New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 6,013 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: 4,233 out of 6013
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Mixed: 1,627 out of 6013
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Negative: 153 out of 6013
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'Myths Of The Near Future' is charged with the same spirit which fuelled legendary rave pranksters The KLF's period of pop subversion.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Each track on their fourth boasting a captivating blend of experimentalism and depth.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Whenever Mr Rager sets off on his next adventure we're ready, musical machetes in hand, to follow him into the undergrowth…- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 8, 2010
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- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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As Britain suffers from youth unemployment and economic crisis, our greatest currency is the chime of a golden tune. Peace have delivered 10 of them.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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The Suburbs isn't anything as simple as back to basics--they're a much more accomplished, musically interesting band now.- New Musical Express (NME)
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They have done a hell of a lot of growing up. An immense album.- New Musical Express (NME)
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With High, they’ve recorded an almost perfect 30 minutes of indie-punk. There’s no flabbiness, no million-dollar production that adds nothing to the songs, no bloated guitar lines or pointless drum fills and nothing that even comes close to seeming in any way meaningless.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 18, 2015
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Gruelling assault course of lyrical genius that pours itself into the 18 tracks on this album-- New Musical Express (NME)
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This is big, epic, widescreen music, albeit wonderfully understated. [5 Mar 2005, p.51]- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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'Silent Alarm' is no 'Franz Ferdinand'. In fact, listen to it with the words 'popular' and 'arty' in mind and its spirit is closer to the Manic Street Preachers' 'The Holy Bible'. [5 Feb 2005, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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By balancing progression with consolidation, technology with tradition, MMJ have created a work of stunningly expansive ambition. [15 Oct 2005, p.36]- New Musical Express (NME)
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The result is an LP that feels more in sync with contemporary music than ever before. There are notes here of Oneohtrix Point Never, Clams Casino, and Tim Hecker. Crucially, though, Present Tense roams a landscape which couldn’t have been charted by anyone else.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 18, 2014
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It’s a tightrope across a canyon down which many a pie-eyed baggy daredevil has fallen. Jagwar Ma make it look effortless.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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It’s heavy, assured and profound--a terrific record alone, but also one that sits in the Sleater-Kinney catalogue naturally, like they’ve never been away.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 9, 2015
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- Posted Apr 15, 2011
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Antique keyboards pulse, fretless basses thrum and a variety of voices echo in and out, underlying the trippy feel and making this pretty much the most scintillating and daring record of the year so far.- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Nov 6, 2014
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Assembled by the album's main beat-peddling prodigy, Lex Luger, they showcase a masterclass in reductionism; juggernauts of hulking, bruising, brick-to-skull intensity.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 2, 2011
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- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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Origin: Orphan is the sound of The Hidden Cameras finally proving they can make records as wham-bam powerful as their performances, with deliciously sumptuous results.- New Musical Express (NME)
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A disorientatingly great mess of free-jazz, space-rock and voodoo swamp music. [10 Dec 2005, p.37]- New Musical Express (NME)
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The ore of modern Pitchfork rock is here, laid out in all its flawed-diamond beauty. For a canon so flagrant in its faults, Quarantine is all-but faultless.- New Musical Express (NME)
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This is one to file alongside 'American Idiot', 'Doolittle' and 'Nevermind' on your greatest US rock albums shelf.- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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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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The wonder of 'Stars...' is how magnificently alive all this suburban angst sounds.- New Musical Express (NME)
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