NOW Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,812 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 66
Highest review score: | The Life Of Pablo | |
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Lowest review score: | Testify |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,287 out of 2812
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Mixed: 1,452 out of 2812
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Negative: 73 out of 2812
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Her great success is making these protest songs personal, and she does it in a most profoundly moving way.- NOW Magazine
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Lamar sounds simultaneously like a man firing on all cylinders and struggling to keep it together.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Mar 18, 2015
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- Posted Mar 21, 2013
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Lamar's invincible on good kid, and reveals just how deft his hand is.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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Goon is an indisputable triumph and a staggering opening statement from pop music's newest Piano Man.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Mar 18, 2015
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Hopefully there’s still enough room on people’s psych plates for Odd Blood, a masterful follow-up that deserves to get into your ears.- NOW Magazine
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Her music is generous in its illumination of depth. There’s a sense of solace on the record. Everything before was a hard reckoning, and she knows trouble is never far off, but she’s breezy here. Comfortable, even.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jan 17, 2019
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Isis’s four previous full-lengths have clear story arcs, but Wavering Radiant’s themes are open to interpretation, giving it added appeal. Close to perfect.- NOW Magazine
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It’s a rare and amazing thing when an indie musician finds ways to keep chugging along on her own steam for years and then releases an album that brings together in the most powerful way everything she’s learned. Moncton singer/songwriter Julie Doiron has accomplished this with her eighth album.- NOW Magazine
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- Posted Sep 13, 2012
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On 2014’s Too Bright, Hadreas expressed liberationist sentiments, played with gender and made his queerness confrontational. This time, those themes are felt more heavily in the way he channels familiar riffs, structures and themes into something so singular, unsettling and beautiful.- NOW Magazine
- Posted May 10, 2017
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Fucked Up's grand ambition may one day be their downfall, but right now it has produced an intricate, rewarding beast of an album, their magnum opus.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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- Posted Aug 28, 2014
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It's common for heavily hyped albums to fall flat, but Arcade Fire's long-anticipated third LP hits with the satisfied thud of met potential.- NOW Magazine
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What’s most impressive about Attack & Release is how they’ve raised their vocal and compositional game in accord with the sonic enhancements, bringing an unexpected poignancy to their earthy funkiness. Every track is a stunner.- NOW Magazine
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She adds magic to the mundane, cracking it open to reveal multifaceted nuances: longing, pleasure, resentment, jealousy and also self-love.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Feb 5, 2019
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While Bejar's arrangement decisions challenge popular notions of what delineates good and bad music, shaking off preconceptions in order to immerse yourself in Kaputt's nighttime world is worth the effort.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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On this trippier, more scattered collection, it emerges in the looming calm, the open moments that peek through pneumatic melodies, beatific, druggy vocals and that throbbing, omnipresent kick.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Gorgeous fuzz guitar leads and glam rock glitter dominate, offset by soft layered harmonies and dreamy textures.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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Both emcees are incredibly versatile, switching up speed, style and tone, playing off each other one minute, one-upping each other the next.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Nov 6, 2014
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Andy Shauf’s new songs are fictional but feel oh so real, especially if you live in Toronto and even more especially if you live in Parkdale and frequent Skyline, the diner where most of the Toronto-based musician’s new album takes place. ... There are new melodic and rhythmic risks taken.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Jan 24, 2020
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- Posted May 10, 2012
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The real shift is in their attitude, which allows them to embrace earnestness and write some straightforward love songs. It’s a strategy that could have backfired, but instead it has inspired their strongest and most consistent album so far.- NOW Magazine
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Whether howling eerily over a low, rhythmic pulse or riding a huge riff, Calvi's sensuous presence brings much-needed sexual heat to today's tepid rock 'n' roll landscape.- NOW Magazine
- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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- Posted May 22, 2014
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