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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Some of his vocal lines seemed rushed and out-of-sync with the American metal chug, but he proves his pipes on a fair number of spots.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 29, 2011
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For all its bluster, There Is A Hell is far more than the story of a man battling his self-perpetuated inner turmoil; it is the sound of a remarkable band establishing themselves as one of the finest of their generation.- Rock Sound
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Clouded is possibly the most beautiful record about heartbreak you’ll hear all year.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 9, 2014
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Beach Slang’s second full-length does a stellar job of building on frontman James Alex’s knack for storytelling.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 22, 2016
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As soulful and finely crafted as their debut of sorts, II is a glorious record.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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It's still heavy, still weird and Jared Warren still sounds like a water buffalo gargling turpentine, and while there might just be four tracks to be had they're still more kingly than 99 per cent of whatever else is calling itself 'rock' music these days.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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Free from the shadows of their past, it seems Young Widows have found an infinitely darker place to dwell.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 21, 2011
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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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- Posted Nov 28, 2012
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While none quite make it all the way, they do end up nestling rather nicely among the planets.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 19, 2017
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A brief but superb collection, this cements them as one of the most compelling acts in their genre.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 6, 2016
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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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Relentless Reckless Forever, the band's seventh album, is more of the same but faster and stronger.- Rock Sound
- Posted Dec 6, 2011
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Lost Forever, Lost Together is the sound of Architects finding and unleashing the buried treasure they’ve been searching for.- Rock Sound
- Posted Mar 13, 2014
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Ruthlessly combining technical brutality and pure fucking class, DevilDriver have finally come of age.- Rock Sound
- Posted Mar 10, 2011
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Famously chaotic musical magpies Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky and Miles Seaton have outdone themselves here in concocting an album almost as enigmatic as its title.- Rock Sound
- Posted Mar 21, 2011
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That the record spans their 15-year lifespan puts the kybosh on continuity a touch; see announcing your last song in the middle of an album. However, that’s generally overridden by sheer dumb fun within cuts like synth-drenched supermarket ode "Tesco V Sainsbury's".- Rock Sound
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With The Big Deep they've taken a much more straightforward approach to things than ever before and ended up with a collection of solid, accessible rock songs.- Rock Sound
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- Posted Jun 9, 2011
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Born of isolation and introspection, Stomachaches is hugely likeable, and leaves everything on the table.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 30, 2014
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The production allows the introspective oddness of Soto’s lyrics to show through better, lending them a really likeable, stand-out character.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 10, 2014
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Crowbar were always more reflective. And that's kind of what Sever The Wicked Hand is all about, corpulent down-tuned riffs and a sense of grizzled resignation articulated through Windstein's taut songwriting and sorrowful croon.- Rock Sound
- Posted Mar 23, 2011
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It sounds ferocious and is going to have you feeling filthy and dealing with tinnitus afterwards, but nothing's going to stop you from rocking.- Rock Sound
- Posted Dec 7, 2011
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While they’ve ramped up the production values on this follow-up, its nine tracks retain the reckless zest for life that have defined their creators’ output.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jan 19, 2017
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11 tracks with all the anguish that melodic hardcore thrives on, but with enough testosterone to keep it on the right side of whiney.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 7, 2013
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his is polished, assured pop-rock custom built for massive stages and even bigger singalongs, and both are no doubt in the pipeline.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 10, 2013
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Stripped down to a three-piece since Tyondai Braxton's surprise departure, Battles' sophomore effort may not have a nailed-on stand-out like their debut's Atlas but their dizzying electro-prog has a great deal more focus this time around.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 8, 2011
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The Husker Du-lionising and strategic swearing of earlier releases might be absent, but Let's Wrestle's copious charms are otherwise very much in force on their full-length debut.- Rock Sound
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- Posted Mar 23, 2015
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The Foo Fighters may have ballooned in size over the past few years and if it took them going back to their roots to make an album this good then so be it, but when all is said and done Wasting Light is as an example of how to be a globe-eatingly massive band and still sound young, hungry and, above all, important.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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