Rock Sound's Scores
- Music
For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | That's the Spirit | |
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Lowest review score: | Bright Black Heaven |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 435 out of 497
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Mixed: 60 out of 497
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Negative: 2 out of 497
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The Baltimore hardcore crew follow up their beloved 2015 debut full-length 'Nonstop Feeling' with an equally intense 13 tracks, dragging the best elements of 20th Century punk into the modern world.- Rock Sound
- Posted Feb 21, 2018
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Clocking in at just under an hour across 14 songs, about 12 of which could easily be singles, Technology is engaging, fun and an early contender for album of the year, plus the album of this band’s career.- Rock Sound
- Posted Feb 12, 2018
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This long-awaited second album isn’t just thrilling from start to finish: it might also be exactly what rock needs right now.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 23, 2018
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This is brave, baffling, bonkers and most importantly, absolutely brilliant. Strap yourselves in, it’s a hell of a ride.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 19, 2018
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It works. It all makes an album full of awesome, genuine pop-rock music. Time will tell if this album and the next couple of years propel this band to the huge rooms these songs were made for, but for now? A great band just got even better.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 17, 2018
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Despite its more slippery moments, Underworld finds Tonight Alive honing in on and owning their identity again; and given the bigger picture, taking a huge step in the right direction.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 11, 2018
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There are strings, spoken word sections and sweeping solos, so while the themes and melodies may sound familiar, the overall tapestry rarely wears thin.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 11, 2018
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While they continue down a more measured, accessible route--calling to mind everyone from The Clash to Rancid--there’s a freshness to the anarchy this time. Here’s a welcome beacon of hope.- Rock Sound
- Posted Nov 3, 2017
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Gut-busting, heart-wrenching and captivating from vicious beginning to devastating conclusion, the likes of ‘Cannibals’, the jolting ‘Arkhipov Calm’ and beautifully excruciating title track capture the band at their most ambitious and dominant.- Rock Sound
- Posted Nov 2, 2017
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Front to back, start to finish, this is pop-punk for those who have lived, loved and lost and aren’t afraid to contemplate the fact that maybe, just maybe, it isn’t going to be their weekend or their year.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 16, 2017
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Phantom Anthem is an awful lot to stomach in one sitting, but those prepared to strap in and take the ride from guttural beginnings to dramatic conclusion will be rewarded with an album of intense grandeur and unmatchable ambition.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 6, 2017
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It all combines to make Citizen’s gloomiest, most atmospheric record yet--and also one of the most disturbing of the year so far. It’s a memorable journey.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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It’s impossible not to admire the scale and ambition of what Sleeping With Sirens are trying to achieve here, so don’t be too surprised if they’re swapping Warped Tour for arenas before too long.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 26, 2017
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All 10 tracks here bear such scars, adding up to a staggering work of honesty, beauty and artistic achievement. It’s hugely impressive on those terms alone... but even more so given everything PVRIS endured in its creation.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 24, 2017
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Drew’s definitely been reunited with his fury again, and it feels so good.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 26, 2017
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Full of textured, wide-screen soundscapes, the record dips its feet in electronic waters, yet retains the emotional vulnerability that has always defined the Atlanta band. There’s an extra dose of sinister unease, too, especially on ‘Lead, SD’ and ‘The Moth’.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 25, 2017
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From the barbed, Blink-182-esque pop-punk of ‘A Million Miles’ and grouchy, tongue in cheek call-outs of ‘Am I Deaf’ to sun-drenched ska numbers like ‘Don’t Let Me Go’, this is a mix of music for lounging by a pool, and tearing up a sweaty basement venue.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 21, 2017
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It’s very much the work of a band who are still capable of delivering the goods even after 17 years, while showing the fresh-faced up and comers a thing or two.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 14, 2017
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At just seven tracks The Beautiful Stories is a touch slight, but whether it’s the ’80s guitar tones or quiet insistence of the quintet’s lyrics, it’ll leave a much longer impression.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 28, 2017
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- Posted Jun 23, 2017
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Lyrics largely consist of nostalgic references, in-jokes and arch observations, but with a bummed-out charm that invites rather than excludes. If you’ve played the classics to death and want a fresh fix, this is among the best of the new breed’s offerings.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 22, 2017
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An album that will creep up on you time and time again, Two Parts Viper is more evidence that all you need to incite a riot is a guitar, drums and pure attitude.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 20, 2017
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Its delicate, sparse build-and-explode approach is largely typical of what Last Young Renegade has to offer--anthemic yet atmospheric songs that are subtly affecting.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 19, 2017
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One of punk’s few great constants, the Chicago four-piece are back and as furious as ever with this eighth album. As you’d expect, they don’t fumble the ball.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 9, 2017
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Bearing the smart but dark pop hallmarks of bands like The Cure and Echo And The Bunnymen, it’s astonishing how the L.A. foursome’s fusion of disco, funk and hot gothic takes sounds so fresh in 2017, 30-odd years after that stuff’s heyday.- Rock Sound
- Posted May 15, 2017
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There are plenty of moments on this record where it feels like Motionless have grown into their own skin; tugging at the heartstrings one moment and cutting straight to the bone the next.- Rock Sound
- Posted May 9, 2017
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From the breakneck belligerence of ‘Balance The Odds’ to the nostalgic groove of ‘Step To You’, this is the purest strain of hardcore you could possibly mosh your life away to.- Rock Sound
- Posted May 3, 2017
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Noticeably less refined than the aforementioned masterpiece, ‘Pendulum In A Peasant Dress’, ‘Tilting At The Univendor’ and ‘Torrentially Cutshaw’ are part of a breathlessly jagged, abrasive, unruly and punk as fuck whole.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 28, 2017
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- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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Every Where Is Some Where is in turns intimate, expansive, confessional and inviting--thoroughly addictive on the dark, pulsing and urgent ‘Blood In The Cut’, woozily euphoric on ‘High Enough’, playfully political on ‘The President Has A Sex Tape’ and swirling and sultry on ‘You Felt Right’.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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