cokemachineglow's Scores
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For 1,772 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Art Angels | |
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Lowest review score: | Rain In England |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,444 out of 1772
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Mixed: 270 out of 1772
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Negative: 58 out of 1772
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Art Angels is the kind of album that simultaneously captures its era, is made all the better for it (this 35-year-old Beatles fan would’ve given her nothing but bad advice), and obsolesces it overnight.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Dec 10, 2015
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To Be Kind is as vital and unsettling as anything they’ve ever done, and displays a mastery of their craft that seems almost automatic at this point.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Jun 4, 2014
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Rather, it is not a rap album; it is the absolute rap album. There is craft here (and in fact this is the most musical mainstream rap record since Aquemini) but just enough room for it.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Mar 25, 2015
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SMiLE has arrived as incredible and ground-breaking a record as any of us could have hoped.- cokemachineglow
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A nearly perfect follow-up... [it] keeps intact Interpol’s singular melodic prowess, while both tightening its songwriting and making unpredictable shifts in instrumental emphasis.- cokemachineglow
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The Friedbergers have made a cogent statement that leaves most other contemporary acts in the dust.- cokemachineglow
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A caterwauling hunk of avant-garde precision.- cokemachineglow
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What makes the album so gigantic is how intensely unique the state’s identity becomes filtered through one man.- cokemachineglow
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The Woods is an incredibly intense rock record even by S-K’s lofty standards; it's a call to arms that will hopefully force complacent indie kids to demand more from their rock music.- cokemachineglow
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Live at Reading is a corrective to all that [i.e. journals, Guitar Hero], a reminder that nothing so trivial could ever sully music as irreducible as this.- cokemachineglow
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Destroyer’s Rubies evinces an awareness of a feeling that “I’ve heard something like this before, and really enjoyed it” while denying the listener enough material specifics to follow-up with “It was on this record, recorded by this band, which I listened to when I was this old.”- cokemachineglow
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What sticks out most about Spoon, five albums in, is how singular they sound, like a jut of brilliant rock standing unfazed by crashing tides of trends and hopeful hype.- cokemachineglow
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Dose’s clever, rich, image-gorged writing is at that forefront more than ever, and, mercy, does he ever slam down the goods.- cokemachineglow
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It draws a subtle focus and then recedes from the record without resolve. Its tensions remain. If Sufjan is a perfectionist, he is now perfecting the art of stumbling, creating melodies that writhe with uncertainty and voices that echo back on themselves.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Mar 30, 2015
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While Picaresque is a significant step forward, it’s also a logical one. The band’s sonic palette has expanded gradually from album to album, and appears to have come full circle here.- cokemachineglow
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- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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Kanye West had to do him; and lo and behold, he has. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the most cohesive and assured record in mainstream hip-hop since Jay-Z sketched his Blueprint (2001).- cokemachineglow
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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- Posted Dec 21, 2012
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- Posted Dec 21, 2012
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This is the best rap album of 2012--not just because of champion verses and immaculate drops, but because they recognize that the most brilliant foreground only shines against a well-defined backdrop.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Dec 21, 2012
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A surprisingly quality recording of an incredible set, The Odessa Tapes plays like what it is: a miracle shrouded in modesty, and an ephemeral moment in time.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Dec 21, 2012
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Funeral... is a resounding success on all levels---the group clearly able to make something incredible out of the familiar, and something inexplicably moving out of one emotionally draining year.- cokemachineglow
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Obsidian makes for a totally immersive plunge and, depending on where you are with your own head when you listen, either a welcome gulp of fresh air in recognition or a chance to hold your breath and dive deeply into life’s darker materials until you have to come back up again.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Jul 23, 2013
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There’s nothing knee-jerk about it; just the inexorable sounds of ideas beautiful and terrible unfurling. It’s a careful, masterful record.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Jul 22, 2014
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Deerhood vs. Evil is just simultaneously astounding and utterly familiar, correct, and right.- cokemachineglow
- Posted Jan 10, 2011
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It’s a humble record, yet one with the timeless appeal to become a classic in league with the work of Waxahathee’s influences.- cokemachineglow
- Posted May 21, 2013
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Trouble Will Find Me is impeccably sequenced, even at thirteen songs the rare National record that doesn’t contain “the one song they should have obviously left off.”- cokemachineglow
- Posted May 30, 2013
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