For 5,509 reviews, this publication has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To | |
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Lowest review score: | Unpredictable |
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Positive: 2,968 out of 5509
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Mixed: 2,464 out of 5509
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Negative: 77 out of 5509
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It’s all beautifully done, as you might expect. ... Giles Martin’s remix is a vast improvement on the old stereo version--more muscular, with an unexpected emphasis placed on Ringo Starr’s drums--although the original mono mix, also here, is the one with the Beatles’ fingerprints on it.- The Guardian
- Posted May 25, 2017
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The music offers further evidence of how far outside rap's usual strictures West operates. OutKast aside, mainstream hip-hop doesn't really do ambiguity or irony, but just as West's arrogance occasionally appears to be a protracted joke, Late Registration finds him in thrillingly subversive form, working in the production booth to undercut tracks' messages and shifting their meanings.- The Guardian
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Spiritual, lovelorn and vulnerable, this is the album Diamond has deserved for decades.- The Guardian
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This strange summer of arrested development is steadily ending. Folklore will endure long beyond it: as fragmented as Swift is across her eighth album – and much as you hope it doesn’t mark the end of her pop ambitions – her emotional acuity has never been more assured.- The Guardian
- Posted Jul 24, 2020
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Qualm, is a victory lap. It is, on paper, an uncomplicated beast: a live hardware workout of claustrophobic, rhythmic acid techno. But her ability to draw out harmonic elements from the cacophony of it all is deft--that cassette tape feel is still evident.- The Guardian
- Posted Aug 3, 2018
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Fantasy Black Channel is the most thrilling British debut of the year for its spirit of invention, its surfeit of ideas and its ear for a good tune.- The Guardian
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There's a theory that REM were never the same after their lyrics became audible, but Lifes Rich Pageant is packed with songs on which the new clarity of Stipe's vocals bears dividends.- The Guardian
- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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It’s remarkable as much for the quality and range of her singing as for the inventive arrangements.- The Guardian
- Posted Feb 2, 2017
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Jazzers might still balk at the high-concept planning, but it’s remarkable how much polish has been applied without cramping the band’s irrepressible creative energy.- The Guardian
- Posted May 25, 2016
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Simon’s lyrics are finely honed, from the conversational The Werewolf to the confessional title track, a moving exploration of his creative process.- The Guardian
- Posted Jun 2, 2016
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Nothing less than a thorough exploration and devastation of folk’s most conventional tropes is Lankum’s impressive game.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 23, 2019
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There’s something hugely impressive about coming up with an album that somehow manages to be both incredibly discomfiting and easy to listen to.- The Guardian
- Posted Apr 6, 2017
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Orchestral textures, such as the eerie woodwind motifs of Moth and austere strings of Lamplight, conjure the darkly sexual charge of the film.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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What makes it so compelling is the haunting vocal writing. Full of gently lapping lines, close imitation and moments of honeyed homophony, all underpinned by tactful percussion, it is startlingly different from the driving, hard edges of much of Lang's work with the Bang On a Can collective.- The Guardian
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The jokes, in places offensive, are relentless and ribald. There is no apology, though, no concession; just a considered, virtuoso application of talent.- The Guardian
- Posted Nov 8, 2013
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It's marked by the fresh excitement of mapping out new territory rather than the more craven pleasure of wallowing in nostalgia: an object lesson in the value of not giving people what they want.- The Guardian
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Whatever he’s doing, the results are uniformly fantastic: rich, fascinating and moving, packed with gorgeous melodies and arrangements that feel alive, constantly writhing into unexpected new shapes.- The Guardian
- Posted May 14, 2020
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The fearless try-anything spirit of Paul Welly, it seems, is still alive and well.- The Guardian
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Dystopia is an absolutely blistering return to the state-of-the-art bombast and refined technicality of past glories like Rust in Peace and Endgame.- The Guardian
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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For fans of chiming, literate, lovelorn pop, Picaresque is an absolute treasure trove.- The Guardian
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You could never describe You Want It Darker as merely more of the same. As striking as the sense that its themes are of a piece with the rest of Cohen’s oeuvre is the sense of an artist willing to move forward.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 20, 2016
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The end result is an album that you sink into, which gradually envelops you: moving, painful and elating in equal measure.- The Guardian
- Posted Dec 21, 2018
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This new album contains 10 sublime reflections on religious sites and buildings.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 12, 2014
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Carrie & Lowell is a delight in every way, surely one of the albums of the year.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 26, 2015
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Seventeen Going Under is an album rooted in 2021 that, in spirit at least, seems to look back 40-something years, to the brief early 80s period when Top of the Pops played host to the Specials and the Jam. The result is really powerful.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 7, 2021
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It’s strange and disorientating, idiosyncratic and frequently astonishing, a modern-day psychedelia that owes almost nothing to that genre’s hackneyed conventions and never forgets to temper the sublimity with darkness.- The Guardian
- Posted Mar 24, 2015
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This is the kind of songwriting quality that bands can take years to reach, or never reach at all: brilliant, top to bottom.- The Guardian
- Posted Apr 12, 2019
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Full of the kind of bathetic genius English pop used to excel in, Art Brut are life-affirming - and are worth 500 of almost every other new guitar band.- The Guardian
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A darker and more eccentric record than its predecessors, Distant Satellites may not be the album to change all that, but it's still another masterclass in supercharged emotional songwriting and fearless sonic curiosity.- The Guardian
- Posted Jun 9, 2014
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Seamus Fogarty has joined the big league with Domino Records. This stunning, mercurial album shows us why. Held together by Fogarty’s lovely unadorned voice, it constantly unwinds and uncoils, taking us on magical journeys through fable and modern life and back again, often in the same song.- The Guardian
- Posted Oct 12, 2017
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