Drowned In Sound's Scores
- Music
For 4,812 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Parades | |
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Lowest review score: | And Then Boom |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,477 out of 4812
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Mixed: 1,220 out of 4812
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Negative: 115 out of 4812
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The OOZ creates a brutalist and beautiful terrain, one that we can wander vicariously through King Krule; it’s nothing short of a masterpiece.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 10, 2017
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All in all, Wide Open demonstrates a band in transition. Methinks, overall, Burke and her motley crew are headed the right way in their conflicted and thus accurate portrayal of our tangled ids, egos, and libidos.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 9, 2017
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You wouldn’t want one track or note to be changed or left out. It’s a genuine masterpiece: complex, funny, sexy, bleak, uplifting, inspiring and enthralling from start to finish.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 9, 2017
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We’re unlikely to see the power or the passion of Manson’s classic run again - it’s very difficult to bottle lightning twice - and you shouldn’t come to Heaven Upside Down expecting anything as textured, interesting or frightening as those early releases. That said ... It’s business as usual, but after a decade of disappointment, it’s good to know business is doing well.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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There are moments where the album shines, absolutely, but it doesn’t match up to the same level as Okereke’s previous work, both with Bloc Party and solo. However, it’s still a worthy piece in its own right, and a testament to the idea that a musician changing their sound is a gamble that can pay dividends.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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There are moments of ‘saneness and plainness’ on the album, but these are only short, giddy moments. The great bulk of material on it plays under the assertion that one conclusion, or one reading of a situation is impossible. Great works contain multitudes, and that is exactly what you’ll get here.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 4, 2017
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One of the great indie-rock releases of the year. ... The new songs are what really impress, glowing with a sparky freshness few saw coming.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 3, 2017
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There is an energy to Cry, Cry, Cry that simply got lost in the storm Apologies created. After some time away to re-group, it seems, Wolf Parade have re-found that spark.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 3, 2017
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It grows and grows with each listen, and though it has less of an immediate impact than their debut, it has a true sense of journey through its beginning, middle and end, an element often disregarded in an industry gluttonously obsessed with hit singles.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Oct 2, 2017
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The band's fourth and best album to date, there is no denying his prowess as a Nick Cave for a new generation, even if, ironically, Casey is closer to Cave's than the rest of his band or most of his audience.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 28, 2017
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What was promised to be Twain's 'very, very pure' album is anything but. ... A terrible album.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 28, 2017
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If you’re looking for ease and comfort there’s a deluge of that available, but there are aren’t many records like The Centre Cannot Hold. Frost has achieved a thrillingly precarious balance whereby there is always the tiniest spark of light to glean amongst the relentless dirge.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 28, 2017
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Visions of a Life is a phenomenal achievement. It has captured on record the thrill, angst, sadness and uncertainty of being in your twenties and not really knowing what’s going to happen or should happen. All of it is never anything less than intoxicating, heartfelt and effortless.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 26, 2017
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Their gentlest to date, 44 minutes of music arranged around a single, dreamy riff/motif. Listen to it on Bandcamp or Spotify without checking out the other stuff that comes with the music and it perhaps seems like a retreat from the sturm und drang of their previous work. But the accompanying words and art to Luciferian Towers posit it as the band’s most politicised set since Yanqui UXO.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 26, 2017
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Though Hiss Spun probably won't end up as the best of her career, it may well be Wolfe's best so far.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 25, 2017
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Metz keep consistently ticking along and will always be a welcome addition to any year's new releases, regardless of whether they're the most original band in the world and Strange Peace does nothing to disavow that.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 25, 2017
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All in all it’s another assured effort from a band who manage to stay relevant without compromising their creativity.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 21, 2017
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The result is a brilliant, imperfect record that affects you in ways Enter Shikari never have before and subverts what the entire band is all about. Anything from them would be ridiculous.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 21, 2017
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Some songs come close, but none hit quite as hard as Stranger in the Alps’ haunting bookends. All the same, the record is a stunning achievement, and one that heralds the arrival of a major talent, undoubtedly in it for the long haul.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 20, 2017
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In all, it’s an album with an admirable sense of ambition and innovation, a band pushing themselves sonically and lyrically in new directions; that they at times come up short is therefore a shame.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 20, 2017
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The message feels less than vital at a time when vitality is so needed, and no, there will be no revolution off the back of the subversive royalty involved in this release. The slogans feel thin, but the music itself is substantive. Whether that counts as a success or not comes down to what you came here for.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 20, 2017
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The fact is that Lovers is an almost unremarkable debut, except for the fact that it hits every target set for itself with clinical accuracy. If you’re in the market for something harder than Celine Dion but a little softer than Dragonette, you could do a lot worse than Anna of the North’s debut.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 19, 2017
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It’s just a guy bashing out some songs with a friend back in the Seventies--yet it’s a kind of reverse Best Of: a hits collection of songs before they were ever known, now released after all but two of them are firmly fixed in the Young cannon.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 18, 2017
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In the end, it’s the lack of direction that’s fatal for Concrete and Gold; at least the last three records, scored through with problems as they were, had a sense of what was driving them, even if it was something as superficial as Sonic Highways’ city-hopping.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 18, 2017
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Overall Where the Gods Are in Peace is another solid album in a ridiculously exceptional back catalogue.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Although their lyrical palette is limited to shades of grey or black, musically they allow themselves variegated freedom that allows glimmers of light in the dark night. For all its bleakness Endangered Philosophies is also strangely beautiful.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 13, 2017
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As a full album, this wafts innocuously past like a gentle Hawaiian breeze--too meek for any real surf, but just strong enough to be mildly of note to those wishing to hit the waves. That’s about the best that can be said of it.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 11, 2017
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Alvvays were the perfect band to listen to when a need arose to forget about life. Despite its title, Antisocialites doesn’t manage to accomplish the same thing.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 11, 2017
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- Posted Sep 11, 2017
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There are parts of Love What Survives that you’ll want to dive straight back into again (like this track), and then others that are a little more ephemeral.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 11, 2017
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