New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
- Music
For 6,000 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: 4,222 out of 6000
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Mixed: 1,625 out of 6000
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Negative: 153 out of 6000
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This new record not only keeps up that 100 per cent strike rate of golden tunes, but also gives us their best release to date. It’s an album that represents huge growth. Their vocals are more powerful and emotive than ever. ... Like true Gen Z artists, they pull from an extensive palette of genres, but manage to make each – be it angsty rock or a return to disco-pop – feel like it’s a sound they’ve been honing for ages.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 7, 2021
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Crawlers reaffirm their place as one of the young guiding lights in British guitar music.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 16, 2024
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Fizzingly fun, this third mixtape sees Chance finessing but certainly not hampering, his freewheeling nature.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 16, 2016
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- Posted Jun 21, 2017
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The result is an album that pulses with energy, one that’s not a dancefloor record in the traditional sense – we can’t see Diplo dropping any of these tracks into his inevitable socially distanced Las Vegas comeback set at some point in late 2021 – but one with an insistent groove woven into its 10 delicately emotive songs, which deal with love in all its messy permutations.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Feb 4, 2021
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On the evidence of Chris--a deft and bogglingly-intelligent record, which somehow sounds blissfully effortless too--she’s earned her own place in the pop icon history books.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Sep 20, 2018
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These songs offer a more adult and grounded perspective than ones like ‘Lone Star Lake’ and ‘Evil Spawn’; they’re about the person who feels like home rather than the one who gets your blood pumping. It’s a nice counterweight that feels emblematic of ‘Tigers Blood’ — it’s a burning fire, and it’s a warm summer evening at once.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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- Posted Oct 10, 2016
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It's thrillingly obvious that Junior Boys have made one of the year's best albums. [31 Jul 2004, p.41]- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘Pink Noise’ is steeped in liberation, not bitterness – it isn’t just a heartening comeback, but an absolutely sparkling pop album.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 30, 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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We Are Not Your Kind is an astonishing record, a roaring, horrifying delve into the guts of the band’s revulsion, a primal scream of endlessly inventive extreme metal and searing misanthropy.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Aug 7, 2019
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The tension created by the lyrics and music is wonderful and uneasy, ensuring that The Idler is endlessly fascinating and unlike anything else you're likely to hear this year.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 18, 2012
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Merriweather..., their psych-pop pinnacle, shares the simultaneous relentless complexity and instant simplicity of the best Of Montreal albums, but where Kevin Barnes’ last effort got lost in its clever-clever weirdness, shifting rhythms and textures in a way that felt like standing onboard a bus going down a mountain, Animal Collective’s is an easy, good-natured beast.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Their world - sexual, drug-filled, and occasionally paranoid - has become progressively darker, and as such we find them nothing less than guardians of the rock flame.- New Musical Express (NME)
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‘On Bright Green Field’, in all of its weird, frantic and fantastic glory, they’ve gone above and beyond.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted May 5, 2021
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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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It’s a shame that on The Mindsweep, Shikari's message is occasionally lost among the madness.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jan 15, 2015
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Listen to the beats and you'll find The Neptunes' best work in years. [27 Jan 2007, p.31]- New Musical Express (NME)
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If you want to know about the Glasgow scene which spawned Franz Ferdinand, 'Push Barman To Open Old Wounds' is pretty much essential. [21 May 2005, p.66]- New Musical Express (NME)
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By breaking from what the world might expect from them and letting themselves do whatever the hell they want, they have produced a record that’s experimental, soothing and vulnerable; it’s a thing of great beauty.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jun 16, 2020
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‘Folklore’ feels fresh, forward-thinking and, most of all, honest. The glossy production she’s lent on for the past half-decade is cast aside for simpler, softer melodies and wistful instrumentation. It’s the sound of an artist who’s bored of calculated releases and wanted to try something different.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Jul 24, 2020
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- Posted May 12, 2014
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Expertly curated, every single song in ‘Valentine’s relatively restrained 10-song tracklist feels like a fully-realised gem.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Nov 2, 2021
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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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Slightly less lo-fi than previous efforts--although as it blends together Slayer, Japanese noisecore and warp-speed prog intricacy, sound recording fidelity is a relative concept. [5 Nov 2005, p.45]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Across 10 air-tight tracks, meticulously crafted and elegantly delivered, it’s an absolute triumph.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Apr 9, 2020
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The confidence in her voice gives you no reason to doubt her. All the way through this album, the pop star is in the driving seat, both behind the scenes and in the situations she describes in the lyrics. ... ‘Future Nostalgia’ is a bright, bold collection of pop majesty to dance away your anxieties to… if only for a little while.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Mar 26, 2020
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Divers, her unusually tight fourth album, is full of lofty concepts (‘Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne’ sees time-travelling soldiers wage a futile war on their own ghosts) but her crafty tales, signposted by ornate folk arrangements, rarely outpace your imagination.- New Musical Express (NME)
- Posted Oct 16, 2015
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In the hands of someone less witty and schizoid, a near three-hour epic would be unforgivable, but Merritt at play is frequently magical.- New Musical Express (NME)
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