DIY Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,088 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Not to Disappear | |
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Lowest review score: | Let It Reign |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,184 out of 3088
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Mixed: 891 out of 3088
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Negative: 13 out of 3088
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On ‘Britpop’, a record that exists at the cusp of a portal between medieval England and a spritely electronic future, Cook’s mastery of the esoteric is singular – and a strong argument for the term to retain this new, additional meaning.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2024
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There’s no difficult second album syndrome here. Visions Of A Life is a gorgeously twisted beast that keeps Wolf Alice on the path to being Britain’s best band.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2017
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‘The Overload’ lives up to its hype with flying colours. Brilliantly constructed to unfurl like some sordid soap opera of Brexit Britain, it brims with vignettes populated by instantly-recognisable caricatures of the now.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 19, 2022
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Undeniably ‘WEEDKILLER’ is a funneling of rage - a quest to rediscover autonomy and cement identity - but despite the darkness is ridiculously fun, too. It’s a triumphant debut - one that changes the game like a live wire in water.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 24, 2023
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‘Prioritise Pleasure’ manages to challenge accepted norms and help to exorcise long-buried demons; it’s powerful to the last drop.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 20, 2021
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- Posted Dec 9, 2022
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An album that’s ultimately OK with not being OK, it’s for that reason alone that it may just be perfect.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 11, 2017
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With such a consistently adept and fresh discography, it’s impossible to call this album St Vincent’s best, yet it’s quite easily her fullest, building on everything she’s already achieved while also treading new ground. If she is to be known by one record, let it be ‘All Born Screaming’.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2024
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Musically tying everything that’s come before together in a comprehensive showcase of the band’s continued prowess, and lyrically providing an ominous but defiant voice for 2019, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost is Foals’ definitive statement. And that’s only part one!- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 1, 2019
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‘Jubilee’ finds its creator older and wiser with melody, lyrics and storytelling pulling focus in a fashion that cements Michelle Zauner as a true creative force to be reckoned with. From here on out, Japanese Breakfast can go anywhere and we’ll follow.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 4, 2021
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With Alas Salvation, they’ve set a marker for every borderline-insane newcomer emerging in the next decade.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2016
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An album that dreams not just big but huge. It begins with a literal orchestral overture - 96 seconds of world-building that removes you from boring old reality and plants you into their version of Fantasia. Then, 11 tracks of similarly sky-high, grandiose ambition, that tie together lofty literary sentiment, cinematic sweeping theatricality and killer melodic indie hooks with an equal affinity for each.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 31, 2024
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A far way away from debut ‘Chaleur humaine’, yet just as unafraid, ’PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’ is like no other exploration of grief - a new magnum opus.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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Equal parts elegant and antagonistic, it comes together to be every part the listening experience that he wanted it to be - complex, unconventional and ultimately, essential.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 14, 2020
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The band put their flag in the ground as the most intriguing musical voice we have, creating a bombastic, immaculately put together portrait of modern life.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 20, 2018
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‘Screen Violence’ marries visceral anger and empowerment. The result is their most euphoric rallying cry to date.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 26, 2021
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- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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Not to Disappear is intentionally difficult to stomach. It finds a dark pit to nestle in and then digs deeper. But few acts could deliver these unceasingly grim details with such majesty.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 15, 2016
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This is a sonically rich, musically accomplished record - and it truly is - it’s Holly’s enviably dextrous voice that can’t help but take centre stage. They can belt with the best of them.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 16, 2024
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Mike Hadreas takes a scalpel to the inner-workings of his creative brain, and the love that feeds it. An absolutely flooring record from once-in-a-generation talent.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 4, 2017
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On all fronts, with ‘Daddy’s Home’, St Vincent has delivered spectacularly.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2021
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Just as unique as that now-classic debut, Alvvays have inadvertently gotten their wish all the same. They’ve wound up in a league of their own.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 8, 2017
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Everything across Lux Prima feels completely right; familiar yet new, revealing more of two beloved figures without losing what made them great all these years.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 12, 2019
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It embraces the unconventional with resounding ease, finding its voice in the skilled hands of two of pop’s most forward-thinking pioneers, both busy rethinking just what it can be.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Each track could essentially be classified under a different genre, yet there’s a unifying atmosphere throughout--a kind of balmy warmth to the production that allows the duo’s treasure trove of ideas to knit together in one harmonious package.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Throughout, ‘American Noir’ delivers a vibrant and fitting homage to the recently departed Jim Steinman; the eight tracks harking to his musical opus.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 30, 2021
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‘RTJ4’ is by far Killer Mike and El-P’s most accomplished chapter, wrought with rage but injected with a humour and wisdom that offers razor-sharp clarity and, with that, an unapologetically raw and sobering take on our times.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 5, 2020
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Across ‘Cool It Down’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs remain true to their roots without making it sound like a nostalgic grab for previous glory. ... It turns out Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2.0 is exactly what 2022 needs.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 6, 2022
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A decade on from the pained remoteness of For Emma, Forever Ago, i,i holds the same intimacy and urgency, elevated by years of groundbreaking experimentation.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 8, 2019
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