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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It's not really very interesting, bold or exciting, but neither is it ever objectionable.- Dusted Magazine
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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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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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Mr. Impossible feels both inquisitive and hermetic, half closed off to the outside world, half chasing noise and patterns to their logical conclusion.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Far from snuffing out, Windsor For The Derby sounds like a band with a new lease on life.- Dusted Magazine
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RZA still sounds determined, but his rhymes are self-obsessed, repetitive, and dulled by constant calls for drugs and women.- Dusted Magazine
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James Pants may well develop a style or voice of greater substance with future releases. But, as of now, his reliance on his synthesizer aptitude is too repetitive, too flat, and too conventional to convey much meaning or purpose.- Dusted Magazine
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Despite a few quality tracks, the album feels wholly uninventive and listless.- Dusted Magazine
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The personality is still a little cutesy, half-baked at times and downright cultish at others (“You! Are! So! Beau! Ti! Ful! To! Us!/ We! Want! To! Keep! You! As! Our! Pets!”), but it coheres, and makes a good focal point when the music fails to. That’s fails to, not fails.- Dusted Magazine
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Jet Lag is a modest slice of lonesome lo-fi indie folk as they used to make it back when the para-Pavement galaxy was still busy splintering into its constituent planets, the ruminative Bermans and the verbose Pollards and the melodically off-kilter Barlows.- Dusted Magazine
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Too much of The Listener finds Gelb bridging his inspired moments with monotonous jazz piano and dusty crooning.- Dusted Magazine
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Espoir is an unusual release, part interesting artifact of aesthetic oddities, part field recording of a talented man with a smooth voice who knows his way around a guitar. Not the ideal introduction to Burkina Faso, but worthwhile nonetheless.- Dusted Magazine
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The band clearly understands what their strengths are, and the decision to continuously return to them, keeping the songs simple, short, and straightforward, staves off boredom while covering very little territory.- Dusted Magazine
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Like a lot of music benefiting from the blogosphere's voracious appetite for the new, Boys and Diamonds is a bricoleur's hodge-podge of style.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Easily 30 minutes too long and four symphony orchestras too many, Human Conditions feels like a soundtrack to Barnum and Bailey, with Ashcroft’s earnest vocals drowned out by a cast of thousands.- Dusted Magazine
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The A List of Burning Mountains performance is a stand-out LP, which shows a pleasing growth of confidence to expand beyond the confines of hyphen-rock.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 16, 2013
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The balance--between groove and experiment, organic and synthetic sound--shifts constantly on this very strong album, sometimes prodding listeners to think, other times comforting them with familiar sounds and, occasionally, overwhelming them with ephemeral beauty.- Dusted Magazine
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In the Maybe World feels like an (unintentional, perhaps) sequel or response to Geek the Girl, turning down the intensity while sharing a twilit mood.- Dusted Magazine
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Reid’s rolling, sweeping, ever-present groove takes on colors and textures, courtesy of Hebden and his suite of gizmos (real or imagined), but it’s always the same hard road, the same track of tandem steel rays that cut through every borough, every station, every hall and every mind.- Dusted Magazine
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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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A bit melodramatic, but undeniably compelling, Scattergood’s work has already drawn comparisons to Tori Amos and Kate Bush.- Dusted Magazine
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This final tension--between the desire to exceed perceived aesthetic limits and the reality of the artists’ own limitations--is one that is present throughout Futuristically Speaking. Jwl B and Shunda K are, as of now, stronger conceptually than they are in execution.- Dusted Magazine
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For a collaboration that could've easily become a Cocoon of styles and persons past, The Orbserver in the Star House plays surprisingly spry.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 31, 2012
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The album does lose focus somewhere around the halfway mark, unfortunately, the playful titles (“Cockblocker Blues,” “This is Mister Bigg. How you doing Mister Bigg”) not reflected in barely-formed tracks that disappear into the haze of their own making.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2017
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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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The good stuff (those [first] three tracks, and maybe the indignant “Al Green”) provides Kool Keith an appropriate showcase and sounds like nothing else, but for much of this disc, the main man appears AWOL.- Dusted Magazine
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Though Patterson is still largely peddling outdated sample-heavy narco-trance, the new disc is quite an improvement from 2001’s career-low Cydonia even if it may share that record’s flaws.- Dusted Magazine
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More like faithful reiterations of soul cliches than anything fresh or interesting, nearly every track will remind you of someone else.- Dusted Magazine
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Calamity shows the Curtains to be a band of great moments more than great songs, and in this distinction lies the difference between the listener that dismisses the album and the one that holds on to it despite its flaws.- Dusted Magazine
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Six Cups is a busy, urgent and joyous trip that sidesteps categorization, a feat unto itself in field where new micro-genres are described every few months.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 7, 2012
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It sounds like the Good Shoes are tired and mildly sick of it all--and unfortunately, it’s catching.- Dusted Magazine
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Dead Drunk on the whole could be taken as noise music, noise music with none of the brutality and half the imagination.- Dusted Magazine
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Even with so many strikes against it, however, Seconds manages to be a surprisingly compelling listen.- Dusted Magazine
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You can hear him trying to sort out the differences between Aeroplane's past and its/his future without resolving them yet. Appropriately, if you often find yourself unwittingly listening to pop hits from 1975-1985, you are the target demographic of We Can't Fly.- Dusted Magazine
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It either needs to at least nod to actual humanity or just be off-the-wall insane, but doing neither, it just comes off as fake. Grey Oceans falls in-between the cracks of the extremes, and while still an interesting album, feels too shallow and too Serious.- Dusted Magazine
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Beating Back the Claws of the Cold aims for timelessness with its fusion of chamber pop, indie rock, and popular folk, but falls short as just another likable, ephemeral fall release.- Dusted Magazine
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Uncanney Valley looks like a Dismemberment Plan record and largely sounds like a Dismemberment Plan record. But yet, it’s not a Dismemberment Plan record. Not a very good one, anyway.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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A messy, disappointing record that would be a miss from any artist, but from an artist of Mos Def’s talents, it’s a minor disaster.- Dusted Magazine
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Cosy Moments moves slightly toward pop-and-hook than the last Kinski album did, but more than maintains its integrity as an outsized purveyor of aggressive guitar rock.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 3, 2013
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The music offers plenty of reasons to feel good about feeling bad; too bad that the lyrics, which suggest these feelings in the first place, evacuate themselves moments after they surface, making for a curiously glossy listening experience.- Dusted Magazine
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It's hard to imagine 200 Years standing out, even considering its low-key spirit.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 1, 2011
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It seems borne more out of logical considerations than organic ones. It doesn’t mean the music is necessarily bad, but rather that it’s animated more out of a lifelessness than anything else. It’s undead music.- Dusted Magazine
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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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Anywhere I Lay My Head falters on Johansson’s vocals, or lack of a distinctive voice.- Dusted Magazine
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I ultimately found Solo Electric Bass 1 as dull as it must have been difficult to play.- Dusted Magazine
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- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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As Malkmus and Kannberg each find out what kind of musician each one is, the end result is less interesting than when they were in the process of discovering that and were having fun trying out different ideas and really discovering new things together.- Dusted Magazine
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Unfortunately, the observational heart of the disc's best rhymes are obscured by manicured eccentricity and musical dilettantism.- Dusted Magazine
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Overestimate it for the wrong reasons, and you’ll still get a lot out of A Fool for Everyone; underestimate it for the right reasons and you won’t have to look too hard for a replacement.- Dusted Magazine
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The weird and promising thing is that it works without ever feeling natural. The actual coexistence of the earnest and the smoove stops being so striking after a while, but the best songs on Rules don’t let you forget there is one.- Dusted Magazine
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The songs here are mostly ponderous, nine-minute long epics with very little in the way of song form, melody, or musical interest.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 2, 2012
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I'm not particularly enthralled by that idea; rock minimalism often is rather aesthetically empty. While faulting the band for taking that route doesn't feel right, it does make the album a rather uneven, if still interesting, affair.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 23, 2011
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The record’s terminal mission aside, Keith’s latest exploit is one more chance to befuddle insipid rappers and flex his uncalculated argot.- Dusted Magazine
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The spoken words mix wonderfully with excellent musical arrangements, but the original songs primarily suffer in comparison.- Dusted Magazine
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The results, which are generally not very good, fall into the same aesthetic gray area as the majority of mashups everywhere: laudable ambition, misbegotten audacity.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 2, 2012
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Guantanamo Baywatch is a pretty good all-instrumental surf band with a terrible singer. Chest Crawl... puts vocals on all but three of its 11 songs, attempting Cramps-style, reverbed rants, Trashmen-esque shouted call and response, Elvis-y 12/8 balladry and hiccuping rockabilly vamps and sheep-bleating, vibrato'd yelps, all badly off-key and dreadfully recorded.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Aug 17, 2012
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The result is a slinky, spiky, minimalist groove, clanking like some kind of extinct, rusty machinery. Lyrics are impressionistic, insinuated over heaving rhythms in not-quite-linear blurts of imagery, but they seem to consider the place of music in times of conflict.- Dusted Magazine
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While Freedomland has all the weakness of live albums, it compensates with one main critical strength: It documents a living, breathing experience of music, improvised on the spot, moved by strong, ineffable currents, never to be repeated again.- Dusted Magazine
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Matricidal Sons of Bitches frequently dazzles, but there are more than few moments of frustration along the way.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Nov 15, 2012
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It’s clear from the beginning that Bell can handle the vocal chores but what remains questionable is Clarke’s ability to rescue his beats from the predictable morass of synth pop’s stodgy past without, of course, overdoing it.- Dusted Magazine
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To all indications, Rain in England is irredeemably bad. This is what it sounds like when everyone fails to point out that an idea isn't worth indulging.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 16, 2010
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Scheidt is a capable acoustic guitarist with a flair for ornamentation, but well-wrought filigree does not an album make. Confronted with the choice between hearing this record again and taking a nap, I'd opt for the snooze.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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