Magnet's Scores

  • Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Comicopera
Lowest review score: 10 Sound-Dust
Score distribution:
2325 music reviews
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seekers And Finders is the straight cannonball the world's premier Gypsy punks haven't quite offered since 2005's Gypsy Punks: Underdog Wold Strike itself. [No. 145, p.55]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A collection that's at once futuristic and timeless, Across The Multiverse is sure to wow friends, family and followers alike. [No. 145, p.57]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They sound much heavier and quite unburdened by commercial notions. [No. 145, p.61]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The results echo any number of indelibly British daydreamers, from Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and XTC at its wispiest on down to Saint Etienne and the Clientele: rife with memory and magic, as fragrant and saturated as a sticky, sleepless summer night. [No. 145, p.61]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arcade Fire's tightest and tersest album since 2004's Funeral is by far its least ambitious, and the band is cool to riff on this. [No. 145, p.53]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If it's been a minute since you've spent time with BSS, Hug Of Thunder could be a revelation. Otherwise, you'll just have to settle for it being a very good album. [No. 145, p.53]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The obtuse nature of the song structures, content and riffing are exactly what one expects ... just dressed up as a "surprise." [No. 145, p.55]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If New Facts Emerge reminds the listener of any post-millennial Fall album, I'd have to go with 2003's The Real New Fall LP. [No. 145, p.55]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Even if some listeners might ding Lo Tom for playing it a little safe, there's really not a wrong note on the record. [No. 145, p.57]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deep and communal, Barefoot In The Head is CRB's most impressive studio effort yet. [No. 145, p.59]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    It's Newman's ability to paint such a scene [narrator's wife, on her deathbed, defending him against their concerned and/or churlish offspring] with humor, affection and honest humanity that makes his albums so thoroughly worth the wait. [No. 145, p.60]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hard to imagine the album's latent pacing and fragmented lyrical content piquing the interest of many outside of AnCo's hardcore fanbase, but it stands as a compelling step forward. [No. 145, p.61]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's a fascinating document, well worth a look from fans of any of the above [Offa Rex, Trembling Bells and Eliza's Carthy's Wayward Band]. [No. 145, p.61]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sonically, visually and thematically, this double disc is grandiloquent, like the great progressive music statements of rock history. [No. 145, p.61]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Although Beast Epic does not broadcast its complexity and depth as with some past Iron & Wine efforts, it's still lovely, dark and deep. [No. 145, p.58]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their voices blend together beautifully. [No. 145, p.57]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    With its simple riff and typically anthemic chorus, the immediately indelible "The Birthday Democrats" amply proves that Pollard's unprecedented creative spark shows no signs of going dark. The rest of How Do You Spell Heaven confirms that notion. [No. 145, p.55]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a snarl on their lisp, drums set to bash and guitars red-lining all the way, snotty new Cribs anthems such as "Year Of Hate" and "Partisan" shine within Albini's typical sonic verite approach to recording. [No. 145, p.53]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's sharply focused--and sonically beautiful--but also abstract, with an open-ended feeling to the swooping voices and lyrical ambiguities. [No. 145, p.51]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    More often the singing is submerged in the mix, making it impossible to understand the dreamy wordplay that makes Oelsner's lyrics so memorable. [No. 145, p.59]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Brazilian foundation is here but so are glimmers of his signature unhinged, skronky electric-guitar work. [No. 142, p.57]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Endlessly moody and surprisingly versatile, this record moves by its own secret logic. [No. 144, p.61]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's no mistaking this unpredictable, lovingly tended aural scenery for anything else. [No. 144, p.53]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By focusing mostly on the early entries from Dylan's canon, Nile reminds us of Dylan's power and poetic brilliance. [No. 144, p.57]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's difficult to imagine even a hardcore completist wanting to hear Chilton's interminable orgasmic noises on the title track, long stretches of drunken studio banter or yet another two versions of Third's "Jesus Christ." [No. 144, p.53]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The perfect companion piece for black-lit nights at home. [No. 144, p.61]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing truly "new" but still revealing surprises and delights for the initiated. [No. 144, p.61]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gangster Star features a much stronger single (the idyllic "Shine A Light"), while Jealous Machines waders a bit further into the narrative forest. [No. 144, p.59]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gangster Star features a much stronger single (the idyllic "Shine A Light"), while Jealous Machines waders a bit further into the narrative forest. [No. 144, p.59]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is an honest and harmless record that isn't trying to be anything but the summer 2017 soundtrack for middle-aged males operating, patronizing or loitering within tattoo/piercing emporiums everywhere. [No. 144, p.59]
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