Ink Blot Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 85 reviews, this publication has graded:
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80% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 83
Highest review score: | XTRMNTR | |
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Lowest review score: | First of the Microbe Hunters |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 82 out of 85
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Mixed: 3 out of 85
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Negative: 0 out of 85
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Scattered among the jewels are shiny bits of glass that aren't as valuable as they might be.- Ink Blot Magazine
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They've locked themselves in a room for a year, learned to play 11 songs in one style, and counted on the singer to come up with a couple of ace-card tunes. Result.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The most exciting album in years....as punishing and urgent as any music you've ever heard.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's a kaleidoscopic ode to the joy of music, and it's the most exciting debut album since Mos Def's Black on Both Sides.- Ink Blot Magazine
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She has conjured the dirty rawness of funk and the smooth, hyper-articulation and commanding, ass-shakin' beats of hip hop and coated them with her own strange, space-age gloss. It is brilliant.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Yet another emotion-evoking masterpiece.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Chiming, richly textured and potently rhythmic, this is starkly, explicitly rock n' roll, and the back-to-basics approach beautifully frames Polly's tales of fear, love, sex, sadness, ugliness, and beauty.- Ink Blot Magazine
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While Homogenic, Post, and Debut were emotionally frenetic and often musically confrontational, Vespertine is rich in its tranquillity and spiritual divinity, full of astute observation and patient acceptance.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's one of the best albums of 1999 in any genre... [and] one of the finest house LPs ever recorded.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The voices are front and center throughout, but the trio has wrought its most elaborate frames for them yet: brass, strings, and distorted guitars amplify the songs' sentiments and reinforce the cumulative strength of their melodies.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Rings Around the World flows extraordinarily well, making it all the more powerful.- Ink Blot Magazine
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I highly recommend this album - musically, politically, aesthetically, thematically - you name it.- Ink Blot Magazine
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At first listen, this album is downbeat minimalism à la Leonard Cohen, but it actually covers a lot of ground.- Ink Blot Magazine
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What SFA have done here is beautifully sublime, and they've done it without ploy or pretension.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The measured use of electronics recalls nothing so much as OK Computer, and in some ways Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots sounds like that album might have if Thom Yorke believed in God.- Ink Blot Magazine
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If anyone's making radio-worthy rock 'n' roll nowadays, it's Guided By Voices.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Gorgeously melancholy... mid-tempo grooves and hushed ballads dressed up in dreamy keyboards and liquidly reverberant guitars.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Once in a while, a record will come out that's simply perfect... their finest record to date - pure, gleeful pop virtuosity.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Elbow understand how to make an album flow without sacrificing the unexpected turns any good record should have.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The music on The Moon & Antarctica is as lonely and desolate as the title suggests...- Ink Blot Magazine
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Unlike most of her peers, she knows that fun is really the fifth element of hip-hop, and she keeps finding thrilling new ways to make this music danceable and fun.- Ink Blot Magazine
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A dreamy, layered work that merely ups the rock ante of his perfectly balanced 1998 release, XO -- an exquisite union of wistful acoustic stylings and polished pop.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Much like Orbital, they have the ability to synchronize ideas without over-saturating their songs.... Unfortunately, at 19 tracks, there is plenty of ambient trickle filling in the gaps.- Ink Blot Magazine
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An uncommonly moving singer whose deliberate delivery extracts volumes of yearning and melancholy from her own material and the work of other writers.- Ink Blot Magazine
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