Mixmag's Scores

  • Music
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. Negative: 0 out of 450
450 music reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This deft new album [is] a delight.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impassioned rather than impatient and delicate where others opt for too-sweet delicacies, If You Wait is going all the way.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Well, the good news is American Dream rocks, rolls, pops, fizzes and snaps. The energy is still there, no two songs sound the same and the ambition is somehow even more future-retro than before.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Ridha's] third studio album is a reliable journey into thrashing, powerful and industrial electro and techno.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They haven’t lost the ability to party, as proven by the grinding disco-funk of ‘Rejoice’, but Omnion is a serious, grown-up dance record for serious times.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The LP examines the traps of routine and the possibilities that dreaming and music offer to escape from them--and however distanced Iqbal might seem in her performance, as a listener you’ll quickly find both real connections to the album’s themes, and the variety of gorgeous sounds that she uses to express them.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whatever you read into it, this is powerful, living dance music, above all else.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album based on the carillon, a peal of bells played using a keyboard similar to a church organ, fused with gentle synth phrases, motorik rhythms.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peder Mannerfelt, Paula Temple and NÍDIA are among the producers who worked on ‘Plunge’, bringing 150bpm batida rhythms and searing rave stabs to one of 2017’s most thrilling LPs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the whole, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is a cerebral and arresting follow-up forged in harmonious invention.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not always easy, but definitely worth it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He's gone several steps further away from standard dance structure and into abstraction and ambience here – and it's all the better for it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are echoes of recognisable genres here, but the overwhelming sense is of a burned-out mind, muttering freaky things to itself, as sounds fizzle and char around it. Yet somehow, as the rhythms chatter, vocoders sing hymns to deviant gods and the synths melt, it sounds like something you want to get involved with.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results are like a retrospective charting 25 years of innovation in UK club music.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    It’s compulsive and hypnotic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangely fascinating.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may not be as groundbreaking as Kölsch's debut album, but it still hits all the right notes. Fans will be chuffed to bits with this.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Call their style what you like, this is a luscious record.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The tomfoolery may alienate some listeners, but across all genres of music, few concept albums have been crafted with such a level of infectious invention.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here, he’s created an ultra-coherent, often beautiful and (despite it originally being ‘just’ background music) oddly personal statement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big and bold with smart production touches and melodies to match, this is an album destined for stadiums.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound of a master at work.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Prins Thomas 5, however, feels like a soft launch for Prins Thomas 2.0. You can hear it from the off on the glam-tastic ‘Here Comes The Band’, said to be influenced by the veteran Glasgow melodic indie band, Teenage Fanclub.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turbines has them sounding more like a band and less like a studio project, but around their psychedelic boy-girl harmonies, circling guitar lines and insidiously weird lyrics, there are still plenty of analogue gurgles and swoops and strange, dubwise production finesse
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With total belief in their worth, they re-introduce stylings seldom seen on contemporary dance albums, where mood and atmosphere too often trump melody and songcraft.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fans of Flume and Caribou will find much to savour.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole album is perfectly paced, with hypnotic grooves and simple songwriting: density and space are constantly played off each other, helping to create something that should be taken in as a whole. It’s been well worth the wait.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An energetic, main-room mix that touches on many styles.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is skull-crushing, claustrophobic and wonderful.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whether its impish character makes for a consistently engrossing listening experience is questionable, but it has moments of brilliance.