The Guardian's Scores
- Music
For 2,628 reviews, this publication has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
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10
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,299 out of 2628
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Mixed: 1,266 out of 2628
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Negative: 63 out of 2628
2,628
music reviews
- By critic score
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Critic Score 80
Smith's approach to the bellicosity post 9/11 contains - surprisingly for someone so full of piss and thunder - a fair amount of faith, hope and pleas for tolerance. -
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Critic Score 80
In different hands, some of the songs might be butterscotch-smooth MOR but Jeremy Greenspan's voice never loses its neurotic edge. -
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Critic Score 80
Like Coldplay on A Rush of Blood to the Head, Muse sound like a band who are at the top of their game. Their confidence carries you through the album's excesses. -
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Critic Score 80
Each of the dozen tracks on Whiskey Tango Ghosts is an elegantly crafted miniature, using a bare minimum of almost entirely acoustic instruments as a framework for Donelly's intimate vocals. -
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Critic Score 80
Musicology strongly suggests Prince has finally roused himself from a decade-long self-indulgent torpor. -
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Critic Score 80
This is one of those hushed, moody, late-night records - though with much more going on than mere melancholia. -
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Critic Score 80
This is a dramatic, ambitious album that dares you to rise to its challenge. -
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Critic Score 80
Mixing maturity with a fixation with metal, there's an anthemic chorus to match every squiggly, air-guitar solo, and gentle harmonies play off grinding rhythms. It's the perfect combination for the ultimate pop-rock break-up album. -
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Critic Score 80
The duo have refined their sound until it is shatteringly effective. Nevertheless, Elephant sounds suspiciously like the White Stripes' apotheosis. -
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Critic Score 80
The first great album of the new prog revolution. -
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Critic Score 80
If at first the songs feel ordinary, perseverance reveals the haunting quality of Arthur's imagery, and the rich patina of his careworn voice. -
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Critic Score 80
Alongside gems from the back catalogue, four new songs suggest Merritt may not even have peaked. -
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Critic Score 80
There are 13 aural riots here, and every one is as catchy as a horrid disease. -
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Critic Score 80
But I Can't Stop has more to offer than a rush of nostalgia. The songwriting is largely superb, which keeps the album from sounding like a clever pastiche. -
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Critic Score 80
British Sea Power's slightly camp, wholly menacing, startlingly audacious debut is unlike anything you'll hear this year. -
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Critic Score 80
Perpetuum Mobile offers a more moving and engaging experience than you would expect from an album whose primary instrumentation involves an air compressor and a car tyre. -
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Critic Score 80
This is probably destined for the darkest recesses of the John Peel programme, but it deserves the same attention afforded to similar one-offs such as British Sea Power. -
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Critic Score 80
The hazy, semi-hallucinogenic beauty is boosted by the lo-fi, not-quite-focused home recording. -
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Critic Score 80
The lush melodic sense that deserted Air on 10000Hz Legend has returned. -
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Critic Score 80
In the tradition of all great girl-fronted punk bands, from Sleater-Kinney to Elastica, it's not what Kaito has to say, it's the way Colt sings it. -
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Critic Score 80
A great record, guilelessly cheery and knowingly witty in equal measure. -
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Critic Score 80
These are wonderful exercises in songcraft: full of metaphors, twists and punchlines, couched in sprightly string arrangements and sung with rare flamboyance. -
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Critic Score 80
Shards of Joy Division guitar crisscross punk-funk basslines and mournful electro shivers. -
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Critic Score 80
It's the voice that does it - all hazy smoke and dusty cotton, this time sounding like she's channelling Billie Holiday. -
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Critic Score 80
It's all a welcome change from dance-scene earnestness, and worth 48 minutes of anyone's time. -
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Critic Score 80
But while the scope of Immortal Memory is huge... the music is entirely accessible. -
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Critic Score 80
The first British guitar band in a decade to lay a serious claim to the melodic guitar pop throne invented by the Byrds and the Hollies, and last occupied by the Stone Roses and the La's. -