The Quietus' Scores
- Music
For 2,115 reviews, this publication has graded:
-
61% higher than the average critic
-
7% same as the average critic
-
32% 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] | |
---|---|---|
Lowest review score: | Lulu |
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 1,868 out of 2115
-
Mixed: 228 out of 2115
-
Negative: 19 out of 2115
2115
music
reviews
- By Date
- By Critic Score
-
- Critic Score
The issue for both Femi and Made’s records, is that they feel too conscious of both their modern international audience, and their own political weight. It feels like there is too much scaffolding and careful consideration around the tracks, and as a result, the spontaneity and freeform funkiness of afrobeat gets diluted.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 10, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Warm and inviting, produced with precision and a glossy, futurist sheen. Largely written on the road before lockdown, it winds between moods, never settling on a single tone or genre. For the most part, it's joyful stuff. ... A couple of moments don't quite stick.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 8, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Carpenter, Cody and Davies have united to form an extremely tight, polished and powerful piece of thematic music with the third volume of Lost Themes. With much less to focus on then a full-length feature Carpenter really elevates and draws the most out of the fewer ingredients he works with and in doing so, truly distils the essence of his craft.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Chapter 3… is a record that has their trademark sense of restless grandeur and tough tunefulness.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 1, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A powerful, impressively unconventional, predominantly instrumental suite, linking sludge and doom metal with a desolate reading of jazz.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 28, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
While Murray's lyrics are consciously evoking images of old timey Americana – desolate arcades, voodoo rites, thunder in the mountains – your mileage will vary on whether you find it charming or cheesy. Regardless, The Last Exit is a road trip worth taking. Murray’s sultry croon is effortlessly affecting.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 26, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s not one for complacent listening as they are quick to pull the carpet from under you. Songs have a tendency to morph into storms. It’s turbulent, but also exhilarating. You can not help but feel rejuvenated after listening to it. With this record there’s certainly a good time to be had.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 19, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s a record like Lice’s that can reinvigorate and re-energise. Yes, it may be at the end of some sort of sonic spectrum but your ears will become less misted and more clear.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 15, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
For Plastic Bouquet they’ve come together to make an album that is as relevant to modern ears as it is those more attuned to the old ways.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 14, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
As the title states, the tones and timbres of the album are blue. But it’s not the crushing, overwhelming darkness that you might expect. By the time you reach the final track, the sombre ‘End In Blue’, in which all beats have been stripped away to leave only Chen’s voice echoing against a background of drones, you get the sense that a hard and relentless journey is almost over and that just ahead, at the end of a tunnel that has sometimes felt like it would never end, there’s a glimmer of light.- The Quietus
- Posted Jan 5, 2021
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Despite everything, CEL never feels sprawling. It’s not complete anarchy. The arrangements remain lean and starched, austere even, with clipped, unprocessed jazz drum breaks regimented underneath icy, hyperactive square wave arpeggios.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 23, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
This is a record with conflict, displacement, trauma, and tension woven into every seam, and all the more powerful for it.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 23, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
While in lockdown, Bad Bunny decided to step out of the box and explore new music to mix with Latin trap, coming up with fresh sound narratives and reaffirming his ‘lawbreaker’ reputation in an otherwise rather boring reggaeton scene.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 16, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
While ‘no body, no crime’ is easily evermore’s biggest misstep, there are a handful of forgettable songs on here. ... evermore benefits throughout from a more forgiving production style, but the songs are slightly less good here: it doesn’t have a song as accomplished as ‘the last great american dynasty’, as revelatory as ‘peace’ or a crowning achievement like ‘exile.’ It is generally a joy to listen to, and it is a joy to see her so comfortable and so prolific.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 16, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Overall 2R0I2P0 works incredibly well and shows that the partnership between these two titans still has plenty of gas left in the tank.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 10, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
While made from individually minimal, looping rhythms and uncomplicated textures, Drift Multiply is rendered into a harmonically luxurious and sonically dense whole.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 8, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A taut, at times challenging, but engrossing collection of sounds.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 3, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Good intentions, interesting sounds, and a handful of great songs; compromised by an inflexible house style. It makes listening to the album from start to finish an experience that is occasionally rewarding – especially with a decent set of headphones – but ultimately, well … trying.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 1, 2020
- Read full review
-
- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 30, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Deciding to reflect on states of mind some of us could resonate to – especially this year – BE serves as a chronicle of what 2020 has been during lockdown: a year of uncertainty, anxiety, depression and frustration. But it also delivers hope for the future.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 30, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Send Them To Coventry is an album bursting with life. Pa Salieu sounds confident and convincing whatever style he turns his hand to. Whether or not it’s the best album of 2020, it’s surely one of the most interesting, and should be a strong contender for awards in the coming months.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 25, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The results are beautiful, an upside to all this desolation, a lengthy excursion among the snippets. Perhaps there could have been a couple more of these at the expense of some of the shorter, less obviously complete pieces, but as a fascinating clear-up exercise, Lamentations makes a virtue of its small sorrows.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 24, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It delivers an impressive belt around the chops from the start, with ‘Valleys’ building from eardrum-realigning bass to a full-force techno-rock wig-out.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 23, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Side one exemplifies 2020 in that it’s not entirely successful. While there are great ideas bursting to get out, it also lurches mechanically and is difficult to love. It often feels laboured, like Kirk is giving himself a migraine trying to reinvent something because you suspect he feels that’s his job. Flip the record over and the outlook changes. Once he submits to the pulsating rhythms and allows himself to be free then there’s a gold rush.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 19, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s a mixed affair, with moments of excellence interspersed with filler over a sprawling twenty-two tracks. The production is a strongpoint on FlySiifu’s, with fourteen different producers making a contribution across the project. Most of the beats are dreamy and relaxed, almost merging into one another such that the album frequently feels like one long, continuous melody.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 18, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
In so many ways, Monument encapsulates everything Molchat Doma has to offer. Having recently signed to Sacred Bones Records in January and a successful few months of nonstop streams, 2020 has really been a strong year for the group.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 18, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
As a collection of songs, Disco is a terrific soundtrack to washing the dishes or a dance-off. But this album itself underestimates its own artist, which is in a small way unforgivable.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 17, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
For open ears the recordings on Pakistan Is For The Peaceful offer immersive ever-spiralling tracks that reach ecstatic heights as they open up endless waves of spiritual harmonies, beyond the drone and into the unknown.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 13, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
BENEE may not necessarily be an album artist, but listeners will find that most bases are covered within Hey u x’s 13 tracks. ... There’s a song here for every playlist, even if consuming all 13 in a row becomes a bit of a drag.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 13, 2020
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A Mythology Of Circles isn’t a radical reinvention for the Brooklyn-based composer, but it is a significant leap forward in her craft.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 12, 2020
- Read full review