Playlouder's Scores
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For 823 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | An End Has A Start | |
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Lowest review score: | D12 World |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 569 out of 823
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Mixed: 198 out of 823
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Negative: 56 out of 823
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there's something in this that sounds just so much more intelligent than fannying around making devil horns.- Playlouder
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'Bang Bang Rock & Roll' is as clever as it is funny as it is entertaining. It's the most original independent album in years.- Playlouder
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It's hard not to feel that the mystique is so damaged by the poor execution of the opening, that the rest of 'St. Elsewhere', however good, struggles to catch up.- Playlouder
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'The Spell' marks their most successful record to date in creating a coherent aesthetic throughout; a beguiling and compelling atmosphere of black magic.- Playlouder
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An album that rivals the brilliant 'The Sophtware Slump'... as their absolute masterpiece.- Playlouder
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Challenging, ingenious, electronic surrealism for the brain and ears.- Playlouder
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Former admirers, be warned that 'Without Feathers' will send you into a headless, flailing flap; while any newcomers to The Stills will be left with a plump, bald turkey on their hands.- Playlouder
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It's not without fault; too many songs and too little variation between the tracks detract from unequivocal enjoyment. Much more of an album to admire, rather than cherish.- Playlouder
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'Capture / Release' is an album that sounds very much like now, but it should way transcend it too.- Playlouder
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'The Hardest Way To Make an Easy Living' is a far more skilfully crafted album than the 'A Grand...', despite what you might have heard.- Playlouder
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No-one makes gizmos and machines prong like fruity tuning forks as well as this man, nor do they construct such vivid atmospherics with such cunning simplicity.- Playlouder
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This is an album that seethes with anger, ambition and malicious intent, and it's all the better for it.- Playlouder
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Even Paul McCartney himself hasn't made an album this McCartneyish for some twenty-odd years now.- Playlouder
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While Wayne Coyne has been carving out and presenting to the world the manifestations of his crazy mind for an age now, the possibilities have so often been superior to the finished article. That is certainly not the case here.- Playlouder
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What's so remarkable about Morrissey's writing on 'Ringleader...' is a seeming greater comfort with the more upbeat subject matter than with his usual morose metier, and what remains of that is executed with an exceedingly hammy fist.- Playlouder
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Her voice is still like clear honey dripped on freshly baked bread, and almost sounds nourishing.- Playlouder
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'The Loon' retains a genuinely empathetic sincerity that deserves applause, but should be praised to a greater degree for bringing weird, left-of-centre indie back to the fore.- Playlouder
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If 'Fever To Tell' was a scratchy post punk effort, then this is their gothic record.- Playlouder
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If you were disappointed by 'Antics' then this'll make up for it, and if Interpol's last offering did agree with you then you'll spend the rest of '05 at least giving this a great big hug.- Playlouder
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This is music that relies entirely on feeling, and while not for everyone it is music at its most impulsively, spontaneously creative.- Playlouder
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'Kratitude' is a far from flawless record and can be a little too hip for its own good.- Playlouder
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Almost everything about 'Kicking The National Habit' is righteously unfashionable.- Playlouder
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Musically there's nothing on 'Stars of CCTV' that stands out as particularly innovative or imaginative[;] it's above average modern indie fare made with gusto by people who want to make records that sound like the records they like: The Clash, The Specials, The Verve and a bunch of other bygone Britpoppers.- Playlouder
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He lays bare pissed-off tantrums and his emotion through a burgeoning self-belief and raw musicality to create his endearingly bittersweet masterpiece.- Playlouder
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Even on repeated listens, the search for the showy dazzle of The Killers, the lyrical tomfoolery of the Kaiser Chiefs or the sheer stadium smartness of Franz Ferdinand proves fruitless, and it becomes apparent that, in an age where indie's proving to be the stronghold of overachievers, 'Cuts Across The Land' may have missed its moment.- Playlouder
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This is so good it makes us want to do one of those superlative deploying pull quote things that journalists often stick at the end of their reviews: this fantastic piece of work is already a strong contender for album of the year.- Playlouder
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