Drowned In Sound's Scores
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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.
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Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Parades | |
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Lowest review score: | And Then Boom |
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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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Rattle that Lock offers something of great merit to those lucky enough to see some of the live shows, however you can’t help but feel that despite crafting an album of such merit, David Gilmour may simply not want to carry on making music that owes so much to his late companion and friend.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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On A Girl Cried Red Frasqueri showcases that she is more than just visceral beats and fierce rhymes. She has written some of her most confessional and personal lyrics to date.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Apr 29, 2018
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Escape from Evil might not change the world (unless you live for slightly off-kilter Eighties-style pop records, in which case, you should be thanking Lower Dens immensely), but it is all the more impressive because of its unexpected accessibility.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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Subtract the saccharine throwback 'Static Space Lover', the utterly somnambulant closer 'III', and the ancient prom scrap 'Time To Get Closer', and you’re left with some solid pop bangers that can sync in time with yr racing heart.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jul 24, 2017
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More! as an EP would have packed more punch and avoided the pitfalls of consistency which plague albums of every genre. Nevertheless, it is a good album, and perhaps the only tinge of disappointment is the knowledge that they could have done better.- Drowned In Sound
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There’s no staggering departure from Total Loss, but the backdrop for his soulful R&B crooning is becoming worn-out, and you can feel Krell auditioning replacements.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 19, 2014
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In its own oblique way, Shaken-Up Versions is the sound of The Knife having fun.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 20, 2014
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The set-list is a sprawling interweavement of new and older material. Wrigglesworth and J Willgoose esq take their time, lengthening out some of their songs, paring back and experimenting with tone and texture. The richness of the instrumentals gives a warmth that enhances the hypnotising quality of tracks such as ‘E.V.A’ and ‘If War Should Come’. ... It’s unfortunate, then, that PSB’s communication method of choice in-between songs is a set of pre-recorded audio snippets.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jan 10, 2017
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Clues offer precisely that: hints at considerable future potential, and, for any budding gumshoes keen to probe the mysterious fate of The Unicorns, arguably something of smoking gun.- Drowned In Sound
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Despite this not quite equalling the dizzy heights of their earliest recordings, there's an adventurous slake in its dysfunctional make-up to suggest this won't be the last time we hear from its evasive creators.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Feb 4, 2011
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If At Echo Lake hit the jackpot, Sun & Shade is more hit and miss. Still, I wouldn't have it any other way.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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By completely altering their focus, Wolves in the Throne Room have both carried on the strong tradition of black metal reinvention and proved themselves as composers with a distinct, if not world-changing, voice.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jul 3, 2014
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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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What stops it being Great, as opposed to great, is the feeling that Machinedrum's basically working his way through segments of his music taste, having a crack at one after another. That is to say, he's a follower, one now signed to a label that's often been a haven for innovators.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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If you’re a fan you’ll know what that sounds like and you won’t be disappointed by Repentless. If you’re not, well you’ll probably still find much to enjoy until the next Metallica album finally comes out.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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When they do get it right, as they frequently do on The Physical World, it does provide you with more than a simple nostalgia fix.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 9, 2014
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There are moments of brilliance; sketches on a theme but with no real conclusion.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Her lazy, beaten drawl is an acquired taste, and she wears her scars and bruises for all to see, but Lucinda Williams’ tear-stained tales are so vivid and evocative it’s hard not be haunted.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jan 27, 2016
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- Posted Jan 25, 2013
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All through this Olausson gives every impression of earnestness; it’s this ability to fashion a hook out of something nobody in their right mind would even think of that ensures a level of sparkle even when the sonic territory is well trodden.- Drowned In Sound
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Overall, the album’s songs feel fuller and less wiry in Kidjo and her collaborator's hands. In many respects, the differences aren’t radical, if only in the sense that the band’s influences are so pronounced on the original album. But that said, there are moments that are almost unidentifiable.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 8, 2018
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Her voice is as mesmeric and worldly as ever, and the instrumentation is rendered in beautiful detail. But it’s tantalising to wonder what would have happened if she would have given herself completely to chaos.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Aug 27, 2014
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Familiar themes still surface, with the natural world continuing to loom large in Antony's conscience, but much of Swanlights is ambiguous and less easy to decipher.- Drowned In Sound
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there's no denying Format was made by pop geniuses; maybe pop geniuses being slightly hit and miss, but that's still pretty good.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Feb 7, 2012
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Mixing classic rampant riffs and exploring newer matured sounds, Moss and Co. have crafted another hearty album that should satisfy even the hungriest of followers.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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So, far from rehashing in a genre where that danger is always lurking, The Good Life remain reasonably fresh. A few more steps towards something else might be welcome, but for now their poise and position is utterly lovable.- Drowned In Sound
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Why Oneida need a concept to rock out for two hours is still a bit of a mystery, but it never tires... if only all shameless self-indulgence sounded this good.- Drowned In Sound
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As it is, Espers have moved towards new territory, stumbling occasionally, but with a clear eye on where they’ve come from.- Drowned In Sound
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As an accompaniment to the original album--which I'm sure most people reading this will already own (and if you don't, you should)--it stands proud as a comprehensive update to a timeless record.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 1, 2015
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The Wave Pictures have embraced DIY ethic and shown that less is more and will hopefully inspire more people to make a record this way.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Feb 11, 2016
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If you had the latest Pig Destroyer record high up on your ‘Best of 2012’ list, if you hold John Peel’s Napalm Death and Carcass sessions close to your heart then Abandon All Life will be a record for you to cherish. If not: move along, there’s nothing for you here.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Apr 11, 2013
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In truth, The Sun won’t be the hype-extracting second coming of Fridge. But it is infinitely more modestly spectacular than the majority would have dared hope.- Drowned In Sound
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With Ghost Blonde, No Joy have chiselled all the shoegaze basics into a formidable account of themselves. An indispensable album of their own is not far off.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted May 4, 2011
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A strong bottom line is that Whine of the Mystic is, above all else, an enjoyable album.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Aug 11, 2015
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It's true that guitar-pop is all this is, but it's still bloody good stuff.- Drowned In Sound
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It’s unsentimental and unfussy, as both Moffat and Dickens’ best stuff usually is, but still radiates a simple joy in celebrating a special time of the year.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jan 2, 2019
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The current trend of Nineties-leaning music shows little signs of abating, and Heydays is yet another gloriously messy, scratchy string to its bow.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted May 15, 2015
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Featuring the ever-glorious Solange on vocals, it’s a moment of gracefulness that showcases Chromeo’s evident knowledge of when and how to take things down a notch. As a result, it largely accounts for the mostly-pleasant ride that the duo take us on with White Women.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted May 12, 2014
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So there is a lot to love within this album. Its knowing winks to rock’s early ‘70s excesses and sage-like nods to the soulful marriage of rock and rhythm and blues exemplified by Sly and Curtis mean that we’re comforted rather than challenged.- Drowned In Sound
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Yes, The Eternal is “Another Sonic Youth Record” but it’s also “Another Good Sonic Youth record”, revealing its finer details gradually, even if there’s no fundamentally new approach, arrangement, or message, in any of the songs.- Drowned In Sound
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In between almost every track the calming voice of an unnamed narrator tells us a bit more of the fantasy. Such a pompous, and quite frankly pretentious, idea shouldn’t work, but the sheer chaos of the group’s music wrapped around each piece of spoken word makes everything flow beautifully, somehow.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 21, 2017
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Any attempt to give an accurate numerical mark to such an incongruous creature would seem slightly beside the point, so it’s enough to say that A Sufi And A Killer is hard but rewarding work – the more you put in, the more you get out.- Drowned In Sound
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Together does not scale the heights of Mass Romantic and Twin Cinema, but then, The New Pornographers have already made Mass Romantic and Twin Cinema. This is something new, something hopeful.- Drowned In Sound
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There’s a sense of being 'finished' after every single track, and it often feels like you’d get the same experience but quicker listening to any single track individually instead of the album as a whole.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Aug 19, 2016
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Kitsune is a powerful and fragile album and composes itself with the grace required to step ahead of the current glut of bands that are revisiting the post-rock genre, believing that all that all post-rock requires is distortion pedals and patience.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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All together, lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar seems like the sound of someone musically satisfied, but not in a safe, comfortable way.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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Love’s Miracle is an oddly enjoyable affair on the whole, although in a time when US bands are working through a Fantasy Football League-like transfer system (I’ll swap your an ex-Jesus Lizard singer for a Helmet drummer), it may take an album or two for them to completely work out their sound.- Drowned In Sound
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Yet even for all the familiarity to be found within its looping guitars and drums, I’ll Be Lightning also announces the arrival of a promising voice.- Drowned In Sound
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The strongest chunk of the album comes not in the first third, but in the stream of songs that starts with ‘Out On the Street’, ‘Take It Easy’ and ends with the final track.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Mar 29, 2018
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There's still too much here which feels (and sounds) like filler, but when Jenkinson pulls it off it's as incomparably awesome as ever.- Drowned In Sound
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While Caer stumbles over artifice at the gate, Twin Shadow eventually rebuilds a vibrant pallet to unload actual confessions that other lonely listeners can relate to.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted May 1, 2018
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Clocking in at just under an hour, its occasionally harrowing contents rendering it an uneasy listen, maybe if BRMC had taken a leaner approach Specter... may have ended up on a few more commercial radars.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Mar 20, 2013
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There is nothing here that is particularly new, but when it comes to the many, many contemporary bands who take their influence--either musically or aesthetically--from the eighties, Wampire are at the top of the pile.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted May 14, 2013
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Certainly, on early listens, it appears to lack some of the strange staying power of the band’s very best releases, as if there’s an indefinable something missing. As a result, this is unlikely to jar experienced Wolf Eyes listeners as much as it is newcomers.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Mar 29, 2017
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Compared to the way more dynamic Quarter Over a Living Line, some of the tracks on this album have a maddening potential to them (the sequence Glassed/Cold Cain is my personal stress peak), which comes from such an extended use of repetition. At the same time, tracks like ‘Front Running’ and ‘Stummer', manage to sound uplifting, almost motivational in their stubborn pursuit of monotony.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Jun 10, 2016
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From one angle Earthology could be regarded as indigestibly worthy and academic, and there are moments such as the bamboo-beating 'Ntu' which will definitely test the patience of the casual listener. Yet there's still a funk of an admittedly spaced-out ilk at the album's core.- Drowned In Sound
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There’s very little that’s boring about Aerotropolis, quite the opposite in fact, but there’s also not always enough that jumps out.- Drowned In Sound
- Posted Aug 23, 2013
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Though the band are by no means no superstar DJs, the enthusiasm for the music they love is all too apparent. If anything, Tapes will send you digging for the full versions of some fine, forgotten tunes--and that’s no bad thing.- Drowned In Sound
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Even though this is a relatively concise Truckers record, it does still have a little flab around the midriff.- Drowned In Sound
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