New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 6,016 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 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,236 out of 6016
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Mixed: 1,627 out of 6016
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Negative: 153 out of 6016
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Great Divide is a love letter to the power of music itself; earnest, yes, but as heart-warming a rock record as it's possible to imagine.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 14, 2014
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Along with its album-ending coda, it helps to shroud the album in a rootsy, pastoral intimacy fitting for the times and akin to (although significantly meatier than) ‘McCartney’. In between, as you’d expect from a legend who’s been pushing his electronic boundaries on recent albums such as ‘2018’s ‘Egypt Station’, Sir Paul approaches the record with the same adventuring spirit as he did ‘McCartney II.’- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 15, 2020
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It's astonishing how the band are unafraid to take on Serious Issues yet remain so much fun.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Newsom has managed to lessen the twee factor of her last record... in the process crafting an album as bewitching as it is odd.- New Musical Express (NME)
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One of the few certainties we can take from this restless, relentlessly intriguing album is that David Bowie is positively allergic to the idea of heritage rock.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 4, 2016
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Powerful, potent and bloody good for dancing to, In A Poem Unlimited might just be the soundtrack to the revolution.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 13, 2018
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The fourth album from Caribou is the sound of the summer we're only just getting round to enjoying.- New Musical Express (NME)
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It’s to Weller’s credit that these more plaintive and introspective tracks sit so smoothly aside ‘Fat Pop’’s more playful experiments. It means that for the second time in less than a year he’s released a record that can sit safely among the best of his long career.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 10, 2021
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People may have been wondering who Bain was when she first released music, but on her debut album she’s made damn sure you won’t forget her.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 1, 2019
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American Love Call is a timeless, optimistic listen in a time of peril one that now, and in the future, can confidently be referred to as a truly great American soul record.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 14, 2019
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You know everything is going to be OK within seconds of the surging, tidal riffs of ‘Wraithlike’, and what follows is simply a fine-tuning of what the Park have done before.- New Musical Express (NME)
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If it’s mournful epics you want, then the album’s crammed full of them, from the strummed, outdoorsy sorrow of ‘Winter Dies’ to ‘Rulers, Ruling All Things’, which is peppered with cheeky Spanish guitar and weighty, fin-de-siècle lyrical flair.- New Musical Express (NME)
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When icy guitar turns ‘Pay My Debts’ into one of Van Etten’s darkest songs yet, Van Etten’s wounds feel incredibly raw.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 3, 2015
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To bypass Yuck would be imbecilic simply because their debut contains some of the most effortlessly hard-hitting, heart-hitting pop of 2011.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 22, 2011
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Only a few tracks come down with showtune-itis--‘All The Young Dudes’ and ‘Changes’, which morphs from a breathy, jazz-flecked ballad to an over-emotive Liza Minnelli cabaret piece in the hands of Cristin Milioti. Otherwise, invention reigns.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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Dlamini’s taking no chances here and, now that the smoke’s lifted, it’s clear she’s a pop contender with the nous and drive to go as far as she wants.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 18, 2019
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Where all this fits in the mesh of the Prince pantheon is anyone's guess, but it's in the good part, and after nearly 40 albums that's an achievement.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 16, 2015
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This is nuanced, purposeful songwriting from an artist growing in power.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 23, 2022
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An engrossing, bleak and often warming set of exotica, vintage pop and childlike pizzazz.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 21, 2018
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It's got the charm and spark of the Weezer of old, and that's a quality you just can't fake.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Familiar but daring, ‘Heartwork’ is a dynamic, surprising and enjoyable adventure.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 16, 2020
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Filled with lively, stylised pop tunes, she’s once again proven that she’s not just that girl from ‘Call Me Maybe’.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Though there are less standout moments than on previous records, it is a wonderfully cohesive whole that renders brooding menace into graceful songcraft.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 31, 2014
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In aiming to examine the self rather than please others, Fontaines D.C. have exerted a knack for writing anthems that are at once self-excoriating and intimately relatable.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 28, 2020
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If the DJ's art is to unite unlikely musical party guests, The Automator is a fine and generous host.- New Musical Express (NME)
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It’s not as if Kano’s position as one of the Top Boys of an energised UK grime and rap scene needed any further cementing, though ‘Hoodies All Summer’ has done exactly that.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 30, 2019
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- Posted Sep 11, 2018
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Thorny and tangled, this is dance music for drifting home from the club on deserted pavements; the moment of reflection after the euphoria fades.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 5, 2023
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Another blistering, brilliant missive from one of rock’s most fearless bands, on ‘Social Lubrication’, Dream Wife prove two things. Firstly, social commentary and exorcising your fury at the world don’t have to be joyless, and secondly, they’re still one of the most vital acts we’ve got right now.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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