Resident Advisor's Scores

  • Music
For 1,106 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Biokinetics [Reissue]
Lowest review score: 36 Déjà-Vu
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 1 out of 1106
1106 music reviews
    • 84 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Inspired by this sentiment, as well as Halo's time scoring a film for the Dutch art collective Metahaven, the more abstract aspects of Raw Silk Uncut Wood allow her to establish moods that are at once non-prescriptive and immediately visceral.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Morgan sings and raps on the LP, the first time they've used their voice on their records. That helps make Power their most accessible release. The singing is charmingly unpolished.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Her robotic sing-song is more unsettling than affecting, and the synth backing is never quite immersive. Spontaneity is often this pair's strength, but with more ambitious ideas it limits them.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    On K.O their ideas are rendered in higher fidelity, and while not every track on here leaves a lasting impression, the album as a whole certainly does.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Byen could use more of Torske's signature sense of chaos. Listen to this one when it's time to unwind. Save the others for when you really want to visit space.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Essential isn't as essential as its title suggests, but don't let that stop you from seeking it out. It has more of the loveable chaos that once made Soulwax among the most important acts in electronic music. This time it's more controlled.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His latest LP isn't nostalgic. If anything, Voids proves Deijkers is as comfortable in the here and now as he's ever been.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 56 Critic Score
    No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds, with its stylistic and thematic missteps, too often shakes us out of this trademark groove.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of these tracks are simply mind-melting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Baha's production skills are clear across Free For All. Fans of instrumental grime artists like Slackk will find much to admire in the austere yet precisely constructed "Aliens," whose sense of space is uncommonly sophisticated.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    As Wet Will Always Dry proves, Blawan has pushed things forward by showing that the traditional techno template can still be sculpted in surprising new forms.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The mix of familiar sounds and snippets of intimate conversation makes for dance music that can feel deeply affecting, even as its spastic rhythms keep the energy at a constant high.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, SOPHIE's first proper album, presents her artistic vision in a purer form than anything she's done before. It is at times unapologetically poppy, beginning with the opening power ballad, "It's Okay To Cry." But it's also utterly, defiantly weird, flouting conventions of rhythm, composition and, perhaps most of all, taste.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    One of the album's key qualities is how Vynehall uses these musicians to enrich a sound that feels authentically his own. There are almost no dance beats on the record, but again, this feels like Vynehall moving farther down a path he'd already explored.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Her music can feel frustratingly fragmented one second and suddenly coalesce into something brilliant the next. IRISIRI is baffling and inspired in equal measure.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    serpentwithfeet is not a project that deals in restraint, but it's the mix of melodrama and newfound control that makes soil a great record.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Trying to follow these songs as they unfold is a bewildering experience. But if you take Hassell's advice, and "scan up and down the sonic spectrum," taking in the moments of beauty as they occur, the album's title makes a lot of sense.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Dream House, then, is a mixed bag. But like with everything Âme and Innervisions put their name to, from the label to the performances to the Lost In A Moment parties, the good outweighs the bad.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Age Of is the sound of an internet addict sifting through the digital ruins, part of a culture jamming legacy for future generations, should they exist.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    As DNA Feelings dissolves to a close, a quiet kind of power lingers on.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    An album that's alluring in passing, but might not have you doubling back for a closer inspection.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elysia Crampton isn't always an easy listen. In fact, it's a little bit ugly at times. That intentional clash is exactly what makes her sound so compelling. She cultivates a juicy, electric tension by combining pieces that aren't made to fit evenly together.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    As Rausch shows, Voigt is still finding inspiration in his childhood memories and those old forests, subtly changing the way we see and hear them each time.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Murmurations is as rewarding for the listener as it must've been for the artists.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    A comparable transition on Singularity, between "Everything Connected" and "Feel First Life," is made to feel seamless, less like a change in circumstance than an ascent onto some higher plane. Some will feel completely immersed in that; others might simply admire it from a distance.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    A series of instrumentals pivot and twist slyly, dropping hints of chord and lithe rhythm, but the bolder moments of the album's opening section aren't repeated. Instead it ends with a track called "Antiform," two minutes of hiss and vague metallic clanking. At first this is sort of a disappointment, but on repeat listens it deepens the album's appeal.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    If the album doesn't always hit the same highs as the excellent Mondo Beat or Trance LPs, there's still plenty to love: the bending techno synth waves on "Modularity," the slowed-down Nitzer Ebb flashbacks on "Post Industrial," and the krautrock computer glitches on "Noise Floor."
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Music For Installations doesn't offer a single listening experience: these tracks make far more sense looped, either alone or in small groups, to create a particular, sustained mood.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    It probably wasn't hard for Koze to look beyond house, because it never completely won him over. Knock Knock makes a case for others to do it as well.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This music suits periods of poignant, existential anguish.