New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
- Music
For 3,011 reviews, this publication has graded:
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
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Positive: 1,982 out of 3011
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Mixed: 890 out of 3011
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Negative: 139 out of 3011
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Critic Score 90
When your nightbus home is beset by phantasmagorical drunkards with beady, threatening eyes, when your ears are bashed by mendacious line managers and eyes beset by the violence of news/advert/news, then this incredible album is your passport to a better place. -
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Critic Score 90
What it does do, however, is remind us that he is a copper-bottomed genius. -
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Critic Score 90
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] -
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Critic Score 90
‘Room On Fire’ is a refining and tinkering with The Strokes sound, a carefully calibrated attempt not to fuck up too early in the face of untold temptations. The results are still sleek, sexy and thrilling, with a tantalising promise of even better to come. -
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Critic Score 90
Gruelling assault course of lyrical genius that pours itself into the 18 tracks on this album- -
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Critic Score 90
Glasser's glowing debut offers more melodic and emotional consummation than almost any of her peers can muster, poised in a genuinely transcendent golden balance between the stern, the spacious and the gaudily sparkling. A very precious Ring indeed. -
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- Posted Apr 15, 2011
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Critic Score 90
The emotive finesse of ‘Cherry Blossoms’ might further the calls for a shoulder to blub on, but chugging full-band showstopper ‘Ramona’ shows Yellen’s songwriting to be as rich as his voice.- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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Critic Score 90
A record of glorious parts that are just too weighty, too emotionally complex and rich to hang together well as a whole. -
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Critic Score 90
There's no possible way of having this much fun without getting the chorus of Handel's 'Messiah' drunk on peach schnapps. [4 Feb 2006, p.29] -
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Critic Score 90
Warpaint's is a different darkness, not delighting in splendour or show, but in deftly exploring a bleak internal, romantically bereft landscape.- Posted Oct 25, 2010
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Critic Score 90
A disorientatingly great mess of free-jazz, space-rock and voodoo swamp music. [10 Dec 2005, p.37] -
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Critic Score 90
As it turns out, Love This Giant is completely out of kilter with what's contemporary, and off-the-hook brilliant to boot.- Posted Sep 10, 2012
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Critic Score 90
Even the most hardcore disciple is likely to get something they might have missed before. [21 Oct 2006, p.35] -
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Critic Score 90
It is miles better than 'Innerspeaker', and quite possibly the best album released so far this year.- Posted Mar 12, 2012
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Critic Score 90
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. -
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Critic Score 90
This album is an onslaught of brutal drumming and bowel-loosening riffs, occasionally leavened by surprisingly delicate vocal interplay. -
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- Posted Jan 24, 2011
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Critic Score 90
Shrines is a euphoric treat in its own right, made all the more thrilling by its heady potential.- Posted Jul 24, 2012
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Critic Score 90
The Child Of Lov may have started off as a shadowy enigma, but now is when Cole Williams lays his cards on the table. Turns out he was hiding a royal flush.- Posted May 7, 2013
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- Posted Apr 3, 2012
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- Posted Nov 13, 2012
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Critic Score 90
Here's music for the twilight hours - feverish, contemplative, nostalgic. It resonates with the force of a thousand passionate post-club conversations in darkened, smoke-filled rooms, of intense, doomed liaisons, of youthful arrogance undercut by fear and failure. -
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Critic Score 90
Overall, you get the kind of lush musings that’ll soundtrack all the pivotal moments of your wayward summer romance. Blissful. -
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Critic Score 90
Remarkably, with this astounding debut, an unassuming 21-year-old from SW2 has revitalised a forgotten form to make one of the finest forward-thinking British pop albums of recent memory. -
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- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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Critic Score 90
Recovering emos Brand New have taken doing things their own way to the point of invisibility, but their journey into the widescreen ether continues with yet another breathtakingly accomplished record. -
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Critic Score 90
An understated classic: a triumph of delicacy over decibels. [19 Jun 2004, p.56] -
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Critic Score 90
It's a third album that avoids all the pitfalls of third albums: introspective without being self-pitying, expansive in scope without being pompous, exploring new directions without disappearing up its own arse. -