Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,706 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,558 out of 1706
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Mixed: 130 out of 1706
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Negative: 18 out of 1706
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MUNA is the best soundtrack one can find for the next few months. Seemingly destined to join the canon of pop’s great cult-classics (Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion, Robyn’s Body Talk, among them), it’s an album whose legacy should last much longer.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Some of it drags (looking at you, “You’ve Won This War”), and the lyrics, melodies, and sounds don’t always land. At times you can practically feel him straining for it all to Mean Something, but Butler remains a powerful and important voice in music, even when a particular album doesn’t fully succeed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 22, 2022
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It manages to take inspiration from a grab bag of styles and still create an unified, singular end-product. Earnest and unburdened, Time Bend is a staggeringly bold statement for a debut album. It would, indeed, seem as though we have not seen anything yet.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2022
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It’s a decent follow-up, but one that unfortunately comes off less Bartees Strange and more Bartees Safe.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 20, 2022
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This is undoubtedly going to be a divisive one for long-term fans, with some holding it up as just as vital as anything else, while others will simply overlook it or just take a couple of highlights to add to their ‘Best of PG’ playlists. Whichever the case, whether you devour it or dismiss it, there’s no denying that it expands the mythos and majesty of Perfume Genius.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Like a lot of Andrew Bird albums of late, Inside Problems needs some time to reveal itself. Its frustrations and lidless graspings at the world are part of the game here, so that it doesn’t nestle quickly into a box on first listen feels appropriate.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Not since Everything’s Fine has Quelle Chris sounded so surefire and determined. He wears beats with flair now, and lyrically he’s in top form, moving like a chameleon behind the mic and in front. Deathfame is easily the best solo outing for Chris so far.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Balancing stately pop ornamentation with more bombastically orchestrated moments, the album allows Meiburg to both indulge and scale back his dramaturgical impulses.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2022
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It is arguably his most sonically interesting and personal project so far, but its inconsistency punches a few pot-holes in the listening journey. The experimentation here doesn’t always work, but when it does, it shows that Post is heading in some exciting directions for future albums.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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While her last proper album, 2019’s orchestrally-imbued All Mirrors, was something of a coming out party for her grand artistic ambition and scope, Big Time is the coming out party for her true personality. In order to do this, she’s stripped away the grandiosity and reverted back to the country and Americana sounds that she calls home.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 9, 2022
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Overall, the album occurs as less incendiary than previous work (with the exception of the opening track), DBT at least temporarily setting aside their polemical blowtorches, instead mindfully venturing into vivid inventories of their own lives, choices, and karmic trajectories.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 7, 2022
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Each track on Nothing To Declare feels like a condensed, expertly-aimed Hadoken of fun, furious energy.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 6, 2022
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It’s fun, it’s furious, and just about anyone should be able to appreciate that.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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They’ve delivered a certain-to-be-beloved debut – one that separates itself from its peers.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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The wicked atmosphere that they’ve crafted across Heart Under is worthy of celebration alone.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 31, 2022
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At heart, it’s all too modest, too fatigued, too lacking in ambition and attitude.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 31, 2022
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Post-punk bands tend to veer dark and brooding, but Dehd avoid that here, putting all of their energy into sunny anthems filled with dizzying coos, lighthearted hooks and charming rhythms. It all helps them bounce across the record and into our hearts for good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 26, 2022
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These are pretty songs, but largely forgettable when amassed together, and though EYEYE is an honorable attempt at switching lanes yet again after a divisive fourth album, it mostly comes up short as a finished product.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 25, 2022
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Rentals is uniformly great, and each track boasts its share of both gorgeous instrumentation and lines that are alternately poetic and prosaic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 24, 2022
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It’s all put together under one roof in a neat, unassuming way, made refreshing and palatable by his persona.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 23, 2022
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It preserves the trio’s history while serving us a matured Moderat. MORE D4TA is their cathartic work of loneliness and intoxication, indulging in a museum of sounds.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 20, 2022
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They’ve made the brave decision to remember what it’s like to feel and to breathe again, and it can all be heard in the stirring vibrations of Margolin’s words and voice.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 20, 2022
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With more questions raised than answered, Cain’s unusually ambitious and fully-realised debut somehow leaves listeners craving more in spite of its wonderful, exhausting, 75 minute runtime.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 19, 2022
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Even in his lost moments, like “A Random Act of Kindness” where he repeats “Out of time, out of money”, he searches out the hope while faced with setbacks and sorrow. It’s in these moments that Morby shines as that everyman – a role he has been crafted into through those various influences he holds up so high.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 19, 2022
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He’s willing to stumble, befuddle, and outright offend – it’s all part of its creator’s flawed self, which is all but stripped starkly naked in front of us. It’s far too complex, far too searching to be wrangled in a simple review. I know this much: we’ll be talking about this one for a long, long time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 18, 2022
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As moving as those songs are, The Smile are more intriguing when they shift slightly further away from Yorke and Greenwood’s established palette.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 13, 2022
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After 11 tracks, this return feels well-earned, but it’s equally refreshing to know the next song we hear from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever might not be so predictable.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 12, 2022
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Yeah, that’s a decent album. Flags towards the end, sure. Some rippers on there, though. Glad I stuck with it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 10, 2022
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Van Etten gives us what is, quite possibly, her strongest album yet. And that sense of breakthrough, of sheer lift, is prevalent right from the start. ... There’s a powerful sincerity and confidence to her vocals throughout the record, as she weaves and bobs around her deceptively simple and emotive melodies, often hitting notes that sounds for a millisecond like they won’t quite work, and then suddenly, they do, as on the final heavenly note of “Darkness Fades”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 9, 2022
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It’s retreading old ground and shouting at clouds, but also genuine and at times beautiful in its crystalline synth-pop nostalgia.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 6, 2022
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