The Wire's Scores

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For 2,628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 SMiLE
Lowest review score: 10 Amazing Grace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,177 out of 2628
  2. Mixed: 431 out of 2628
  3. Negative: 20 out of 2628
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Business
    Caught somewhere between the big yucks and the thoughtful overview are moments of genuine strangeness that are both captivating and unsettling. [#255, p.59]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sanddollars [EP]
    The ideas are better realised here than on [Why?'s] earlier material. [#258, p.67]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Axes
    It's clear... that the quartet... are growing in confidence and ideas. [#256, p.54]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kidnapped By Neptune
    Niblett takes the old quiet-loud dynamic and stretches it to unexpected lengths. [#258, p.68]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    13 & God
    This intriguing, relatively mild entente between elegiac melodicism and freeform lyrics has many moments of quiet innovation. [#256, p.63]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Milk Of Human Kindness
    The only drawback to this semi-collage approach is that many tracks are too brief. [#256, p.51]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bem-Vinda Vontade
    A complex and challenging listen. [#257, p.61]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Untilted
    If anything, however, Autechre have pulled back the throttle on their excursions into the unknown. [#254, p.53]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost And Safe
    This decidedly literate songcraft has a range of ancestors, including Talking Heads, Sparks and David Grubbs, but three albums along, The Books are nailing down a distinctive soundworld of their own. [#254, p.54]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    It begins as quite a thrilling ride. But at this level of concentration, ten minutes feels like an hour; it soon becomes enervating. [#255, p.55]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Horses In The Sky
    Touching and beautiful. [#256, p.63]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Lover
    The Residents walk a precarious line between American underbelly creepiness and a more mannered absurdism. [#254, p.63]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Darkness At Noon
    Darkness At Noon works because it doggedly pursues its convictions through to a satisfying conclusion and in doing so creates its own kind of offbeat logic. [#254, p.53]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guero
    Guero turns out to be much stronger than its provenance suggests. [#256, p.66]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arular
    A thrilling affair. [#252, p.63]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    B-Sides & Rarities
    There are, unsurprisingly, great contrasts in material and quality. [#254, p.54]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Needle Was Traveling
    Pop itself is not a problem, it's just that in Tarwater's take on it nagging tunes and interesting textures are in short supply. [#253, p.65]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    10th Avenue Freakout
    Imagine cLOUDDEAD jamming with Wilco, with David Lynch producing, and you're only halfway there. [#257, p.70]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Angels Of Light Sing 'Other People'
    If Brian Wilson had crashed a motorcycle and holed up to recuperate at Big Pink with The Band, this is how The Basement Tapes would have sounded. [#256, p.49]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Akron/Family
    Immaculately interwoven electronics and the care with which each beautifully recorded track unfolds recall Chicago post-rock. [#254, p.53]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Exquisite Corpse
    The slippery polyrhythmic music is a difficult terrain for MCs to conquer. [#253, p.57]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blue Eyed In The Red Room
    One imagines Blue Eyed In The Red Room might serve as an alternative soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. [#252, p.47]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frances The Mute
    [An] overstuffed sound hurricane. [#255, p.58]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Earth Is Blue
    The Earth Is Blue has a glorious, spacey innocence that inspires affection. [#253, p.57]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Cloud Making Machine
    Tracks like "Huis Clos"... can drag... And the garage rock of "(I Wanna Be) Waiting For My Plane" is an unwieldy cross between early Sonic Youth and Two Lone Swordsmen's axe-men incarnation. [#253, p.69]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fast Cars, Danger, Fire And Knives [EP]
    This level of gross hallucination could risk indulgence... But for straight-up bad vibes to the head, Fast Cars is compelling. [#252, p.67]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LCD Soundsystem
    LCD Soundsystem's gift is to forge iron from irony, show that cleverness need not be enervating. [#252, p.46]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Negrophilia: The Album
    Ladd's eclectic and downbeat montage of samples creates a rootless soundscape, seemingly geographically transient, restless, impatient and unsettling. It is the perfect backdrop for Ladd's soul-searching reflexes and rants. [#251, p.54]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A Healthy Distrust
    The record makes you marinate in Francis' omni-loathing, and the effect is one of catharsis rather than exhaustion. [#254, p.57]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    I Am A Bird Now
    This could have been camp on a Himalayan scale. Its strength is that it's anything but. [#255, p.51]
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