New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 5,981 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | to hell with it [Mixtape] | |
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Lowest review score: | Maroon |
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Positive: 4,208 out of 5981
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Mixed: 1,620 out of 5981
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Negative: 153 out of 5981
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Let's Get Ready', Mystikal's fourth LP and his first Billboard chart-topper, is one wholesale fighting muthaf**ker, a full theatre of opportunities to offer the world outside. Women? Mystikal will take you down for one. Or, preferably, two. Reputation? Come see about him. Neighbourhood? You don't wanna go there... Mystikal is the fightingest bastard and his grin's never wider than when he's putting the hurt on.- New Musical Express (NME)
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'Remedy' is probably as good a dance album as anyone from these Isles has produced this decade.- New Musical Express (NME)
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They’re a shaggy-haired, surf’s up pop band and painfully vulnerable all at the same time.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The album's more subdued moments--like the disarmingly sweet navel-gaze of 'Simple As This', or the folksy arm-around-the-shoulder reassurance of 'Note To Self'--are its most remarkable ones, where Bugg's voice, usually accompanied by little more than an acoustic guitar, takes on a preternatural wisdom.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 15, 2012
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The album is beautifully structured, leading from spare and shimmery beginnings into harder, weirder and more varied territories, all those snippets and elements and personalities crafted into a shifting, subtle whole that quietly captures your attention from start to end.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 10, 2012
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There's going to be a hearty scrap between this lot, Muse and the Monkeys when album of the year time comes round.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Low have always sought to make music that can both swell the heart like a gospel tune and capture the amplified absence of a funeral parlour. It's difficult to imagine a more perfect expression of their vision than this.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Much like the title of his debut, Indiana’s curious ringmaster Stith is a contradiction in terms. Don’t be put off--he’s a contradiction worth losing yourself to.- New Musical Express (NME)
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It still defiantly goes against the grain, but also explodes with immediate, attention-grabbing riffs.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 8, 2012
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For those of us who still believe in music's power to redeem, 'Funeral' feels like detox, the most cathartic album of the year. [5 Mar 2005, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It marks the dawning of an era of British music that isn’t just for the casual petrol shop consumer, but stuff so important that you can give yourself to it completely. This is the album that’s going kick open the door for all the great British bands that’ll sweep through in their wake.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Josh Homme and his all-star pals prove the virtue of taking your sweet time on a record that’s as self-assured as it is damn sexy.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 3, 2013
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Daft Punk have pulled off a brilliant wheeze by re-inventing the mid-'80s as the coolest pop era ever. And not even the officially approved retro-kitsch cool of Madonna's lukewarm excursions into post-Daft terrain but all the bubble-permed, sports-jacket-and-jeans excesses they can muster.... Mostly, though, 'Discovery' is simply fantastic pop...- New Musical Express (NME)
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'Capture/Release' is fresh, unique, original even; its oh-so-contemporary reference points are revisited with such punk-rock vivacity and hell-for-charity-shop-leather vigour that they might be the first band you’d actually believe when they roll out the old "no, honestly, we were doing this long before we’d even heard of Bloc Party".- New Musical Express (NME)
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Time will tell how Primary Colours stands up to the likes of "Loveless" or "Psychocandy," but right now, this feels like the British art-rock album we’ve all been waiting for.- New Musical Express (NME)
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This album is an onslaught of brutal drumming and bowel-loosening riffs, occasionally leavened by surprisingly delicate vocal interplay.- New Musical Express (NME)
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One of the reasons Major Arcana works so well is because it’s addictive and fun, which could explain how these characters got into such a mess in the first place.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 12, 2013
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There's no possible way of having this much fun without getting the chorus of Handel's 'Messiah' drunk on peach schnapps. [4 Feb 2006, p.29]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Burial’s success has brought with it imitators, but with this EP he’s outwitted them all by introducing a gloriously widened palate to his music that is both instantly familiar and shockingly unlikely.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 20, 2013
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- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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It's thrillingly obvious that Junior Boys have made one of the year's best albums. [31 Jul 2004, p.41]- New Musical Express (NME)
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A stunning LP that, in a just world, would do for Roky what the "American Recordings" series did for Johnny Cash.- New Musical Express (NME)
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An astonishing debut of cosmic country noir. [28 Aug 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Confident, bold, ambitious, bunged with singles and impossible to contain, ‘X&Y’ doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it does reinforce Coldplay as the band of their time.- New Musical Express (NME)
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In an age where even Britpop corpse-botherers Brother trumpet their desire to collaborate with Odd Future, the Monkeys have made a record heavily indebted to late-'80s indie and a small group of white, male '70s singer-songwriters: Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Leonard Cohen.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 3, 2011
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The nerve of it all is breathtaking. Turbo-beats poke up a gospel-jazz revivalist meeting, a mariachi band wanders into the hazy disco sashay of 'Broken Dreams', a Gary Numan sample gets bludgeoned to credibility in the Van Helden-esque pogo of 'Where's Your Head At?'.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Syro is amazing: bug-eyed, banging rave that sounds quintessentially Aphex while not quite sounding like anything he’s done before.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 18, 2014
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