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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Posted Sep 20, 2017 -
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Benji isn't for everyone--what great albums are?--but it's a career-defining statement by a brilliant songwriter. [No. 106, p.59]- Magnet
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This long-forgotten collection is a fine, representative memento of California country rock in its heyday. [No.95, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Feb 21, 2013 -
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Deep and communal, Barefoot In The Head is CRB's most impressive studio effort yet. [No. 145, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 15, 2017 -
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Intensely personal and musically powerful, Griffin captures the bold spirit of her family's history with top-notch songs. [No.99, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jun 17, 2013 -
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These songs--even the quiet ones--are bold, messy, unflinching, humming with life. [No. 147, p.61]- Magnet
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Posted Mar 15, 2013 -
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This return to form annotates the band's last 22 years rather nicely. [#73, p.110]- Magnet
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A full band plays behind Joyner's acoustic guitar and quiet vocals, but they employ the same restraint that marks his singing, making very quiet note resonate with low-key, understated emotion. [No. 119, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Apr 15, 2015 -
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The Icarus Line has created a masterful artistic achievement that can scarcely be listen to. The musical sweep is epic, highly orchestrated. [No. 125, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Oct 14, 2015 -
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Her first solo LP in a 40-year career is as diverse as it is good, and plenty of Bagsian punk fury is in evidence. [No.133, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Aug 17, 2016 -
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The trilogy's scarred, scary travelogue defines '70s Berlin as much as it does Bowie in uncompromising recovery mode. ... Brilliant. [No. 147, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Oct 17, 2017 -
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Tillman wisely scales back the orchestration and flourishes to their bare minimum in order to put his voice and lyrics at the forefront. [No. 141, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Apr 14, 2017 -
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While it is technically flawless and masterfully executed, it makes for awkward listening. [#74, p.102]- Magnet
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Supermodified is a culmination, for its operatic/cinematic soundscapes... are utterly unique. [#46, p.93]- Magnet
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From blunted bedroom nights with a drum machine to two decades down the line releasing one of the finest true hip-hop offerings since Moment Of Truth. Always listen to the Weathermen. [No. 131, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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Though it's easily the group's densest, most challenging release to date, Tomorrow's Harvest will likely gratify anyone willing to dig deep enough to reap its wonders. [No. 100, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jul 17, 2013 -
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The songs are quiet and emotionally intense, and they unfold like a collection of short stories in which characters and themes recur and play off each other. [No. 137, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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Posted Oct 14, 2015 -
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This is a sterling document well worth revisiting. [No. 123, p.59]- Magnet
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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They've abandoned songs entirely in favor of pulsing, predominately electronic pieces that radiate a warmth that contrasts dramatically with Labradford's chilly austerity. [No. 141, p53]- Magnet
Posted May 23, 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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If it takes another 36 years for something so sublime, I await the next 36 years. [#70, p.86]- Magnet
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Posted Mar 19, 2014 -
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A formidable, spooky album you can lose--or perhaps find--yourself in. [#61, p.97]- Magnet
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Credit sludgemeister Alan Moulder's mixing with fashioning this trio's graceless clamor into a pop blasterpiece (though the high-gloss context occasionally suggests a randier, more cacophonous No Doubt). [#59, p.111]- Magnet