Record Collector's Scores
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For 1,891 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | The Apple Drop | |
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Lowest review score: | 180 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,235 out of 1891
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Mixed: 650 out of 1891
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Negative: 6 out of 1891
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Most of this collection, however, offers fleeting impressions rather than signed-off, finished portraits. .... For Broadcast’s true believers, this is an essential and edifying experience, casting its own spells.- Record Collector
- Posted May 8, 2024
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A Dream Is All We Know flows seamlessly, with no snags disrupting its mellow mood-tapestry, right up until final track Rock On (Over And Over) throws us a curveball by actually glamming out, Bolan-style, as if to say, “Here’s what you thought we were about”. Superb.- Record Collector
- Posted Apr 30, 2024
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- Posted Apr 9, 2024
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The record doesn’t break any new ground, but it walks familiar paths with confidence.- Record Collector
- Posted Mar 27, 2024
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- Posted Mar 27, 2024
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It’s a staggering, swaggering achievement more vital than anything they’ve done in the last 35 years.- Record Collector
- Posted Mar 1, 2024
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Tracks such as Psychedelic Orgasm and It’s Dark Inside embody the claustrophobic and saturnine atmosphere on what is essentially an underground hip-hop record made by an inveterate envelope-pushing postmodernist.- Record Collector
- Posted Mar 1, 2024
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At their strange best, they sound like Radiohead with an ABBA obsession. A special album from a special band.- Record Collector
- Posted Mar 1, 2024
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- Posted Feb 20, 2024
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While Tangk may bring us a more compassionate, empathetic version of the band who seem to be trying to find something that resembles peace after years of tumult, they still haven’t quite lost their punk spirit.- Record Collector
- Posted Feb 12, 2024
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The re-ordered track list reflects what had been noted in the MPL archive. At first it may seem like another money grab, before steadily, something rather beautiful emerges.- Record Collector
- Posted Feb 8, 2024
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- Posted Jan 31, 2024
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The opening Angel’s cavernous bass is a clarion call for Sisters Of Mercy fans pining new material, yet Sickly Sweet and Dream Of Me are simple, spiky pop made distinctive by Julie Dawson’s slow-build guitars. As singer, Dawson channels a quiet despair in the more vulnerable Nosebleed, but it’s the defiant full-throated charge elsewhere that’s likely to see NewDad emerge as festival favourites.- Record Collector
- Posted Jan 24, 2024
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A fraught album that reaches out furiously for release, forming a push-pull of pressure and release around the band’s defining attributes: Tucker’s tumultuous vocals and Brownstein’s livid guitar.- Record Collector
- Posted Jan 16, 2024
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- Posted Jan 4, 2024
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Latest must-have. .... Not only are most of these renditions drastically different to the originals, Young blends one reimagined song into the next without any pause, producing less of a medley than an epic, multipart ballad. When he’s gone, none will replace him.- Record Collector
- Posted Jan 4, 2024
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Fifty years on and 50 tracks that never falter in their blistering energy and humour.- Record Collector
- Posted Dec 7, 2023
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Up has always deserved more love and, 25 years on, this remastered anniversary edition, which adds an enjoyably relaxed live set, gives us a chance to hear it with new ears.- Record Collector
- Posted Dec 5, 2023
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This is breathless in its intensity, an hour-long triumph up there with anything they’ve ever done, tales of the world today united amid the brooding shadows of a Victorian musical hall stage. That’s life, that’s madness… and it truly is the Madness we know and love.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 30, 2023
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- Posted Nov 30, 2023
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Not just a compilation, not even just a big compilation, The Roaring Forty is a moving trawl through the life and times of an extraordinary artist who has never stood still.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 15, 2023
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The bulk of the previously unheard material mainly comprises Prince’s original versions of tunes he gave to other artists. .... D&P showed how Prince could still work his magic while operating in narrower artistic parameters. This wasn’t the grandiose vision of Purple Rain or Sign O’ The Times but rather revealed Prince operating in a new guise, as an artisan who was tuned into the pop and rap zeitgeist.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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Embryonic versions of …Summer Lawns cuts are especially revealing, rough clay immediately prior to moulding, while the live material plays up her strengths as an easy communicator of often obtuse ideas.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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The Stones are the Stones; a law and legend unto themselves, with nothing more to prove and no need to compete with the latest crop of young turks who covet the crown but know they’ll never wear it. Hackney Diamonds sparkles brightest when it touches base with bygone precious gems.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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Accentuate The Positive’s lively mix of swing, jump jive, R&B and classic rock’n’roll constantly plays to the singer’s strengths as a thoughtful, inventive interpreter.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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There will be few debut records as accomplished or thrilling as Los Angeles in 2023.- Record Collector
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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It may occasionally sound warmly, comfortingly like the past, but this is an album with its mind fixed firmly on the future.- Record Collector
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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A mixed (body) bag it may be, but Danse Macabre is a fiendishly fun collection that only the undead would remain unmoved by.- Record Collector
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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Anderson says the album’s 10 songs form a loose narrative of journeys and experiences coming to an end, yet at the same time Pearlies points to a bright and fulfilling solo future.- Record Collector
- Posted Oct 19, 2023
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Cosmic art country (Infinite Surprise, Pittsburgh) and skewed power pop (Save Me, Evicted) dominate, but most impressive are Sunlight Ends and A Bowl And A Pudding, moments of experimental beauty at the core of a constantly surprising album.- Record Collector
- Posted Oct 18, 2023
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