New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 6,014 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: 4,234 out of 6014
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Mixed: 1,627 out of 6014
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Negative: 153 out of 6014
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This is pedestrian, derivative twaddle of the lowest order that embarasses both the '60s and the recent revival fad. [21 Jan 2006, p.33]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It's tuneful enough but, really, the case for the dismantling of 2010's nostalgic apparatus starts here. Less hypnagogic pop, more over-the-hillwave.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 10, 2011
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This is really little more than a half-baked infantile indulgence.- New Musical Express (NME)
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No matter what instruments are used, their weedy, aggro-pop retains the impression that it’s the chosen soundtrack for lifeless 35-year-olds stuck uncomfortably in suburbia.- New Musical Express (NME)
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We’re all for people celebrating the music they love free from boundaries of race and that, but there’s something inescapably grating about hearing a German/English newspaper heiress wittering on about fucking Babylon in thick patois. Crushingly disappointing.- New Musical Express (NME)
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- Posted Jul 6, 2015
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At least once they had a snappy poetic sensibility and an admirable interest in history. Unfortunately, now they are pure turgid Americana pastiche.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 25, 2011
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There’s something to be said for creating music exclusively for the club or to be bumped in car stereos in the summer, but with a bland, out-dated musical architecture, The WIZRD doesn’t even offer that. I- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 22, 2019
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Ultimately it feels short on substance, with the sort of atmosphere that can drain through your fingers.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 24, 2013
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The record lurches between cliched harpsichord-driven ditties and cringeworthy soft-rock pop songs that rely on the inventiveness of their concept over the originality of their music.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Tides is ambient in the same way as a water feature in a garden: soothing at a glance, but ultimately boring.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 2, 2013
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This is a further stumble away from the glory days of 'Ten'. [29 Apr 2006, p.39]- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘CLB’ sounds jaded and dull, as if it was a chore to make. It’s certainly a chore to listen to. ... It offers nothing new to the rapper’s canon, merely going through the motions on his old formulas instead.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 3, 2021
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It batters through good taste, though its reggae-lite template is musically forgettable.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 18, 2018
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What should have been a worldly record of peace ends up limping with musical dissatisfaction that outweighs its virtue. [29 Jul 2006, p.31]- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘The Balcony’ is informed both by their struggle and their noughties indie elders. All this adds up to a dated sound.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Dec 19, 2014
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Cash deserves better than this. In fact, he deserves to be left in peace. Some things should just be left alone.- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’ is a mixed bag of heavy metaphor and lazy observation.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 15, 2021
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Despite his surprisingly palatable baritone, this remains an album you won't want to listen to more than once.- New Musical Express (NME)
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For the most part, The Stoop is a tuneful if beige Ronson-esque production, set against clever-lyrics-for-stupid-people.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Within the first four songs, 5SOS shout out underachievers, college dropouts and kids battling low self-esteem. They do so with winning sincerity, but even that can’t quite make up for the record’s derivative sound.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 22, 2015
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He's only gone and come back. And improved, actually: we counted two more hits than "Back To Bedlam." Be very afraid.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Morning View's insurmountable flaw is that Incubus sell themselves as an Intelligent and Sensitive rock band, without actually appearing especially intelligent or sensitive.- New Musical Express (NME)
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What's left of the genius glam-punksters has returned in the guise of an above-average pub-rock band. [22 Jul 2006, p.31]- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘Changes’ is a knackering listen. Overly reliant on trendy production and profound(ish) romantic proclamations, it’s a disappointing comeback from an artist who has a track record in creating hits.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 14, 2020
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The abstract hip-hop guru’s fifth full-length offering, in the tradition of wayward cut-and-paste instrumentalism, is one almighty mess.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Myths 004 certainly hits the mark for “embracing the chaos” as a “crude holiday scrapbook”, as they promised in a release accompanying the EP. But is it actually an enjoyable listen? Not really.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 1, 2019
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Not so much leaping between time-signatures as entire time-zones, the gristly riffs and ambient metal meanderings of ‘Sonder’ strive for a kind of stoic, sombre enormity, but they clash badly with Tompkins’ often slick pop vocals.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 19, 2018
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