Resident Advisor's Scores
- Music
For 1,104 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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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: | Biokinetics [Reissue] | |
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Lowest review score: | Déjà-Vu |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 958 out of 1104
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Mixed: 145 out of 1104
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Negative: 1 out of 1104
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- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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With nothing more at their disposal than techno's characteristically sparing palette, Dozzy and Neel have built something so rich that it has the feeling of a feature presentation.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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Biokinetics has aged so well that it could easily pass for a new album. The production level is exceptional by today's standards, and it has more teeth than much of the music it inspired, especially contemporary dub techno, most of which sounds vanilla by comparison.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 10, 2012
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Gas is the sound of a man freeing his mind and allowing it to wander. To listen to Box is to seize that same opportunity.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 7, 2016
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While, in a sense, Room(s) is by definition an amalgamation of most of the trends and ideas floating around in the electronic music sphere at the moment, it sounds like nothing else, and its execution is so cutthroat and streamlined that it's nearly flawless.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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Gamble has said that Mnestic Pressure is a response to our turbulent times, and an attempt to confront the world rather than offer escape from it. That intention comes through, but the key to the album's brilliance lies elsewhere: in the way it balances fun, challenge and surprise more deftly than anything he's made before.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 24, 2017
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Product is simply forward-thinking, flawlessly-produced electronic music that wants no more than to slap a grin on the dance floor.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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It is the kind of music you could imagine spending the rest of your life listening to.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 15, 2019
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For all its mind-melting attention to detail, Hertz's music has rarely sounded so evocative.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 8, 2018
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After so many records, a debut novel and another book on the way, it's a privilege to be invited into Hval's private mental space. Like picking up a conversation with a much wiser friend, each new album compacts her advancing thought into a kind of guidebook for those who aren't quite so mentally together, all her latest learnings folded in. ... Obviously, Hval is anything but ordinary.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 24, 2019
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Though he's had plenty of strong releases in the past, this one has the inspired feeling of an artist truly finding his footing--a breakthrough, in other words.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 2, 2012
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The results are astoundingly beautiful, like a field recording taken from some uncharted corner of the earth. Elsewhere, the climax at the end of the ominous "Talking To The Whisper" beggars belief, it's a traffic jam of cascading keys, sporadic drumming, serpentine brass and more, an explosion of chaotic sound to conclude one of her best songs ever.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Not sequenced in simple chronological order, Livity Sound feels like a real album even when you know it's not. That's a testament to the unity of their aesthetic and the clarity of their vision, with three years' worth of tracks from three different producers all sounding like they could have been made in the same session.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 20, 2013
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With ideas that Froese wisely and generously left behind in this earthly realm, Froese has given us another Tangerine Dream near-masterpiece, created by the loyal pupils who grew up in his significant shadow.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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As the dubstep/bass music continuum continues to splinter, recombine and reinvigorate itself ... Sepalcure seems to string all of these timbres and sub-sub-genres into a physically and emotionally bewitching take on post-everything dance music.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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It's this combination of shadowy unknowability and full-hearted melody that makes Pull My Hair Back such an intriguing listen, and certainly one of the year's best debuts.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 20, 2013
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The result is bone-chillingly gorgeous, right down to the feverish burst of pop strings that accompanies the final choruses.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Apr 8, 2013
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Even the most careful listener will be left wondering what it all means. Luckily, Boards Of Canada have laid out a riddle we won't tire of teasing out, embedded in a timeless sound unlike any other.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 11, 2013
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It's peaceful and distantly serene, but with flickers of dissonance rubbing away at the edges. Those contrasting textures are part of what makes The Inheritors perhaps the year's most revealing and intriguing album yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jul 25, 2013
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While GREY Area was a collection of great songs, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert feels like a therapeutic breakthrough. ... A body of work so rich with innovation, so broad in its influences and so powerful in its storytelling that we'll still be finding new things to love until the next one comes along.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 9, 2021
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Angels & Devils marks an evolution of the sound that made London Zoo a classic.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 25, 2014
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- Posted Mar 27, 2012
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Sirens is his best record because it's both his most straightforward and most experimental, his densest and lightest.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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Black Metal 2 has all the elements that made its predecessor a masterpiece, with sentimental instrumentals and yearning vocals all packaged in a crinkly lo-fi setting. But Blunt has opened up even more on Black Metal 2.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jun 18, 2021
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Sure, the LP has its eccentric moments, and it takes a long time to really get to know. But, as The Redeemer hinted and Black Metal proves, beneath all the YouTube sampling, bizarre press and one-off Russian blog releases, Blunt is a talented singer-songwriter with a keen ear for odd sounds.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2014
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Magnificently re-mastered... an exemplary introduction to the duo.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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As excerpts of poetry sound like heart-stricken dialogue and foggy soundscapes take the shape of a score, it often steps out of the confines of music and begins to approach theatre.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 19, 2024
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Bronsert and Szary rarely break the mould here but it's instead one of the most accessible and effortlessly enjoyable dance music albums of the year.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Modern Jester is one of the most accomplished noise albums of the last several years. Excellent are the chances that it will go down as one of his very finest works.- Resident Advisor
- Posted May 3, 2012
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On Natural Brown Prom Queen, she proves she belongs to no mood, genre or period of time. Over a placeless mix of sounds and endlessly dynamic beats she comes of age, shaping Black histories into exciting futures, all while making it clear that her idea of home is wherever she decides it is at any given moment.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 25, 2022
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