Delusions of Adequacy's Scores
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For 1,396 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: | The Stand Ins | |
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Lowest review score: | The Raven |
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Positive: 1,197 out of 1396
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Mixed: 180 out of 1396
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Negative: 19 out of 1396
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Grand Hotel is remarkable not just as a present day artistic piece, but also as homage to what many people consider the greatest music ever made.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 11, 2012
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Everything about Staring At The X is tightly controlled and composed, from its guitar chords through its electronic bass lines right up to the mixing board pyrotechnics that propel the songs forward.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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This album is too good to dally over, because it's so good, jaw droppingly good, not a false note in the bunch kind of good.... Record of the year stuff.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 6, 2012
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- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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Out of its many blues like qualities the one that I see potentially defining the album as a whole is its rawness.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 4, 2012
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Ultimately, the peaks and troughs of Grinderman 2 RMX come from magnifying both the good and the so-so qualities of the original source material and from finding the most imaginative or laziest ways to refashion them.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 3, 2012
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Both Lights goes a step further in cementing their reputation as one of the Pacific Northwest's best kept secrets.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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Elephant & Castle is refreshing, and its an extremely impressive solo project.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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I cannot overstate enough the cross genre appeal that is contained within Sentenced to Life. There is literally enough here for everyone; while it lacks a black metal vibe I feel it would still be relevant enough for those that jam out with corpse paint.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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The freshness of these subversions reveal spaces you didn't know were there, and achieve a rare expansion of the vocabulary of music.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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This is a solid, sonically beautiful album.... [Yet] the problem with her quicker stuff is that, while pretty, it tends to sound all the same; you end up desperate for the chorus, so that you can tell one song from another.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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The attention to detail Bevin is known for sounds invitingly open on Kindred and the ending fruition is a thrilling success.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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All in all, Foreign Body is a very rewarding and promising collaboration for fans of the more emotive side of droning ambient music.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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It's this robust fervor and subject matter that fire up and lift up many of the songs on Ceremonials, but the constant exhortation comes at a price. Listener fatigue sets in as the relentless, up-tempo pace and sharply exclamatory vocal tone overwhelms over the course of the album.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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Focusing on the music and what's happening within and around it – enables Hive Mind to deliver a truly excellent aural experience.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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Eternal Turn of the Wheel just seems to pack too much of an antiquated, overused style into it without any new innovation and I just can't get behind this album.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 20, 2012
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This is an unwieldy yet infectious compendium that will satisfy those who need it most.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 20, 2012
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Whatever the band loses in spastic energy and volatility on Zoo, it gains in melodic constancy.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 19, 2012
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It's hard not to listen to this album and to think that they've mined this territory already in 69 Love Songs.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 16, 2012
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It's this sort of wide-eyed optimism [heard on "Near Death Experience Experience"] that lends Break It Yourself immediate appeal.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 13, 2012
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A hell of an album that reveals further treasures buried in the mix with each listen.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Interstellar may not be the most enterprising album released this year, but there won't likely be another one that so cogently captures the celestial side of an era [the 80's] known for its excesses.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Mar 7, 2012
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On the whole, it's a winner, and you can take the singles and run with them--the play be damned.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 29, 2012
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Sleigh Bells' sophomore LP is unlikely to be met with the same peerless adulation as its predecessor, but Reign of Terror still seduces with an uncanny knack for extracting a pioneering spirit out of musty source material.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 28, 2012
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As Perfume Genius, he's [Mike Hadreas] developed a strong second album with Put Your Back N 2 It, a modestly personal release.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 27, 2012
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- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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Hadreas is one of the strongest songwriters we've seen develop this year, and Learning puts that on display beautifully.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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Whatever the circumstances have been in Lana's rise to fame, all that doesn't detract from the captivating quality of the songs on Born To Die.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 16, 2012
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This is an album for the patient, who are willing, as the title of the album suggests, to sit through a slide show made by someone you don't really know that well.- Delusions of Adequacy
- Posted Feb 14, 2012
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