Dusted Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,082 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Ys | |
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Lowest review score: | Rain In England |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,474 out of 3082
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Mixed: 574 out of 3082
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Negative: 34 out of 3082
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So yes, the combination of energies works as well as it ever did, a remarkable 30 years after it started. The pandemic, far from crushing the joy out, coaxes an unexpected giddiness from two lifers playing as hard as they can for the love of it.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 7, 2023
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If his last album 2019’s Occulting Disk seemed designed to alienate, Compositions for all its formality and repetition has a far more human aspect. Lugubrious yes, sometimes harsh but its granular beauty has a mesmeric effect that lingers.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 31, 2023
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We Cater to Cowards is a satisfying and sometimes thrilling record. Particularly in its final third, it finds a snarling, crunching groove that slots alongside the general feeling of our current socio-political conjuncture.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 30, 2023
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And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow is already a formidable amalgam. It will be interesting to see where the third volume of the trilogy takes Weyes Blood.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 26, 2023
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Though Furling is a fitting title in this regard, in the sense of closing around something, of creating a feeling of being safe and loved, there’s also a sensation of unfurling, of opening out, of expansiveness, of fearless abandon. That’s a rare balance to strike, and one that proves intoxicatingly addictive.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Even if the record had been inevitable, it didn’t have to be so engaging; fortunately, it is.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Bottom line: if you like diva pop with a little edge, have at it. But if you got into Billy Nomates because she reminded you of the Sleaford Mods, maybe sit CACTI out.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Landwerk No. 3 is, like its predecessors, a work of craggy beauty that does homage to a world—that of pre-war European Jews—destroyed in the same wave of technology and social change that made possible the preservation of its traces in the archival recordings and, in turn, rendered the recordings obsolete.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 10, 2023
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Though this is far from an easy listen, and can be frustratingly wordy and repetitive at times, it’s a rich, admirable and thorny work of art. Invest the necessary attention in this record and it’ll reward in spades.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 9, 2023
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As fine as the instrumental playing is here, Crutchfield and Williamson singing together creates magic.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 23, 2022
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Overall, Almanac Behind is perhaps the most successful of Bachman’s “noise records”.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 19, 2022
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The album is full of the small noises and cosmic visions that encapsulate life, death, microbe and universe, a tick of time, like a chord, both stark and larger than itself, establishing and destroying its boundaries. This all-in-all unity gives the album astonishing power and a uniquely familiar beauty.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 14, 2022
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This is a feral, dangerous variety of punk rock, and if your favorite thing is Dry Cleaning mouthing witty asides in a BBC accent, you will probably not like it. But if you have any sympathy for the idea of burning it all down, here’s your jam.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 13, 2022
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- Posted Dec 9, 2022
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The album is warmly, insistently, alive. Its music makes no grand gestures but offers generosity and compassion in its connective tissue.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 7, 2022
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Two Ribbons is neither the sound of Hollingworth and Watson paralyzed by these varying levels of grief, anger, loneliness and guilt nor them pretending like everything was or is okay. It’s almost incidental that this is also their best album and one of the best synth pop records of the year. ... Two Ribbons is the kind of great record that you kind of wish the artists never had to make.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 1, 2022
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While Feorm Falorx may have some of the duo’s more simplistic songwriting, it’s well worth a spin for its textural delights alone.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 29, 2022
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The album seems like a simple, straightforward work, yet every song carries fitting surprises within its construction. ... It’s the singer’s own version of reality, but it probably isn’t that far from whatever’s actually out there. If it’s a little bent and a little brighter at the same time, it somehow only feels truer.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2022
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The fellows in Chat Pile still need to figure out how close to the bone of the Real they want their music to cut, and how best to achieve that. But many of these songs lacerate with convincing passion and rock with memorable ferocity.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 1, 2022
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With Shaw’s vocals as the pivot, Dowse, Maynard and Buxton flex, weave and dance around her, resulting in a nuanced listen that extends the band way beyond their pigeonhole of “post-punk.” Hard to pinpoint where Dry Cleaning belong now, which can only be a good thing.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 25, 2022
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In the end, though, it is all but impossible not to come away from this album with a grin like Marshall Allen’s. The positive vibrations in the studio are evident, and the musicianship is, naturally, of the highest order (including Allen’s wailing alto).- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 12, 2022
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Rolling Golden Holy is more comfortable and assured than its predecessor, but not as eerily evocative. If the self-titled was a twilight vista full of mist and longing, the follow-up ambles through sunny backroads. It has a bit more Johnson, a bit less Mitchell in its mix, though the two artists find intriguing common ground on multiple occasions.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 12, 2022
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The Beths took the path of being exactly who they’ve always been, but more intensely and immediately. Given the interruptions, they waste no time in getting going.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 11, 2022
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It’s a nice way to spend three-quarters of an hour, even if you don’t have much to say about it afterwards.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 6, 2022
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His songs flash by in vivid, disconnected mental images, floating on an underlying current of mood. What we see passes by. What we feel about it lingers, evocatively, just out of reach and often filtered through digital mechanisms. ... The album’s lyrics are about all kinds of things, but its sound is about being isolated and frightened with contact only through digital interface.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Orcutt builds musical structures layer by layer, part by part. These compositions are sometimes jaggedly ecstatic – “Or head on” for one, leaps and lurches with joy. As in any congregation, sometimes a delighted, discordant, untrained voice rises in volume above the rest.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2022
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In times of uncertainty, you might very well look to the music Anderson interprets—folk, blues, gospel—for reassurance. But the uneasiness works its way in, even to these lovely songs. Anderson captures that conjunction of solitude and stress, of beauty in the moment and angst about what’s next, in a way that reflects very clearly on the last couple of years.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 26, 2022
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These songs have a dream-like, airy quality, despite the genuine rock fire power that Why Bonnie brings to the game.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2022
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You can hear the impact of the pandemic in this latest album from No Age, not in the recording, which sounds as assured as ever, but in the bouts of introspection, the intervals of lyricism, the sweet haze and jangle of home-cooked rock. Spunt and Randall went inward, not out into the world, to find a different way to sound.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 15, 2022
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The tunes tend to unfold at mid-tempo and with the logic of a short story as, once more, Jones composes and performs, with seeming effortlessness, a set of memorable melodies that reward repeated listening.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2022
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