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 0.1 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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While there's certainly nothing on Poses so riveting as to signify a rock revolution, there's something to be said for the virtue of a simple crooner operating at the top of his game. [#51, p.122]- Magnet
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No One Deserves Happiness is even better [than One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache]. [No. 130, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Apr 15, 2016 -
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Daniel Bachman is the guitarist's most emotionally complex and stylistically integrated work to date. [No. 137, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Nov 17, 2016 -
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Utopia is the perfect whooshing winter record, just in time for the bitter chill. [No. 149, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Dec 22, 2017 -
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Grim Reaper shows that Lennox has bigger things on his mind than mere crowd-pleasing. [No. 117, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Feb 20, 2015 -
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Ridiculous packaging and intensely personal liner notes make this a must-have for fans. [No. 106, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Feb 21, 2014 -
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Both [At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem and All The Way] elicit a simultaneous sense of terror and wonder as to what demons are flowing through her bloodstream and how she's managed to harness them for the power of artistic good. [No. 141, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Apr 26, 2017 -
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In Conflict is his masterpiece--if not the best album of 2014, certainly the most profound. [No. 109, p.59]- Magnet
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Blood Orange moves swiftly, wipes clean his chill-pop slate and goes for stark, ham-handed topicality hop and loss as applied to menacingly atmospheric tones. That Hynes does this without losing his sense of pop and tunefulness is a sweet accomplishment. [No. 134, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Aug 11, 2016 -
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Not every song justifies Herring's bold imprimatur, but enough do to make them stand out in a catalog that wasn't wanting for impact tracks. [No. 108, p.55]- Magnet
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Love Streams is a more amiably cluttered affair: bolder, stranger and, at times, considerably more bewildering, but with an ultimately playful, exploratory guiding spirit. [No. 130, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Apr 15, 2016 -
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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]- Magnet
Posted Aug 15, 2017 -
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Glass Swords is a testament to the importance of cutting right the chase, boiling house music down to climaxes the way Lightening Bolt compresses wild metal soloing into hard, gnarly blasts of attitude. [#81, p. 59]- Magnet
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Capturing the band at its creative zenith, the three albums on Volume 2--Music To Strip By, Charmed Life and The Band That Would Be King--are hip-shaking, chin-scratching things of beauty rife with bent-grooves and wacked-out, sexed-up story songs that fall somewhere between Jonathan Richman and the Residents. [No. 117, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Feb 19, 2015 -
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It's amazing that, however slowly, the Ex is still exploring fresh terrain. [#50, p.87]- Magnet
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America is both a progression and a departure for Deacon: an album rife with danceable party music, but also a deeply political gesture. [No.90, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Aug 23, 2012 -
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Collaborations where the principals hail from different ends of the musical spectrum usually lack common ground, making their output little more than a curiosity. Thankfully, this a a problem Harmonic trounces with a big sonic shillelagh. [#88, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Jul 26, 2012 -
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Simmons can write lengthy tomes, but Sylvie shows she's also adept at paring her words to simple truths. [No. 116, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Dec 10, 2014 -
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Floating Coffin doesn't add many new ingredients, but it blends them more thoroughly, making for an Oh Sees more like an Oh Sees show, which is a welcome surprise, indeed. [No. 97, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Apr 16, 2013 -
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Their playful mutability keeps them from being genre exercises and makes I Had A Dream a delight. [No. 137, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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Hopkins drifts too often into listless ambiance for anything here to actually set in. Even so, Immunity manages--more than any if his work to date--to accent Hopkins' greatest asset as a producer: his remarkable attention to detail. [No.99, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 17, 2013 -
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It's far and away Fernow's most affecting recorded work to date. [No. 120, p.59]- Magnet
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Fade is a gripping down-tempo treatise on the finer and coarser points of hunkering down. [No. 95, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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The songs on Citizen Of Glass feel more solid and lyrically grounded in the known world. [No. 138, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Dec 15, 2016 -
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It's all such lovely, elegantly refined stuff that it's easy to sink under the spell of its warm, somnolent glow. [No. 142, p.61]- Magnet
Posted May 18, 2017