Filter's Scores
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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 |
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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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It is rare to come across a record that possesses such refinement and stylization, but The Seldom Seen Kid excels at both and was more than worth the wait. [Spring 2008, p.94]- Filter
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- Posted Jun 18, 2012
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Yet another firework-filled post-modern work of true art. [#24, p.89]- Filter
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Trouble in Dreams pulls upon 2006's "Rubies'" emotional strings, and in fact, tugs deeper while still retaining the strange wall of declamatory description. [Winter 2008, p.91]- Filter
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A masterful submersion in the pop allure of ambient and house music. [#16, p.94]- Filter
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Random Spirit Lover even crushes "Beast Moans" at points, its arrangements meatier and more satisfying, with an off-kilter Disney otherworldliness and kudzu-dense overlapping keyboards.- Filter
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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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The album serves as an excellent chart of the band's evolution. [Holiday 2008, p.91]- Filter
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For as much as this collection of songs feels like a band getting together to jam for fun, Break It also feels like one of the more cohesive albums in Bird's oeuvre.- Filter
- Posted Mar 6, 2012
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Instead of eight people trying to make many noises as possible, this is the sound of a unified band trying to make the best noise possible. [Winter 2008, p.90]- Filter
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From the propulsive 'What Would Wolves Do?' to the dub-styled 'Brace Yourself,' the album seems like something to play while driving across the desert at sunset, especially with all the wolf cries in the background from Islands’ Nicolas Thorburn.- Filter
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With not a sound wasted, James Blake is everything we wanted James Blake to make.- Filter
- Posted Mar 14, 2011
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This is the band's most cohesive, accessible, melodic and lyrically viscous record to date. [#21, p.99]- Filter
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The fuzzy grooves on the record stand out as sicker and more focused than anything the United States of America or Morricone ever splattered onto a canvas. [#21, p.93]- Filter
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The new songs are some of the best they've ever recorded, and just finishing this collection is a big testament to their staying power. [#10, p.89]- Filter
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Like a Lynchian vision, it's darkly mysterious and disconsolate, but essentially human--and it's that sense of the persistence of humanity that lends this work its majesty. [Summer 2009, p.91]- Filter
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Sure politics can be a bit boring... but the intense symphonic crescedos and bombastic drums on this record are exciting enough to keep even the most apathetic of you on board. [#12, p.103]- Filter
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Sound System drives home the foursome’s adeptness at boundary hopping, while never forgetting the value of a good hook and a politically righteous lyric.- Filter
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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Perkins is joined by a three-piece ensemble of multi-instrumentalists that do a great deal to boost his soulful ballads with circus-like arrangements, while putting a little extra pep in his step. [Winter 2009, p.96]- Filter
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Though the sound can come off as aggressive, if not anxiety-inducing at times, it's the tiny revelations that make the vicious drumming, harsh guitars and freaky vocals worthwhile, summing up for an experience that is as delightfully fucked up as it is musically seamless...with unexpected steel drums making appearances in between.- Filter
- Posted Jun 7, 2011
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Another smartly executed step into the strange grandeur of Mr. Waits. [#12, p.94]- Filter
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This is meat and 'taters rock mixed with the Devil's blood. [#24, p.90]- Filter
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Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus) manages to ensnare 18 night visions on his latest psych-bass masterwork, Until the Quiet Comes.- Filter
- Posted Oct 4, 2012
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Almost everything about this album is fragile and beautiful. [#24, p.94]- Filter
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On Shootenanny!, they take a solid first step toward crafting their opus a la Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or Soft Bulletin. [#6, p.81]- Filter