The 405's Scores
- Music
For 1,530 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 | |
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Lowest review score: | Revival |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,296 out of 1530
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Mixed: 209 out of 1530
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Negative: 25 out of 1530
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There is no insight into what brought him here, or how he feels in this place on a spiritual or even human level. Instead, it offers a shallow rush of, essentially, “WHOO GOD!” complete with an admittedly fantastic choir, but little else.- The 405
- Posted Oct 29, 2019
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These songs don’t live nicely in any genre, and suffer under the weight of attempting cross-pollination.- The 405
- Posted Jun 12, 2019
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At its core, Death Race for Love feels less like music and more like a cynical attempt to bring out the worst in both emo and rap.- The 405
- Posted Mar 19, 2019
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With The Black Album, Weezer once again sounds insufferably uncomfortable with the notion of aging by devising the musical equivalent of getting hair plugs. ... A compilation of tracks lacking in quality and spat out at the end of a conveyer belt.- The 405
- Posted Mar 6, 2019
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Though side A is a mess, it at least sounds like a mostly-original mess. On the latter half, they seem to say “fuck it” and just go for plagiarism, in whole or in part.- The 405
- Posted Feb 19, 2019
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Mostly unlistenable. ... What has previously been a steady but inoffensive deterioration in Lennox’s music has now slid to (what one can only hope is) the bottom of the trough. No track here could be accused of attempting to engage with either the audience or work with recent exciting stylistic developments in alternative music.- The 405
- Posted Feb 8, 2019
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Dummy Boy would be better if it was worse. 6ix9ine doesn’t show any sign of knowing how to write a complete song, let alone curate a whole album. But he’s also too unimaginative to write anything so jaw-droppingly awful that it needs to be heard to be believed.- The 405
- Posted Jan 2, 2019
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Every inflection, every word, even nearly every concept feels lifted from rap’s reigning King’s playbook. It’s a haphazard mixture of TDE’s figurehead circa Section.80, with a big heap of Good Kid and a smattering of To Pimp a Butterfly, just for good measure. ... DiCaprio 2 is a heavy helping of technicality, signifying absolutely nothing.- The 405
- Posted Dec 12, 2018
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The problem with A Perfect Circle now is that Keenan and Howerdel basically follow whatever creative whims that grab them. After a particularly soporific instrumental track, the album enters its most experimental phase, with unsurprisingly scattershot and lacklustre results.- The 405
- Posted Apr 24, 2018
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“Haters gonna say it's fake,” Timberlake frankly asserts on, 'Filthy'. They needn't even bother. Genuine or not, it simply doesn't work.- The 405
- Posted Feb 2, 2018
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- Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Ultimately, The Spark presents a baffling listening experience. Almost every song on the album poses as an unremarkable backdrop onto which the band fiddles with elements of everything from grime to orchestral arrangements with virtually no successful results.- The 405
- Posted Sep 26, 2017
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- Posted Sep 19, 2017
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Everything Now isn’t so much a misstep as a faceplant, hitting every wrong note with the same precision they hit every right one on Funeral. It’s a compositional mess, somehow both gratuitously moralising and morally repugnant, duller than watching already-dry paint.- The 405
- Posted Jul 27, 2017
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In general, the album feels like a grab-bag of 'button issues', others' ideas, and content truly desperate to bear high-minded importance, but proves little more than Logic has clearly heard some Kendrick.- The 405
- Posted May 15, 2017
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You’d hope that Lupe would trust himself enough to deliver the kind of music he’s capable of making. Instead, we get a terrible album--a new low in a career that already has too many down moments.- The 405
- Posted Feb 14, 2017
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The result is a chaos of sound that leaves little direction for the listener.- The 405
- Posted Jan 13, 2017
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Each and every track on this album is so jam-packed with garbage pop flourishes that it can get exhausting.- The 405
- Posted Jun 9, 2016
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The resulting effort is a complete mess of an already insipid project yelling to be accepted as otherwise.- The 405
- Posted Sep 9, 2015
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Moroder's attempts at creating a 21st century version of his prior success results in painfully artificial, sterile, boring music.- The 405
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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Kele has instead chosen a route that doesn't challenge the listener or, it seems, himself.- The 405
- Posted Oct 7, 2014
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- Posted Aug 12, 2014
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In her grand tradition of coining absurd descriptive phrases, Del Rey and Auerbach have christened all this "narco swing", an apt characterisation if only one assumes it's short for narcoleptic; it takes some doing to make sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll sound boring, but in her hands, the vices of hedonism scan as crushingly monotonous.- The 405
- Posted Jun 16, 2014
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I really wish that Pixies still had their magic, but they don't, and it's a terrible shame for all of the parties concerned. For us as the listener, and for them as the band that are running on empty.- The 405
- Posted Jan 23, 2014
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