Prefix Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% 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: | Modern Times | |
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Lowest review score: | Eat Me, Drink Me |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
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Mixed: 509 out of 2132
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Negative: 47 out of 2132
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Real Life Is No Cool is essentially all pop structures. It's maybe an accident that Lindstrøm and Christabelle's project so successfully feels like something hip and modern, like a photograph hung in a museum or cut from an obscure magazine that's suddenly become part of the landscape.- Prefix Magazine
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Hercules & Love Affair is a testament to the great foresight and control is required in a disco producer to keep the track from lunging into an abyss of low-blow kitsch, and to be able to stimulate the ears and feet at the same time.- Prefix Magazine
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McCombs still has an ear for language and roll-off-the-tongue singing. His voice coats the lyrics like thick warm caramel on this one. Though often obtuse and twisted, McCombs includes some straightforward lyrics, as well, with some political commentary to boot.- Prefix Magazine
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As expected, the album's highlights are its patient explorations.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Mar 24, 2011
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Of all the group's works, Pick a Bigger Weapon has a greater sense of inclusion and belonging.- Prefix Magazine
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A noticeable departure on Kiss Each Other Clean is that Beam seems to be having a genuinely good time on the album.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Feb 1, 2011
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If there's one thing made clear by the satisfying catharsis and musical quantum leap of In And Out Of Youth And Lightness, it's that Patterson should ignore his earlier advice more often if it results in albums of this caliber.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Wild Flag is the creator of an absurdly good album, one of the most vital of 2011. Wild Flag is not a supergroup. They are a super group.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Sep 14, 2011
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What makes Marling engaging is that her music presents scenarios without deliberately sounding like poetry or art. Her songs do not emphasize the beauty of sounds or musicality of words so much as clip insightful observations from conversations.- Prefix Magazine
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On their fourth album, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, they've simultaneously intensified and refined that blend, even as they've shaved off one of their original four members.- Prefix Magazine
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If there's ever been an advertisement for allowing bands to develop before they blow up, Native Speaker is it. You'll probably listen to more immediate albums this year, but few will have the down-the-rabbit-hole quality that marks Native Speaker for success.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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To call the album the band's most accessible to date is no slur. There's nothing wrong with accessible indie rock when it's this pristine and polished.- Prefix Magazine
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On Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, Cave weaves yet another tapestry of characters.- Prefix Magazine
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Donuts is a big black pot of sonics, comparable only to Madlib's 2002 effort, Blunted in the Bombshelter, the difference being that this is all original material.- Prefix Magazine
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If Donuts was Jay Dee's swan song, The Shining is a glimpse of what his work may have sounded like in the future.- Prefix Magazine
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Ali can do this, can take the familiar, the overly confrontational, even the trite and overdone, and make it riveting, because he has a voice that strains syllables so that the meanings of his words are made perfectly clear--you can't escape what he's saying--and a flow that loads and unleashes relentlessly.- Prefix Magazine
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The Body, The Blood, The Machine is the holy grail of anti-political/anti-religion records to come out in the last seven years.- Prefix Magazine
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By investing a now-classic catalog with immediacy, freshness and a delicate, humbling charm, Sugar Mountain not only stands as the best argument for the Archives series and illumination it could provide, but as a classic live record in its own right.- Prefix Magazine
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Return to Cookie Mountain makes Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes look almost silly by comparison.- Prefix Magazine
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This Is for the White in Your Eyes is a come-out-of-the-gate winner.- Prefix Magazine
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Ballad of the Broken Seas is mysterious and theatrical and totally cool.- Prefix Magazine
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Vast in scope and breathtaking in its beauty, Illinois may very well be the album that heralds Sufjan Stevens as one of this young century’s most talented artists.- Prefix Magazine
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Where You Go I Go Too takes the meaning of the term "full-length" quite literally, stretching his already epic electronic disco into works of effortless symphonic grandeur.- Prefix Magazine
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The songs sound as modern and fresh as if they were recorded last year.- Prefix Magazine
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Under Great White Northern Lights is a perfect explanation of the band's significance to doubters, now and in the future.- Prefix Magazine
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Case's genius as a writer, evident from track to track, stems from her ability to write lyrics that conjure up amazingly clear images but that still leave the songs as a whole up to interpretation.- Prefix Magazine
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- Posted Jul 18, 2011
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With In Ghost Colours, Cut Copy have created a record that is both en vogue and timeless, familiar yet fresh, full of glossy optimism, and unforgettably gorgeous from start to finish.- Prefix Magazine
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The beautifully (which is to say, lightly) remastered album, and the warts 'n all bonus disc shows us just how good of a band Sebadoh were, and why they became far more than just the band Barlow started after he left Dinosaur Jr.- Prefix Magazine
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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