Junkmedia's Scores
- Music
For 403 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 287 out of 403
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Mixed: 104 out of 403
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Negative: 12 out of 403
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music reviews
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Critic Score 80
Mice Parade is an original, hovering over multiple traditions without disturbing any of them. -
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Critic Score 80
Perhaps the best overall representation of Belle and Sebastian’s distinctive brand of indie pop. -
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Critic Score 80
Humming By The Flowered Vine takes the rootsy sounds of classic country music (incorporating Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams and everyone in between) and plops them smack dab in the middle of Manhattan. -
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Critic Score 80
By album's end, two coming-of-age stories are complete: the boy has grown into a black sheep man, and the literate musicians have become a hell of a rock band. -
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Critic Score 80
The compilation will not alter your opinions of Lali Puna. But between the new material and older cuts previously scattered across numerous singles and compilations,I Thought I Was Over That is something fans old and new will want to have around. -
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Critic Score 80
My only problem with the album is that it begins to devour its own tail about halfway through, at times sounding tedious, or worse, precious. -
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Critic Score 80
A gorgeous, shimmering 40 minutes of music - a sonic road trip through parts unknown. -
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Critic Score 80
A debut album so confident and flawlessly developed it seems more like the work of a band hitting its mid-career creative peak. -
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Critic Score 80
There is some irony in following up a record called We Fight Til Death with one titled (and as vital as) Giving Up The Ghost. However, Windsor For The Derby doesn't sound as if it has succumbed to anything save for its singular atmospheric pop tendencies. -
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Critic Score 80
This turn for the yee-haw is a bit mystifying but hardly a mistake; Howl is exactly the cry the BRMC needed to make. -
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Critic Score 80
Bright Ideas has an air of excitement and energy about it, and contains some of McCaughan's strongest songwriting to date. -
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Critic Score 80
The punk-informed material on Blitzkrieg Pop sounds like the missing link between Ministry's earlier, sensitive electro material and its later and more well-known incarnation as the nihilistic buzz-sawing and bile-spewing industrial unit. -
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Critic Score 80
Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells is a near perfect collection of four-minute songs that recall a more ragged XTC, the skewed pop/rock style of The Kinks, and The White Album-era Beatles. -
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Critic Score 80
If gripes were to be made, one could argue with Crow's length, which at 74 minutes may be a little more whimsy than one can handle. -
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Critic Score 80
The music is as soothing as a lullaby and as challenging as a modern art exhibit. -
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Critic Score 80
While In The Reins bears the unmistakable imprint of both Calexico and Iron and Wine, these collaborators donâ??t seem to be interested in playing it all that safe. -
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Critic Score 80
Not Them, You is one of those rare records that rewards on both repeated listens and initial forays. -
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Critic Score 80
Zilla delivers a cleverly orchestrated junket of joyful raucousness and synth whirls. -
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Critic Score 80
Their sturdy, inventive debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, draws further, fresh blood from the indie rock stone. -
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Critic Score 80
As with most things this conceptual, certain aesthetic sacrifices must be made. But Matthew Herbert is the remarkable musician, with his keen senses of rhythm and melody, who can pull off such an audacious ruse. -
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Critic Score 80
It might not be the underground hip-hop record of the year, but it is easily on the short list. -
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Critic Score 80
It's on the sonic departures, though, that Feels strikes its most resonant chord. -
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Critic Score 80
Boards of Canada seems to be able to release albums pre-aged, so that all the things that might have bugged you a couple years ago now sounds like another part of why it's a classic. -
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Critic Score 80
The record may have a little less electronic slink than prior efforts, but it has a propulsive energy, even in the mid-tempo tracks, that makes the record easy to like. -
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Critic Score 80
Tanglewood Numbers, musically at least, is Berman's most fully realized album. -