Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,871 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.
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Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
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Positive: 3,241 out of 3871
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Mixed: 601 out of 3871
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Negative: 29 out of 3871
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Never bettered, this is the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band’s crowning triumph. Own this!- Clash Music
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This masterpiece isn’t dulling any time soon. Working on the premise that they were Generation X’s own Velvet Underground, this is their ‘White Light/White Heat’, and one of the most important rock records of all time.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 16, 2014
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Fiona Apple on a career of highs might just have produced her finest work yet. An album that we will surely look to as a cultural text, with its cutting commentary of contemporary culture and its feminist narratives.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2020
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Hopefully we won’t have long to wait for the next instalment but before that let’s just bask in the beauty of this beautiful album.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Ghosteen is not a blissful or comfortable album, but it is a hopeful one. The gaping wound of ‘Skeleton Tree’ is scarring over as Cave pulls away from the past’s savage undertow, content in the knowledge that peace will come. It’s a paean to how all things bright and beautiful can be thrown into blinding relief once you’ve known real darkness, another open letter straight from artist to audience that cuts right to the core of what means to have loved, lost and loved again.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 4, 2019
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This latest 4-CD/5-LP boxset is a treasure trove for both hardcore fans and music buffs in general. The first thing your hard-earned money gets you is a beautifully crisp 2021 remaster of the original album, every solo, and cymbal crash, never sounding so unspoiled. Being a deluxe album set, you've naturally got the kind of material that only a lunatic would revisit regularly.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 12, 2021
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The oft-explored worldwide sensualist feels newly alive here, ‘Fountain Baby’ a prime exemplar of mind-expanding afro-pop alchemy that revivifies the weary spirit.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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DAMN. does at times feel contradictory and the ideas he’s transmitting at times don’t feel fully formed, but this is where its genius lies. Kendrick offers a true snapshot of the eternal debates that we host inside our heads, and there is immense bravery and artistry in his depiction.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 24, 2017
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An artist haunted by the prospect of his passing while still facing down new challenges, Bob Dylan remains above all else a student of America.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 15, 2020
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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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This impressive collection is a touching tribute to Petty’s enduring legacy and demonstrates his candour, artistry, and emotive storytelling. This is a real must have for any Tom Petty fan and paints an even more colourful picture of what has always been a masterpiece as well as unveiling an exciting treasure trove of musical gems which will inevitably become long-lasting Petty classics.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2020
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Compiled by Nick Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, the three-disc editions offer 45 tracks to explore the thrilling journey of one of the planet’s most uncompromising and enigmatic groups. All your standards are here.- Clash Music
- Posted May 10, 2017
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A bold first full album from a trio whose ambitions are clearly only getting bigger.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 11, 2016
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His strongest album to date, and one of grime’s true classics – even if there is a not-very-good Ed Sheeran feature slapped in the middle of it.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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There is just Nick Cave, stripped to the bone and robbed of a future. It’s impossible to turn away.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2016
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Remastered and supplemented it has received a contemporary injection and doesn't feel out of place in today's scene with that Mould influence shining through.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 22, 2012
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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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‘MOTOMAMI’ blows away the lingering strictures of lockdown, and finds a true modern icon bathing in personal freedoms.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Caroline Polachek has set a serious precedent for any pop releases that follow it this year. She is an artist completely in her own lane, refusing to conform, every moment on this record a vicissitude. Her commitment to her craft is undeniable, her talent indisputable.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
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It’s a phenomenal record, undoubtedly one of the finest to be released this year – in its mood, kineticism, and an adorned darkness, ‘Untitled (Rise)’ captures something truly remarkable about this chaotic era.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2020
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- Posted Sep 26, 2018
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[Loveless] not only stands the test of time, but transcends it. Songs like 'When You Sleep' sound as inventive now and would outshine much of the crop of young pretenders... Remains an archetypal classic.- Clash Music
- Posted May 10, 2012
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What’s remarkable about this seven track mixtape is the sheer consistency of pop ideas on offer.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 18, 2021
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Overall, ‘Supernova’ is exactly what it says on the tin - a bright burst of energy that will leave you awe-struck.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Self-acceptance is a major theme of this bold album and her complicated emotions can be felt by listeners in this stand-out album from Self Esteem.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 19, 2021
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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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Overall, the ensemble sound incredibly close to the freewheeling jams fans are accustomed to; in short, they meet the sky-high potential teased on their first record.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 31, 2022
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A record everyone with half an experimental ear should experience, even if they run from it, screaming.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 24, 2013
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Turnstile are flexing some of their heaviest hooks yet - gliding us across nonchalant bops and hellish riffs, the Maryland five-piece have yet again come out with a bang.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 27, 2021
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- Posted Jul 18, 2012
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He draws on the many splintered facets of UK rap – and other sonic traits besides – while somehow transcending them. Literate, wise, and emotionally devastating, ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’ places Dave at the absolute pinnacle of British music.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 23, 2021
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Bey channels the destabilising loss of her father and its attendant grief into something transcendent yet eminently relatable. ‘Ten Fold’, like the best journeying album, takes you along for the ride whilst serenading your anguish.- Clash Music
- Posted May 10, 2024
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First spewed forth in 1973 this blend of Iggy's guttural moanings and James Williamson's precise spiky guitars is rightly regarded as one of the most seminal, ferocious, uncompromising, crude, sleazy, nihilistic rock albums of all time.- Clash Music
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A glittering glam-pop bounty of androgynous pop bots, dock prostitutes, Depression-era outlaws, cowboys and nun-baiting schoolgirls, GYBR remains a vital and versatile vision of brilliance that deserves to be heard.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Titanic Rising harnesses convention and refashions it into something singular. At once a document of this “wild time to be alive” and an escape from it, it’s often remarkably good.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 4, 2019
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Constructed amid the dystopia of 2020, ‘CARNAGE’ instead stands as something unique, the sound of two vastly experienced musicians removing themselves from expectations, and constructing something both beautiful and visceral, tender and blood-thirsty, wholly terrifying and completely absorbing.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 25, 2021
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The closing run of tracks on the album are some of the most musically interesting she has released to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 7, 2023
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As both a treatise and a sonic testament, ‘COWBOY CARTER’ is its own triumph; unmoored in form, space and time, it’s the work of a preternatural talent painstakingly poring over every word, stratified vocal, sample and stylistic flourish.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 3, 2024
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Disjointed? Slightly. But who cares. He’s conjured something mischievous and joyful. A record that feels like it’s been beamed in from a distant star, sounding something like a near and possible future.- Clash Music
- Posted May 12, 2020
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As ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ shows, this is an exercise in catharsis. Leafing back through the storybook of our own formative years, we feel it all.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 12, 2021
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It’s an exercise in catharsis, providing an accurate snapshot into the minds and mentality of the band certainly, but also the general public of the last year and a half.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 22, 2021
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If ‘RENAISSANCE’ doesn’t convince you that a star with nothing to prove continues to produce sprawling bodies of work that are editorially precise, prismatic and rhythmically audacious, nothing will.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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A hugely impressive, frequently stunning return, ‘Black Rainbows’ ranks as one of the year’s most imposing comebacks.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 18, 2023
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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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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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Olivia Rodrigo has created another fun, varied and mature studio album, which perfectly contributes to her wider attempt to preserve her experiences as a teenager within her music.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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Musically, the pop-punk sound has been largely abandoned (save for, perhaps, recent single 'I Don't Like Who I Was Then') in favour of something more forceful and nuanced.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 15, 2015
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Despite the addition of new blood like Anderson .Paak on ‘Movin Backwards’ and Kendrick on ‘Conrad Tokyo’, the overall production, overseen by master cutter Ali Shaeed Muhammed, is unfiltered, choppy and distinctly reminiscent of the original Tribe sound.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 17, 2016
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- Posted Dec 9, 2022
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You don't even need to know about the box-set's extras: if teenage angst is the root of rock and roll, then 'Quadrophenia' is its definitive statement.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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It is a genuine classic album. ... Lal Waterson was a hugely significant and individual songwriter, and her spirit--alongside Mike’s energy, his unique, rasping voice and his own songwriting--plus the time capsule who’s-who of a support cast from the British folk scene of the early 1970’s--make this curious work of art individual, heartfelt and fun.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 3, 2017
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- Posted Jan 16, 2015
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‘Punisher’ is an immense album tackling the ugly and absurd sides to life with beauty, humour and self-awareness. It’s a unique reporting style and a key statement.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 17, 2020
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Overall, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ is excellent. The praise the original album received for its composition, songwriting and overall curation is still absolutely worthy, and will hopefully serve as a reminder of how and why Taylor Swift became one of the greatest solo artists of her generation. The tracks from the vault are exquisite and make strong additions to the album as a whole, and it would be surprising if these songs didn’t become immediate chart successes given their likeability and quality.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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Stunning debut mixtape ‘Send Them To Coventry’. The 15-track project is a musical kaleidoscope, fusing elements of afro-swing, dancehall, grime, and rap. Sonically, it speaks to the fluidity of Black sounds.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 13, 2020
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As with most of Numero's releases to date, there are moments of gold in amongst plenty of enjoyably period music and it's best consumed in one, immersive and overwhelming sitting, accompanying book to hand.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 11, 2015
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‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’ is Mitski at her most emotionally raw.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Through channeling their frustration into their craft, Boston Manor have not only made their finest album to date, they’ve lent a voice to the disaffected youth of modern Britain at a time when that is sorely needed.- Clash Music
- Posted May 1, 2020
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Lyrically, the album represents one of Shana Cleveland’s most daring and open song cycles.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 9, 2023
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A gorgeous example of her beautifully sombre world-building, ‘Here In The Pitch’ is another remarkable example of Jessica Pratt’s unique artistry.- Clash Music
- Posted May 7, 2024
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Holy Hell succeeds in pushing Architects’ sound further than ever before. The grooves dig deeper, while the instrumentation is techier.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 9, 2018
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A final project that is both delicate and explosive. Whether curating the voices of those around him, serving as the production-backbone of a track, or cultivating and polishing his own voice, Lil Silva delivers.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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‘Iechyd Da’ is a forward-moving record rooted in love and loss, marking a significant chapter in the musician and producer’s career.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 9, 2024
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It’s not as shiny as ‘Nevermind’, nor as raucous as ‘Bleach’; it’s not as sensibly realised as it would have been has DGC had entirely their own way, but nor does it completely kick against Cobain and company’s prior achievements.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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Opening your debut LP with its three least engaging tracks is a bold move that almost capsizes the whole project. ... Fortunately, bar a scattering of clunky lines (“I don’t want to die / That’s a lie”), the rest of ‘the record’ manages to successfully scale the vertiginous heights set by the eight solo albums preceding it.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2023
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The career-spanning retrospective Alone and Unreal: The Best of the Clientele serves as a potent reminder of just how discreetly revelatory the group's primary method of operation has always been.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 10, 2015
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As a rapper, woods has gone from strength to strength, his armoury fortified. It’s been a joy to witness. Where hooks were once short phrases bellowed on repeat, now he toys with the capabilities of his voice.- Clash Music
- Posted May 23, 2023
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- Posted May 18, 2020
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After the delicate beauty of previous albums, this is the sound of an artist unleashed.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 18, 2013
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It’s a beautifully assembled package. ... Funny then that this collection should contain so much life, from an album restored to splendour, to a night of joyful inebriation and creativity with a showbiz pal, to a ferocious performance in front of adoring fans. ...‘Dead Man’s Pop’ is the perfect tribute.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 24, 2019
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It’s a Greatest Hits album, not a B-Sides & Rarities collection. What it is is a relatively complete encapsulation (RIP ‘The Air Near My Fingers’) of everything that made people fall in love with this noisy drum and bass duo in the first place.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 3, 2020
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- Posted Feb 12, 2014
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Run The Jewels has again pushed rap away from regular rhythms and rhymes and into territories that they’re still calculating the dimensions of. May they never reach the sum of such remarkable parts and continue to exclusively Run Them Jewels fast.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 27, 2014
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Melancholy remains the primary colour in Robyn’s work, though it continues to sparkle.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 26, 2018
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With Eternity, In Your Arms, Creeper have torn up their own sonic rulebook, giving them licence to roam musically wherever they please. It’s a fresh page in a new story for a band who are really just getting started.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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Michael Kiwanuka has undoubtedly created a timeless album, one made with impressive confidence.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 11, 2019
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This record sees Ware set herself free of any inhibitions and demand her listeners to follow suit. Ware’s vocals show the breadth and strength of their ability; dancing across ranges and depth, from delicate, whispered notes to soaring falsetto.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Finding magic in the mire ‘Rat Saw God’ is an emphatic, uplifting reminder of the privilege of being alive.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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Emotion and passion are apparent in every word, key and chord throughout this project, boldly asserting Jamila’s second offering as a brilliant new addition to her own legacy, rather than a mere follow up to 2016’s ‘HEAVN’.- Clash Music
- Posted May 9, 2019
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It’s a perverse and challenging listen that makes very few compromises. But the album is also both intensely lyrical and supremely musical--and it plays out in a way that is designed to be perversely uncomfortable for the ears.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 23, 2015
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‘RTJ4’ is a must listen. It is diverse enough to appeal to even the hardest crowds. Many genres are represented here, but lyrical hip-hop is at the forefront of all that Run The Jewels is. They stand out from the crowd, whilst invoking the people to stand up for themselves. There is not a bad song on the entire album and the production and features are second to none.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 4, 2020
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A rich, rewarding, and extremely direct return, one worth observing on its own terms.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 3, 2020
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Raw artistry paired with rich heritage makes for a magnificent, spine-tingling first album for Rina Sawayama.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 15, 2020
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- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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A striking, fantastically original work, this is an album that taps into animalistic emotion.- Clash Music
- Posted May 25, 2022
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All Mirrors is a record that is so intuitive and interior, that it feels it could be difficult to penetrate - but it’s one hell of a prize if you give it the chance.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 30, 2019
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Sudan Archives is proving that she is an artist who knows no bounds, and projects like this one are what is going to propel her further into acclaim and stardom.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2022
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‘For Those I Love’ is a truly exquisite achievement in which the redemptive hope that love and friendship provide is never allowed to sink beneath the waters.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 26, 2021
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Not only is this their biggest album to date, it’s also their best. It builds on their remarkable career, as a duo and solo artists, to date and makes us question what jazz should be doing in 2022. ... It’s brave, accomplished, daring and wonderfully catchy in ways you don’t expect.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 23, 2022
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Yazmin Lacey’s curatorial skill sits alongside her painterly-like vocals, resulting in a bold, and emphatic album project.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Big Fish Theory is a record that not only sees Vince taking risks and progressing forward as an artist, but also another astounding example of what hip-hop should and can be in 2017.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 21, 2017
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'Ignorance' is a well-crafted and heart-felt piece of work that dances seamlessly through the caverns of dark and light, a perfect offering to hold onto with hope.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 3, 2021
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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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- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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A Seat At The Table is an expertly-curated, a near-perfect record that serves as a timely, musical manifesto on how to be black and proud.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 18, 2016
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‘Pink Noise’ is a triumph for both the label and for the super-talented Laura Mvula.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 1, 2021
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Overall, When I Get Home is a triumph, and is the kind of album you put on to reach your calming, safe place, when you get home at the end of a long day.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 4, 2019
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Slipknot make an unexpected impact with their newly-discovered tenderness, but it’s those instantly-recognisable throat-shredding roars that really shine.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 15, 2019
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The record swells and retreats at will as the group flex their musical dexterity.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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