New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
- Music
For 6,005 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: 4,227 out of 6005
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Mixed: 1,625 out of 6005
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Negative: 153 out of 6005
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Somewhere beneath the unconvincing sheen of these songs there’s a great band trying to break out. Maybe next time.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 7, 2013
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[The] constant sense of melodrama robs the record of its potency, the impact of that pounding sonic template diminished through its constancy. The sense of doom is familiar, the sound of the band’s new record even more so.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 7, 2019
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It's all rather one-paced and sags badly after tenth track 'Lick Up Ya Foot' but, by crikey, the likes of 'Big Tings Redone' and 'Dutty Rut' provide the perfect soundtrack for out-on-the-stoop sunshine boozing.- New Musical Express (NME)
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This patchy album shows these sharp-suited Londoners on safe indie territory, but caught in several minds.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Although it can be overblown, Sean’s passion is unreserved here, the record peppered with Instagram-worthy captions that urge listeners to take inspiration from their surroundings while keeping friends and family close.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 8, 2020
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Sound Mirror’s mix of jazz rhythms and psychedelic funk cuts a distinctive, if unfashionable, path.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 2, 2014
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Instead of an album hurtling 100mph in one of those directions, Fragrant World feels like the work of a band with stabilisers on.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 21, 2012
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While it doesn’t reach the impossibly high standards of their back catalogue, there’s enough promise to suggest there are good times ahead.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 7, 2013
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The record is most effective at its most gentle and sparse, his voice given room to breathe. Where the lyrics becomes too grandiose, words clash with the folky style, leading to abrupt jarrs in pace and direction. Yet, as with most of Corgan’s solo projects to date, there are still plenty of moments of beauty here.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 3, 2019
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While the low-key arrangements and melancholic song choices may make Tinsel And Lights an EastEnders special of a Christmas album, if you're planning on a microwaved turkey dinner for one this year, there's probably no better soundtrack.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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This is a nine-song collection of modest ambition, but ‘Buoys’ undoubtedly succeeds on its own terms, that consistently understated sonic template interspersed with surprising moments – the bassy thud of electronic drums that interrupts ‘Crescendo’, the hip-hop style piano riff that marches through ‘Master’ – that makes it a rewarding repeat listen.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 6, 2019
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Miike Snow’s debut is a curious affair: clad in icy, inscrutable packaging a la Sigur Ros with american singer Andrew Wyatt carefully enunciating every overwrought word, it’s also jam-packed with the kind of dazzling pop tricks you might expect from three chaps whose day job is churning out radio hits for the likes of and Jordin Sparks.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Lacking as it does the songwriting spark of Ariel Pink, the record lacks cohesion.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Time Team is intergalactic, ambient, Rustie-ish drug music set to snare kicks and sturdy hip-hop beats that at its best is deliciously mind-bending.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 9, 2012
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Please Mr Eitzel, get to the bar and pour yourself another drink. [1 Oct 2005, p.45]- New Musical Express (NME)
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He dissects his 20-something malaise with a dry and eloquent wit like a K-Mart Morrissey. [6 May 2006, p.33]- New Musical Express (NME)
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If ‘Holy Fvck’ is a funeral for Lovato’s pop music, it also marks a new beginning, with an artist reborn. As the musician explores this ferocious sonic world and celebrating her musical roots, it’s the start of a bold new era.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 18, 2022
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A decidedly strange record with flashes of beauty and brilliance, then. How utterly Yoko.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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While Hercules and Neon Neon took their dance nostalgia and turned it into something smart and new, Sam Sparro too often sounds like it's come straight out of an electro-funk generator--perfect reference points intact, but not developed or built upon or made unique.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The Irish duo are joined by an unnamed vocalist on a couple of tracks, but the instrumentals are the best work here.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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Despite the fluid interplay of the four MCs and J5's evolving musicality, 'Quality Control' lacks the singalong pop immediacy of 'Jurassic 5'.... Quality then. But it's not the old-skool classic we'd hoped for.- New Musical Express (NME)
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It's an impressive attempt to drag folk music out of the hayloft and onto the dancefloor and it marks the emergence of a smart, sincere and talented new pop star.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Bahdeni Nami isn’t a bad record, exactly, but it’s not quite the best place to crack into Souleyman’s catalogue (which, if you believe estimates, stretches to a mindboggling 500 recordings).- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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- Posted Aug 12, 2013
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It remains to be seen whether Do Nothing can use the solid foundations of ‘Snake Sideways’ as a launching pad to ascend to the giddy heights of their initial promise.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 30, 2023
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The first quarter of the album is a soothing ode to an immense talent gone too soon. But soon the record starts to sprawl and spiral.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 13, 2020
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It’s less an album, more a collection of savvy and generally savvy collaborations which blurs traditional genre boundaries unselfconsciously and acknowledges that Latin-pop is the sound of the near-future. Most of the time, it’s a credit to Sheeran’s songwriting skills and well-honed persona.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 12, 2019
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‘Talk Memory’ is technically proficient but all too often the record lacks the playful spirit and brash confidence the band carried themselves with in the early days.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 6, 2021
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There’s not much sugar to sweeten the pill, meaning Trap Lord is often one-note and depressing.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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Tracks like 'Bacaroo' and 'Sailing Bells' deploy the sort of lovely string arrangements that sweep you off your feet and have your knickers on the floor before you even notice your cold bits.- New Musical Express (NME)
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