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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- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Mar 3, 2014
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Blood Bitch commits the ultimate crime of all so-called concept albums: there is undeniable effort in the subject and story it was supposed to tell, but little magic in the execution.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 29, 2016
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...Like Clockwork is a droning, incoherent endeavor, and it simply doesn’t reward the attention it’s asking for.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 3, 2013
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A record this nondescript’s just detracting from what we could be listening to instead.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 25, 2018
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- Posted May 12, 2015
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Until Ex Cops stumble upon a niche and make it their own, their career is going to be eclipsed by listeners hearing influence over innovation in their music.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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For The Future’s Void, she’s traded in the tarnished grace and drug-ravaged ten-mile stare of her past life, but it’s not always such a fair deal for the listener.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 7, 2014
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Honest is a good deal more middle-of-the-pack for a post-Yeezus 2014 than its creator wants to admit.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 28, 2014
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Only the opening stanza of “Waitress Song”--in which a major label signee fantasizes about escaping heartbreak by assuming a romanticized working class identity--is outright egregious. The rest is just innocuous.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jun 11, 2014
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The density of Tetsuo & Youth just could have benefitted from even the slightest dose of levity to throw its rhetoric and messages into sharper relief.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Feb 10, 2015
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True, not every album needs to make a statement; sometimes it’s just nice to have music to listen to with your eyes closed and your brain off. But they can do better.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 31, 2013
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The best offerings here are “Blind Faze” and “2 Shy”, Fleetwood-fashioned tracks that sway playfully, celebratory in their own modest way. The rest doesn’t hit hard enough, and doesn’t even really seem like it wants to.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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New album Hot Dreams still struggles to find a unique vantage point on its assembly of vintage sounds and gothic vibes, but fans will be more than satisfied.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 4, 2014
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Add production issues that have marred the bulk of their discography to the lack of tune and we have something that never lifts off: everything sounds mixed at the same level, resulting in mush.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 18, 2016
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- Posted Feb 14, 2014
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Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is long on atmospherics, but woefully short on songs.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Mar 3, 2014
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As with The King of the Limbs, Beautiful Rewind is always keeping us at arm’s length, coldly allowing us to admire the craft without letting us in on the secret. It can make for a lonely listen.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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Good Luck and Do Your Best is dull, an affair that lacks curiosity because the answers are in front of him. None of the production is outright bad, just done before by the likes of Four Tet, Nujabes, and John Talabot.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 31, 2016
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Forest Swords' second record is simplistic on purpose, but that doesn’t make it feel less empty.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 9, 2017
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The art-rock band’s third LP Infinite House combines tentative dips into R&B and soul with a firm foundation in jittery, spindly, angular NYC rock, resulting in pop songs with a deliberately nervous, ungainly, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink feel to them.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Apr 13, 2015
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Unfortunately, Night Time, My Time goes awry at “Omanko,” a grave misstep that verges on parody. From there on out, the record’s spotty.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 30, 2013
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- Posted Jun 6, 2016
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This is the kind that makes you want to go back and listen to his older stuff, if only to remind you he’s capable of wonders.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 31, 2017
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Del Rey has struggled to back up her provocations with substance. Ultraviolence was an exception, a singular breakthrough. Honeymoon is, sadly, a slip and fall after a promising stride forward.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Sep 18, 2015
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It’s not breaking news that reunion music isn’t a revelation, but this album seems worse than the merely dull crop of new Owen material.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Oct 21, 2016
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There are over-arching problems here: the lyricism that doesn’t relate to anyone except the singer, which is especially troubling on the mostly lyric-driven “Widow’s Peak”; the lack of color from the lugubrious and minimalistic approach (excepting the vocal shading of “Joe’s Dream” and the Western-tinged “Honeymooning Alone”); the dearth of melodies, make the relatively short album get wearying over time, especially when you add the too-pristine production.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Jul 5, 2016
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Will is a wobbly baby step from a well-honed sound to something greater. There’s not much reason to listen to it over any of her other albums, and it’s less interesting for the music it contains than the music it promises.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 6, 2016
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It’s simultaneously daunting, exhausting, terrifying, all at the same time. It’s all a lot to take in, with not a whole lot of the Gambino we are familiar with to help wash it down.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Dec 2, 2016
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The supple dynamic shadings of earlier Projectors material is gone; everything’s annoyingly crisp, with lots of things at the front of the mix that shouldn’t be and Longstreth’s pitch-shifted voice running near-constantly throughout.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted Feb 27, 2017
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Most of the time, Nabuma Rubberband sounds well put-together but empty, all style and no content, the kind of album that won’t offend you while you’re listening to it but which you’d be hard-pressed to remember any of once closer “Let Go” comes to an end.- Pretty Much Amazing
- Posted May 12, 2014
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