No Ripcord's Scores
- Music
For 2,722 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
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 1,896 out of 2722
-
Mixed: 750 out of 2722
-
Negative: 76 out of 2722
2722
music
reviews
- By Date
- By Critic Score
-
- Critic Score
Tomorrow’s Harvest, the duo’s latest, is a perfect reminder of how well these two can bring their unique aesthetic to life through music.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 21, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Janelle Monáe has not simply lived up to our expectations here; she has shattered them, delivering a confident, creative, and enormously entertaining record that marginally betters her sublime debut.- No Ripcord
- Posted Sep 16, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately isn’t a perfect album. There are a couple of wormholes that Hadreas gets lost down and the sequencing causes a slightly jilted second half, but once these songs nestle in, they’re impossible to shift.- No Ripcord
- Posted May 26, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Anyone with any vague taste in good music needs to own this album, right now.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
For a debut album from a gal who can’t even legally rent a car by herself, this is very impressive. She attracts to a wide audience, displays restraint and obscurity at appropriate times.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Rhyton simply play their music, unfettered by the constraints of tradition, structure or expectation, and it's that quality that makes their album such a thrilling experience.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 7, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A most personal and intimate collection of demos and early takes from George's personal archive of recordings which he left behind- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 5, 2012
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Searing. ... Just when you think Viagra Boys have exhausted their ideas, outside of the surprisingly confessional ADD, Murphy and his cohorts crank up the energy one last time on Return of the Monke.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jul 11, 2022
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Perfect Pussy constantly find new ways to stimulate that teenage bit of your brain that wants to scream and punch things and has a lot of things to say but doesn’t know how to say them.- No Ripcord
- Posted Apr 4, 2014
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
That’s not to say Girl With Fish is an exclusively positive, agreeable record, though: “Steamroller, you fuck like you’re eating” is how Slocum opens the record’s best song, cutting through a maze of noise with a lackadaisical demeanor. It’s this balance that cues Feeble Little Horse up to be one of the biggest bands working in indie rock right now, especially if they keep making records as good as this one.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 9, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It may lack some of the avant-garde experimentation and concepts of her full-lengths but after all she’s been through and all that she’s given us, CAPRISONGS feels like a victory lap.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jan 26, 2022
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
This will surely be counted as one of the most remarkable, individual, and adorable albums of the year.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The bizarre take on folk, pop and anything else she sees fit is enchanting, joyful and thought provoking; it's everything at once.- No Ripcord
- Posted May 2, 2011
- Read full review
-
- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Wolf Parade is a great band, and while one will automatically think of Brock when they first hear You Are a Runner I Am My Father’s Son, (or any song featuring the first of the band’s two vocalists, Jason Krug,) many of the album’s strongest moments actually come when they more closely resemble other bands.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It may be his own manifesto, but when the music is this striking, it makes you appreciate life more.- No Ripcord
- Posted May 2, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Staples has so much to say in Summertime '06 that it’d be impossible to fully dissect in one listen, and his ingenious phrasing makes for a constantly amusing variety of vignettes. A record is only as good as the music that accompanies, though, and collaborative producer No I.D. delivers in spades and then some.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jul 2, 2015
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Powered by its fluid and seeming invincibility, Mirrored is almost frighteningly cosmic.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Matmos successfully craft an environment both musical and tactile, some of the elements stretched to such extremes and arranged so well that they sound convincingly like instruments.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 25, 2019
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A focused, yet relaxed, song-writing atmosphere has resulted in something completely sophisticated yet entirely effortless, and genuinely warm.- No Ripcord
- Posted Mar 8, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
X’ed Out is unmarred by any narcissistic disposition, or pretentious or elitist demeanor, but it makes no creative sacrifice. Bravo.- No Ripcord
- Posted Apr 23, 2013
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The narratives it employs are true to life, the reverb drenched instrumentation was rightfully summoned, and the substitution of dark undertones over lighter sensibilities that such genre was commonly known for were ditched with good reason. No wonder Slumberland has wholeheartedly embraced Black Tambourine's influence to their label. That's good enough reason to bring another of independent music's long forgotten cult stories into the forefront.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
From start to finish, The Hunter is a collection of songs that inadvertently expands their repertoire and capabilities while they turn off their heads and let their fingers tell the story.- No Ripcord
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Cox sounds comfortable and confident, and has made the best solo album of his prolific career.- No Ripcord
- Posted Nov 9, 2011
- Read full review
-
- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s a vital record, one that’s Nick Cave through and through, and whether he’s exploring his garage roots or his spooky, narrative tendencies it’s at all points a triumph.- No Ripcord
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
With this record, there is Britpop, Radiohead, Spiritualized, grunge, trip-hop and more basking under an astral, space-rock umbrella, and Pumarosa have turned it all into a contorting, ornamental obelisk.- No Ripcord
- Posted Jun 19, 2017
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Smoke Ring For My Halo might not be for everyone, but it will definitely find a wider audience than anything else in Vile's catalogue.- No Ripcord
- Posted Apr 28, 2011
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Magus captures well the force of its players throughout its near 90-minute runtime, the culmination of which occurs in the album’s final track, Supremacy.- No Ripcord
- Posted Oct 19, 2018
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The artistry on Shadows In The Night is as sharp as ever, which is a welcome reminder of how Dylan’s songwriting is only half the story. The emotional electricity of his albums stems from his composed and ardent delivery and the sonic poetry of the arrangements surrounding this delivery.- No Ripcord
- Posted Feb 11, 2015
- Read full review