Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,848 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: 3,219 out of 3848
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Mixed: 600 out of 3848
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Negative: 29 out of 3848
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'R.I.P.' is both an update on the bass explorations of restless Britain and perhaps a timeless thesaurus of blistered tones and ideas that younger producers will beg, borrow and steal from for years to come.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 23, 2012
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‘Melt My Eyez See The Future’ finds Denzel Curry sitting in a lane of his own. A unique, unified experience, it’s a boundary-less work of endless fascination.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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An enchanting listen, her world-building remains absolutely undimmed on this triumphant, bewitching project.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2021
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It doesn’t challenge expectation, but equally it does nothing, puts nary a single step wrong, to risk their reputation as a preeminent act of their kind, and of our times.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 6, 2014
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It’s Buzzcocks-goes-Daniel Johnston, with a little Guided By Voices on the side, erudite and desperate, and everything mentioned above and yet a lot, lot more. And it’s a pleasure to share it, and them, with you.- Clash Music
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This newly three dimensional Little Simz--vulnerable and reflective, while spiky and hard--has produced a crafted project, and it’s one of her best to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 4, 2019
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What could so nearly have been overbearing or desperate to be loved is, in actual fact, sincerely captivating and euphorically playful.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 29, 2014
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Dornik has come out of leftfield to release one of the best quality and most addictive pop records of recent times.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 10, 2015
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‘As The Love Continues’ is Mogwai at their best, and is possibly their most consistent record since 2006's ‘Mr Beast’. Their mums should be proud.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 17, 2021
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An album of stunning ambition and outright defiance, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 rips apart everything you know about Foals, a bold transformative work, as inspiring as it is urgent.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 4, 2019
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Best listened to with the context of Part 1, the way Part 2 rounds the 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost' era off makes for the argument that this is Foals' most accomplished body of work to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 14, 2019
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This is not just West's best album, it's a keen contender for the most ambitious LP in hip-hop history. West side story!- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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With Screen Memories, Maus once again welcomes all that dare enter into his all-consuming, oddball world.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 8, 2017
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The impact of his earlier existence as a jazz player also noticeably infuses tracks ‘Betelgeuse’s Endless Bamboo Oceans’ and ‘Ode to The Pleiades’, attaching another rich dimension to this record.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 8, 2017
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Lemonade is Beyoncé at her most benevolent, and her most unadulterated. Treating her blackness not as an affliction but a celebratory beacon, Lemonade is a long overdue, cathartic retribution.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 26, 2016
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- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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It’s not easy to write an album about yourself without seeming egotistical, and it’s also not easy to write one which touches on themes of gang violence and poverty without falling into braggadocio or morbidity. On this album, Vince Staples has pulled off both. It may be a short album, but it’s an incredibly deep one.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 8, 2021
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Clairo is clearer now on who she is and who she wants to be. On ‘Sling’ there is the sense that Clairo is in flight, except this time she isn’t running away from her little ghosts. On this record she runs towards them, even dances with them a little.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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The Baltimore duo have somehow gifted us their masterpiece, and though the rain outside has now stopped, new heavens have opened.- Clash Music
- Posted May 14, 2018
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A breathless, breathtaking achievement, Chris is a fascinating, infectious, endlessly suggestive work, an ode to 80s pop bombast that uses those splinters to build and then de-construct countless glimpses of Héloïse Letissier. Somewhere in amongst these myriad of definitions is Christine And The Queens, a shape-shifting pop entity perpetually aiming for something greater.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 20, 2018
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Despite the elongated nature of its creation, Black Messiah is a fluid, confidently cool piece.... A real showcase of his incredible talent.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 17, 2014
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And so it brilliantly goes. ... These are classic Sparks moments, full of comedy, clever wordplay, deft explorations of all the myriad issues of the world, with arrangements that sound as current and fresh as a dew-soaked spring daisy.- Clash Music
- Posted May 14, 2020
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Young Fathers possess that which makes the best British acts truly special: a singular identity born of multinational mixology.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 29, 2014
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With both these lyrical and sonic accomplishments, Foals have created a fine record with a very solidified sound that will be the soundtrack for the summer.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 15, 2022
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A potent debut album. Succinct yet packed with stunning detail, it refuses to take the easy way out, and that stubbornness may see Squid outstrip their peers in a head-long race towards a re-engaged future.- Clash Music
- Posted May 6, 2021
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Smother does exactly what it suggests but with a poetic fragility and an exacting panache that enthrals and entices like never before. An essential album.- Clash Music
- Posted May 9, 2011
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‘Serfs Up!’ is initially impenetrable, but persistence is rewarding as the band sucks you deeper into their tilted netherworld with each listen. It’s by far their most interesting work to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 16, 2019
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With a solid foundation of beats, introspective lyricism and a sharp pen at his disposal, Nas might be the only rapper to have two releases in the best albums of the 2021 conversation. Magic.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 12, 2022
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Miss Universe is an intimate record full of personal fears and emotions, but these are of wider, universal relevance. They should resonate with us all.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Subversive, non-conformist and melodious, this record has the credentials of a classic rock and roll album. The decision to take a radical approach only works for the few, the possession of ammunition that’s needed to master such a challenge is not for anyone. Fontaines D.C. have it.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 27, 2020
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