Clash Music's Scores

  • Music
For 3,855 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:
3855 music reviews
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the Bollywood-tinged, swinging disco album you deserve.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ‘What To Look For In Summer’ is an enchanting compendium of the bands live work and is an ideal accompaniment to spirit you away to those carefree summer days of enjoying live music.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Always Inside Your Head is often a frustrating album, peppered with sparks of genius and disappointing dead-ends. Ultimately, though, it’s another example of an artist constantly – restlessly, you might say – developing.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The rawness to his vocals add grit to a sound definitely polished, but not sanitised. ‘Some Nights I Dream of Doors’ may shed the crudity that helped build intrigue around Obongjayar, but there’s enough here to excite the faithfuls and attract new members to ‘OB Dream Corp’.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A revealing, continually powerful set of songs, ‘Here Is Everything’ is a fantastically engaging experience, arguably the strongest set The Big Moon have placed their name against.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ‘Higher Than Heaven’ is a pitch perfect return. Following her excellent 00s channelling Calvin Harris link-up ‘Miracle’, Ellie Goulding is on her best form since those epochal blog era bops in the 2010s… and we are here for it.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    CHVRCHES are a still a terrific alternative to the barrage of mind-numbing EDM and soulless euro trash of acts such as Icona Pop that permeate our airwaves and devour advertisements. Another heavenly and peerless collection from the Glaswegian synth-poppers.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s heartening to hear, after all these years, that time has not diminished the intensity of those performances.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    His camp fire ramblings and angry rants soon become tiresome with much of Turner's fourth album feeling like material he has trod before.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    III
    III is a triumph that takes pop and redefines it, and may come to be seen as a watershed moment for the group as they hit full stride.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Not every track is as strong as ‘Black Skin Girls’. ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ showcases what Beyoncé can do at her best and most creative, yet consistency is an issue with this eclectic album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The album's arrangement of serenading beats and jazzy undertones has genuinely proven that Kehlani is a force to be reckoned with.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Compelling back-story aside, Understated--Collins’ eighth solo album--is a magnificent set of songs.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All of this ultimately comes together to create an utterly enchanting piece of work. A record filled with countless intricate and carefully considered elements, and yet one that never feels cluttered, or at risk of losing its pervasive emotional resonance.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There is plenty of time for Guwop to build upon the formula that already has him winning.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A warm, endearing release, Everything Ever Written is a bold and profoundly independent return.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This record is an exploration into the synergy of reengineering technology and humanity. Let yourself be taken on the journey.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ‘6PC Hot’ is a suggestive, highly creative return, one that suggests fresh possibilities while further reinforcing the songwriter’s future-charged brand of arena level R&B.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s this tight-rope walking of pop-maturity, moment-capturing awareness and beauty-in-simplicity attitude that has aided in Seinfeld’s rise to the top of the dance music ladder, and has helped him shape a record that showcases exactly where he is sitting in terms of sonic aesthetic right now.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Of the two acts, Costello’s pinch of dry spice makes this set more his vehicle to champion, but both show a mutual, practical affinity.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    With a limitless blend of genres, there are songs that your pop princess can access alongside her punk sister, uniting them in their struggle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Typically for Gainsbourg, there's a real mix of things going on here, from relaxed fun laced with irony through to quirky takes on love songs full of the louche suggestiveness befitting of the most ardent romantic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As a whole, Savage Times is a chaotic, yet interesting album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With six of the fourteen songs already in the public domain, the LP tips its hat to familiarity whilst still creating a whirlwind of excitement from fans.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    IV
    IV marks a refinement of the BADBADNOTGOOD sound and as ever is filled to the brim with gorgeous melodies and impressive digressions.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occasionally the momentum wanes, but only the cold-hearted could fail to forgive the odd misstep from a band taking risks, shaping their sound and refusing to stand still.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In truth, the material does a decent enough job of filling the acerbic, punk shaped void left since their decade long absence.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life is about growth, and with this bold, brave project Loski matures as both an artist and a man.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Each track will find its moment to shine, granting the ability to grow and evolve over the seasons. Skimming just under the forty-minute mark, Khruangbin conclude with a focused and consistent body of work, making their long-awaited homecoming.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Daniel Avery’s DJ-Kicks does nothing ground breaking and for a listener familiar with his productions and sets, will excite only for the new material it contains.