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 May 27, 2014
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From the self-mockingly banal title onwards, it confirms them as that rare thing: a band able to combine grandiosity and groundedness.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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while D contains strange time signatures, proggy flute solos and syncopation aplenty, it soon reveals itself to be a work for the heart as well as the mind.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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It's all very gladsome, technically fine and will lift your day. But, as with all such heritaged musics, it won't make your day over. Pleasant though.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 23, 2011
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Stuart Staples and his band delivering nine pieces of beautiful bossa-nova noir, daydreamy reverie and existential easy listening.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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The songs are mostly shaped in her traditional chord-to-chord method, their melodies looping behind the tempo of the guitars and, for once, in a spirit of uplift.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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Even if [Psychedelic Pill is not essential], it's by some way the best non-essential album Neil Young has ever made.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Their music which, as it happens, is a thrilling mix of raw vocal harmonies, rattling homemade guitars and handclaps.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Sep 25, 2012
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There are enough album tracks and B-sides to make the case that what we actually had in 10cc was a British Steely Dan: clever, funny and funky as hell when they wanted to be.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Dec 31, 2012
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Whether this Blue Note debut featuring Robert Glasper is better than his two albums with Brownswood is moot, but the best tracks--"Trouble", "Heaven on the Ground", "Do You Feel"--are very good indeed.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jan 14, 2013
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Though some of the good-girl-gone-bad shtick has been sacrificed on the altar of go-for-it jangly pop, she's still as good as it gets when she finally opens her pipes on "Dallas".- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 25, 2013
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 7, 2011
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It marries a downbeat songcraft to an expansive sound courtesy of producers Guy Garvey and Craig Potter.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jan 22, 2013
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It may be a bit rushed--too sickly sweet for one sitting, while their youthful lyrics will ripen yet--but the hit rate is nonetheless impressively high.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Oct 28, 2013
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How you respond will depend on how you react to such gubbins being brought to bear on Merritt's A-to-B-and-back melodic sense. No doubting its realness, though.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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All of it frothed up into an accomplished brew and delivered with good-timey vim but without a whole lot of charisma, especially in the vocal department. Snake oil, in other words. Good fun snake oil.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 1, 2014
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Danilova's commanding tones evoking nameless terrors over wonderful doom-laden synth-rock.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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While nothing grates, all it really achieves is to make you want to hear Hank sing them.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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IOH is their most emotional release yet and also their most philosophical.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jun 12, 2012
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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Two non-trad covers (Anais Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac) remind you that he's earnt the right to do what the hell he wants.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Apr 23, 2012
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While Wagner's voice is not always up to it, Tidwell's authentic country pipes are the real revelation here.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Feb 28, 2011
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Give it time and the intensity of the music--the Hagar of the title is Lloyd's great-great grandmother, who was sold into slavery--comes through.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 15, 2013
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Almost every track sounds like a potential single in an indie rock/Americana kind of way.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted May 31, 2012
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- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Aug 13, 2012
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He sets his bruised but unbowed soul against a stark musical backing and rediscovers the power of keeping it simple. Beautiful.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Mar 4, 2013
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For all its faux-primitive origins, their seventh studio album is every bit as likely to ship platinum as the previous six.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Apr 11, 2011
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Scratch beneath the surface sheen of It's All True and all kinds of depths emerge.- The Independent on Sunday (UK)
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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