The Fly (UK)'s Scores

  • Music
For 370 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Channel Orange
Lowest review score: 10 Sequel to the Prequel
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 9 out of 370
370 music reviews
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've left easy indie-disco hits behind and are now proving they're some of the most capable songwriters around.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gentle collection, evocative of a transitional time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grips you like summer flu.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The rapid and rabid ‘You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now’, replete with wonky recorder, matches the velocity of that record [Light Up Gold], as does the hurtling ‘Descend (The Way)’.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a sensory experience throughout.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their boldest and most fantastically frisky record to date.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull is honest, sweaty and delirious.... Their most exciting album yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is a collection of songs that really soar in a way that some previous material hasn’t.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their minimalist throb is challenging at first, yet allowing the likes of 'Brains' and 'Propagation' to seep in is to be submerged in an invigoratingly ballsy album.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As closer ‘Black’ fades out, it’s clear MONEY have made something special and, maybe, even sacred.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The record overflows with the tell-tale nuances of a band who have learnt how to translate grandiosity into something more restrained, yet no less forceful.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wonky yet warm, it's an accomplished balancing act from an ever-growing band.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Day finds Rowland weary, woozy and nakedly accepting of loneliness and age; a true soul man.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hawley ditches his heavily orchestrated, Indie Orbison Of The North shtick in favour of a sound that's darker, ragged and riff-heavy. It works.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Here Come The Bombs' is a sublime first solo effort.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a half-hour packed with ideas and wonky ambition.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zoo
    [Zoo will piss you off if you think] their Fugaziish formative albums are sacrosanct and that any deviation voids them in the eyes of The Living Christ Our Lord Henry Rollins. Two, you hate loud noises.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    AlunaGeorge are a pop act at heart, with most of this debut’s songs anchored to a radio-friendly chorus.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Far from daft, Tomorrow’s Harvest is a psycho-spiritual stormer.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If this is bedroom pop, it surely stems from the most cluttered yet colourful bedroom imaginable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Dead Set On Living' also explores such lyrical subjects as being the offspring of a particularly nasty nuclear winter, but does so to a cauldron of riffs and deathly roars stolen straight from the depths of Hell so pant-wettingly exciting, that it's impossible to do anything but scream along.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Tiger Talk' allows YB to earn their stripes as purveyors of plush, 70s-inspired powerpop.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Essentially, Crybaby is an album that achieves exactly what it set out to do.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This mostly-great follow-up is occasionally waylaid by its determination to make bad instruments sound good.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the most brilliantly chaotic, mesmerising albums you'll hear all year.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guitar work comes across as the strongest feature of 'Spooky Action At A Distance' – tricky arpeggios and impeccably crafted feedback combine to create bleary, Kurt-Vile-esque smokescapes.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A jubilant collection.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A very, very brilliant thing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fortunately, the contents don’t disappoint.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On An Object, their blissy ambient tinkerings finally feel earned and essential.