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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Minor issues like that [decision to release Stranger Than Fiction as a hybrid album/mixtape led to some questionable choices] make Stranger Than Fiction very good rather than great, but Gates hasn’t sacrificed any of the characteristics that garnered all this recent attention.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 16, 2013
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- Posted Sep 10, 2013
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At its core, Long.Live.A$AP succeeds because it lets Rocky be Rocky: a rapper with a unique voice and an ear for captivating beats whose lyrical shortcomings can be glossed over with healthy servings of charisma and panache.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jan 10, 2013
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The album’s electronic feel sharpens the idea of sterility and a frictionless modern life, while providing, as British electronica has done since the days of John Foxx, a lexicon for existential nothingness.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 27, 2014
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Faced with trying to communicate a feeling as raw as lost love, he too has reached for the cliches. They may be banal and apparently devoid of sincerity, but for Blunt, they capture our inability to say what we mean or mean what we say in these strange, post-ideological times.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 13, 2013
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Rich and disorientating, KOCH accesses a different pace of life--or rather several, bewilderingly, all at once.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Sep 25, 2014
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It's not without faults, but overall it's a undoubtedly a very welcome gift.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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Bécs is seldom unapproachable; it’s also his style to leave just enough beauty poking through the seams.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted May 6, 2014
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As a portrait of a city, and a person, Acid Rap is about as good--and as honest--as they come.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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- Posted Sep 18, 2012
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Rather than the stunt-casting found in some dance-pop albums, the vocalists here exist intrinsically and organically in the songs, their vocals weaved into the fabric rather than simply wearing it.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jan 31, 2014
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Space Zone keeps the bar propped up impressively high without treading back over old ground.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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For music that is over 15 years old, Back on Time sounds as fresh as a sitar-wielding half-stepping daisy.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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Drums are present, but they often function as little more than pensive timekeepers. All the better to frame those tunes – artful, delicate things, rarely saying more or less than they need to.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Dec 4, 2014
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To praise To Rococo Rot can be to undersell them; their most attractive qualities, their sense of minimalism and simplicity and concision, are hardly the sort of things you bellow from rooftops. And yet, it works, and beautifully.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jul 23, 2014
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For a record that wears its retro influences so openly, Psychic is surprisingly forward-thinking.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 14, 2013
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- Posted Aug 27, 2012
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It just is: mindless, unfathomable--a little like the digital fracas of our online lives.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2013
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Personality's not a start-to-finish winner like Glass Swords was, but it's refreshing and gratifying to hear Scuba step out from the shadow of the Berghain and dreary discussions of the "dubstep-techno crossover", and start to release some music that sounds like it was fun to make.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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Ticks all the boxes you'd expect of retro-futurist cosmic disco – chugging italo basslines, chunky synths, ridiculous arpeggios, crashing guitars straight outta Miami Vice – but it's the way they're put together that elevates it into more interesting and original territorry.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jun 20, 2012
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- Posted Jan 22, 2013
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While certainly not the most sincere album around, nevertheless there is ingrained in its tireless activity a genuine passion to fight the loneliness of intelligence, of neurotic shyness--to fight an inability to connect with people, that condition exacerbated in the era of social media.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Jan 15, 2013
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Unwanted Chris Brown presence aside, All Of Me is a coherent, concise album that--hearteningly--is most characterised by its creator's overflowing wells of confidence.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Mar 9, 2012
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On 1989, she makes mountains out of molehills, but this approach feels one part the ironic distance of the digital generation, one part sincere embracing of the impact of life’s speedbumps. Nothing could be more 2014.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 30, 2014
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It makes for an excellent debut in whatever style you want to call it.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Sep 20, 2013
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- Posted Mar 7, 2013
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Silver Cloud may be unfocused at times, but itʼs also a terrific feat of conflicting textures and moods, marrying crackly scuzziness and poetic timbres with ease.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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No Better Time Than Now is both musically rich and emotionally open, and it’ll be interesting to see where Shigeto takes his sound next.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Aug 30, 2013
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- Posted Nov 7, 2014
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Though it sounds like it couldn’t be by anybody else, it’s more sonically diverse and less dense than previous Jesu albums.- Fact Magazine (UK)
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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