Filter's Scores
- Music
For 1,562 reviews, this publication has graded:
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73% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
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96
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,426 out of 1562
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Mixed: 120 out of 1562
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Negative: 16 out of 1562
1,562
music reviews
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Critic Score 82
The Antlers maintain the poignancy that becomes them and the result is an album bursting with richness.- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Critic Score 91
There is an unhinged, maniacal desire to cross on over into the cosmos on Comets on Fire's (frankly) totally awesome new record. [#21, p.100] -
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Critic Score 80
Still vital at age 53, he's delivered another cantankerously great Fall album in Your Future, Our Clutter, a bristling suite of relatively spacious, always unpredictable songs clammy with mutant distortions that are never less than electrified. -
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Critic Score 88
While it’s likely that Push the Sky Away will not cause the seas to part before him, it will surely ephemerally deliver us from this evil wasteland of vacant contemporary culture and mutilated morality.- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Critic Score 91
The U.K. sensation weaves her tales of wizards, horses and magic in a warm bearskin coat of Kate Bush sensibilities, piano playing that’ll bring you to tears and instruments that only real musicians understand, like the harpsichord. -
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Critic Score 76
Whether constantly questioning or dismissively venting, Kinsella's got a true and clever wit to complement his writer eye and musician's ear. [Fall 2009, p.96] -
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Critic Score 66
I must say, raw musical elements aside, as a songwriter his storytelling ability alone wins the day. [Holiday 2008, p.106] -
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Critic Score 78
It's not that Moms is anything less than a solid record (it's a pretty strong one, even, from a band that has yet to truly disappoint), but it's telling when on the penultimate track, "Don't Mess With Latexas," Seim sounds a bit deflated.- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Critic Score 90
The album serves as an excellent chart of the band's evolution. [Holiday 2008, p.91] -
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Critic Score 86
It's sleek and distinctly studio-based, with live instrumentation taking a backseat to plush soundscapes that could only come from some fancy knobwork. [#5, p.92] -
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Critic Score 76
This electronic-folk duo, in the likeness of bohemian hedonists, turns meticulous attention-to-detail into bounding creativity--and something unequivocally bookish.- Posted Oct 21, 2010
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Critic Score 90
'Allelujah!'s symmetrical sequencing-two 20-minute suites, two 6-minute drones-is as stark and stout as anything the band have released to date, unflinching as it stares extreme horror dead in the eye.- Posted Nov 15, 2012
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Critic Score 90
With not a sound wasted, James Blake is everything we wanted James Blake to make.- Posted Mar 14, 2011
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Critic Score 72
Shadows would do the reclusive southerner [Alex Chilton] proud too, providing a dozen tracks of earnest and intelligent guitar-driven pop music. [Spring/Summer 2010, p.108] -
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Critic Score 74
An occasionally haunting, more often inspiring and riveting collage of the group's complex avant-melodics given more human characteristics by the inclusion of familiar sounds. [#8, p.108] -
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Critic Score 82
Produced by Erol Alkan, the album's solid. And the band stands a good chance of riding out the vapid waves of its trendy contempories. [Holiday 2008, p.102] -
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Critic Score 86
This stunning third full-length does an incredible job of riding the highest of highs. [#14, p.101] -
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Critic Score 88
An album confident enough in its substance to not force profound stylistic changes. [#21, p.100] -
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Critic Score 84
Ruff Draft is live, and you need to play it loud enough to wake the dead. [#24, p.98] -
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Critic Score 82
Though he occasionally buries his vocals under distortion, Cox is undeniably the star of the show. [Fall 2009, p.106] -
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Critic Score 82
To put it plainly, Actor is St. Vincent's doe-eyed awakening. [Spring 2009, p.94] -
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Critic Score 86
More of the same meaty riffs meet familiar sweaty rhythms to take you down to the Midwestern delta one more time. [#12, p.95] -
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Critic Score 66
When the album reaches its climax at about mid-point, the record changes pace and you’re left wondering, “What was that?” Ultimately, you don’t totally care to know the answer. -
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Critic Score 78
The mood and music of Metals is somber and poetic-but not always quiet-finally matching the emotional excavation she's written about throughout her career.- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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Critic Score 70
Krug's songwriting can't help but put a smile on your face when you really try to let your guard down, and if you want the summer documented by epic eccentricity, this is your callling. [Sep 2009, p.94] -
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Critic Score 64
{Awayland} tends to feel without reason or necessity, as if thrown together more in effort to get something down than to say something that needed saying.- Posted Apr 23, 2013
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Critic Score 90
Annie is to Kylie Minogue as Kasabian is to Primal Scream: same song, different packaging. [#16, p.97] -