Dusted Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,077 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: 2,469 out of 3077
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Mixed: 574 out of 3077
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Negative: 34 out of 3077
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It’s in those moments [of appealing moment of vulnerability] as well as in the swarming chorus of 'God’s Children' that the duo hit their true heights, and those same qualities are the ones most likely to mark this album as an enduring piece of work from two icons of a class that has long since graduated.- Dusted Magazine
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Quaristice seems most comfortable amidst the modern scrum, a soundtrack for mundane urban maneuvers.- Dusted Magazine
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Picture is an album’s worth of universal feelings spoiled by his compulsion to present them as sordid or literary, to make them clever or allusive or needlessly alliterative- Dusted Magazine
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There's enough to enjoy here in the murky atmospherics and occasional surges of melody, but Shots can’t be the Ladyhawk album fans were hoping for.- Dusted Magazine
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Devotion goes down a little easier is both its strength and a feature that proves a bit disappointing in the end.- Dusted Magazine
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As it stands, it's a really good, seriously flawed album, with some great songs and some big misses, a sort of living, breathing justification for your CD player's skip button.- Dusted Magazine
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The new record is less political than its predecessor, but seems to share the same, more expansive perspective.- Dusted Magazine
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As interesting as Heretic Pride already is, it misses an opportunity to pick one direction or the other.- Dusted Magazine
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Vernon’s voice is the showpiece here––a fragile, technically imperfect falsetto, he multi-tracks it into a shimmering, heat-giving force on each of the record’s nine songs.- Dusted Magazine
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He easily sidesteps the drama that dogged he and his band throughout 2007 (and ultimately led to their declaration of hiatus towards the end of the year), turning Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel into a beautifully melancholic slice of shimmering, ambient pop.- Dusted Magazine
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The Big Sleep have also gotten better by huge leaps with each outing, delivering on the promise of their earlier songs without maturing too ambitiously.- Dusted Magazine
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Though it may hardly win over detractors, there's not much of Made in the Dark that can be lambasted as puckish or precious.- Dusted Magazine
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District Line delivers the latest dissertation in cross-pollination and like past projects it’s a bit of a Frankenstein affair.- Dusted Magazine
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'Till Kingdom Come' is really the only song that stands apart from the pack, thanks to its strident guitar leads and orchestral underpinnings. The rest of the tracks, while persuasively put, come and go with an effect that’s distantly brooding at best.- Dusted Magazine
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Circular Sounds takes the craft aspect to a higher level. Stoltz’s early records were scrappy, guitar-centric home recordings, and his previous LP, Below the Branches, was a piano-dominated, primary colors affair, but this one is a study in how to blend signifiers and sonorities so that they enhance each other.- Dusted Magazine
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Vampire Weekend is an exemplar of contemporary establishment indie rock, sandblasted clean but striking a dirty pose nonetheless.- Dusted Magazine
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The songs hover around the four-minute mark, and are economical in their implementation, with an overall sheen that does occasionally come close to overdoing it.- Dusted Magazine
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This is a wonderful album, easily as good, though perhaps less immediately accessible, than last year’s "Rites of Uncovering."- Dusted Magazine
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Venus on Earth proves that world-pop fusion needn’t be a pastiche of watered-down musical tropes, but rather something vital and soul affirming--a fever to embrace.- Dusted Magazine
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Black Mountain won’t win any prizes for innovation, but their slightly bruised brand of retro is far more fertile than that of their contemporaries.- Dusted Magazine
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Although there are a few ever-so slightly awkward moments, Portrait bears the marks of a perfect collaboration, one in which two very strong (and very different) personal aesthetics merge seamlessly together into one unified vision.- Dusted Magazine
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The latest, the crustily erotic Distortion, is nearly its ["69 Love Songs"] equal. But way shorter.- Dusted Magazine
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Minus ODB, the collective's most charismatic member, and rife with in-group strife, 8 Diagrams is a long way from the hip hop revolution, "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)." It still ain't nothin’ to fuck with.- Dusted Magazine
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The ensemble crew can't maintain the promising start. Aside from a few lyrical bullets, 'Paisley Darts' doesn't quite live up to the potential of its title.- Dusted Magazine
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It’s bit of a risk for Chasny to polish his sound, but he’s succeeded in bottling the imaginative, audacious overflow of his past efforts into perhaps his most cohesive record yet.- Dusted Magazine
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