New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 5,999 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: 4,221 out of 5999
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Mixed: 1,625 out of 5999
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Negative: 153 out of 5999
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This time there’s a more untamed fierceness in Apple’s voice, as she relays tales of feminism, abusive partners, the sacrifices of love and the dinner parties she won’t be quiet at. Unrefined sounds recorded in her LA home make for a visceral listening experience.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 17, 2020
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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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Ultimately, ‘Kid Amnesiae’ not only offers a mood piece, but also a companion and secret history behind the making of two essential, landmark records – and the rebirth of a great band.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 4, 2021
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An album that, lacking the neatly redemptive arc of 'good kid, mAAd city', is also grand and slightly unwieldy.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 18, 2015
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Ghosteen is one of the most devastatingly accurate accounts of grief that you’ll ever listen to. Yet it’s also, astoundingly, one of the most comforting. Few mediations on grief manage to navigate despair and catharsis as well as this.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 4, 2019
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The boundaries for African music are constantly moving, and across this album, Amaarae pushes them even further.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 12, 2023
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DAMN. is by far his shortest release to date – but the ideas, thoughts and feelings it contains are massive, weighty things, from sexual tension to deep, dark depression.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 24, 2017
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It’s a vision of which DeLillo, Picasso or Eliot would be proud, and serves as a fitting close on a record that aspires to be the musical equivalent of the Great American Novel. It would be foolish indeed to assume that ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ is Dylan’s last word, but it’s certainly a historic address.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 15, 2020
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The good--no, the astonishing--news is that this constantly engrossing record repays a decade and a half's faith and patience. D'Angelo has scuttled down the digital chimney with an early Christmas gift with long-lasting rewards: not just one of the best records of 2014, but one that will stay with you throughout next year, too.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 16, 2014
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From the start, it’s clear that this isn’t some posthumous dig around in a bucket of old offcuts in an attempt to bleed some money out of dedicated fans, but rather a slick and gratifying fulfilment of one of Petty’s long standing wishes. ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ feels less like grave-robbing and more like bringing back one of the all-time greats back to life.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 19, 2020
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There’s groove here. There are innovative experiments in atonality. And there’s a record that says as much about the lives of young people in 2019 as any we’ve heard released so far this year.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 23, 2019
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‘Conflict Of Interest’ could sit on the same shelf as Dave’s ‘Psychodrama’ as an album that depicts honest tales of London through the art of true lyricism, a tradition that will never die out.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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‘A Comforting Notion’ feels urgent and important, brimming with all the promise of the next great cult act.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 27, 2023
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No other record released this year will provoke such conflicting emotions in you. Skeleton Tree is both beautiful and harrowing, hard to listen to but even harder to look away from.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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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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Rosalía isn’t so much carving out her own lane as building her own ultra-modern, super-bendy sonic motorway. It’s one you’ll want to hurtle down again and again.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Noname isn’t bringing us a romantic rags-to-riches story; here she acknowledges the pitfalls of fame (as well as the occasional perks) with whip-smart honesty. Just like ‘Telefone’, it’s flawless.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 17, 2018
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‘One Foot in Front of the Other’ cements the accolade [Britain's next great pop star] – Griff has got the golden touch right now.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 18, 2021
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Rightly championed as a vital new voice in the world of rock, Nova Twins haven’t let any of that pressure get in the way of creating a flamboyant, fantastic second album that’s as playful as it is powerful.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Assured and unapologetic, it’s charged with a dark, smirking wit that’s impossible to turn away from, and achieves an incredibly impressive feat: not only does Self Esteem detail the fear, uneasiness and anger of being a woman – keys clutched between our fists – but also manages to make us laugh at the sheer absurdity of being forced to navigate a world that has, quite unbelievably, normalised misogyny.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 20, 2021
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Lemonade is strikingly varied. ... Where her huge team fails to innovate is on the album’s drab middle few cuts about acceptance and forgiveness--chief among them the horrible hoedown ‘Daddy Lessons’, which blends whooping with boring rhymes (“Daddy made me fight / It wasn't always right”). But the final four tracks see quality return, and penultimate track ‘All Night’, in particular, is one of Beyoncé’s most nuanced vocal performances to date.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 25, 2016
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This singular record will remain a stunning collection to be cherished for years to come, and a remarkable high on which to end Wood’s tenure at the front of the band. It’s a future cult classic.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 3, 2022
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A roducer's album in the best sense, showcasing the personal and lyrical over flashy technique. [Review of UK version]- New Musical Express (NME)
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What you have in ‘This Could Be Texas’ is everything you want from a debut; a truly original effort from start to finish, an adventure in sound and words, and a landmark statement.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 9, 2024
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This is an album that shuns almost any traditional categorisation, and is all the more thrilling for it.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 26, 2021
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This is easily their most expansive work yet--a continued exploration of the beauty in brutality.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 5, 2018
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The eloquence, barbarism, tenderness and sweat-drenched vitality of 'Elephant' make it the most fully-realised White Stripes album yet.- New Musical Express (NME)
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