New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
- Music
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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Four years on, his fifth album just feels stodgily generic.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Angels & Airwaves labour under the illusion that "mature" equals "worthwhile;" and that means long, directionless songs swathed in echo pedals and factory-set keyboards.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Just when you think they’ve already smithereened the silly barrier, what the world needs most swiftly turns up: Hadouken! go Auto-Tune.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Rolling Blackouts sees them doing what The Go! Team do: flailing and yelping like meth-addicted Energiser bunnies, which, as you may have figured, is not a compliment.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 7, 2011
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Only the Bond-esque 'Confide In Me' is worthwhile in an otherwise sorry array of pop bangers left soggy on the barbecue.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 31, 2012
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The debut album from half-Scottish, half-Swedish songwriter Nina Nesbitt is pop so sugary it’ll rot your teeth.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 18, 2014
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It's an album full of the sort of drippy ballads and droopy soft rock that should induce an involuntary gag reflex in anyone under the age of 45.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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The sad fact is that Blink-182 are now indistinguishable from the increasingly tedious 'teenage dirtbag' genre they helped spawn.- New Musical Express (NME)
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If soukous and Congolese rumba sound exotic, the reality is as bland as yam quiche.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Sparse, directionless and half-formed, Trans AM's eighth LP is nowhere near the radical transformation its title suggests.- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Mar 25, 2011
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The title track is 11 minutes of painfully celestial balladeering self-indulgence, a mess of standard-Sufjan jittering flutes mixed with the most offensive noise from his best-avoided early electronic period.- New Musical Express (NME)
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There's now something a bit crumbly, a bit rattly about E&TB. [17 Sep 2005, p.58]- New Musical Express (NME)
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A lacklustre collection of what sounds like pallid versions of previous hits.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Musically this is the sound of middle America at its most ugly and nauseating...- New Musical Express (NME)
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Anodyne dance music for people who don't go to clubs, comedown music for people who don't do drugs.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Vile, goth-jock pop with all the wit and nuance of a urine-soaked sock.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Their latest album You is very much an acquired taste, a wonky clatter that eight fellas with wayward Warren Ellis beards and DIY instrument workshops in their sheds will surely jizz themselves silly over.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 12, 2014
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It’s business as usual with the release of their spaghetti-mess fourth.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 31, 2014
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Allen’s old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace-spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she’s arrived.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 5, 2014
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Just when you think Audio Secrecy can get no more infuriating, you find the most overwrought of the ballads lodging their tunes inside the melodic part of your cranium.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The music is as grotesquely over-produced as its lyrics are undercooked, with glossy drum rolls and naff scratching segments fighting for attention on the gruesome battlefield.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Unfortunately, this is not only their weakest album, it's their most confused.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Too much of Not Your Kind Of People is pedestrian, anodyne and utterly unremarkable.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 15, 2012
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After two albums treading water in the tricky oceans of landfill indie, the tides are turning.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 28, 2011
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More problematic than the bad lyrics or air of disengagement is Higgins' involvement. Too much of the album sounds washed out and painfully clean.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 15, 2012
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‘Take A Look In The Mirror’ doesn’t just sound like a bad album, it sounds like a broken record.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Too often, the follow-up to their 600,000-selling debut 'Spit', is plain overbearing, a violent marriage of melody and brutality that makes for a highly uneasy listen.- New Musical Express (NME)
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