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 |
Score distribution:
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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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It's the best thing he's done since his game-changing debut, and heartening evidence to suggest the self-professed Louis Vuitton don is in a good place right now.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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[Has] the unmistakable feel of an instant classic. [28 Jan 2006, p.34]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Nielson strides away from the woozy Beefheart-indebted psychedelia of ‘II’ and its self-titled 2011 predecessor, and vividly expands every single aspect of the UMO sound.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 12, 2015
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The most doubter-defying second album since 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'.- New Musical Express (NME)
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They have returned hungry and wired to shake us out of our digital comas.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 8, 2014
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It’s a sleeping giant of a dancefloor creeper that will be everyone’s favourite new electro album in approximately six months’ time.- New Musical Express (NME)
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A record with the bleak-yet-redemptive spirit of REM's 'Automatic For The People' and the musical magnificence of a 'Deserter's Songs'. But also a record that - as much as 'London Calling' or 'What's Going On' - holds a deep, dark, truthful Black Mirror up to our turbulent times.- New Musical Express (NME)
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His outfit have returned with an album that skirts close to perfection in its 35 minutes of glorious madness and transcendent, George Harrison-like guitar solos.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 8, 2014
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Smother is deeply sad and lonely, but still a barbed invitation to intimacy; like Coleridge's albatross, an extraordinarily elegant, stunning, (near)-perfect portrait of how terribly bad decisions can turn out.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 9, 2011
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Gratuitous filth, basically. It’s funny, but also a pity, because Yeezus is so tight, so bold, that with a few tweaks Kanye could’ve made his rock for the ages. As it is, he’ll have to settle for one of the best records of the year.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 2, 2013
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A record that anyone who’s ever demanded anything interesting from rock music should hear.- New Musical Express (NME)
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One of the most exciting hip-hop releases not only of this year, but in recent memory. [27 Nov 2004, p.61]- New Musical Express (NME)
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A clearly adult, unfashionably sensitive document, all grace and understatement, experimental through what it leaves out, and the effects it plants in the background.- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Sep 8, 2014
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It may be titled From Kinshasa, but this record could easily be from the future.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 14, 2015
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Less has always been more with Smith, and the success of In Colour lies in his gift for melding together very few elements to create songs that are original, surprising and highly effective.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 26, 2015
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This Is My Hand should see her join him, her other collaborators and St Vincent in the US experimental pop pantheon.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 15, 2014
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This is an album that leaves you in absolutely no doubt that, at the very least, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the best thing to come out of France since Daft Punk. [30 Apr 2005, p.63]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It’s wrought with haunting, high-stakes emotions, but the strength of Scott’s voice means it never feels melodramatic or plainly vulnerable.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 25, 2013
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Thank you very much, Mr Rubin--The Man In Black is still with us. [1 Jul 2006, p.36]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It's an album of outstanding natural beauty, an organic, wholesome work.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Uniformly excellent.... Few, if any, British bands are making music quite like this right now.- New Musical Express (NME)
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A diverse but wholly coherent set of songs, this spaced-out odyssey is well worth the trip.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 10, 2014
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ATDI's latest album has its amps cranked to the hilt from start to finish. Far from being another in a long line of sanitised American punk rock albums, 'Relationship Of Command' sounds REAL.- New Musical Express (NME)
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It'd be hard not to draw parallels between Calvi and [...] PJ Harvey. Yet while both women ooze an elemental kind of passion, Calvi is unashamedly slicker, especially when compared to Harvey's earlier, grungier work.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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What 'Drukqs' never is, of course, is boring. It's also beautifully paced. No track sounds like the one before, even though Aphex rarely strays far from the musical palate that's served him so well in the past.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The TNGHT EP packs five explosive instrumental hip-hop tracks, every one dripping with each producer's trademark sonic flourishes.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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