic precision, imagine a Latin, metal, jazz inspired mellow mele, on acoustic instruments.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a band comfortable with the idea of growing up but like kids trying on their parent's clothes, the ideas behind Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen are a little oversized but not by much.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Infuriatingly irresistible.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    100 Acres... drips with sonic gloss.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A contemporary-pop triumph.