Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,863 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: 3,233 out of 3863
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Mixed: 601 out of 3863
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Negative: 29 out of 3863
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In its length and scope, there’s a feeling here of witnessing H.E.R. in 360 – panoramic R&B that more than justifies the wait, a sumptuous, multi-faceted jewel that seems to reveal fresh colour with each play.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 18, 2021
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‘Miracle’ delves the depths of human introspection with a tangibly cathartic gleam, imbued with an essence of that wondrous beauty that only miracles can possess.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 17, 2021
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Strong and raw instrumentation lays a varied and strong foundation for a subdued vocal performance that charms listeners into a relaxed state, in which you can float along to the soaring instrumentals provided throughout.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 17, 2021
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It’s a huge record, a panoramic thriller that places three incendiary MCs against a digital orchestra – an ambitious, lavish, and extraordinarily successful release.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 15, 2021
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A bold gesture weighed down with excess, 'The Voice Of The Heroes' is a worthy experiment, one that feels destined to be a cult favourite.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 14, 2021
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It’s rare that an album is ten years in the making, and honing that much emotion and experience into roughly 41 minutes is a monumental task. Chloe Foy accomplished it.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Continual evolutions has pushed them away from their roots, feeling less like a band and more like a committee, marking out different strategies without truly owning one themselves.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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A 10-track wonder that is a more mature and eclectic take on her gloriously femme and thundering electro-pop.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Oddly, ‘Butterfly 3000’ shines brightest not through its movement but its precise arrangements. ... On those occasions where King Gizzard fully embraces the groove, however, ‘Butterfly 3000’ is a real treat.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Though 'Nowhere Generation' isn’t breaking boundaries, it doesn’t need to. Rise Against have carved out a niche that works for them, and if it aint broke, why fix it?- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 9, 2021
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‘BUMMER’ is a record made to be played hard and loud, heard blaring out of car windows and making cavalcades in faceless crowds.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 8, 2021
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Sleater-Kinney permit themselves a few self-satisfied experimentations – not everything comes off, such as the slightly wayward ‘Method’, for example. At its peak, however, ‘Path Of Wellness’ is a riot, one that underlines Sleater-Kinney’s hallowed status while providing a continual challenge to the idea of them as a ‘legacy’ artist.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 8, 2021
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Listening to ‘No Gods No Masters’ feels like listening to Garbage again for the very first time, which is a terrifically thrilling prospect.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 8, 2021
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Carefully structured, ‘MAN MADE’ is able to caress the spartan sonics of ‘Away We Go’, for example, before plunging into the revelatory rock guitar of ‘Sinner’. In bringing such diversity together, the central creator is able to span opposites, and build bridges that perfectly amplify her touching lyricism.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 4, 2021
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Perhaps too slick for some, the Crowded House catalogue has never been afraid to be open. Maybe that’s a fault, but there’s certainly nothing wrong with a slice of innocence and songwriting purity in a landscape so smothered with irony.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 3, 2021
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Whilst there are still shades of James’ jangly indie-pop in parts, this album takes the band into a new sonic adventure where you hear lo-if leanings and pumping club beats.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 3, 2021
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Definitely not a reinvention, it plays to the band’s strengths while amplifying new qualities, a record as bruising as it is subtle. Working to their own passions and desires, ‘Blue Weekend’ places Wolf Alice beyond the reach of their peers.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 3, 2021
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Wyldest writes lyrics that are sparse, but that is not to say that they don’t have bite.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 2, 2021
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‘Jubilee’ sees Zauner fully unshackled for the first time, keeping the emotive core of her songwriting and marrying it with boundless energy and ambition. It’s truly a triumph.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 2, 2021
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A record you’re sure to fall hopelessly in love with, its immediacy taps into the endless zen of those long summer days.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2021
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In 13 tracks ‘The Waves pt. 1’ is an elegant accumulating of Kele Okereke’s work. It encapsulates so much depth and takes you on joyous rides that you can never anticipate the direction of.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2021
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You’re left with the impression that DMX was a true rap great who was on the verge of potent rediscovery, of claiming his place as a key factor in the growth of a new hip-hop generation. But you’re also left desolate that this simply wasn’t to be.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2021
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She continues to rise above our expectations. Producing a sound that would comfortably fit alongside the greats she once listened to on her Walkman.- Clash Music
- Posted May 27, 2021
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As ever, this latest window into his psyche prompts as many questions as it provides answers - despite offering his usual warmth and intimacy, he still deftly keeps the listener at bay by retaining a degree of mystery- Clash Music
- Posted May 27, 2021
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It’s majestic and beautiful in ways I never expected black midi to reach, let alone attempt.- Clash Music
- Posted May 27, 2021
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Johnny Flynn’s consistently simple melodies and simply, his sheer musicality, are evidence of an artist in his prime.- Clash Music
- Posted May 25, 2021
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Clocking in at less than quarter of an hour, the ‘Perfect’ EP is another jukebox roll through the band’s quieter and louder moments, both of which are largely on target from start to finish.- Clash Music
- Posted May 25, 2021
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These tracks are like messages in glass bottles, making their journey from one continent to another, across a calm sea. Pure serenity. ‘Flora Fauna’ is proof that a woman can be many things.- Clash Music
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Despite the few forgettable moments in the middle, ‘Scaled And Icy’ remains mostly strong in terms of sonics and lyricism throughout, and though it does end all too quickly it is an impressively cohesive production that doesn’t reveal even for a single beat that it was the product of long-distance virtual sessions.- Clash Music
- Posted May 21, 2021
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‘Sour’ is the sound of a bold talent operating on their own terms – potent in its execution, revealing in its lyricism, it’s a record that finds Olivia Rodrigo effortlessly claiming her status as pop’s newest icon, and one of its bravest voices.- Clash Music
- Posted May 21, 2021
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