Filter's Scores
- Music
For 1,801 reviews, this publication has graded:
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71% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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26% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | |
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Lowest review score: | Drum's Not Dead |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,648 out of 1801
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Mixed: 137 out of 1801
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Negative: 16 out of 1801
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Hearing Van Etten’s performance on [Your Love Is Killing Me] and several others are downright shiver-inducing.- Filter
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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As the group attempts to find their vibe, they test the waters gracefully. Perhaps next time, though, they’ll be slightly more focused.- Filter
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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A dash of otherworldly sounds give the otherwise good album that extra oomph on tracks like “Istanbul Field” and “Philadelphia Raga,” but the album bleeds more indie-punk blood than anything else.- Filter
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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Well into their fourth decade, with the aughts years spent in hibernation, Swans are still making records of brilliance and majesty.- Filter
- Posted Jun 27, 2014
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The electronic wizardry is impressive, but it’s the entrancing vocals of this record that will keep you coming back.- Filter
- Posted Jun 27, 2014
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“High Road,” “The Motherload,” “Asleep in the Deep” and “Halloween” are keepers, but they don’t quite put Sun in the same solar system as past albums.- Filter
- Posted Jun 27, 2014
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No matter how you look at it, tales of love and loss sound better when there’s a voice like Fields guiding you along.- Filter
- Posted Jun 24, 2014
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Sometimes going back to what works can be a crutch and creatively stifling, but for Rodrigo y Gabriela, it’s a welcome return.- Filter
- Posted Jun 24, 2014
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The result is one of optimistic discontent. Krell’s heart may be perpetually drug through the dirt, but nothing is going to stop him from looking up.- Filter
- Posted Jun 24, 2014
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The ghosts of Pavement and Sebadoh flit through these pithy songs with free-range abandon.- Filter
- Posted Jun 18, 2014
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The tension between revelation and ambiguity is echoed in the music, which avoids the easy, straightforward release of pop crescendos in favor of alternating textures and rhythms.- Filter
- Posted Jun 18, 2014
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The words would be perhaps somewhat unremarkable without the grandiose sweep of sonic majesty that surrounds them.- Filter
- Posted Jun 18, 2014
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With 10 blazing tracks averaging about two minutes each, the Vancouver band’s distinct brand of melodic punk might be too much to take, were it not for Mish Way’s cool command of the mic.- Filter
- Posted Jun 17, 2014
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The record’s major achievement is in stretching the genre again, this time by contraction: This is meditative hardcore.- Filter
- Posted Jun 16, 2014
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Admittedly, these are ideas not groundbreaking except in their delivery, which does have a rare, sobering effect upon the listener--a trademark effect of The Antlers.- Filter
- Posted Jun 16, 2014
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Someday World sounds quite like Happy Mondays at times, and rather like King Crimson at others.- Filter
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
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While Pleasure and C.U.T.S. evoke the nature of the dream, Angel, obsessive and occasionally trite, tends to tell rather than show.- Filter
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
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Tropical, African. Soul, blues. R & B, simplicity. Sylvan Esso blends it all and makes preconceived notions of electronic-driven music parallels to unintelligent dubstep fade away.- Filter
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
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The resultant sound is crisp and lovely, and on a clear mission to please its other (the listener, maybe?).- Filter
- Posted Jun 13, 2014
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Beauty & Ruin might be the most realized example of the Mouldian aesthetic, and combined with the heartfelt poignancy of the subject matter--the aging rocker acknowledging his years earned and the years left at the wheel--it soars to contention with the rest of Mould’s formidable oeuvre.- Filter
- Posted Jun 12, 2014
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Wymond Miles’s imaginative guitar work is often enough to cover a multitude of sins (see the scorching lead on “Hummingbird” and the minimal flourishes on “April Fools”). For some listeners that will be enough, but overall the record feels structured more like a career-spanning live set than a cohesive collection.- Filter
- Posted Jun 12, 2014
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Every song on Stay Gold is beautifully crafted to feel like a new and complete soundscape--orchestrated strings, rolling drums and airy flutes enhance the Americana guitar riffs--bringing out the vivid imagery of their lyrics.- Filter
- Posted Jun 11, 2014
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Well aware now of what he likes to do with Hot Chip and what he likes to do eponymously, Taylor’s efforts here are enough to sate fans until the next solo project arrives.- Filter
- Posted Jun 11, 2014
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Barfod has taken a great debut and made it into a stellar sophomore record that delights the most.- Filter
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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Our six-string savior not only makes his guitar do things that will have you forgetting that Page and Plant are never to take to a stage together again; he is also keen to remind us in just whose hands now rests that Hammer of the Gods.- Filter
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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Without the warm, human touch that made CYHSY’s previous releases so inviting, the ten (or really nine considering “Impossible Request” appears twice) tracks on Only Run feel cold and calculated.- Filter
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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ZABA is a notable first offering that is so tasty you’ll want to lick it off your fingers.- Filter
- Posted Jun 10, 2014
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The ever-loquacious monster of folk has a lot to say on his latest record (this one finds him particularly obsessed with time), but it’s his growing mastery of orchestration that muzos might appreciate the most.- Filter
- Posted May 15, 2014
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The result is a thoroughly cross-cultural album dripping with soul and iconoclasm. It’s fun, too.- Filter
- Posted May 12, 2014
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Despite some inspired guest contributions from A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s Jen Goma and Beirut’s Kelly Pratt, the raw guitar anthems from Belong are too often replaced by poppy fizz, toothless jangle and twee melancholia on Abandon.- Filter
- Posted May 9, 2014
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