DIY Magazine's Scores
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For 3,087 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Not to Disappear | |
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Lowest review score: | Let It Reign |
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Positive: 2,183 out of 3087
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Mixed: 891 out of 3087
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Negative: 13 out of 3087
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Caramel is certainly a strange album, but it’s not alienating or difficult to engage with.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 31, 2013
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This is an album with ambition; a sonically sweeping piece of work with big themes and big ideas that can overwhelm you. Just let nature take its course.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Dec 5, 2013
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Just like humanity’s primordial obsession with fire, Sky Swimming is difficult to disengage with.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 29, 2014
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This is music in its purest, most experimental form. This is a record which doesn’t make sense, because it doesn’t have to.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 16, 2015
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Old, but new at the same time, the seemingly limited palette of Buoys is single minded and direct. A stunning, if hushed, indirect hit.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 8, 2019
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It’s only when he tries to amp it up that ‘Chew The Scenery’ falters; ‘Stuck’ might possess a standard freshers indie chorus, but when it aims for Oasis-level swagger, it meets closer to the Gallaghers’ recent solo endeavours than bucket-hatted air-punches. Similarly the euphoria of ‘Yeah!’ misses the mark. Still, there are more than a handful of stellar moments.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 25, 2021
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This album may declare itself a painting--and an intense one, at that--but there’s a much bigger picture to see here.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 7, 2016
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Strange Pleasures is an album of cinematic charm and where, with the weight lifted off his shoulders, Hughes has created a journey along a dark motorway that adds light and colour to stand out from the traffic.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 6, 2013
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A gorgeous, luscious Eels record, sounding every bit as familiar as any of that suggests, the country-tinged guitars, the organs, piano, sprinkling of xylophone and those comfortingly gravelly vocals in which the world's in love.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 17, 2014
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Like the heady themes on Sun Structures, Temples appear to be a group still ascending to a brighter sphere.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 5, 2014
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'Time Team' is a hugely rewarding album that delivers rich emotional laden electronic music with a human heart and an impressive debut.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 7, 2012
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Filled with polyrhythms and squalling synths designed to get people on the dancefloor, it’s sometimes impossible to remain rooted in your seat. The drawback of this focus on the high-energy though, is that it can get a little wearing.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2017
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With just about enough sonic variation to keep things interesting, there’s a more pristine, altogether more polished feel to this collection of tracks no doubt the result of an artist who’s getting closer to refining their craft.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2018
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Despite opener 'Shape' being a colossal Bjork channelling beauty that comes close to breaking point, the bulk of Interiors is restless but unassuming.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 4, 2013
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With every listen there’s something else to hear, something new to discover, and something different to feel.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 4, 2022
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Channelling zeitgeisty pop is by no means always a bad thing; but when omitting the earwormy choruses it needs - and removing your own personality in the process, it’s only ever going to fall a bit limp.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 26, 2019
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Himalyan is loud, raucous, massive amounts of fun and it has style, swagger and teeth.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 31, 2014
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Beyond the flute solos and mind-blowing euphemisms, there’s rich invention behind This Is All Yours.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 15, 2014
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This album should plant El Khatib as someone to keep a close watch on. For now though, there’s still room for him to grow--another trip to the desert awaits.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 20, 2015
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A rare collection of songs that succeeds in both evoking the ethereal and forcing you to reach for the volume button.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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- Posted Sep 16, 2016
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- Posted Nov 6, 2023
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After a debut that spent much of its time slinking like crawlers out in the shadows, it’s intriguing--if slightly disconcerting--to see Purity Ring in a warmer light.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 27, 2015
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Our House on the Hill' is at least a welcome addition to their lexicon; its 50s-tinged 'woah-oh' backing vocals and neo-retro chord changes just wistful enough.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 13, 2012
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Good Grief marks an important next step in the realisation of their sassy pop character.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 11, 2016
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Perhaps this a record that works better under the summer sun, but right now Ride Your Heart doesn’t sound much more than a showcase for surfy style and lo-fi charm.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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Nestled in these adrenalised, highly evolved songs are bright pop hooks, showing that other artists could compete with Doldrums, but they wouldn’t be able to keep up.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 6, 2015
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Ultimately, These Walls Of Mine is too incoherent and disparate in style to merit any amount of satisfaction.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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An album which blurs the line between retro and futuristic techno, yet always with an analogue soul.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 3, 2014
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What is particularly impressive about the EP is its diversity, without diversion.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2013
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Phoned-in and simplistic, it’s hard to decipher when one track ends and another begins.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2016
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Hung At Heart is not a particularly forward-thinking album with all of its 15 songs dealing in homespun 60s grooves, but this is a largely irrelevant quibble when the songs are this good.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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This is as tropical and kaleidoscopic as Friendly Fires have ever been. It’s akin to gobbling an entire pack of Fruit Pastilles; colourful, maybe a little sickly, but you sure as hell want to experience it again.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2019
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There's enough variances in the sound, with the tracklisting set up in such as way that you notice the changes in style, to make sure you pay attention to every minute.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 28, 2012
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Reinvigorated after a so-so initial comeback in 2012, and with their notorious fire burning once again, ‘in•ter a•li•a’ sees At The Drive In returning with an album that’s worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder alongside their revered back catalogue.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2017
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With Hold On To Your Heart the trio have crafted another bold and brilliant album which soars higher than ever before.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 19, 2018
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As far as debuts go, the Sydney trio have made a solid first step here. They’ve got half the job worked out in spades. Now, they just need to work on making it memorable.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 7, 2018
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These songs [The Trapper and the Furrier, Tornadoland, and Obsolete] are, ironically, more cinematic than anything found on her last album ‘What We Saw From The Cheap Seats,’ and that sense of drama helps make Remember Us To Life a return to form.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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While missing the flecks of pop brilliance and cloying hooks that made 2017 Rex so endearing, the record’s release in the genesis of a twee renaissance is near-perfect timing.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 10, 2022
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It is fair to say that the album is missing hooks; it is a difficult listen and the tracks’ sparseness renders them similar. But, when the sound is so spine-tinglingly moving, that’s not too much of a problem.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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Even if you weren't a fan of their last couple [of albums], there's definitely going to be something for you here. As soon as the synth kicks in for opener 'The Theory Of Relativity', you know you're in for a treat.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 5, 2012
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The sound of an artist creatively re-energised, this is a revelation in all senses of the word.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 6, 2017
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There’s nothing particularly new here from Fred bar minor switches into previously unexplored electronic styles, but it still boasts some of his best tracks yet.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2022
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It’s an accomplished rock record that’s a very welcome addition to the band’s enduring history.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Dec 3, 2014
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15 years in and with no sign of slowing or calming down, Kasabian don’t have to prove anything anymore. If you’re not on board, it’s frankly your loss.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 5, 2017
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‘World Wide Pop’ is a joyously over-the-top explosion of audio technicolor, where the group embrace their oddities and eccentricities.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 14, 2022
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The album is most interesting when it eschews from the guidelines.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2019
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Unfortunately, although that slight detachment feels pretty good in the midst of listening, much like tucking into an ice cream cone with more than a few sprinkles, you might get brain freeze trying to recall some of the tunes afterwards.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2017
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The supergroup’s self-titled record might feature the dirty rock of the former and the latter’s penchant for synth-led tangents, but by each party’s style rubbing off on the other, they’ve also sanded them down.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 12, 2020
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Yeasayer’s album is a brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird. It’s also their most innovative record to date.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 31, 2016
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- Posted Apr 16, 2020
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It may not have the global appeal of his OF stable mate’s Channel Orange, but it is certainly his most accessible and enjoyable.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 9, 2013
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Lantern is this duality between experimental and easily-grasped embodied. Unsurprisingly, it is the more left-field elements to the production that are the most intriguing.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 12, 2015
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You'll either love it or hate it but, ignore the buzz, take it on it's own merits, and you might very well be rewarded.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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Know It All isn’t perfect, but it’d be a challenge not to fall for even just some its charms.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 11, 2016
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Fans might see this as a boon - Bainbridge picking up from where they left off before their self-imposed hiatus. To others, it may sound like a missed opportunity to establish themselves as a more cutting-edge artist.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2019
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Granted, his sixth effort is as bonkers and creative as ever, but it could be that less really is more.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2018
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‘Feel Life’ and ‘Steady’ resolve this darkness, both euphoric and knowing - and beautiful sonically - while ‘Blood Moon’ addresses feeling disappointed in yourself, and what you need to do to push through and make things right. ‘When We Stay Alive’ is emotionally raw, elegantly presented and at many parts a real tear-jerker. Wonderful stuff.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 30, 2020
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'Dry Land Is Not A Myth' is a mixed bag. Church's high-pitched voice could prove to be a bit marmite, as could the songs on here without much focus. Clocking in a couple minutes over a half-hour though, it's short enough to deserve at least one spin this summer.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 2, 2012
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Their sound may have matured, and may be more accustomed to a laconic calmness, but Damage and Joy still burns with purpose and when it throws its punches it lands them with ease.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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All too often Welcome The Worms lacks the bite that’d make it Very Good Indeed- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 1, 2016
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Semicircle won’t seem like a giant leap for the band but is yet another upbeat, buoyant addition to their canon, injected with an even greater sense of community spirit.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 19, 2018
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there is an extremely satisfying sense of fun throughout Island Fire (despite the dark content) and Ray is very much in on the joke.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2012
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It might take more than one or two listens to really appreciate it, but it's worth your time.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 24, 2012
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If we're honest, it doesn't start well, 'Be My Girl' is easily one of the worst tracks on here. But things do pick up.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2012
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Krauss is on delicious vocal form throughout, sounding both as fierce and feminine as ever, matching cutting lyrics with sounds so girlish they almost risk being cutesy.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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- Posted Jan 16, 2014
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This is a record replete with droning psychedelia, an infectious energy and a sinister, carnivalesque feel.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 11, 2014
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‘Jaded’ undoubtedly brings with it a glimmer of hope in an album that ultimately comes up short in delivering the fusion of intensity and melody that has served GRMLN so well before.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 22, 2014
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- Posted Jun 8, 2015
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Cameron may drench his songs in luscious, sweeping strings, but this is more akin to a gritty neo-noir thriller with numerous femme fatales haunting him at every turn.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 10, 2017
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Invitation to Her’s is an occasionally jarring listen, thanks to its stylistic restlessness, but there’s enough substance behind the silliness to leave you feeling they’re following through on their early prom- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 24, 2018
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While it occasionally feels lacking in the kind of explosive energy that made the band such an impact in the late ‘80s, it still captures the spirit of Pixies in a way that’s extremely satisfying.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2019
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For while standout ‘These Depopulate Hours’ fizzes with what has made the Glasgow group so inviting in the past - a bubbling menace underpinning everything thanks to a screaming synth - and ‘What Makes You A Man’ employs curious sounds to back its ‘80s influences, it’s not matched by what’s found elsewhere.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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Expectations [are] built by her collaborators - who aided artists like Dua and Kylie in carving revered pop niches - weigh detrimentally on the record: it doesn’t push itself nearly as far. Yet, undeniably, it’s a dependable, invigorating debut.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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- Posted Jan 22, 2013
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No, ‘Think Later’ doesn’t come close to reinventing the wheel (or pop), but it does drench itself within a pop maximalism full of fuel, energy and modernity.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Dec 8, 2023
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There's so much to like about Mirrors The Sky that could've been loved instead.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 14, 2014
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This album is, in reality, the sound of perfectionists giving into instinct. And once they shun exactitude and all its side effects, they emerge with a dazzling debut.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 9, 2014
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- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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It stands before you with the reverence of a cathedral and leaves you with a lasting sense of piety and clarity.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 21, 2013
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It's easy to see from this record just why Hugo Manuel is in such demand and his debut, as Chad Valley will provide a significant springboard to ever more exciting climbs.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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- Posted Jun 21, 2013
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Uninspiring, unexciting, largely forgettable--this is nothing more than Kings of Leon by numbers.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2013
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For the most part, this is a record about chasing a specific kind of pop aesthetic instead, which largely comes at the detriment of any kind of real connection.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 14, 2015
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It doesn't try too hard to be cool or rock climb your intellect but makes you smile, dance and sing away to yourself in places you shouldn't.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2013
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Chunky, neatly devised and deeply satisfying--this is the sound of staring into a black winter puddle while a nearby bird squirts a veneer of soothing melody onto proceedings.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 26, 2014
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Melancholy, meticulous and achingly grand, it extends his artistic narrative in resplendent form.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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- Posted Feb 21, 2012
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An unpredictable but spectacular ride through pop, rock and everything in between, it’s hard not to bowled over by Urie’s efforts yet again.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 15, 2016
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This is a good start but, after losing half of their line up, you get the feeling Jonquil need to add a bit more character, and a bit more bite, into their new pop noise.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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It's a bold step, and one that can't quite sustain itself but Blood Speaks is a force of nature, and in more senses than one.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 31, 2012
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There’s palpable relief when ‘Sugar’ gets proceedings underway and the thinking is all; 'Yes, Shout Out Louds, yes, this is how you start a record'--no dilly, precious little dally, instead wham-bam-slam straight into this behemoth of a pop tune.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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It’s as if Haim are pulling apart the production strands of their debut, and pitting them against one another. For majority of the time it works, on a surprisingly low-key second album that’s worth spending some time (or rather, Haim?) with.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 7, 2017
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Thank You for Today marks the stirring opening of a new chapter in this band’s already storied history.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 17, 2018
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On Jaded & Faded, Cerebral Ballzy sound more visceral and raw than ever before--they’ve ditched the radio-ready gleam, the whole thing sounds recorded in an abandoned crack den on a half-broken tape player, and they’re all the better because of it.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 16, 2014
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It's a short and sweet affair, clocking in at just over half an hour, but Splashh don't need any longer than that to make their stamp.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 29, 2013
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While we’ve not heard Nick’s vocals out front before, those frantic fretwork and well-trodden chord changes work like an aural comfort blanket. Yet this is no carbon-copy.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 1, 2016
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Following two discouraging albums, Need Your Light represents another stumble in the New Yorkers’ career. A disappointment.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 19, 2016
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This is a varied album that combines old and new musical styles without the fear of pastiche.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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