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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For completists and anyone else paying attention, it is the most expansive and rewarding route to the band's elaborate genius.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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The resulting sound is clear and resonant, which does justice to the music Orcutt’s composed. And instead of feral yelps, ringing phones, and passing traffic, the guitarist accompanies himself with subliminally registered breaths.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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- Posted Mar 1, 2018
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Try to label what Newsom does in a sentence or two, and you just tie yourself in knots. Have One On Me will do little to change all that, and so the only clear point of reference is her own previous work. Beyond that, though, it’s enough to say that it’s her, and if you loved "Ys" as much as this writer did, you’re probably going to love Have One On Me also.- Dusted Magazine
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There's a just-right roughness to the recording that has worked for bands as diverse as The Commandos and The Trashmen.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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The whole is so relentlessly nasty and the riffs so good that a multitude of metal sins are forgiven.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 9, 2012
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Ka got something from an autodidact street preacher. For more resonating effect he puts together street common wisdoms and Biblical allegories.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Oceans Apart is the album that fans have been waiting for, the one that brings back the flawless production of their early releases and the cynical/idealistic tradeoff in Forster and McLennan’s songwriting.- Dusted Magazine
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On Veckatimest, by contrast, the experimentation can go over the top: the additional arrangements may not add much aside from being one more thing to admire. And, paradoxically, doing that moves some songs out of the avant-garde and squarely into the middle of the road.- Dusted Magazine
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It should be stressed as bluntly as possible, then, that Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton haven’t “just” made a good album for a couple of teenagers; I’m All Ears is pretty damn good for Rambo.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 7, 2018
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The thing that really sucks about Bitte Orca is that the guy is probably onto something pretty good, but his allegiance to cleverness rather than consistency fucks it up.- Dusted Magazine
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The decision to work these songs out while camped out next to a mobile recording truck shifts the instrumental balance; the bass is less mobile, handclaps and choppy rhythm guitar set the cadence and overall things move a little slower. And Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, who sings over half the songs, has never sounded more world-weary. ... But deep blue sentiments touch deeply, and Tinariwen’s music still has that reach.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2019
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Positively stomps and bristles, with Smith and his band summoning up the type of chutzpah not normally found in middle age.- Dusted Magazine
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Classic Objects demonstrates Hval’s capacity for musical growth and lyrical introspection. It is her best work thus far.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2022
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- Posted May 7, 2019
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- Posted Oct 10, 2017
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I Am Not Afraid Of You is a one-stop jukebox.- Dusted Magazine
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What’s more effective is that the band have become more skilled at writing for chord changes rather than just riffs. They don’t exactly back down from the effect of the latter when they go there, but the attention to harmony gives the whole much more heft than it otherwise might have. The heft is certainly in the physicality the music achieves in its peak moments. But it’s also in the fractured beauty of this music, its emotional catharsis, the beauty of something lost perhaps.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Aug 25, 2021
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Clara demonstrates Morgan’s ability to make practically whatever he gets his hands on into loscil music. But when loscil music is this deeply immersive, richly textured, carefully calibrated, and ultimately viscerally satisfying (however one feels about the process), you just hope he keeps on doing it.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2021
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Chemistry may represent an attempt to marshal these influences into a massive, unified sound. Alternately, it could be the sound of Fucked Up fucking around with a big budget in a studio and seeing who might be duped into believing it genuine. Indeed, who will listen to this record?- Dusted Magazine
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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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Hell-On is Case’s most idiosyncratic album, but it’s also her most generous and grounded. It is her strongest--as in it projects strength, the kind that comes with vulnerability.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 7, 2019
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Ys is one of those rare sophomore albums that shatters exceedingly high expectations.- Dusted Magazine
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The personal songs, about Choi’s dissatisfactory early education and immigrant family, have a whiff of mythic American meta-story, while the historical ones are deeply felt and eccentric.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 19, 2016
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“Tinde,” at the end, floats a woman’s ululating tones over bare, echoing percussion. But mostly, Amatssou sounds exactly like you expect Tinariwen to sound, like its drifting to you over acres of sand, like it’s moving your bare feet to dance, and that is a very good thing.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 18, 2023
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This is a memory album that is touched with love but almost entirely free of cheap nostalgia. It comes from a long way away, using everything Dacus has learned since to capture her experiences clearly, with art but without too much ornamentation.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jul 29, 2021
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The Comeback Kid, is full of shimmering, ultra fanciful castles of guitar-based sound, but it’s also kind of an experimental pop gem, like Deerhoof after a month of Guitar Hero or like OOIOO any time, really.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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No matter how smoothly the songwriting flows, nothing’s easy on Interstate Gospel. Lambert, Monroe, and Presley know that, yet they take on an array of hard topics and reel off one-liners and hooks as if that’s enough to get us through, which it just might be.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 13, 2018
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Now, 17 years removed from the original stateside release of the band’s music, this expanded reissue (buttressed with an additional disc of decent live tracks and a few cool demos) gives an entirely new generation of pop fans an excuse to dive into the group’s music.- Dusted Magazine
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Clattering drum machines and gorgeous washes of tone are topped off by a standout vocal turn that carries the album off into the clouds, a searingly emotional purge and soothing balm all rolled in one.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
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