Pretty Much Amazing's Scores
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For 761 reviews, this publication has graded:
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59% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | The Life Of Pablo | |
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Lowest review score: | Xscape |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 582 out of 761
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Mixed: 156 out of 761
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Negative: 23 out of 761
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Their third record is their best, a meandering, wild, untamable masterpiece from a front man who refuses to stop studying and refuses to be predictable.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 12, 2017
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[A] near-classic, West’s Physical Graffiti, his White Album. The Life of Pablo makes the wonderful Yeezus appear minor by comparison.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Feb 15, 2016
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Annie Clark stands astride St. Vincent, a colossus in total--and thrilling--command.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Feb 24, 2014
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American Dream is as close to a unified artistic statement that Murphy has delivered. I’d argue it’s his first front-to-back, total triumph.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 1, 2017
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Once I Was an Eagle is a singular achievement: a haunting record, peopled with aural ghosts that come gradually crawling from out of the grooves.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 4, 2013
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It is not a return to form, because how could we expect or want it to be? It is a return to the contextually avant-garde, and for Deerhunter in 2013 that means rock n’ roll.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 3, 2013
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An album where the reminiscence of rock is revitalized by The Men’s gift of genre hybridization.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Mar 7, 2013
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This is a record where the sum is greater than the parts, whereas The Epic was its parts (and having a lot of them). Harmony of Difference is another win in Kamasi Washington’s book.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Richard D. James has successfully crafted one of the most stunning records of his career, and he did so by exercising a deft amount of self-control.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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This is music that moves the body along with the spirit, a damn fine step in the right direction.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 28, 2013
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- Posted Jan 15, 2015
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Roosevelt listens less like a dynamic pop album and more like a static soundtrack that only becomes more and more significant as time goes on.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Aug 19, 2016
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It sounds great while it’s playing and means nothing except that it sounds great and will sound just as great 10, 20, 30 years from now.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Aug 26, 2016
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Tell Me How You Really Feel peaks midway, on “Nameless, Faceless”. The album’s lead single, with its descending guitar notes and a Margaret Atwood reference, finds Barnett employing old tools to tackle a newsworthy social ill. It’s breathless and gutting, a short and sweet examination of sex and violence. It draws blood, but so does the rest of the album.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 21, 2018
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The crowd-pleasers are big and full, richly accessible and eccentric at the same time.... And yet even at its most infectious this music can pivot on a dime, emotionally, and the effect is often shattering.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 5, 2015
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Truthfully, every song is a goodie, except “Sense”, which is a minute of breathing room which won’t kill you to listen to.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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The experimentation keeps things interesting and is a rare and welcome sight for a musician in his fifties, but it’s the songs that aim for summer afternoon in the suburbs of “Gold Soundz” or “Range Life” that are his forte and the album’s best.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 15, 2018
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- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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This is an album that belongs in a 2016 time capsule, and one that any indie bard hopeful should be required to hear.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 10, 2016
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- Posted May 12, 2016
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1989 isn’t a “crossover” success. It’s the album every subsequent blockbuster must now reckon with.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 27, 2014
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Do It Again is foremost a marvel of mood and pacing. The trio doles out their riches with utmost care.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 27, 2014
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Volcano Choir’s second album is filled with memorable hooks, hummable melodies and arena-worthy choruses.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 3, 2013
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They have crafted a sound that is new for them and unique in its context, but that falls neatly into what we have come to expect from a trio whose power and creativity runs consistently unchecked.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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- Posted Jun 3, 2016
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Her signature honest, unpretentious vocals shine through on each track, conveying her struggle with each note she sings.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jul 19, 2017
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These eleven joyous anthems and campfire sing-alongs find Harvey striding across fresh stylistic ground. Despite their bleak topicality, vibrant optimism radiates out from lyrical melancholy. Sonic warmth envelops the album like a sumptuous blanket.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 15, 2016
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Savages’ smart reorganization and shuffling of punk, post-punk, krautrock, and noise music into something brutal, jarringly confrontational, and completely singular is a breath of fresh air and an unignorable statement of power and resistance.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 7, 2013
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What he’s presented us with, essentially, is the skeleton of Animal Collective’s fleeting creativity, stripped down to its roots, revealing that even at its rawest, purest form the music still has an instinctive grasp of sincere emotion and beauty.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 18, 2016
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