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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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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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 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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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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The more Clark edits, the more she refines, the stronger St. Vincent becomes. At this point, it's just a matter of consistency.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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One Beat joins the likes of Fugazi's In On the Killtaker and Bikini Kill's Reject All American for its impassioned new-world resistance, and could very well be the greatest triumph of punk independence since Black Flag.- Dusted Magazine
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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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Thoroughly satisfying in sum, Hart and crew still succeed in leaving the listener desirous of more.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 15, 2012
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- Posted Aug 11, 2015
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These songs make no concessions to your serenity. They are prickly and aggressive and a-melodic. In a world geared towards bland, uneventful spotify-core, Mating Surfaces grabs you by the short hairs and shakes you. It will not be entirely pleasant, but it is absolutely necessary.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 21, 2018
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Fireraiser Forever! is an often galvanizing collection. Feck and Evans cast an acerbic but humane look at contemporary life and the band is in fine form. Their indie garage sound is nothing new but fans of this kind of scrappy raw sound will find plenty to like.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Dec 3, 2019
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The trio skilfully carries the track ["Fyra"], and the record, towards a gentle dissolve into the clouds as the drums fade out entirely, leaving the dulcet bass and guitar tones to play off one another in the closing moments. Sublime.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2024
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Overall, High Violet feels more like a protecting-the-franchise record than a new phase in the National's sound. And yet, even so, a handful of its songs rank with the band's very best.- Dusted Magazine
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That Vashti Bunyan had the courage to step out of seclusion and follow up her classic debut is admirable. That she was able to do so with an excellent batch of songs is a joy to behold, pure and simple.- Dusted Magazine
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