Pitchfork's Scores
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For 11,995 reviews, this publication has graded:
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41% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition] | |
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Lowest review score: | nyc ghosts & flowers |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9,811 out of 11995
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Mixed: 1,877 out of 11995
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Negative: 307 out of 11995
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So really, it doesn't turn out all that different from the most recent Earlimart, Beachwood Sparks, or Jason Lytle records: perfectly okay, not pushy enough to be even remotely unpleasant, and in a way you're hoping it's better.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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At times, it sounds far less like his beloved Boys of Summer 2009 so much as a simplified homage to Kompakt's more populist acts, electronic's version of a neophyte performing solo acoustic versions of Zeppelin or Radiohead at a college bar.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 5, 2012
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The individual entries on Grinderman 2 are all over the map quality-wise, from inert and utterly ignorable... to half-brilliant reframings of pretty singular material.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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Paradox exists as a conduit between a dreamed history and a fantasized future, a place formed of nothing more than fragments that evoke a past that seems more mysterious than the present. If the end result is as light as a feather or as memorable as a breeze, that’s also the point.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 23, 2018
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Just as "Viva" did an admirable job of troubleshooting the band's lazy weaknesses while expanding their sound, Prospekt's March offers a truncated version of their svelte and marginally progressive new formula.- Pitchfork
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Gold comes off as clean, shiny, and over-the-top as Elliott Smith's XO, replete with strings, horns, and female backup singers. I double-checked the credits. Jon Brion wasn't listed.- Pitchfork
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Hotel Morgen may be beautifully produced, but despite its expert attention to detail, few of these tracks truly engage in the way they seem meant to.- Pitchfork
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Some of these remixes are truly excellent, and some of them are disastrous.- Pitchfork
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What’s missing, though, is the central promise of a supergroup: the thrill of hearing established musicians in a truly different context. Minor Victories’ lineup may stem from different circles, but their approaches are so complementary that there’s rarely any tension or surprise.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 31, 2016
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As so often when it comes to dance-music full-lengths, Bias' good ideas get lost in the sea of makeweight stuff, and his attempt to please just about everyone results in a frustratingly spotty album.- Pitchfork
- Posted Dec 2, 2011
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It's a precision attack, and as lofty and lovely as these tunes can sound, even their note-perfect nature seems to hold the listener at arm's length. But the real distance in the record is generated by Kurosky's lyrics, a series of clipped phrases and red herrings loosely compiled in the shape of story-songs, rich in imagistic detail but short in the personals department.- Pitchfork
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It's business as usual: spastic pounding, warp-speed scalar runs, and various math-rock feats of strength.- Pitchfork
- Posted Sep 11, 2011
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Mosquito is not without highlights, but it requires some patience to unearth them, because when this record is bad, it's loudly, brazenly bad.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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That they don't treat ambient as empty-headed fluff for relaxation is laudable, but it also doesn't make Ursprung any less of a record for a self-selecting coterie of sound-art aficionados.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 12, 2012
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He is most effective when he harshly distorts his vocals to create texture, and in the company of others he can serve as a welcome change of pace.- Pitchfork
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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The discrepancy on Bootlegs between studious songcraft and rambunctious execution occasionally sounds distractingly self-conscious, but Lerche still sounds better here for sounding so unguarded and loose.- Pitchfork
- Posted Oct 10, 2012
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It's not until Magnificent Fiend's closing trio of seven-minute behemoths that Howlin Rain find traction, though it's the band's willingness to tweak its grand appropriations, rather than the tracks' epic lengths, that helps the songs stick.- Pitchfork
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Unlike other Bowie live albums, this doesn’t document a specific tour or phase. It’s just a quiet, pleasant footnote to a busy era.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jun 17, 2020
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Hints of humor are often symbolized in Scholefield's artworks, but here they have an unbalancing effect, only serving to detract from the portentous musical renderings of the uneasy symbiosis between digital glitch and the natural world.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jul 27, 2012
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A lot of bands venture close to soft-rock territory and come out unscathed. Trembling Blue Stars aren't so lucky.- Pitchfork
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An unbowed creative spirit ran through Perry’s gloriously multifarious career; on King Perry he sounds frustratingly submissive, a passing supplicant in someone else’s court rather than a king on his throne.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 6, 2024
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There are shards of intriguing ideas buried in the album’s plodding acoustics and garish rock-pop confections, but Fletcher fails to excavate them.- Pitchfork
- Posted Nov 3, 2022
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Their spit-polished full-length is a throwback to the sort of CD-era pop rock album everyone remembers buying at least once: The one with the re-recorded single surrounded mostly by less-developed, vaguely similar stuff.- Pitchfork
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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For better and for worse, there is nothing cringe-inducing on It's Decided; the record mostly sounds like I should remember to tip my barista.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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Sloppiness has crept into their once-perfect attack, and there is a certain any-era-of-modern-rock, unstuck-in-time vibe to the production choices and songwriting.- Pitchfork
- Posted Nov 28, 2012
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While Milagres may sound like a lot of music fans' favorite bands, it's hard to imagine anyone preferring this record to the real deal.- Pitchfork
- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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If it’s a bid for dance-pop stardom, then the big singles—finely crafted though they are—are too few, too timid. If it’s meant as a deep-house long-player, it’s paddling in the shallow end.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 2, 2024
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THINK LATER is full of homogeneous trap-pop ballads devoted to one-dimensional introspection.- Pitchfork
- Posted Dec 15, 2023
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This is the sound of an ever-curious, shape-shifting band finally finding the confidence to tell us who they really are. But they are not telling us anything we didn’t already know.- Pitchfork
- Posted Jan 23, 2020
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