Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,850 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: 3,221 out of 3850
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Mixed: 600 out of 3850
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Negative: 29 out of 3850
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- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 15, 2013
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The main problem with this is that her voice is too wispy to hold its own versus the maximalist rave-pop of the day.... On top of this, Delirium just hasn't got the songs.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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The Past, The Present, The Future has rebooted more of the bad tropes from that era than the good.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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The misstep is in the execution, resulting in sound that bears little resemblance to their previous efforts. At best, Limitless is an overly ambitious re-invention. At worst, it’s a terribly misjudged collection.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 3, 2016
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Derulo has stripped away all of those oddities to focus purely on the music and, in the process, has lost much of what sets him apart from the pack.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 1, 2015
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Any trace of the identity that once set Foxes apart from other pop acts has been wiped clean. The album resembles a generic template, fashioned by several verified hit-makers, which could feature just about any old pop artist.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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This time, reckless abandon is replaced by forced jollity and the vibe turns from head trip to school trip.- Clash Music
- Posted May 24, 2017
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- Posted Sep 2, 2014
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Plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying.- Clash Music
- Posted May 21, 2012
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Of course groups should look to change and evolve, but this is solipsism at its worst.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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This album might satiate the seasoned Kasabian fan, but for anyone else it just comes across as the dated output of false prophets.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 19, 2014
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Moby’s attempts to paper over a demonstrable lack of songwriting inspiration with grand string arrangements and a sequence of guest collaborators only emphasises the tedium here.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 25, 2013
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It's a real shame that out of 18 songs whittled down from a reported 462, the album has just three consistently good songs.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 10, 2015
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As a self-styled pop record then, Stay Together is something of a failure, distinctly lacking in hooks, entertainment value and any sort of real ingenuity.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 18, 2016
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The classical elements are independently pleasing--as you’d expect when elements of Shostakovich, Mozart and so on are used--but by drenching it all in commercial dance production, the supposed ‘fusion’ becomes a bastardisation.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2014
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Anna is full of uninspired and recycled riffs starkly illuminated by the God awful woe-is-me-I’m-northern lyrics.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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The songs are forgettable odes to familiar topics--home, heartbreak, dusting yourself off and picking yourself back up--that wouldn’t get a second glance if they’d been penned by someone less famous. Add to that some horrifically hackneyed clichés.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 29, 2017
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As an album in its own right it is terrifically tedious, 40-something minutes of mindless, meandering muso-muscle flexing with a never-more-limp ineffectiveness.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 21, 2014
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- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 28, 2020
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'Electra heart' is an ingloriously languid statement of Marina's demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career.- Clash Music
- Posted May 1, 2012
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the way Technology compromises on solid songwriting in favour of material that’ll evoke carnage in a live setting is detrimental to the album as a whole.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 12, 2018
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It’s all very pretty sounding on paper, but in reality lazily produced and poorly written.- Clash Music
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Whilst it is undeniably their most experimental work, the record listens like an audio representation of Theresa May’s awkward robot-like dancing--confused, cringingly uncomfortable and desperately out of touch.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 28, 2019
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To account for the offensively retrospective nature of this trawl of commonplace dance-floor garbage (we're talking Coldplay, Candi Staton and Justice), I must assume, first, that they spent the last two years in a timewarp somewhere between 1993 and 2006. And secondly, that they spent this time in trashy commercial nightclubs, where glowsticks never die, dancefloors rotate and there's a price reduction for hen parties.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 30, 2010
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Partly because it's so painfully eager to please. Sonorous sermons that really should hit home--delivered in an unseasoned multilingual mishmash of tongues (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English)--are unflattered by the ersatz backdrop of cheesy latin pop, dire orchestral muzak and (heavens preserve us) Meat Loaf-esque '70s prog.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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As his flow goes off at a regular double time that his chart-scaling peers can only dislocate their jaws for, Dizzee’s personality shrinks into a tediously shallow pool of female ogling, obeying your thirst and his latest holiday snaps.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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This latest offering is meandering chirpy slobber that sounds more boy band than ever.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 1, 2010
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Part of the problem is that Diplo has never done subtlety. He’s in his element when blasting vuvuzelas onstage, working with cliff-edge drops and acres of bass frequencies. Out on the open plains of songwriting he often feels lost, resulting in some startling lyrical simplicity.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Green is never going to be a gritty rapper--but even taken as a straight-up pop-rap record, Growing Up In Public is disappointingly tame.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 25, 2014
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