Dot Music's Scores
- Music
For 1,511 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 69
Highest review score: | Untitled | |
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Lowest review score: | United Nations of Sound |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,005 out of 1511
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Mixed: 449 out of 1511
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Negative: 57 out of 1511
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A serious album, with huge potential and no weak points, Disc-Overy is the coming of age UK hip hop has long needed but been too timid to reach for.- Dot Music
- Posted Aug 23, 2011
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Sophie's chart positions may have dropped, but there's no dip in the quality pop on offer here.- Dot Music
- Posted Jul 26, 2011
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It's big, it's shiny, it's unashamedly happy and we wouldn't want it any other way.- Dot Music
- Posted May 27, 2011
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Few records will be made this year with such love and devotion, and you'll be able to tell it too. It's delicious.- Dot Music
- Posted May 24, 2011
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She has already made pop interesting just as it was declining into irrelevance; now it's time for her to make it great again.- Dot Music
- Posted May 23, 2011
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Certainly, it's by far the best album of his career to date--proof that going it alone was a decision that most certainly paid off.- Dot Music
- Posted May 18, 2011
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Aficionados may balk at an actor trespassing on sacred ground, but even they'd have to admit, that for a white, middle-class Englishman, Hugh Laurie plays a surprisingly convincing bluesman.- Dot Music
- Posted May 13, 2011
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Overall, Smother is brilliant, and a record by a band with a big brain, a generous heart, hungry ears and a permanent erection.- Dot Music
- Posted May 12, 2011
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No doubt Helplessness Blues will win Pecknold further fame and success, whether he likes it or not.- Dot Music
- Posted May 11, 2011
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To anyone who's felt like they've been along to share even a little bit of that journey, it's an album-of-the-year contender that's bound to do nothing but delight.- Dot Music
- Posted May 6, 2011
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It's certainly not Joy Division, but there's a bittersweet, melancholy and intelligent edge here that's worth investigating.- Dot Music
- Posted May 3, 2011
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Though there are still moments of eyeball rolling twee, the darker undertones are enough to more than keep us interested.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 28, 2011
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No, it isn't as good as that, but getting anywhere close is proof that Damon Albarn remains a musical alchemist, turning what could easily have been crude and leaden into something that often gleams like gold.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2011
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Nine Types Of Light is an album that manages to blend experimentation with a welcoming accessibility that proves pop music can still be bold this far down the line.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 15, 2011
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Recent devotees may be left wondering why there's nothing for them to sing-along to.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 13, 2011
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Neither a triumph nor a calamity, EUPHORIC HEARTBREAK delivers just enough to make you believe Glasvegas may still have that perfect album in them some day.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 8, 2011
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More vintage sound than classic album, All You Need Is Now won't revive any careers, theirs or Ronson's.- Dot Music
- Posted Apr 4, 2011
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Femme Fatale is also unevenly paced, overlong (16 tracks in its deluxe version) and burdened with filler like the generic 'I Wanna Go', which tries to find a shortcut to the dancefloor but gets lost en route. But the weaker material is outweighed by the fantastic, from the slamming, techno-tinged 'Trouble For Me' to the glorious bubblegum house of 'Up N' Down'.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2011
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Despite the overarching feel of having a bit of the early MGMT's about them (which, to be fair, is hardly a bad thing), there's enough variety within the New Zealanders' debut to prove they're more than just a one-trick, party-starting pony.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 17, 2011
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While Lasers isn't the equal of its superb predecessors, there's still much here to admire; even though the fact that there isn't quite as much to love is no real surprise.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 15, 2011
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This is not the work of a band prepared to make a song and dance to keep everyone interested, but one happy to build something good from not a lot and hope you like it.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 14, 2011
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Far from Noah & The Whale lagging behind their popular folk peers, with Last Night On Earth the band are finally punching above their weight to create a sound that's altogether new and wholly theirs.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 14, 2011
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Broken hearts litter pop music of course, but the way this 24-year-old almost welcomes desolation into her life is nothing if not fascinating.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 7, 2011
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Reflecting their influences without becoming burdened under them, their self-titled debut is an impressively varied beast.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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Amongst the glam rockers and the tender janglers, it seems that Beady Eye have simply written a Supergrass album. Let's see if Noel has an answer for that.- Dot Music
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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The album's predominant mood is not glumness, it is togetherness, and it invokes images of storytelling, late nights, campfires, whiskey and beards. The stuff of men with things on their minds.- Dot Music
- Posted Feb 23, 2011
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The truth is, however much or little you enjoy them, Radiohead are one of the few mainstream bands who try not to retrace their steps.- Dot Music
- Posted Feb 23, 2011
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This is an album that's far from complacent and what's most in evidence throughout is they're seeking to challenge themselves as much as their audience.- Dot Music
- Posted Feb 18, 2011
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Computers & Blues doesn't match up to The Streets' visionary early promise, and there are a few songs which sound sketchy and half-hearted. But when it works, it's a reminder of what a tender, articulate and original voice Skinner has been in British pop, and how sorely he will be missed.- Dot Music
- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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It would be interesting to see Chase & Status explore this extra dimension further, but--for now--this is a thrilling case of cum on feel the noize.- Dot Music
- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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