New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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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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Summer Walker paints in subtler shades. This is an album of relatable, mixed emotions, the narrator promiscuous one minute and faithful the next. This is record of complex emotions, treated with a lightness of touch that ensures it’s fun as fuck. We’re far from ‘Over It’.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 21, 2019
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‘For Those I Love’ is not only an immaculate debut, but a beautiful record that speaks to anyone who’s ever loved and lost, anyone who might be mourning or just processing the days of youthful abandon, or perhaps those who need reminding that you can’t have shadows without the light.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 24, 2021
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With soothing production, enveloped with numbing vocals, she leaves you in a state of utopia. This surprise album of 2019 was something we didn’t know we needed.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 5, 2019
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Simply put, Strokes have every quality rock'n'roll requires from its finest exponents and Is This It is where they come together.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 24, 2013
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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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During the album’s second half, the energy increases even further as Murphy and Sheffield-based collaborator Crooked Man (aka DJ Parrot) throw the party of a lifetime.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 28, 2020
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The album is a masterful psychedelic patchwork, bouncing between eerie soundscapes (opener ‘Fuck Your Acid Trip’), knotty post-punk (‘Walking And Running’) and maximalist pop melody (the ludicrously good fun ‘The Sun Hasn’t left’).- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 22, 2021
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‘Blue Weekend’ is another stone-cold masterpiece that further cements their place at the very peak of British music.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 2, 2021
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‘But Here We Are’ is a beautiful, noisy celebration of brotherhood and a stark, painful exploration of loss. It is messy, gut-wrenching, ambitious and gorgeous, as the remaining members of Foo Fighters push themselves to their limits and beyond. Through it all, ‘But Here We Are’ is an undeniable reminder of the healing, unifying power of music.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 26, 2023
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It’s the work of an artist with a sincere appreciation for dance music and the skills to make her own galvanising bangers. Many of these songs will give you a prick of emotion at the back of your eyes – a sure sign that Romy really appreciates the healing power of a packed club floor.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 6, 2023
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War Music is the best album Refused have ever made. It has more in common with the violent swing of a sledgehammer than any punk record we’ve heard this year.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 18, 2019
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Inspiration comes in a myriad of ways, and the talent must have the time to put these parts together and let them mature; it’s how we’ve ended up with an album as epic and impressive as this.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Conceptually, ‘La Vita Nuova’ is an astonishing feat – but even better than that, it also oozes an intensity of feeling that punches right in the gut.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 3, 2020
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Ten years after their last masterpiece, The Flaming Lips have finally produced another one.- New Musical Express (NME)
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The good news is that American Dream delivers, point by point, on everything you could want from an LCD Soundsystem album.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 31, 2017
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A rich and varied album that courses from atmospheric instrumentals (‘Interlude : Dawn’) to the smooth groove of ‘SDL’, on ‘D-DAY’ Agust D is an unstoppable, thought-provoking force, wrapping up his trilogy in peak form.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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This time round, there’s a more coherent theme to Lande’s songs. ... It’s all fascinating. Inspiring. Warm. Funny sometimes. All of it will make you feel better about the fragility of the mind.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 31, 2018
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A warts-and-all reckoning, his most exhilarating project to date from front to back.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 2, 2023
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A glorious and human introduction, this is without doubt a modern-day shoegaze classic.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 2, 2020
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- Posted Jul 22, 2021
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For what it is, for what it does, for what it represents and for exposing the idiocy of people who only care about 'what it earns us', then, a truly, TRULY great pop record.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Here’s your prescribed dose of reality with an unmistakable and intoxicating Sleaford Mods flavour. The extraordinary ‘Spare Ribs’ is graffiti on a concrete wall; there’s no manifesto, no easy answers and nowhere to hide.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 12, 2021
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This music is the electronic, Warp-inspired answer to Brian Wilson's 'Smile.' [31 Jul 2004, p.41]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Familiar emotionally yet revelatory in its execution, the album sees Blake sing about mundane, almost incidental upsets that sting harder than they should. Piercing lyrics are matched by innovative, fearless production.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 8, 2021
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Melding Motown melodies and pop chords for heartbreak and house party listeners alike, Hive Mind is a triumph.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 20, 2018
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A powerful piece of work, but one that will leave you with as many questions as it does answers.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 5, 2017
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This isn’t just a striking return for one of the most individual bands of the last 20 years; it is, musically, an astounding masterpiece. Their finest hour? Quite possibly.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 14, 2022
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Not only a fittingly accomplished conclusion to their most adventurous and masterful project to date, ‘Part 2’ is also a thoroughbred belter of a record and utterly complete album in its own right. Add it all up and the ‘Everything Not Lost’ era is testament to all that Foals are capable of – in sound, in scope and in greatness.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 18, 2019
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Prince: Originals is at its best when Prince lets loose and embraces his cheekier side. ... Although the camp synths and indulgent guitar solos present on a lot of these tracks are clear by-products of the decade that gave us cone bras, Super Mario and The Goonies, this music also sounds prescient.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 12, 2019
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