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 would be unfair to call the album a time capsule of present times, however chaotic those are, as it feels like the uneven collection might morph into something else when revisiting it next week.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 13, 2023
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It might lack the raw appeal of Kendrick's 2011 mixtape 'Section.80', but it's also a big-budget reminder that the 25-year-old hasn't forgotten his roots.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 22, 2012
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Though this is her most creative record to date, the lyrics stick to safer territory.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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Bad As Me has to rank as a disappointment, since there are no surprises to match Real Gone's sepulchral funk or Orphans'... breathtaking sweep.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 31, 2011
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It’s a well-crafted debut from a worthy new artist, but it’s competent rather than compelling.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 21, 2013
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By trading nonsensical time signatures and atonal bursts for fluidity and stadium rock, they've subtracted from their former wretchedness.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 8, 2012
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It's not, as has been signalled, Super Furries' best album. It's their worst. That's still aeons better than most other left-of-centre alternative British pop bands, but it's nonetheless a disappointment.- New Musical Express (NME)
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They peddle the same sort of fake-rustic rootsiness that seems to be colonising our era: all these flatpack off-the-peg dreams of Ruritania that iPad-stashing mid-lifes have taken up as a counterpoint to their rabid technophilia.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 2, 2011
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Inevitably, when the Prozac finally wears off the more 'thoughtful' numbers fall flat on their faces. [20 Aug 2005, p.58]- New Musical Express (NME)
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This is Yo La tengo on snug autopilot. [2 Sep 2006, p.21]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Viewed in isolation, ‘Heaven’ is a pretty sublime pop-punk record. Its little brother, ‘Hell’, yields more mixed results, continuing the metal-infused sound Sum 41 have veered towards in recent years.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 28, 2024
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A naggingly problematic record, with a void at its heart that no amount of cool celebrity mates can quite conceal.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Without visuals to add a knowing wink and a flourish of pop absurdity, it sometimes settles into a comfortable groove of trap-influenced drum beats, moody instrumentals, Frank Ocean-y electric guitars and percussive brass peals. Rarely deviating from earnestness, this is at odds with the absurd brilliance of his defining moments thus far.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 17, 2021
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- Posted May 15, 2012
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Ire Works is their most controlled effort to date, even more so than 2004's mainstream-friendly (relatively speaking, of course) "Miss Machine."- New Musical Express (NME)
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Sometimes you wish Meloy would just put away his studied thesp-schlock and say, "Man, I'm sick of singing about Victorian peasants. I got dumped once. I want to write about that..." [27 Jan 2007, p.31]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Japandroids know how to bring the ruckus. But elsewhere the power-chord pummelage gets a bit one-note.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 6, 2012
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There are far too many children’s voices, snatches of birdsong, glissandi of saccharine strings, and always the half-heard, half-sensed thwack of Frisbee upon social media manager.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 1, 2016
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‘As The Love Continues’ is an album that opens impressively but falls short at times during its second half.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 17, 2021
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The result is a soothing, slow-burning collection which reflects on times and friends gone by.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 17, 2021
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Even if ‘Painless’ occasionally settles into a consistent, thudding groove at times, when Yanya goes full pelt, she’s at her very best.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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- Posted Feb 29, 2016
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‘A Written Testimony’ is a 39-minute, 10-track project that offers all the usual Jay Electronica tropes: complex rhyming patterns, double and triple entendre, lyrics across various languages laid over psychedelic production with minimal drums. Electronica excels on a technical level throughout. Yet, while this is the most anyone has heard from him musically in over a decade, there’s a sense of reticence throughout the LP.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 17, 2020
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If you've ever wondered what growing up in middle-class 1970s America would have been like, these deeply personal revelations are for you. [30 Apr 2005, p.64]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It may not be the most exciting project to be released by the singer, but it’s complexity and composition make for a perfect power-down playlist.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 1, 2018
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You leave American Gangster longing for more of this don't-give-a-fuck attitude, but the feeling that presides is Jay-Z patting his wallet.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The result is a thoroughly modern pop album that will best appeal to ageing clubbers.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Their third album totaling 75 minutes and spread, slightly unnecessarily, over two CDs, it reaches unexpected new heights in the pantheon of 'metal bands who mellowed out'.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 16, 2012
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The style is cool, the moves perfect, but you can take as much of lasting value from a stick of gum as you can from these dank-basement stomps.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Some of the album’s charms only emerge when you search hard for them, as on the disjointed gloom of ‘The Light In Your Name’ or the dankness of ‘Spiral’, and there are a few ponderous cold spots.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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