New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 6,010 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: 4,231 out of 6010
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Mixed: 1,626 out of 6010
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Negative: 153 out of 6010
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This is an album of genuine depth, one expressing the nervous conservative shockwaves which charge through party kids once they start to come down.- New Musical Express (NME)
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There’s still a lot to love about B&S, but there was something magical, otherworldly even, about them during this period that this compilation captures perfectly.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Remarkably, with this astounding debut, an unassuming 21-year-old from SW2 has revitalised a forgotten form to make one of the finest forward-thinking British pop albums of recent memory.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Their most focused, energetic pop record since 'Radiator'.... Certainly, 'Phantom Power' shows up Radiohead's timid adventures, while giving The Coral something to aim for too.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The Adams of ‘Love Is Hell’ has gone out to make an album that actually is classic rock ‘n’ roll rather than one that can simply impersonate it, and sound convincing. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Seems that after all the pale imitators, Radiohead finally have a competitor worthy of healthy comparison.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Taking Mangum’s recorded-on-cardboard lo-fi folk epics as their ground zero, TRAA turn in the best alt.debut of the year.- New Musical Express (NME)
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'Smile' stands up with any of the great music of the 20th century. [25 Sep 2004, p.63]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Every tangled note of Option Paralysis drips with honesty and endeavour, and it shines like a beacon of integrity in a world that's been focus-grouped into the dirt.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Here's music for the twilight hours - feverish, contemplative, nostalgic. It resonates with the force of a thousand passionate post-club conversations in darkened, smoke-filled rooms, of intense, doomed liaisons, of youthful arrogance undercut by fear and failure.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Bono's genius is that his inner monologue is so huge and heroic that it matches the scale of the music. And, even more so than on 'All That You Can't Leave Behind,' the music is enormous. [13 Nov 2004, p.55]- New Musical Express (NME)
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This is murderously good stuff. [25 Sep 2004, p.64]- New Musical Express (NME)
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What you have here is the most agonisingly voyeuristic listening experience in rock, ever. It's also some of the most exhilarating and brilliant rock'n'roll of the past 20 years. [7 Aug 2004, p.46]- New Musical Express (NME)
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The Child Of Lov may have started off as a shadowy enigma, but now is when Cole Williams lays his cards on the table. Turns out he was hiding a royal flush.- New Musical Express (NME)
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All told, it's incredible this is a debut album. Accomplished, yet subtle, it works perfectly as a whole in a way all the production skills in the world couldn't replicate.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Let's Stay Friends arrives as a startling cannon-shot message of brain-thawing intent.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Stripped of all the sonic flotsam that usually surrounds them, Animal Collective come into their own--if you can ignore the chatter to listen with innocent ears, they surpass ‘good’ and remain bewildering.- New Musical Express (NME)
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They’re too wilfully mad to emulate Tame Impala’s success, but if you’re after a freaking out, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s outrageous noise deserves attention.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 15, 2014
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In spite of all the terror and uncertainty, it's the warmth that lingers.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 21, 2014
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Where 'The Remote Part' was their 'Green'-esque lunge into the spotlight, 'Warnings/Promises' is their full-blwon 'Out Of Time' spectacular. But with less twangle, more teeth. [5 Mar 2005, p.50]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Their world - sexual, drug-filled, and occasionally paranoid - has become progressively darker, and as such we find them nothing less than guardians of the rock flame.- New Musical Express (NME)
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An album which radically extends the Franz musical palette.- New Musical Express (NME)
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