musicOMH.com's Scores
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For 5,888 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Everything's The Rush | |
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Lowest review score: | Fortune |
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Positive: 4,429 out of 5888
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Mixed: 1,419 out of 5888
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Negative: 40 out of 5888
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Bad Contestant is full of strange little pop songs that can delight and subvert in equal measure and makes for a pretty startling debut, all in all.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 14, 2018
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A thoroughly engaging addition to Willner’s already enviable discography.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 20, 2018
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Reflect. Time. Loss. achieves its aim handsomely, with many a moment to stop the heart of its listener, in doing so adding another dimension to Maps as a musical outfit.- musicOMH.com
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Memoria is a substantial listen, and could probably be broken down into two shorter LPs of different styles, but its creative verve provides quality as well as quantity.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Yummy adds itself to the James canon as an album both for fans and newcomers, a triumph over prejudice and anxiety. Everyone is welcome here.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 15, 2024
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The lyrics speak tellingly of life experience, but the tunes don’t quite have the pizzazz to match the singing voice. Yet their turn towards the dancefloor is expertly marshalled by Rodgers, whose production tweaks are always tasteful – and this return bodes well in the long run. If they can just add the winsome melodies, The Zutons will be right back up where they deserve to be.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 29, 2024
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Nevertheless, for fans of searing white noise A Place To Bury Strangers will pretty much seem messianic: anyone of a slightly gentler disposition might want to run the other way.- musicOMH.com
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While some of the guestless songs feel weaker – or at least thinner – than the collaborative works, they still fit the sonic theme and don’t rock the boat too much. Overall, this is another lovely entry into the Gorillaz discography.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 22, 2023
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Sweep It Into Space is as solid a selection of songs as they’ve ever produced and broadly typifies why they are so beloved.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 20, 2021
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They may have hit national treasure status a while back, with all the advantages and pitfalls that that can bring, but as long as they carry on producing music with as much soul, heart and beauty that’s contained on The Take Off And Landing Of Everything, Elbow will be with us for some while to come.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 7, 2014
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Charli is not the perfect pop album, nor is it a fully developed manifesto for where pop could go, but it is a collection of enjoyable, interesting tracks that don’t sound completely alien, but also don’t sound like anyone involved is selling out.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 11, 2019
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Overall, Hot Dreams doesn’t quite match up to the trio’s last record--it lacks a comparable number of top notch songs--but it still has some great moments.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 27, 2014
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This is Suede right near their very best. They remain incurable, helpless romantics, barely able to control their wildest musical thoughts, and Brett Anderson sounds like he depends on them more than ever.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jan 22, 2016
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These worries are dressed with music at peace with itself and its surroundings, making as much resourceful use of digital and electronic possibilities in an intimate studio setting as previous album Frontier Man did with an orchestra.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 16, 2019
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This isn’t the Coxon of Coffee & TV or Freaking Out, nor indeed the Dougall you may remember from the perfect girl-band pop of Pull Shapes. Instead, it’s a mediative, often beautiful record that often has the capacity to surprise and delight. Just be sure you like saxophones.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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The tension that gave those early albums their fizzing energy may no longer be there, but in its place is a band operating at a far higher level. Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not is almost certainly the best album the reformed Dinosaur Jr have made so far.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 5, 2016
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Boys Inside is Mason's best work since his Beta Band days - a rich, dark slice of mournful, glacial electronica with a heart. Richard X has smoothed away the edges, yet lets Mason stamp his personality on proceedings.- musicOMH.com
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It is because of this collaborative rejuvenation that Monsters Of Folk is a worthwhile endeavour, a stirring album and an outfit that is as nourishing for its constituent members as they are for it.- musicOMH.com
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The album can be quite a handful at times, but if in search for a post-rock record that makes so much of an impression in so little time, one need not look any further than this.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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Defying all expectations, they have taken a brave leap forward and delivered one of the first great albums of 2013.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 1, 2013
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Thankfully, the songs are varied and powerful enough to sustain the album, and their balls-to-the-wall approach is both refreshing and entertaining.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 28, 2013
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Everything you loved about the last few Phosphorescent records is still here, in abundance, but C’est La Vie seems more streamlined, more emotionally sincere. You can hear that Houck has discovered a lot of love in the past five years, and you only hope we get to hear him discover a tonne more.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 8, 2018
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Generally, this is a perfect introduction to the talent of Liam Finn - and even at 14 tracks, it never outstays its welcome.- musicOMH.com
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Enticing, if inconsistent, this seems to be an album that de Graaf had dreamed of making, building on the pretty, prosaic folk-pop of her self-titled EP in 2013.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 2, 2016
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Traumazine is a success in its own right, solidifying her position amongst rap’s big stars of the 2020s.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 19, 2022
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Although the departure of Weiss is sad, it hasn’t diminished any of Brownstein and Tucker’s power: The Centre Won’t Hold sees them as vital, compelling and as searingly relevant as ever.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2019
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This disc proves that their ascension to lofty heights is complete and something heavenly indeed.- musicOMH.com
- Posted May 25, 2012
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Created by two genuine outsiders and made with a refreshing lack of irony, Album is a welcome addition to the very best albums of 2009.- musicOMH.com
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Exile In The Outer Ring explores complex subjects without reducing them to empty soundbites and neat conclusions.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2017
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King Of Limbs is a subtle, muti-layered affair - surprisingly low-key in places, and it certainly won't win back any fans who checked out in the late '90s.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 22, 2011
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Consistent, yes, but also vaguely disappointing, the band may be at the peak of their powers but it's almost a shame to see all the mystery drained away.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 28, 2011
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It is a unity of the best elements of James Blake’s music – the rare ability to move the feet of a large crowd and the heart of a single bedroom listener simultaneously. He nails both achievements with striking regularity here.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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30 Years Of War aside, this is an album that finds the Manics in fine form.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 11, 2013
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There are moments of brilliance and experimentation, but these are too often outweighed by pedestrian tunes and indistinct vocals.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 17, 2019
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While he’s sounding as bold and varied as ever, White’s songwriting feels a little less focused, with tracks like the seven minute opener and single Genuine Hesitation and Take Your Time (And That Orange To Squeeze) tipping over into self-indulgent dirges.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 10, 2021
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Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time is a rich and literate album, which inspires conversation and debate.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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As it stands Water is a transition record, signalling a direction of travel but inconsistent and frustrating.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Nov 1, 2021
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If you're in the wrong mood it can be a touch wearing by the end, but more often than not this is 21st century funk gone right.- musicOMH.com
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It underlines that Pottery have made a record meant for a party that never stops. Bobby’s Motel is surely a place with more to it than meets the eye.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 14, 2020
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Admittedly there are sometimes a few too many overwrought guitar solos--moments where Eitzel and Butler may have been better off toning things down--but overall this is a surprising new partnership that works very well indeed.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 10, 2017
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While the dynamics may be a little different, her wonderfully expressive, kaleidoscopic guitar playing and that voice, capable of alternating within the space of a few notes from a barely audible whisper to a wailing banshee, both remain as compelling as ever.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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It’s a typically resourceful, subtle and mesmeric addendum--and one that underlines just how consistently excellent an artist Harris has been.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 28, 2014
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Champs deserve to be gracing grander environs on the back of this album, and while that may not happen, Down Like Gold does ensure that they’ll have thousands of eyes trained on them when they make their next move.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 24, 2014
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For the most part The Universal Want lives up to that triumphant return presaged in Carousels. Calling back to various touch points from Doves’ career to date, it’s a fitting summation even if not a culmination or a career peak.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 10, 2020
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Lazaretto is an album of singles--it’s also a pretty revelatory record of healing and perseverance for White--that bounds rapidly through America’s South from the ’50s-’70s. It’s another great side to White, and another feather to stick in his pretty feathery cap.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 3, 2014
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- Posted Feb 27, 2012
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Music For People In Trouble will perhaps be a surprise for those who came to Sundfør via her last album, but they won’t be disappointed. This is an album full of hidden depths, stark emotion, and most importantly, absolutely beautiful songs.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 5, 2017
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It’s a combination [simultaneously sound contemporary and old-time] that has been present in his music from day one and Bright Sunny South proves it’s one that still reaps significant dividends.- musicOMH.com
- Posted May 13, 2013
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It’s almost inevitable that an urban record made by an American rock classicist--especially one who moved to New York as a teenager like Morby did--will evoke Lou Reed. ... Shooting for a rawer, more stripped-back sound has left certain songs on City Music feeling under-powered and –developed, however.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 19, 2017
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The concept is realised for the most part, and while some more variety in the 'musical memories' might have been nice (along with a little more length), there's not much to knock in a cracking example of that rare phenomenon--listenable concept art.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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A quite astonishing record then, and one which establishes Chasny as a bona fide guitar god, proves that Comets On Fire are much missed, and knocks the notion of guitar music being dead into a cocked hat.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 21, 2012
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Swing Lo Magellan affords generous breathing space to Dirty Projectors' music: a context in which new levels of unpretentious eloquence positively flourish.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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A strange end possibly, but The Dusted Sessions seeks to encapsulate the essence of the vast landscapes the band experienced and does so quite incredibly.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 8, 2013
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Like the film it accompanies though, the prevailing sense is that it will be remembered principally as a top-notch tribute to its timeless progenitor; first class entertainment but without those inimitable zeitgeist qualities that made the original Trainspotting so uniquely compelling.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 13, 2017
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All Thoughts Fly is undoubtedly a peculiar album, but absolutely one well worth investigation.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 29, 2020
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Distinguished by its wide eyed, maddeningly flamboyant mélange of ideas, these Perth psychonauts’ latest is so potent you risk getting tinnitus and/or a contact high from each monolithic twist and turn.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
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His debut doesn't feel like poor pastiche [of 60's-era Dylan and Donovan] but rather the joyous tribute of a teenager with the necessary chops.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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It shows Alison Moyet as a vocalist of immense sensitivity, feeling and lasting power. She is right at the top of her game musically and lyrically, delivering pop music that is more relevant now than at any point in her illustrious career.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 19, 2017
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They’ve turned everything up beyond 11 this time, opting to throw more skull crushing riffs into the mix. The songs might be shorter, but they lack none of the innate need to pummel that infuses most of their work.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 29, 2018
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At times this recording is compelling, entrancing even with its sheer beauty; occasionally though it drags.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 2, 2013
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MassEducation is that rare record that works both as a standalone album and a companion to the original.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 18, 2018
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Legacy+ shows two sides of the Kuti coin that, while inevitably reflecting and respecting the history of Fela, also show his restless quest for the future and what that holds carries on with subsequent generations.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 10, 2021
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By and large though, this challenging, multi-layered record requires complete and sustained immersion to properly appreciate its full range of ideas and textures.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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This is a highly accomplished and deeply felt third album to add to an already auspicious Gaz Coombes canon. He is on fine form at the moment, undoubtedly one of Britpop’s Strongest Men.- musicOMH.com
- Posted May 16, 2018
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There’s a majestic soulfulness here too that makes The Invisible Way one of their strongest, most coherent works.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 13, 2013
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Peyroux is a wonderful singer and this collection of songs is her best yet.- musicOMH.com
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An album which could well be one of the best released this year – and, in its pleas for solidarity and acceptance, one of the most important and vital records as well.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 25, 2022
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This is just simple, honest-to-goodness, feel-good rock ‘n’ roll, and the world is better for it being out there. More like this, please.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 27, 2020
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Slow Focus is unmistakably Fuck Buttons, the logical continuation of the music produced by a duo who never strive to do something expected.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 19, 2013
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Somehow, there’s an odd clarity to be found amongst all the noise, distortion and decay. The Body might have looked to their past in finding the sound for this album, but in creating this slab of grief and anger, they’ve managed to be uncannily prescient. This is probably one of the most relevant and affecting albums of 2021.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 1, 2021
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There’s a lot to take in on Tableau – maybe, at times, almost too much – but it’s another solid record from West Yorkshire’s very own experimental art-poppers.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 10, 2022
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It’s not as front-to-back enjoyable as Rated R or Lullabies To Paralyze, and it’s not as thematically consistent as the Mark Ronson produced Villains. So it is their worst album. But it’s still the worst album by the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. Take it for what it is.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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Whilst there are still examples of the kind of dexterous acoustic guitar playing now closely associated with Walker’s music, there is also a greater sense of space and time here, enabling Walker to place greater emphasis on his lyrics.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 22, 2016
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This is a debut that is, at times, rewarding and marks out Huerco S as a producer to watch.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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Fever Dream won’t change the world, but it may seem like a slightly more comforting place as you listen.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 25, 2016
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There is no radical change from their first four albums, but anyone familiar with MGMT knows that means plenty of musical exploration, a refreshing flick of the fingers up to the norm. There are many lyrical gems, too, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser maintaining their happy knack of writing songs that connect, songs that their listeners will want to hear on repeat.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Future Heart is the album's standout moment because it represents a rare moment of cathartic release, the band finally letting their brooding rhythm swell into something nearly anthemic. Young Widows do it well, but a little less restraint would do them one better.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 30, 2011
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Vulnicura Strings probably isn’t an album you’d want to listen to much on a regular basis, despite its undeniable excellence. It does, however, make for a beautiful and fascinating companion album to one of the year’s very best records.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Nov 9, 2015
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This record feels produced, whereas her first release had the feeling of a bedroom recording. She may have lost the kooky melodrama and charm that she enveloped earlier on, but I’m Not Your Man feels strangely right, if quite startling in its shift in direction.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jun 5, 2017
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Artists risk an absolute mauling when they wear their favourite era as a Halloween costume for a whole record, but here, at least, the joy of an unknown nostalgia far outweighs the realities of the grim present.- musicOMH.com
- Posted May 7, 2018
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- Posted Apr 3, 2020
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Me And Ennui… is pure articulation. Just when you think that Sarah Mary Chadwick has shone a light on every one of her warts, here comes the ‘and all’.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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They inch ever closer to the boundaries of the mainstream with this simmering assortment.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 1, 2021
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Quiet The Room is the perfect introduction to Helen Ballentine’s hazy, dreamy world – a world you’ll want to spend an awful lot of time in once you experience it.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Ultimately, First Demo is far more than a historical curio, it’s the sound of the band in a period of furious creativity and evolution.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Nov 17, 2014
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Iglooghost has succeeded in an enviable task: he has managed to create a signature sound while innovating and progressively adding to that sound, and Lei Line Eon is a fine showcase for this unique artistic vision.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 5, 2021
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It can sound like a mish mosh of the obscure record collection of a New Yorker-reading, Ivy League graduate, and one who knows how to have fun just as well as he knows philosophical theory.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 10, 2013
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The fact that neither side needs the other is why Tromatic Reflexxions works so obscenely well.- musicOMH.com
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That this glorious album will be remembered long after this week's hyped offerings are forgotten is a testament to its power.- musicOMH.com
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Cowley has crafted a coherent, carefully planned suite of music here with a strong conceptual framework and a remarkably consistent sound.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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Best Friends work best when they deal in heads down, pulsating rock.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jul 9, 2015
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No Geography is a great Chemicals album, for it balances the hedonistic big numbers with sentiments of real substance, fighting its corner with vigour in the face of chaos. ... It ranks as one of the Chemical Brothers’ finest achievements.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 15, 2019
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Hegarty's fourth album strictly follows the template laid down by his previous records: fragile, sombre and wistful, always dominated by that extraordinary tremulous voice, seemingly forever on the brink of bursting into tears.- musicOMH.com
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It is not very often that an artist comes along that is so strikingly unique and hugely talented and with Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose Beth Jeans Houghton has made a beguilingly lovely debut album that shows immense promise.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Jan 25, 2012
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Those seeking the mellower vibes of his earlier work may be slightly less enamoured with VEGA INTL. Night School, it’s undeniably a record that’s confident, intelligent and above all, fun.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 15, 2015
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With lyrics in the languages of Turkey, Kurdistan and Iraq all included, with the express aim of engaging listeners throughout the region, Souleyman’s mission to bring a more positive view of his country, and its thrilling musical forms, to a wider audience continues unabated.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Oct 16, 2013
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It’s a broad net Terje casts here, flitting through myriad styles but he always ensures they’re congealed in order to give the record a cohesiveness and rigidity.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Apr 7, 2014
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Whatever El Guincho's debt to Panda Bear, the decision to keep Alegranza! in the mama tongue lends it a genuine other-wordliness unlikely to be found in the well-traversed topography of American music.- musicOMH.com
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It is perhaps better as it is, providing the soundtrack to the lives and stories of those who hear it, and with any luck, this is an album that will find its way to everyone.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Mar 20, 2014
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It probably would have come across better as a slightly leaner offering that was all killer no filler, but at its best Physical develops on his work with Factory Floor to create a distinctive style of his own, an unsettling retro take on house music that yields many fantastic results across the record.- musicOMH.com
- Posted Aug 2, 2018
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