Fact Magazine (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 448 reviews, this publication has graded:
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45% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | The Seer | |
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Lowest review score: | >Album Title Goes Here< |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 330 out of 448
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Mixed: 109 out of 448
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Negative: 9 out of 448
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It's an ear-catching work, more immediate than anything Killer Mike has done since his brief commercial moment of glory in 2003.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 8, 2012
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Government Plates is sometimes just incoherent.... But in the end these are minor quibbles.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 29, 2014
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It is certainly a gorgeous production, and tracks will possibly come across differently in a mix, even if it is not quite what many will have been expecting.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Their music is about 40 per cent less exciting shorn from the lurid splatter of their videos, but music in 2014 is a more interesting place for their presence.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 12, 2014
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Nepenthe is more ambitious than its predecessors, more varied in style and execution and sonically richer.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 13, 2013
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Ultimately, the album’s electro-house elements feel like comparative cheap thrills placed amongst the wealth of knowledge and craftsmanship elsewhere on the EP.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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While the new forms forged from the genre manipulation here begets novelty and, yeah, interesting music, ultimately you’re left feeling unfulfilled.... In the end, though, it’s hard to begrudge adventurousness, especially when the end product is this pleasing.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 8, 2013
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For the most part, it's content to lull the listener into a state of bliss.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 1, 2012
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In short, it's big, dumb, and a lot of fun, but the overriding feel to TNGHT is that it feels closer to being the start of something great than a great record in itself.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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By and large, this is a downbeat record, one suggesting maybe Albarn recently had a listen to ‘Mr Robinson’s Quango’ and decided never to do ‘whimsical’ again. Still, there’s a couple of more upbeat numbers that work in neat counterpoint.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Apr 24, 2014
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If someone compiles their favourite 12 tracks from it, they may well have their album of the year, but in its current state With Love is pretty far from a classic.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 20, 2013
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Surrender to the Fantasy is undoubtedly good, but occasionally falls short of its potential.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Dec 9, 2013
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This perpetual cycling through of ideas can be fascinating but also fatiguing, and it ultimately marks the record's most debilitating flaw.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 1, 2012
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Cupid Deluxe starts strongly with ‘Chamakay’, ‘You’re Not Good Enough’, and ‘Uncle ACE’, but sadly loses focus.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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While My Krazy Life is YG’s debut, it feels more like an album-length celebration of Mustard’s ratchet revolution, a sound distilled from LA G-Funk, Atlanta snap and Bay Area hyphy.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Underpinning the shots White fires at the world has always been a deep-seated melancholy that she brings out effectively here.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 8, 2012
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An incredibly interesting debut album that's nearly as clever as its creators intended.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Whilst My Name Is My Name has one of the best selections of beats on a major label rap album in years, and Pusha’s enunciations are still as sonically potent as a decade ago, his singularity largely comes across as a stubborn resistance to change in the face of how ambitious the LP (and so much new rap, frankly) sounds, and suffers from a tracklist too concerned with features to allow this singularity to reign supreme anyway.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 9, 2013
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Black Bananas manage that ridiculously difficult feat of changing your sound up pretty massively without the whole thing feeling like a jarring shift in aesthetic.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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The meandering, incidental quality of their music works alternately in their favor and against them.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 23, 2012
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It’s fair to say that, from a purely musical point of view, this is far from Herbert’s best work, but that’s hardly the point; The End Of Silence aims to unseat us and provoke a more profound engagement with the events around us, and to that end it’s a success.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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Swing Lo Magellan features some of the Dirty Projectors' most straightforward pop songs to date.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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Yes, it’s possible to read Soul Music as some kind of commentary on, or deconstruction of, jungle. More people will probably interpret it as a collection of straightforward, canon-savvy bangers. That’s fine, of course, but it’s difficult to shake the sense that Special Request could have been something more.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 18, 2013
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News From Nowhere marks a far more dramatic turn for them than North did in 2010.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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It's playful and skittish, with equal time spent showcasing Black Milk's sample (and scratch!)-heavy beats and Brown's rhymes.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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His solo work tends to be more delicate--with Audience Of One capturing him at his most porcelain.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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Their obvious musical talent and distinctive voice make Silence Yourself an uncompromising and very enjoyable paean to individual agency.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 21, 2013
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There’s more than enough in this album to keep her in that position--so, come for the gay brostep, stay for the songcraft and character.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 20, 2014
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I'm still waiting for the Tin Album that will bowl me over and convince me of his importance, but Vienna Blue is a loafered step in the right direction.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Apr 26, 2012
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This timid spike ['Afterlife'] in urgency is short-lived, swallowed whole by closer ‘Supersymmetry’ and its 11 genteel minutes of caressing synth-loops and mental nothingness, completing perfectly what is an utterly tangential statement.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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