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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Prurient’s masterpiece.... Frozen Niagara Falls is also one of Prurient’s most accessible works, with Fernow’s arrangements constantly pulling you along.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 18, 2015
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Good Kid, m.A.A.d City impresses with its diversity and scope, but it's not just a record to admire: put simply, there's an embarrassment of killer material here.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 23, 2012
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It’s as if they’ve recaptured innocence. It’s the only way to describe what you feel had to have happened in order for the band to preserve the very essence of what was the music of their youth, in such a way that goes beyond replication.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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The Seer is clearly brilliant, and may even be Swans' finest album yet, three decades in.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 31, 2012
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Calling the album “ambitious” doesn’t capture the order of magnitude with which Lamar has expanded his scope, as he moves from the singular to the plural without ever straying from the personal.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 25, 2015
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This is Kanye’s record: a cornucopia of concepts and collaborators reduced to a singular vision. That vision is what makes Yeezus stand out as one of Kanye’s finest moments.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 18, 2013
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Even at its most oppressive (in particular the songs from Thursday), every haunted note of Trilogy seems blissful.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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At Shaking the Habitual’s core are the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, so rare in the tradition of mostly reiterative pop music that the album feels transgressive, even though its underlying ideologies are reasonable rather than radical.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Apr 8, 2013
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As far as historic compilations go, this is an undeniable belter, successfully capturing music with a very particular energy worth celebrating.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 13, 2012
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Whether or not stadium pop is to everyone’s taste, this is it in its smartest and most human form.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jul 16, 2014
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By blending the conceptual drive of Post-Foetus and the organic songwriting of Baths, Wiesenfeld has delivered on the promise of Cerulean and found his place among contemporaneous pop experimenters like Grimes and Autre Ne Veut.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 31, 2013
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Henke is always at great pains to direct Monolake so that it exists in a constant dialogue with the dancefloor and with its multifarious abstract leanings, Ghosts pushes that challenge to its limits. That it succeeds on both counts whilst balancing a fictive pathway with real emotion only makes it more remarkable.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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Ruins is one of her finest works, full to the brim with emotion in spite of the aching space at its heart.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 10, 2014
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Black Metal is an exceptional record. It is a stronger, more complete statement even than that seen on The Redeemer, primarily because it lays bare its own contradictions.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 3, 2014
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Almost overwhelming in places, and certainly distinct, Light Asylum is, quite simply, a brilliant album from musicians who deserve immense respect.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 15, 2012
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- Posted Feb 2, 2015
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A creative leap forward doesn’t always have to mean changing your entire identity, and few albums show that as lucidly as The Weighing of the Heart.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 23, 2013
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Beyoncé is a stronger personal statement than Magna Carta… Holy Grail, less self-indulgent than The 20/20 Experience, and (in its own way) as dark and confrontational as Yeezus.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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No Love Web Deep is another scintillating missive from one America's most conceptually rich hip-hop acts.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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Berberian Sound Studios is a wonderful, intense and darkly beautiful legacy to Keenan's unique character, and testament to the band's continuing ability as their world changes.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jan 14, 2013
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Holter may write stunning pop-tinged songs, but she’s an experimental artist through and through.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 13, 2013
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At times, notably in Born to Die's first half, it's a little too perfect, with songs meticulous to the point where they become sterile, but when it starts to find form, I can't think of an album since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy that was this big and sounded this good.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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That’s the achievement of Spaces: not simply to replicate the music of Frahm’s concerts, divine though it is, but to evoke the events’ communal intimacy.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Dec 2, 2013
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It’s really, really beautiful--beauty as it should be in music: something precious, elusive and exotic, or indeterminate, a little sad and more than a little elegant.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jul 25, 2013
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R.I.P is a fantastical, fascinating album: as Actress intended, it feels not really of this world.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Apr 20, 2012
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- Posted Oct 23, 2013
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If Goldenheart was a monumental but monolithic edifice of an album, Blackheart is a shape-shifting house of mirrors in permanent flux, light where its predecessor was heavy, welcoming instead of forbidding.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 9, 2015
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As an exhilarating listen and the perfect reflection of Black Jazz Records’ singular musicians, Black Jazz Signature is a record you will probably keep and return to for life.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 27, 2013
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Doris is miles ahead of 2010’s Earl, and on it, Earl surpasses nearly all of his contemporaries (save perhaps “King of New York” Kendrick Lamar, who is comparatively a grizzled veteran at 26).- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 21, 2013
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Combined with Köner's solo work, Biokinetics is a pivotal moment in electronic music and a decisive moment in one of the most important and brilliant oeuvres in contemporary music.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 10, 2012
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