The Independent on Sunday (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 789 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | One Day I'm Going To Soar | |
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Lowest review score: | Last Night on Earth |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 495 out of 789
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Mixed: 280 out of 789
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Negative: 14 out of 789
789
music
reviews
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 8, 2013
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A fascinating collection of songs from the 19th and early 20th centuries.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 25, 2013
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Over 13 tunes, Akinmusire and his very hot quintet (featuring Walter Smith III on tenor sax and a great drummer, Justin Brown) take the basic format of post-bop straightahead jazz and tease it around with absolute authority.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 31, 2011
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14 songs of keening, romantic acoustic music of great seriousness and lightness of being.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Sep 4, 2012
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To the relief of anyone who carries a torch for the reclusive genius, it's a beauty.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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The worldy influence remains but never overwhelms and the album contains at least half a dozen songs that are as simple and profound as anything Simon has ever written.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 15, 2011
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The wisdom expressed is crusty but benign, poetic and sometimes witty.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 23, 2012
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Helpnessness Blues is, like its predecessor, archaic and pastoral to the last.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 2, 2011
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 1, 2012
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Arrangements are simple, bluegrass-inflected and rich in acoustic textures. Warm and thick as a hayrick.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Aug 5, 2013
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The Cumbrian quartet haven't fumbled the ball with the follow-up. Smother, recorded in the shadow of Snowdonia, tinkles and twinkles like the classiest adult-alternative pop of the 1980s.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 9, 2011
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 13, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jan 22, 2013
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The material is all Mehldau's and quality varies from the standing ovations of the opening and closing tunes to lesser tricked-up vamps, but bass and drums groove superbly throughout.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 19, 2012
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There is joy in these grooves; the attentive care of studio perfectionists, and the warm embrace of an old friend.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 27, 2011
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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Maybe now he can sleep a little less on floors and spend more time making gorgeous albums like this. Please.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jan 21, 2014
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The occasional off-kilter touch throws things sufficiently askew to deny listeners any complacency.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 20, 2013
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Parker's music is approached from a post-Coltrane, post-free jazz aesthetic, with the rhythmic edginess of bebop elided into an all-the-time-in-the-world fluidity. A masterpiece.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Though it's far from his worst album, it's his least commercial – with its harsh beats, mangled vocals, and Marilyn Manson samples, it mimics the aesthetics of a DIY mixtape.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2013
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This rocks harder and faster than those fellow Tuareg bluesmen, partly due to the noticeable pop influence of another Malian act, Amadou & Mariam.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 15, 2013
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It happens to be their most cohesive and convincing effort yet.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 13, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Dec 5, 2011
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Though his appeal remains frustratingly specialist, with each release it becomes clearer that Callahan is the natural successor to Leonard Cohen.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2013
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This is accessible, song-based contemporary jazz at its most earnest, ordered and empowering.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Aug 3, 2011
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This is Cash at his rawest and most riveting, singing his soul out to platoons, prisoners and presidents alike. Hard to describe in terms that are adequate.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Dec 13, 2011
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 17, 2012
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While there's perhaps a surfeit of synth-washes, the beautiful "Winter Elegy" superbly fulfils the opening promise.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 23, 2012
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