Fact Magazine (UK)'s Scores

  • Music
For 448 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 The Seer
Lowest review score: 10 >Album Title Goes Here<
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 9 out of 448
448 music reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Prurient’s masterpiece.... Frozen Niagara Falls is also one of Prurient’s most accessible works, with Fernow’s arrangements constantly pulling you along.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Seer is clearly brilliant, and may even be Swans' finest album yet, three decades in.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Even at its most oppressive (in particular the songs from Thursday), every haunted note of Trilogy seems blissful.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    As far as historic compilations go, this is an undeniable belter, successfully capturing music with a very particular energy worth celebrating.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Whether or not stadium pop is to everyone’s taste, this is it in its smartest and most human form.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ruins is one of her finest works, full to the brim with emotion in spite of the aching space at its heart.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Almost overwhelming in places, and certainly distinct, Light Asylum is, quite simply, a brilliant album from musicians who deserve immense respect.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Björk’s most fully realised, accessible record in years.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    No Love Web Deep is another scintillating missive from one America's most conceptually rich hip-hop acts.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Holter may write stunning pop-tinged songs, but she’s an experimental artist through and through.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    R.I.P is a fantastical, fascinating album: as Actress intended, it feels not really of this world.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It’s huge fun and sounds just as big.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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).
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    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.