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: | 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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Decades beyond the point at which most of his peers peaked, Paul Simon is still discovering new ways of writing and conveying amazing work and discovering beautifully unexpected and often spiritual language, as well as new rhythms, melodies and instrumental textures.- Filter
- Posted Apr 8, 2011
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Self-referential, poetic, spoken-sung performances in dirty beer halls, Midwest anthems that make everyone raise those beers in the beer halls. [Summer 2008, p.92]- Filter
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From a technical standpoint, it's astounding.... But from a purely aesthetic standpoint, it's just downright unmusical. [#5, p.86]- Filter
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- Posted Jun 18, 2012
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No matter who appreciates or appropriates this music, who likes it or where you discover it, it is a testament to its power more than its populism.- Filter
- Posted May 3, 2011
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One of the great pleasures of Twin Cinema is the way every morsel seems to have been scrutinized. [#17, p.96]- Filter
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It can be, and often is, dizzying to unpack the poetry, but it’s probably exactly the point from a brilliant, grieving mind full of verses, desperate to release them.- Filter
- Posted Feb 10, 2014
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New Moon is Smith at his musical best: quiet, humble, and most of all, honest. [#25, p.96]- Filter
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Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe emotes like the forsaken son of Elbow's Guy Garvey and Antony. Thankfully, over the course of Smother, the English quartet proves they have the muscle to back up their lead singer's melodramatic warble.- Filter
- Posted May 11, 2011
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Have One On Me is Newsom at her best: precious without being cloying, subtle without being indecipherable, beautifully written and sweetly played.- Filter
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An Album this deep-hearted and digestible call out for mass-consumption. And the more people who hear this record, the better. [Spring 2009, p.90]- Filter
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It’s a nice cross-section of material that highlights why Pavement was such a darling of the alt press, but Quarantine fails to truly capture the greatness.- Filter
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Despite its wandering parts and spacious production, Bitte Orca is a precise groove, almost medical in the way it delivers its complexity with such simple terms. [Spring 2009, p.100]- Filter
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A crisp-sounding, very coherent, vocally comprehensible collation of shapely, spirited power-pop-punk nuggets. [#11, p.93]- Filter
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It takes willpower and endurance to swim down these dark, dimly lit streams of misery. Even as a listener. [#11, p.98]- Filter
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To date, this is as close to their masterpiece, The Holy Bible, as they've ever come. [Fall 2009, p.92]- Filter
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There are experimental beauties, but Matthew Houck is at his best when he returns to familiar sounds.- Filter
- Posted Mar 20, 2013
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They've trimmed away the electronic tinges and space-jazz tendencies of recent years, leaving us with a sharper, more focused Yo La Tengo. [#22, p.93]- Filter
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It remains instrumentally raucous, emotionally battered, and unaplogetically fun. [Winter 2009, p.100]- Filter
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Her countrified songs often begin as gothic lullabies, swallowed up in darkness and longing, as if the instruments themselves were suffering heartbreak. [#6, p.82]- Filter
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This is gospel-smacked, laidback music, tinseled by horns and strings and grounded in a big, big love.- Filter
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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With Before Today, Pink achieves congruence in the album's construction, but does so without sacrificing his peculiar flair. [Spring/Summer 2010, p.104]- Filter
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This is a rapturous, badass art-punk record that swaggers with as much heart as it does cockiness. [#5, p.87]- Filter
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His voice is as naive as ever, yet Wind’s Poem churns like nothing from his past, providing a therapeutic musical massage.- Filter
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- Posted Dec 7, 2012
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Kaputt's allure fills up glasses with the finest Chablis in a Nagel print–filled room, and lets Bejar's newfound status as King of Hi-Fi unfold in all of its cryptic finery.- Filter
- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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Doubtless the closest she'll ever come to letting you dance in the madfields of her mind with her. [#12, p.94]- Filter
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It's this balance of aggression and harmony that make El-P so engaging--and Cancer for Cure so triumphant.- Filter
- Posted May 22, 2012
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Like all good things—especially good byes—it comes to an end. And with that, Mr. Murphy goes out on top.- Filter
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With honeyed vocals and the tender touch of acoustic guitar, he is already showing signs of songcraft perfection on his second LP. [#9, p.109]- Filter