Dusted Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,075 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: 2,467 out of 3075
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Mixed: 574 out of 3075
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Negative: 34 out of 3075
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As I said, there is nothing really to fault, at least superficially, with Night Gallery, but it just never builds on the decent ingredients at play. It's simply far too easy to forget once you've heard it.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 27, 2011
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Approaches to guitar rock that are generally better segregated sound great together here, as they jump from '90s indie to shotgun at yr face drunkfuzz. I've got no idea where they can go with this. For now, they've made a record that leaves me spinning after every spin.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2011
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Bermuda Drain bears the influence of Fernow's recent work with gloom-pop monger Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave. Synths dominate: crystalline, graceful and clean.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2011
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It's a great, moving set of songs from one of the few modern songwriters to actively challenge his own preconceptions of his art.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 19, 2011
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There's nothing new here, but much to love, and if "Tally" makes you think 10 songs by 10 other bands, that's only because it succeeds where they fell short.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 18, 2011
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This second full-length is like looking at fog through a clean window. There's nothing there, and boy can you ever hear that nothing clearly.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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There are the four originals here on Horses and High Heels. And for my dope money at least, they count among the highest songs she's had since getting off the stuff some 20 years ago.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 13, 2011
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It's a record with 20-20 hindsight vision. It perfects the past's mistakes, but misses the fun in making them.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Zomby's achievement with Dedication is in plausibly connecting these austere sounds to underground bass music. The best DJs can do this, but few producers even try.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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It's like Fiery Furnaces with more heart and less irony...and that's not a bad thing at all.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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It's All True is exactly what mature dance pop should sound like in 2011.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 8, 2011
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When obtuse means nonsensical and there's no one consistently there to tie the free associations together, it becomes less a case of judging Vast on his own street odyssey and more a case, ironically, of falling back to where we started in the least desirable way: It's good, yeah, but it's no "Iron Galaxy."- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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They pull off a wide sound for a duo, sometimes creating too much space. There's some room in the back seat for more low end. Then they'd really boogie.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 1, 2011
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Ascension reaches for the infinite, but achieve it only intermittently. Mostly you're left with songs that don't stop time, only slow it down.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 1, 2011
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The tunes still aren't anything too memorable (though in fairness that's never been Boris's particular forte), and the frippertronics and sonic detail on songs like "Galaxians" makes things less ordinary than they might otherwise be, ranging between fairly standard chugging and brief breakdowns intended to sound heavily narcotic.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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Unlike previous output, the ten tracks on Attention Please are slick, synthesized, almost club-ready vamps (or at least that seems to be their aspiration). The affect may be intentional but for the most part I found them to be drowsy, forgettable, head-nodding throwaways with at least a passable amount of textural variety but very little in the way of memorable song-writing.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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PH's previous efforts (the live shows, in particular) have been experiments in what an average listener can take, punctuated with bursts of pleasant catchiness. On Laced, Whitehurst has inverted the ratio, which works, which means the more grating leftovers can be appreciated for the oddities they are.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra is the most basic, easily digestible, pre-chewed pop archetype. With zero nutritional value.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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While Diaper Island doesn't represent a significant break from VanGaalen's existing body of work, it ultimately haunts and endures in just the right amount--making this one of the strongest entries in an already consistent discography.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 29, 2011
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- Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Alas, the new Earth Sound System is a particularly undecided record, offering two disparate approaches that make no attempt to cohere. The caveat "your mileage may vary" has rarely been so applicable.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2011
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There's something lunky and crude that weighs down the chaos, even if it outwardly resembles arty contrariness. Motorik without motor skills, New Brigade actually sounds new.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 27, 2011
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Even if it fails to meet impossibly high expectations, The Harrow & The Harvest offers a handful of keepers while moving Welch and Rawlings (hopefully) past their writers' block.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 27, 2011
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Though the harsh synth textures and borderline-disjointed edits from the EPs remain, the record as a whole is simultaneously hazier and more distinct: more fine detail in the cavernous reverb, more impact with every tumbling, hypercompressed stack of drum samples.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 24, 2011
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If Share the Joy is the direction Vivian Girls are going in, I'm interested in seeing how it plays out.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 24, 2011
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The truth of W doesn't look as good on paper, but give it time. It's more convincing than it has any right to be.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2011
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Looks Like Rain, 'Frisco Mabel Joy and Heaven Help the Child--represent an outre high-water mark of sorts in the country singer-songwriter era.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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Zayna Jumma is the first non-cassette recording of the band playing in its electric glory, and their first CD release.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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Bachelorette is undoubtedly a step forward from her previous work, but until she fully throws herself into it with abandon, both sides she's working here will invariably suffer.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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This is an album in a platonic sense, crafted around a clutch of real hits that were made for group enjoyment on the radio, not just for headphones in coffeehouses. And, like every Comet Gain album that's come before, it succeeds.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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