No Ripcord's Scores

  • Music
For 2,721 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Island
Lowest review score: 0 Scream
Score distribution:
2721 music reviews
    • 83 Metascore
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    There is a monumental feeling of strength and courage in their music that is impossible to deny.
    • 80 Metascore
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    An album whose imagination is fortified and enlivened by the limitlessness of punk rock and musical experimentation.
    • 79 Metascore
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    What's most impressive is there's not a moment wasted in these twelve satisfying tracks, beginning and ending the narrative with a contemplation that also achieves the difficult task of feeling complete.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    One of the best rock albums of the past twenty-five years.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse could be the best guitar rock album since, well, Murray St.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Strawberry Jam, 2007’s strongest album so far.
    • 95 Metascore
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    Ultimately, Skeleton Tree is the sound of feeling and not expressing sorrow.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It’s beautiful, inventive, catchy, heartbreaking, addictive, and bursting at the seams with ideas. It captures a performer truly at the top of their game, throwing everything into a project so that not one second is wasted. It’s a record that makes you fall in love with music again, a record you feel privileged to experience and a record that imparts fundamental human truths.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    MPP had aura to burn long before most of us heard it, but now those of us who have heard it and do love it know that this music will not be content to stand idle on the margins of tuneless hype. Time may very well lend Merriweather Post Pavilion a legend extraordinary enough to faithfully capture its myriad treasures.
    • 83 Metascore
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    Overall, this album contains some of the most original and hypnotically brilliant rock music ever recorded.
    • 81 Metascore
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    Ultimately, what it all boils down to is that, as much as an album can be, it's pretty damn close to being flawless; not only matching the quality of The Reminder but actually bettering it.
    • 74 Metascore
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    It takes an album like Pretty in Black to make you realise the life affirming power of great pop music.
    • 76 Metascore
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    It’s a record that takes a little patience and a little effort but when given the proper attention it will become like that one album from when you were young that just won’t leave your iPod.
    • 87 Metascore
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    The Seer is 30 years' worth of effort, a unique and exciting height earned after decades of creation, experimentation and unconventional musical disassembly.
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    What's Going On is not only a remarkable album, but an opportunity to discover a seminal artist at the peak of his powers; an insight into a true modern genius of pop music.
    • 82 Metascore
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    Titus Andronicus have created an album that will grip the listener, carry them along on a tide of spit and blood and youthful aggression, and leave them dazed and exhausted at the end, with no other option but to start the record all over again.
    • 87 Metascore
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    The music is beautiful, spiritual, intense, fun and, as Lester Bangs once called the Clash, righteous.
    • 86 Metascore
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    Halcyon Digest goes by like a breeze, and when it's finished there's nothing better to do than play it again.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Now We Can See is very much a record about vision, death, disease, perspective, and, er, turning into a fish (?) but its great expressive anchor is the elated desperation that gives punk both its wickedness and its promise.
    • 86 Metascore
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    It’s her grandest and greatest evolution yet.
    • 82 Metascore
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    Most of all, I'd like to list Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light: 1 amongst the ever-expanding and illustrious list of rock n' roll's most important albums.
    • 96 Metascore
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    It’s precisely those confrontational lyrics that make To Pimp A Butterfly an unforgettable album.
    • 83 Metascore
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    These are songs that you feel more than listen to. Everyone has encountered some sort of mental illness, addiction or crisis of faith, whether in your life or another’s. Not only does Baker prove that you’re not alone, but she finds a way to make it better.
    • 78 Metascore
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    Saint Dymphna is truly Gang Gang Dance and no-one else and for that they should be applauded; creating and defining your own sound is a challenge these days that many bands prefer to shirk.
    • 82 Metascore
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    The Horrors instead set out to redefine the band and its purpose, their second album an exciting result.
    • 77 Metascore
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    The whole thing works beautifully, more with each listen.
    • 96 Metascore
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    The SMiLE Sessions is a superior version, its sound undeniably belonging to its era and the true brilliance of Wilson's compositions seeming to shine a tad truer.
    • 75 Metascore
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    Ultimately, this is what more bands should be striving to achieve: to thrill us, inspire us and confuse us - often all at the same time; to utiliize technology for the betterment of the whole rather than for technologies sake; and to allow multiple talents to merge and shine without a sense of the intrusion of personal ego.
    • 89 Metascore
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    The album is amazing. The reissue is amazing. The band is amazing.
    • 84 Metascore
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    This Is Happening is looking back on a life well lived and well learned, the final cap on a perfect career.