The Line of Best Fit's Scores
- Music
For 4,083 reviews, this publication has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: | Am I British Yet? | |
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Lowest review score: | Supermodel |
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Positive: 3,678 out of 4083
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Mixed: 389 out of 4083
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Negative: 16 out of 4083
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There is a vitality and clarity of spirit present here that is at once immediate, intimate and irresistible.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 18, 2013
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The richness of the source material and the deftness of interplay of each member of the band ensures that Your Queen is a Reptile leaves you with a sense of having been a part of something truly special.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 28, 2018
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It’s a record of successful explorations of musical avenues. The sparingly-used vocals enhance the instrumentation that, itself, moves between the minimal and the more full-blooded. A first rate illustration of growing musical ambition and inventiveness.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 25, 2021
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- Posted Mar 1, 2016
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Running parallel with Aster’s allegorical fetishism of interpersonal decay, Krlic's music - even at its most choking and hopeless - feels luminous, making for a perfectly-poised accompaniment to one of the most challenging genre films in recent years.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jul 29, 2019
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PARANOÏA isn’t without flaw; some tracks work more as spoken poems than as songs due to their slack, unmoving instrumentation. But at almost 100 minutes, Chris’ most astounding work yet expands his craftsmanship to territories surprisingly well-suited for him.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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In the end, And After That We Didn’t Talk is as impressive of a rap debut as there has been in 2015. Once GoldLink’s reputation catches up with the quality of his music we may just have a new superstar on our hands.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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Ultimately, this deftly intelligent record takes personal and musical themes, and presents them in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s ever been done before. Rina Sawayama is one-of-a-kind, and her debut album certainly isn’t going to be quiet about that.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Apr 15, 2020
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Kveikur is a record you play for the sheer catharsis of it--a work of art to plug into when grey buildings and greyer skies tower too densely around you, and you wish for nothing more than to close your eyes and feel the terrible greatness of nature swallow you up.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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Days of the Bagnold Summer encapsulates the best of Belle and Sebastian whist simultaneously narrating the key themes of the film. The gentle approach of the album and the complementary nature of the band’s rerecording’s and the new tracks are hard to fault. Belle and Sebastian have truly found a beautiful sweet spot on Days of the Bagnold Summer between a film soundtrack and a signature sounding album.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 17, 2019
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It stands as both a fascinating new direction, and a heartbreaking memoir of a period now sinking into the past.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 28, 2014
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Her trademark confidence is now tinged with a newfound self-awareness, as if evolving through her experience of the joys and pitfalls of celebrity. ... Surprisingly, the standout track from the record, “Crying in the Car”, is a diorama of nostalgia, melancholy and faith, counterbalancing Megan’s overall ethos of optimistic self-empowerment. ... For listeners, it makes a strong case for the rapper’s longevity within the increasingly fickle world of music.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 6, 2020
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It’s a huge, sprawling Britpop epic that evokes The Verve, Oasis and even U2 in its scope and power. There are walls of guitars, layers of backing vocals, thunderous percussive blasts.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted May 6, 2021
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Delicate and crystalline in sound & execution, what we have here is brave, innovative, unexpected, and brilliant.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 24, 2022
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It is easily El Perro del Mar's most impressive work to date. In lesser hands, such difficult topics might have been rendered in a cliché, one-sided way. But Assbring manages to deliver a heart rending, honest, multifaceted meditation on grief in a tightly-penned ten track album that demands nothing less than our full attention.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Uplifting, powerful and sincere, Pip Blom deliver a rich, ocean-inspired debut that is instantly captivating. This is the opening chapter to something very exciting.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted May 31, 2019
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In true Simz fashion, conscious reflections unfold over the producer’s sprawling arrangements. NO THANK YOU makes certain that every gap is filled tastefully: bellowed vocal ad-libs and melodies (“X”); tasteful guitar tinkles (“Who Even Cares”); or sampled vocal interjections (“Heart On Fire” or “Sideways”).- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 18, 2023
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Turning it up to eleven, PUP’s second album is a tongue-in-cheek rampage through everything that matters. The dream might not be what they thought it would be, but when they’re capable of a record as unrelenting as this one, then it’s certainly not over.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 3, 2016
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In anyone else’s hands, 30 tracks might feel bloated and indulgent, but Swift tempers length with careful curation, sequencing and a respect for what made the original Red such a superb pop record.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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This is an album of Swift at her most knowing, pushing away the tabloid fodder that has often surrounded her artistry and magnifying the talent she's been honing her entire life. The melodies are full of warmth and round-edges, moving and twinkling on her whim as she indulges in one of the most most human and timeless past-times we have.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jul 24, 2020
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If Cape God felt like Hughes beginning to create her own universe, Girl with No Face marks her apotheosis as her deity. Still sleeping on Allie X? It’s time to wake up: her spaceship has truly landed.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 22, 2024
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Every single edition of this release is great value for money, and long-term and new fans alike will find hours of listening pleasure to be had no matter their budget.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 2, 2021
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Uncut Gems is a triumph. The Oneohtrix Point Never albums occupy almost every different mood the human body is capable of expressing and now Lopatin’s soundtrack work is starting to do the same. We’ve had the moody, anxious Lopatin on Good Time and now Uncut Gems has allowed him to show his more thoughtful and emotional side.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 30, 2019
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The collective's return gleams with ambition. Packing the same ferocity and awe of a firework display with ebullient lighter moments shaded with synth flourishes, and rapturously prototypical loud darker ones which apprehend and shake you to the core.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 24, 2023
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- Posted Aug 2, 2013
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This album is fun to listen to. The songs breeze by. It’s a 20 track album which feels half the length and the Dirty Projectors are now resolutely a band, and a band reborn.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 18, 2020
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The unstoppable momentum of hypnotic build-ups and genuinely unique, masterfully maintained combination of moodiness and muscular physicality that characterises Feeding The Machine place Binker & Moses far ahead of the combination.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 25, 2022
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This record is intelligent, succinct in its ambitions, and more than anything, it’s pretty bloody cool.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Apr 7, 2014
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Its stylistic diversity can be off-putting at first. But the more you listen, the more it all comes together.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 30, 2013
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A record that feels like one of 2017’s most exciting, fascinating and emotionally involving albums.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 23, 2017
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