The Quietus' Scores
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For 2,113 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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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] | |
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Lowest review score: | Lulu |
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Positive: 1,866 out of 2113
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Mixed: 228 out of 2113
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Negative: 19 out of 2113
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The Scientists never really broke through to a wider audience. But what they did do is leave behind a body of work that was picked up by subsequent generations and cited as highly influential. There’s certainly much to enjoy here but there’s also plenty to re-affirm their cult status in the greater scheme of things.- The Quietus
- Posted Aug 29, 2016
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It’s emotive, heavy, satisfying. It’s Deftones. They’ve made their album again and, honestly, you wouldn’t have it any other way.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 24, 2020
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Funny, weird, irreverent, a bit messy in places, Wet Leg’s debut feels like a rollicking night out at your local indie disco compacted into thirty-six brisk and breezy minutes. Across a dozen by turns funny and fraught tracks, the highs and lows of twenty-something life are captured with zinging joie de vivre.- The Quietus
- Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Dalton famously believed that a singer shouldn't have to raise her voice to be heard. These minimalist arrangements, whether it's Isobel Campbell affecting a slight twang to match her guitar or Larkin Grimm legitimate twang (and the album's only banjo), are a fitting tribute in themselves.- The Quietus
- Posted May 27, 2015
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Innocence Is Kinky is a remarkable album, one which delves beneath the surface and returns with something both seductive and strange.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 15, 2013
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There is nothing comfortable about these traditions, but the evident joy in each other’s skills pushes the three musicians to peaks of subtle innovation. What News is just the latest in a string of Alasdair Roberts albums which turn our idea of folk music upside down and give it back to us charged with a new potency.- The Quietus
- Posted Apr 2, 2018
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Voices From The Lake is a love letter to slow, concentrated listening.- The Quietus
- Posted Apr 10, 2012
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McMahon examines masculinity, vulnerability and how cultural consumption converges with personal demons, and it has resulted in an album of immense integrity, defiance and beauty.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 30, 2018
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For You & I is consistent in its spirit with the label’s catalogue: often in its sound, too, although in a decade and a half Hyperdub has covered enough ground for this to be nebulous. That spirit, though, manifests itself in a defiant queerness; a grab-bag approach borne of big city multiculturalism; and a clear fascination with, and love of, sound in general.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 9, 2019
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With features like BIA, Jorja Smith, Reykon, Tyler The Creator and Bootsy Collins, Uchis’ debut is clearly meant to make a big impact, and her romantic-tragic persona complements it beautifully.- The Quietus
- Posted Apr 4, 2018
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It is the sound of a musician coming to terms with the excruciation of making art and exposing himself without armour.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 28, 2016
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This is no retro throwback, Power Trip have poured their genuine, obsessive love of early thrash, but also Cro-Mags, Prong and Black Flag to create a boiling pot of modern metal mastery.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 8, 2017
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Fatigue deserves to be listened to in succession. It needs you to sit down with a cup of tea, it needs to be envisioned and thought through. You need to let it embody a change for you, and take you somewhere else, where you can sit in the duality of your own emotions. Each song is preceded by an interlude to piece the emotions of each track together.- The Quietus
- Posted Jun 29, 2021
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Herein lies Róisín Machine’s beauty at its most uncomplicated: every single one of its songs implores you to dance, and in doing so implores you also to forget the human fragility of which you are so incessantly reminded. Vicariously through Róisín Murphy – be she god, machine, person, or something floating between them – we can forget our fragile bodies, losing ourselves in a blissful utopia, even if only for an hour.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 24, 2020
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Above all, it represents a bold, sensorily majestic step in the right direction by an artist no longer content to tread water.- The Quietus
- Posted Apr 5, 2016
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As is often the case with PC Music-affiliated works, this is an album which displays, and not infrequently, extraordinary flashes of inspired production work, but can descend into tedium with as much suddenness. ... And when the whole affair does eventually draw to a close with the hum of an air conditioner and the sound of the flying Jony Ive heroine thing from Wall-E, you will probably give an audible sigh of relief. And then spin the whole album again.- The Quietus
- Posted Jun 19, 2018
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- Posted Jun 4, 2014
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Each track is inevitably a wild combination of memories, ideas, and influences – midi-fied sacred harp singers clash with squiggly synthesis, fiddle collides with the most absurd funk bass. Meanwhile, the spectre of prog is everywhere and the club is never far away. Amazingly, it all works.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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Discernible throughout Are We There is the sense that she is operating with more levity and confidence than ever before, and a song that ends with a joke, a studio outtake and the sound of laughter is the perfect way to see it out.- The Quietus
- Posted May 23, 2014
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Shrewdly, she rarely repeats herself, keeping things fresh by always being adventurous. That’s worked throughout her career, and it works on Tension especially.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 22, 2023
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For all its complexity and dazzling scope, The Blackest Beautiful never loses its ability to channel the seething madness and, most importantly, fun of the band's live show.- The Quietus
- Posted Sep 20, 2013
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From The Sea To The Land Beyond (whether encountered with or without the moving image) is a potent and poetic exploration of our own human mortality in contrast with the unyielding permanence of nature and the sea.- The Quietus
- Posted Dec 11, 2013
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II is nothing short of a modern classic; the sound of a band fusing elements of electronic music with raw psych-rock to devastating effect--something more lauded bands have failed to do.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 11, 2016
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Sangare sounds energised by the new production context: the new sound becomes her, and as one would expect it is her power, verve and versatility that truly carry the album. [Jun 2017, p.70]- The Quietus
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A masterpiece of sound design, that's no backhanded compliment. This album is the sort of sound design record that more sound artists should aspire to make.- The Quietus
- Posted Feb 25, 2019
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Shade reviews different ways Grouper has approached her work over the years, but is also a unique look at the style that has emerged as a result, even if some of the stops along the way are less polished. If Grouper is normally minimalist in her recordings and performances, Shade is like having Harris perform in your living room: it isn’t always flawless, but it is absolutely special.- The Quietus
- Posted Nov 4, 2021
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A History Of Every One deposits its listener right up close, and seemingly the improvisations are adapted to take that into account.- The Quietus
- Posted Oct 16, 2013
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This soundtrack creates an air of wonder and foreboding, that only very occasionally and briefly plunges you into the darkness. ... Working skilfully with a modest, mostly-stringed timbral palette, Krlic incorporates the traditional Swedish nyckelharpa (as did Mark Korven for The Witch) and the hurdy-gurdy to underpin the conventional themes and create an unsettling wheezing groan, characteristic of these ancient instruments.- The Quietus
- Posted Jul 29, 2019
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Even with each powerful stride forwards in his career, it never seems Baxter will quite escape the shadowing of his late father, Ian. Yet, perhaps it is this paternal context, this very partial eclipsing that leaves Baxter’s work with a great style of its own. After all, a light emanating from shade will always appear brighter than one already doused in daylight.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 23, 2020
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The density of soil has been scraped back, giving each song a lightness and an ability to breathe.- The Quietus
- Posted Mar 24, 2021
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