Magnet's Scores
- Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | Comicopera | |
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Lowest review score: | Sound-Dust |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,874 out of 2325
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Mixed: 380 out of 2325
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Negative: 71 out of 2325
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Earle sounds invigorated and relaxed, and these are some of his best songs in years. [No. 144, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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Dirty Pictures (Part 1) is the perfect appetizer to the boozy, bluesy world of Low cut Connie. [No. 144, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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Revolution is not a political screed, as the band scorches and eases its way through a fair number of life/love reflection. [No. 144, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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The music's effortless grace contradicts the experiences f temporal and cultural unease that Elkington sings about in ways that'll keep the listener guessing and the record spinning. [No. 144, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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The Singles is as good a starting point as any, as it highlights the diversity that spanned the band's entire career. All the classics are present and accounted for. [No. 144, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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It makes music that tips its hat to the past without sounding derivative. [No. 144, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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The overwhelming success of this unexpected Mac mashup is clear evidence that it's more than a one-off idea. [No. 144, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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This shining-up of the Sgt. Pepper grail is gorgeous. [No. 144, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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While Prayer For Peace is the duo's seventh studio album, their rootsy sound remains more or less unchanged and identified. [No. 143, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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[The final track Love Is Love] has the sprightly energy that's missing on most of the record. [No. 143, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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This new one sounds happily like a distillation of the best of Slowdive. The effects--and the effects pedals--are still dreamy. [No. 143, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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These existential sonic sketches are minimalist in nature but come together as an electroacoustic whole far greater than its composite parts. [No. 143, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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The mixed-bag effect of White Knight reaches its best moments on Runt's partnership with R&B shouter Bettye LaVette on the salty soul of "Naked & Afraid," and his teaming with Nine Inch Nails' film composition team Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the crushing, cinematic "Deaf Ears." [No. 143, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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The rhythm section kept the sleazy blues and gutter grunge on track and moving forward with bass locked into a pocket provided by some seriously pounding battery while still allowing for a loose feel that gives you the sense you're peaking in on a cathartic discharge of energy. [No. 143, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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Weller has always created a fine present out of traces of the past; A Kind Revolution is a funkier present. [No. 143, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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At 30 years of age, it's only better than it was... It gets zero help from unnecessary remixes and wee heft from an era-appropriate Madison Square Garden concert recording. [No. 143, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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Despite lyrics contending with crippling anxiety, suicide and relationship strife, what ultimately emerges in a celebration of the defiant act of loving and living fully in the face of a world gone mad. [No. 143, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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Whether juxtaposed with string sections, dark electronics or thumping beats, Moyet's deeply sonorous voice is still the dramatic center. [No. 143, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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When's it on, which is most of the time, it's deep and beyond category. [No. 143, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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Even as he points out life's injustices and unpleasantries, there's an ease and comfort with which he accesses his long list of Americana influences. [No. 143, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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A record that easily ranks among the heaviest, most remarkable releases in Constellation's recent catalog. [No. 143, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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This is an album squarely in the spirit of the band's underrated mid-period venture Carnival Of Light, a classic-rock record with none of the baggage that phrase might imply. [No. 143, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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Goofy and awkward, yet mature and sincere, this album showcases a band making magic from the mudpies of millennial angst. [No. 143, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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Like his labelmates in Alabama Shakes, Booker takes inspiration from the past to make huge artistic leaps forward. [No. 143, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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With two exceptions, he avoids the obvious hits, choosing to shine a light on Haggard's often downhearted love songs with arrangements that avoid country-music conventions. [No. 143, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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Even when Black Lips operate more on the obnoxious side of the coin--"We Know" grinds to intolerable, screeching halts in an attempt to prove themselves both edgy and improved--the fuzzy, surf swing of tracks such as "Occidental Front" prove the band can be powerfully charming. [No. 143, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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She's no longer interested in the simple pleasures of immediate hooks. Instead, we get something more complex, challenging and provocative. [No. 143, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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On Somersault, Beach Fossils continue to expand their sound, and the band gets better as it ventures further from home. [No. 143, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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Underscored throughout is how thoroughly Amidon embodies all of his material, regardless of is origins, and how much his art lies not simply in the songs themselves but in the distinctive, impressionistic atmospherics. [No. 143, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017