The Line of Best Fit's Scores
- Music
For 4,086 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.
(0-100 point scale)
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: 3,681 out of 4086
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Mixed: 389 out of 4086
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Negative: 16 out of 4086
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The actual content of OKNOTOK, in terms of what’s new, is hardly justification for any casual listener to pick it up, but the excuse to revisit the record itself would absolutely vindicate the purchase.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 30, 2017
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This is a record you need to keep listening to and finding new nuances. The sheer scope of material here will keep you entertained, thrilled and occasionally a little bit freaked out for years to come.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 3, 2014
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These unreleased tracks are a nice glimpse behind Prince’s purple curtain, and provide a tantalizing hint at the potential treasures that await us within his Vault. But a discerning ear will easily identify why these songs didn’t quite make the cut for the soundtrack and remained locked away for so long. ... The original Purple Rain soundtrack, however, still sounds fresh, vital, and impassioned.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jul 14, 2017
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he Basement Tapes are an integral part of music history. Here they are, warts and all, the reality for once a near-match for the bloated myth.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 21, 2014
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When compared to the mixing and progression of the original, it presents the same odd feeling for the same old record: you can see one of the greatest records of the 70s held captive by a spare mistake here and there. Held together, the original and its remixes could be pieced into Band on the Run’s finest hour.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 8, 2024
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He worked tirelessly to perfect these songs. And it’s a revelation to hear just how he got there, and the compelling missteps and musical frustrations he experienced along the way.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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There’s a wealth of delicious treats held within this set to more than sate your curious appetite.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Apr 16, 2014
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Jah Wobble’s reggae influenced sub-bass lines were the perfect foil to the ice cold (let’s not say angular) riffs of Keith Levene, which gave rhythm to Lydon’s musings of death and boredom perfectly, making Metal Box a true a milestone in British rock music.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 7, 2016
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Some albums are worthy of such electric apprehension, and the chains leashing this poetic, wit-filled, ramshackle beauty should be broken. Fuck it. Fetch the bolt cutters. This feels special.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Apr 17, 2020
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It's a tumultious mixing pot of important issues, personal emotion, raw refrains, and cotagious hooks that makes their words hammer straight home.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Apr 21, 2016
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KID A MNESIA (including Kid A and Amnesiac in full, alongside a disc of rarities and off-cuts, which includes many pleasant discoveries, such as an uncomplicatedly majestic alternative version of “Like Spinning Plates”) suggests that Radiohead got there first, most boldly (in the context of the music that had built their ‘brand’), and arguably with the most significant creative gain.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 4, 2021
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If you want to find a remaster that’s worth your time and money, then Suede is the gem to look into at this very moment.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 21, 2023
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The result is a really excellent album: uncompromising, thoughtful, and with enough buried complexities to keep people arguing for years to come.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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A rich, shifting tapestry of grief, beauty, tailspinning disorientation, and illuminating snatches of lucidity.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 4, 2019
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The 25th anniversary reissue offers a disc of live tracks, and a full set of demos and early versions--interesting historical documents for the completest. But the real joy of the reissue is how it prompts those of us who have moulded ourselves around it, or had it play for years almost subconsciously in the distance, to reconsider its place in our lives: to hold it up to the light and see that it is miraculous.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Nov 10, 2017
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Rough and Rowdy Ways is long, intricately woven and illuminating as a medieval tapestry, and just as precious. It’ll make you cry, it’ll make you tear your hair out, it’ll make you gasp with awe.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 18, 2020
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Yes, fourteen years is a long time to wait between records. But, when the end product is this good, it might just be worth the wait.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Dec 22, 2014
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It’s impossible to consider this release outside of its original context. With no other albums to compare this to at the time, it sounded life affirming, with its promise of white lines, gin and tonics and taking us away.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted May 23, 2014
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Granted, introspection is nothing new for the Newham MC, whose past works have tackled cancer, colourism and voting abstention—but here he lays bare his own story with disarming frankness.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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With A Comforting Notion, Orme moves between dejection and expostulations of lyrical and musical outrage, one moment wallowing in nihilism, the next celebrating the mysteries of birth, sex, death, and creativity. She has clearly absorbed many of popular music’s important templates, asserting a multifaceted voice that captures life’s highs, lows, and in-betweens.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 27, 2023
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Death and loss have always been topics mined by Cave, but this may be the most visceral and powerful portrait of those feelings he’s ever painted.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 16, 2016
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It’s not just that all seven albums are of serious musical worth; together, as the Sleater-Kinney back catalogue, they feel like they have some genuine historical value, too.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 28, 2014
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Motomami is the sound of an incredible voice indulging in her pop fantasy and excelling at it, but she makes sure to remind us as often as she can that really, she can do it all.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 18, 2022
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The desire she sought to turn into on the title track is fully realised in these mesmerising and wholly unique soundscapes.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Feb 13, 2023
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On this Deluxe Edition, remixes fill out the majority of the extra material.... Yet in a way, it points to the downside of the album, and the fact that sometimes the Compass Point All Stars can steer away from Jones’ dynamic connection between an audience and herself.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted May 22, 2014
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One Foot in Front of the Other is joyful and unpretentious – Griff seems to have indeed found her footing in the industry and it doesn’t look like she’ll be leaving anytime soon.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 18, 2021
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What emerges from Cinema is an image of a musician who remained resistant to such categorisations to the end: experimental, curious and explorative, Czukay clearly didn't want to master just one style of music. He preferred to have a go at them all. Even when the results are messy (some of the light-hearted late 80's material hasn't dated well), Cinema proves the wisdom of this open-eared approach.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Mar 29, 2018
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This lovingly and lavishly packaged reissue is a timely reminder of what a supremely focused and satisfying record Soul Mining is.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jul 21, 2014
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A handful of the album’s later tracks, including “Sleep Paralysis” and the restless “Choose Your Fighter”, do perhaps fall short of other songs’ ‘absolute banger’ status, but nowhere is there an outright miss.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Commanding, assertive, and powerful, Prioritise Pleasure is everything pop music should be. Wholly unafraid to tackle difficult subjects with ease, in Rebecca Taylor we also have the makings of a serious pop behemoth.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Oct 19, 2021
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