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For 450 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 77% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: 100 Xen
Lowest review score: 50 The Mountain Will Fall
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 396 out of 450
  2. Mixed: 54 out of 450
  3. Negative: 0 out of 450
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Leftism 22 [Reissue]
    Remastered for vinyl by Matt Colton (James Blake, Aphex Twin, Hot Chip), it still hits heavy. ... An accompanying remix album celebrates diversity with offerings from Zomby, Skream and Adrian Sherwood, but it’s Hodge & Peverelist’s jerky mix of ‘Afro Left’ that runs away with top honours. It’s a fitting tribute to the LP’s legacy.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Amok
    Producer Nigel Godrich has made of this a modern masterclass--and one that sets the bar for collaborations extremely high.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Order of Noise
    Order Of Noise creates an atmosphere akin to a vast thunder-cloud thick with heavy, window-rattling vibrations and sharp, sudden jolts of electricity.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Reality Testing
    Lone tunes are nothing if not growers--but there’s no question that this is one of our best artists on the form of his life.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Live
    Once you delve in you’re taken on a guided tour through the duo’s illustrious back catalogue in a quite majestic way.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    LateNightTales
    As cute and quirky as the band themselves, this is instantly up there with LNT mixes from Air and Lindstrøm.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Drone Logic
    'All I Need’ and ‘Simulrec’ are highlights in what is a confident and mesmerising debut from Avery, one that deserves to go down as one of the best of 2013.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Gordian
    It’s another master stroke from Cosmin. Faultless.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Late Night Tales: Bonobo
    A vastly resourceful and well-structured opus by a true master of horizontal stylings.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Xen
    Xen is decidedly playful, its alien sound palette used to conjure surreal songs that are melodramatic and nursery rhyme-like.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Comfort
    The most exciting thing about Comfort is the sense that this is an artist who has only scratched the surface of her talent.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Immunity
    Bold, brilliant and beautiful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Soul Music
    A thrilling creative renaissance on so many levels.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Settle
    An album that perfectly epitomises the new wave of house music--and may even be its peak.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Syro
    It has none of the deliberate pratfalls or raspberries he’s prone to. Rather, it’s entirely welcoming.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow
    Put simply, a genius at work.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hyperdub 10.1
    It’s the surge of creativity from the US that’s making for delicious new music indeed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Double Cup
    There’s footwork based on deep, soulful sensuousness and hip hop wooze as well as face-melters, making this the finest, most engaging example of footwork we’ve heard yet.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Air Between Words
    It’s easy to pick out highlights, but every single one delivers something different and equally fantastic.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    async
    It’s full of church organs, hazy reverb, rippling synths and poetry about mortality and eternity, as well as Sakamoto’s distinctive piano, sonar bleeps and unforgettable melodies. It’s arguably the most beautiful record you’ll hear this year.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nostalchic
    Nostalchic’= is the record you want to be listening to during the afterglow of good sex or a perfect ecstasy trip.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In My World
    He’s not lost any of his individuality, with the same rich layering, eerie but enticing voices and general sense of five-dimensional spiritual uplift that ‘Outmind’ had.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ex
    It’s an altogether different beast: a gigantic, wondrous thing to get lost in.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Electric Lines
    On Electric Lines, the fine moments are bountiful.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    For Paris
    There’s a new-age wash to some tracks that’s a bit too Enya-like for comfort, but this is an emotionally resonant LP that speaks of artistic, as well as personal, development.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Four Worlds
    The emotional impact is concentrated in each and every tune, and the whole album manages to achieve a genuinely epic scope in under 40 minutes. [Apr 2018, p.92]
    • Mixmag
      • Posted Jul 6, 2018
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Knock Knock
    He's arguably produced his near-masterpiece LP. [May 2018, p.114]
    • Mixmag
      • Posted Jul 6, 2018
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Devout
    It’s a gorgeous record, from start to finish.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Singularity
    Hopkins uses his dancefloor nous, classical background and meditative training to beguile us. It's a beautiful bastard of a record. [May 2018, p.117]
    • Mixmag
      • Posted Jul 6, 2018
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nothing Is Still
    It veers between intimate and expansive: the chugging rhythms replicate the hum of America’s love affair with the automobile, while majestic, sweeping strings evoke its grand, widescreen vistas. [Jun 2018, p.112]
    • Mixmag
      • Posted Jul 6, 2018
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