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.
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Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Complete | |
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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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Shearwater’s selection of covers is as diverse as their own discography.- Filter
- Posted Dec 5, 2013
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The Handler is no doubt marred by some tasteless postcoital nyuks... and outdated references. [#12, p.97]- Filter
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Messy yet polished guitars surge through swathes of melodic white noise while the tracks are still able to maintain an impressive sharpness.- Filter
- Posted Sep 17, 2012
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It gives us songs more memorable for their grizzly narrations or the occasional doo-wop harmony than the steady performances of mostly standard-format jams.- Filter
- Posted Jun 4, 2012
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While the group's penchant for humid power-dirges threatens to sink 119 in its middle, they're unbeatable--but only when they skip the accoutrements and just bang away at high speed.- Filter
- Posted Oct 15, 2012
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It's hard to say what it all amounts to apart from a collection of partly-cloudy-late-afternoon-sunshine, on-and-off '80s jams.- Filter
- Posted Mar 21, 2012
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The British quartet masquerading as a Japanese duo is back with its fourth full-length, Ventriloquizzing, bringing along a signature slinky groove and wordplay that borders on the absurd.- Filter
- Posted Jan 26, 2011
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Out-and-out rockers “A Mirror” and “Tired & Buttered” provide some much-needed lucidity, but as a whole, Held in Splendor may be a bit too tranquil for its own good.- Filter
- Posted Feb 14, 2014
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The band’s fourth release, Christopher, falls flat despite containing one of this year’s (possibly this decade’s) finest pop songs with its opener “Desert of Pop.”- Filter
- Posted Mar 15, 2013
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Waiting For Something To Happen, is something both sinister and sweet, dripping with shoegaze guitars and harmonies abound.- Filter
- Posted Mar 8, 2013
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While the record does nothing to offend listeners, it's excessively broad and does little to dramatically impress. [Winter 2008, p.94]- Filter
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- Posted May 10, 2011
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- Posted Jul 28, 2011
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I Am Gemini is more of an auditory theater piece than a traditional record.- Filter
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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The two marry sounds of melodrama and sheer polyphonic weirdness for a result gone (sometimes) wonderfully awry. [Fall 2008, p.98]- Filter
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The Sun Dogs features solid, compelling songwriting and sounds wonderful; heavy, spacious guitars flare up amidst the smoke, and when these guys start to rip, there’s no stopping them.- Filter
- Posted Jul 25, 2013
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The result is not so much a breakthrough in ease of listening, but more a feeling that one of the greats is getting back in the ring to fight after tying one of his own arms behind his back. [Winter 2008, p.99]- Filter
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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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Their self-titled LP has the troupe’s familiar indie-“folk”-meets-psychedelia soundings, yet adds some new wrinkles.- Filter
- Posted Jul 31, 2013
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He’s taken a sharply intimate and original turn from his debut solo effort and the result is a catalogue of 14--surprise!--super-chill tunes, consistent front to back, although none necessarily a standout.- Filter
- Posted Oct 8, 2013
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The results aren’t all winners, but there are gems where you wouldn’t expect them.- Filter
- Posted Mar 26, 2013
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The North Carolina natives mix the boisterousness with the balladry well, while delivering image-evoking lyrics in between.- Filter
- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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The Globes do a nice job of grabbing and keeping listeners' attention throughout the album's 35 minutes of music.- Filter
- Posted Aug 3, 2011
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- Posted Jul 27, 2012
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This is another great move by a revered musician, but the delivery isn’t always as exciting as the idea.- Filter
- Posted Nov 21, 2013
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Cyclone might lack the raw beauty of her last project, but Case's emotional honesty is surely a sign that more meaningful transformations are in store. [Winter 2009, p.92]- Filter
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Inoffensive to the nth degree, this is a sleeping pill, not the double espresso we ordered.- Filter
- Posted Aug 9, 2012
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It’s Nocturnes' two sleek singles (“Motorway,” “Broken Record”) that manage the best in dark electronic allure with shiny, hook-driven choruses.- Filter
- Posted May 23, 2013
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The updated duo offers lollipop anthems that do not fit airy reverberations and methodical nuance of '90s era Hi Tek. Luckily, the suporting cast offers diversity to the sometimes misguided and underwhelming album. [Spring/Summer 2010, p.110]- Filter