The Quietus' Scores
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For 2,104 reviews, this publication has graded:
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62% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Gentlemen At 21 [Deluxe Edition] | |
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Lowest review score: | Lulu |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,857 out of 2104
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Mixed: 228 out of 2104
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Negative: 19 out of 2104
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The Great Bailout is a hauntingly edifying experience born out of intergenerational trauma, political rage and suffering. Echoey vocals and experimental composition hold this album up as a house of mirrors – a forceful confrontation with an ugly past with no way out. Its counterpoint is a feeling of strength.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 5, 2024
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Half Divorced is packed full of pep. They’ve stomped on the gas and it burns along like a raging forest fire.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 27, 2024
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An antidote to the corporate pop that forces us to be joyful, Rooting For Love offers a genuine alternative without being militant or hideously self aware.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 22, 2024
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Under the Sun is well crafted, interrogating the listener and experimental where it needs to be, gifting you with something to gain throughout.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Shah’s control of the narrative makes her songs sound more confidential than confessional. She exercises the same incisive observational skills that she applied to songs about social unease and toxic relationships when she turns the lens on herself, as willing to be cutting, critical and humorous when she is her own subject.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 20, 2024
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The power of these long form works is the room afforded to imprint your own interpretations, feelings, and notions upon them like Rorschach tests or perceiving shapes in clouds. Will these drones imprint the same emotions and thoughts a thousand years from now? Only time will tell.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 7, 2024
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An oscillation between control and disorientation continues throughout (the album’s title refers to a numerical vector for oscillation in physics and engineering). Hewing closer to the former is when Phasor is at its strongest, exploring the world of a character seeking connection but far from reach.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 5, 2024
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What Do We Now is a record of beautifully put-together songs played on an acoustic guitar then beefed up by a band (mostly Mascis himself on overdubs, plus a little piano from The B52s’ Ken Mauri and some slide guitar played by Toronto musician Matthew “Doc” Dunn).- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 30, 2024
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Upbeat, curious, and inquisitive, Cloudward makes for a great city walking album. It strikes the perfect balance between being jazz that’s not too impenetrable, while also being full of interesting surprises (primarily in terms of the language of Halvorson’s own playing).- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Her distinct 2018 style isn’t lost at all. The dreamy synths, the soft vocal harmonies and the unhurried compositions are still there in several tracks on this record. Thanks to that, Orquideas is the perfect tracklist to introduce any newcomers into a more niche latin sound.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 11, 2024
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Bertucci might not have the reach of Taylor Swift but, in creating such affecting work, she’s generating a legacy that will hopefully last for as long as there are still humans pacing these receding coast lines.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 5, 2024
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Lean and yet lush, No More Blue Skies might boom slightly less than 2019’s My House but it is more richly arranged, the sound built out with sax and strings as mastermind Andrya Ambro carefully details a beguiling series of stark, spidery vignettes.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 8, 2023
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The bucolic folk-fingering on display gives the sense that he was gazing out upon the same grand vistas as Pan American.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 7, 2023
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There are a lot of different elements in the mix here – prog, reggae, folk, loungecore, even a little disco – and perhaps some listeners may initially feel a little inclined towards indigestion. However, the vision behind it all is singular and persuasive and balances its more unconventional aspects with strong harmonies and vivid lyricism.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 20, 2023
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Sometimes their simple guitar riffs can feel too plain and familiar, and mingled with the consistently doomy atmosphere, it can at times feel relentless, but equally, they take their hard-wrought innovative DIY aesthetic and refine it.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 14, 2023
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The immersion of oneself in I<3UQTINVU allows you to reacquaint yourself with their vast electronically-led arrangements and also appreciate Jockstrap’s endlessly adventurous spirit.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 8, 2023
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Return to Archive is a funny and unsettling trip through the past, to a time before we felt like we’d heard everything. But its greatest power is in forcing us to question what we should archive, given that any noise can capture the world it came from.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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Butler shows that there is strength in numbers and in being able to amplify the skills of fellow collaborators.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Spike Field isn’t particularly immediate, but is the kind of album that sits in your mind: you come back to it and it surprises you in a new way.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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The sound design is absolutely phenomenal, rich in detail. New components, from the clanging of chimes to the rattling or chains, enter from moment to moment. It’s every bit the album Engravings was: a vast world of sound unfolding on a battlefield which exists between the ears.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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Like everything else they’ve done, it doesn’t sound limiting or calculated or agonised over – it just sounds vibrant and magical.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 23, 2023
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It’s purposely chaotic and skeletal in places, but when the disjointed pieces are viewed as one, you get an album that is a fascinating and hypnotic listen.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 16, 2023
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L’Rain has produced another fascinating record, a reappraisal of past work, while managing not to repeat herself. It is a very interesting album, as much about resilience as it is grief.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Footworks remains the axis around which Jlin’s productions revolve, though her music transcends contemporary club trends, flirting with modern composition and theatre music.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 11, 2023
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There is a dichotomy at play of denser, more distorted electronics at one pole and soft, minimalist arrangements at the other; gauzy sounds cut against metallic harshness within songs and across the album. But with this expansive approach, Afternoon X feels focused and cohesive.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 11, 2023
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Medicine is, in other words, a straight up psychedelic rock affair – for better and for worse. .... Overall, it is an amazingly fun record for spooky psychonauts.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 11, 2023
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Meticulously structured yet fuzzily abstract, cloudily claustrophobic yet aurally vast, it sounds nothing like a traditional rap LP yet definably and definitively adheres to the most crucial characteristics of the genre. It’s certainly a marvel and may well be a masterpiece.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Le jour et la nuit du réel proves something else entirely: that these hunks of wood and wire and circuitry still have the potential to surprise. And to delight us with those surprises.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Each of these tracks effortlessly conjures the swirling feeling of needing to make a decision – and questioning your own being – never quite settling, always moving.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Richly textural and delicately performed, Setting exude a lingering warmth, their edges softened as if left out in the sun. It’s lethargic in all the right ways, untroubled by the need to shock or surprise its audience – and yet surprise it does.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 25, 2023
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