Kerrang!'s Scores
- Music
For 1,584 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Yellow & Green | |
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Lowest review score: | What The... |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,108 out of 1584
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Mixed: 465 out of 1584
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Negative: 11 out of 1584
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You don’t have to take a crash course on two decades of complex lore to enjoy Act II, though. For all their intricate storytelling and consummate musical skills, Coheed remain surprisingly accessible.- Kerrang!
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Supernova basks in its own raw originality and kicks any naysayers to the curb with its unforgettable impact.- Kerrang!
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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- Posted Jun 13, 2022
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Heavy Pendulum is truly a remarkable record, not only for its quality but also because it represents Cave In’s ability to persevere after enduring so much trauma. It’s the work of a wholly rejuvenated and imaginative group.- Kerrang!
- Posted May 20, 2022
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This introspective, incendiary, searingly intelligent set of songs finds them as emotionally invested as they’ve ever been.- Kerrang!
- Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Many outstanding moments on this. ... A vicious mix of grime, hip-hop and punk, Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life is an intersectional look at what it’s like to exist as a black person in Britain within a capitalist society.- Kerrang!
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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Sure, some songs are better than others, but Ego Trip’s a rare thing: a 14-track album that features not a single duffer.- Kerrang!
- Posted Apr 8, 2022
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The confidence with which these 10 tracks are delivered is proof this is just the beginning. There’s some growing up to be done, but right now, The Linda Lindas are revelling in the joys of youth, and it sounds great.- Kerrang!
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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It really is impossible to pick fault with the record, every track playing its part, and further cementing their legend.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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After that opener sets the tone with its intentionally sloppy orchestral dramatics, the frenzied Totally Fine bursts out of the gate with the kind of paranoid urgency that’s defined the band’s 12 years of their existence.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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All of this is very good. Even better for the fact that, even though it ties to the movie, it doesn't have much reason to exist beyond the sake of doing it. It's wild, off the cuff, youthful, over-excited, exactly how this stuff is meant to make you feel.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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While this record isn’t going to lure rock purists out of their dens, it has greater ambitions in mind, and the amount it achieves in the space that it does is staggering. For any artist of any genre, this is the textbook for innovation.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Deficiencies are rare. When Never Let Me Go calls time on its 13 songs with the exquisitely constructed Fix Yourself, it does so in a manner befitting an album that is overwhelmingly a success.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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It’s music for the loveliest of golden summer evenings, but has a greater depth to it that reveals itself with more and more listens, as if it’s coming out of its own shell. And when it does, it’s nothing but wonderful.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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Conceptually and musically, it’s a startlingly ambitious piece of work from a truly iconoclastic band. Their volatile negativity should, by rights, lead to an alienating experience, but instead Vein.fm summon a catharsis which feels timely and invigorating.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 22, 2022
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Cult Of Luna’s evolution shows no signs of slowing down. The Long Road North is another welcome addition on their quest to push sonic boundaries and is one of their hardest hitting releases yet.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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In all the ways that matter, this solidifies their status as a collective still expanding upon their legacy, rather than resting on it.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Drug Church are as addictively seductive as ever and listening to Hygiene might just be one of the most satisfying things you can do in less than half an hour.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 15, 2022
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An album that cannot and will not stand still, or be quiet, or remain one thing for very long. In a world where many cushion themselves from ills with complacency, it’s good to have a record that’s ready to shake (and shit) people up.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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Impera is among Ghost’s very best and sure to push them even closer to those heavenly heights.- Kerrang!
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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There’s all manner of the energetic offerings you’re yearning for here. But there are the slower soul-bearers too, in the same vein as the classic I’m With You, such as Avalanche, which will appeal to fans of what Olivia Rodrigo is doing.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Wild Loneliness is the fourth and best album Superchunk have recorded since returning to active service in 2010, and even stacks up next to classics from earlier in their career such as Here’s Where The Strings Come In or No Pocky For Kitty.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 22, 2022
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Ultimately, though, Krüller is best experienced not in its individual segments but as an overwhelming whole. The meld of muscle and mechanisation still demands that listeners hand themselves over entirely. So stay plugged in through the epic title-track’s spiral down into an inevitable acid ending and you’ll be haunted by the ghosts in this machine.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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Synchro Anarchy is a triumph for both Voivod and progressive thrash. Not only is the quartet’s ability to remain so adventurous, skilful and consistent utterly remarkable (considering how long they’ve been at it), but they continue to showcase how perfectly such seemingly disparate styles can be merged.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 14, 2022
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FTHC is likely to hit hardest with those who have grown with Frank, witnessing his evolution and the ways in which it’s helped chronicle their own. That’s not to say there’s not much to enjoy for new fans, though, who will no doubt find an empathetic ally in a man whose honesty and anger and heart continue to inspire.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 11, 2022
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This is a record that plays like Eddie’s soul is plugged directly into a jukebox skipping through different eras of music history.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 11, 2022
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From the moment six-and-a-half-minute opener Almost Always shimmers into existence, it is a record that mesmerises without compromise, and which could not have come from anyone else.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 4, 2022
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Musically, Requiem is heavy but not stodgy, fresh but familiar, and accessible without ever feeling forced. Its wisest creative decision, though, is keeping things lean and mean. At just nine tracks, there are few moments that feel anything less than essential.- Kerrang!
- Posted Feb 3, 2022
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The end result is hardly jam-packed with jump scares, but there are more than enough surprises here to keep you wondering what the hell might be coming next.- Kerrang!
- Posted Jan 24, 2022
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While the album ends quietly, with Kamikaze and the subtly moving It Floated, it’s that sense of fun that burns brightest in its aftermath.- Kerrang!
- Posted Dec 20, 2021
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