Tiny Mix Tapes' Scores
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For 2,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: | Lost Wisdom pt. 2 | |
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Lowest review score: | America's Sweetheart |
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Positive: 1,804 out of 2889
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Mixed: 961 out of 2889
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Negative: 124 out of 2889
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Pillars of Ash is the body in transition, all crumble and ovation, an album that celebrates a human voice and exists in a world without it.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 16, 2016
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Seasoned fans will be hard-pressed to dismiss I’m Up as a release chock-full of throwaways, but it’s truly a testament to Young Thug’s radical talents as a rapper for keeping an audience thoroughly engaged, even when the studio experiments aren’t always entirely convincing.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 12, 2016
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This music is uncharted, revelatory, blossoming, and all the more so, because somehow it feels like it might be to Foster as well.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 12, 2016
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There are only so many times you can key into someone’s heart before they change the code, and after about 20 listens, the veneer crumbles a bit, and it’s a little too easy to see the gears turning underneath. But that’s not the most frustrating thing about the record; the most frustrating thing is that Sia has so much access to us and just doesn’t do much with it.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 8, 2016
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Islah is one of the more exciting major label rap debuts in recent years, and one positive to being a Gates fan is that you’ll most certainly never get tired with him.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 8, 2016
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Is the Is Are, like its title, conjures up a nothingness that is suffocating, especially coupled with the way that the band sells this music as if it were some kind of spiritual exercise.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 4, 2016
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This descent into industrial retro-futurism provides a fitting artistic and aesthetic parallel to the corresponding descent society has made into technology worship, into a disempowering worship of things at the expense of an appreciation of the social, political, and economic realities in which these things are situated.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 2, 2016
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Hymns, unfortunately, does not mark the logical next step for the band, nor does it exactly tread new ground. Rather, it denotes a descent into self-indulgence that’s paradoxically reckless and complacent.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 2, 2016
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Duality pervades Gumption. City and country. Natural, machine. Personal, abstract. Song. Noise.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 2, 2016
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Every aspect of the album sounds like the full-length equivalent of a Spotify Chill Out playlist: flat, disposable, inoffensive (though “technically-sound”) 2010s muzak.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 1, 2016
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ANTI is folk music played in a video-drome circularly projecting a 360° image of sprawling, semi-wilderness on fire as a compassionate, loving apocalypse. It’s a charged bleeding heart of sponsorship and exclusivity thrown into the throat of Yosemite. It’s a white horse galloping fiend-like across the continental divide, with a hoof-print-tire-tread that could pull the land apart.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 29, 2016
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There are sounds, but are they melodies? Yes and no. We hear these sounds and get awed by how Lord Raja manages to suspend the belief that they, the sounds, are somehow working to form a whole. Snares and pads and synths. The same formula, a slightly different approach.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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His rhythm work is crisp and earthen, not so much pushing forward as flowering outward, the picture of a mind focused on growing and filling out.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 28, 2016
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By focusing on his aesthetic and retaining an interest in the possibilities that exist within slow music while setting himself time limitations, Porter has created a record that is as bold and as breathtaking as we might have ever hoped for, regardless of the projection it is set to generate.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 25, 2016
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It’s good because, beneath his relentless hedonistic pursuits and idealistic belief in the nobility of the unruly drum loops, Future preserves a romantic’s perspective on his panoply of inconsequential street life and crystalline musings from within the studio.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 25, 2016
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To call Emotional Mugger a celebration of excess, as sweet as it is, would miss the mark. (Although it’s no veiled warning, either--it enjoys itself too much.) No, this is a bender with an undercurrent of anxiety.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 21, 2016
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Rather than going full-on honeymoon or dead-end breakup, New View treads a middle ground that would border on the mundane were it not for Friedberger’s own headstrong presence, a matter-of-fact reading that gives the potentially uncomfortable tension of the lyrics a healthy dollop of confidence.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 20, 2016
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So much of listening to Ardipithecus feels immeasurable by good or bad. Ardipithecus fails as a pop record, because it’s barely aware that it’s a part of that conversation.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 13, 2016
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While Blackstar features a fair amount of indulgence, especially on the aforementioned 10-minute-long title track, it never feels labored, and the music never even once imitates the nightmarish soundscapes of Scott Walker.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 12, 2016
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The energy sustained here comes only from scientific curiosity at the permutations offered by a piece of hardware, and it doesn’t really connect beyond that.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 8, 2016
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Oftentimes she’s content to let one spidery riff circle the drain endlessly (“Quicksand”) and more than once she goes completely a cappella, an effect that would normally lend an album a sense of intimacy, but I Abused Animal seems resistant to emotional refuge.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 22, 2015
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The album’s a treasure trove of exciting, sharp production, recruiting some of today’s most tuneful producers (Mick Shultz, Vinylz, London On Da Track, Murda Beatz, DJ Mustard, Soundz) who simply understand what works best for Jeremih’s adroit, rhythmic vocals.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 21, 2015
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If Melnyk’s technique hasn’t changed, he is breaking new conceptual ground.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 15, 2015
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Ignoring the conceptual background, Kannon only achieves the very cusp of the transportative, magical power of past Sunn O))) albums.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 14, 2015
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Musically, the album mines its entire aesthetic from a bargain bin of classicist hip-hop clichés.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 8, 2015
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In destroying himself, Chasny has unearthed deeper, simpler fundamentals in his craft and, in doing so, breathed new life into his musical voice. With Hexadic II, Six Organs of Admittance is born again.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 7, 2015
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Ultimately, Sold Out is not doing what its title cheekily alludes to. Although it traverses a variety of genres outside of footwork’s typical territory, DJ Paypal never relents on the actual practice of the juke: the core sound of the beat, getting danced on.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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Fast pacing and fragmentary delivery show how Mutant’s tracks operate as experiments in obsessive dysmorphia, taking flaws and magnifying them to scale drama, affect, and beauty out of digital refuse. Exhilarating moments are found next to tracks that only feature impact tail-ends, panned and swirled around a headspace to suspend spatiality further.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Nov 20, 2015
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You can’t hear The Feeling in his voice, which is still one of the most infectiously beautiful in the industry, because as his faith has saved him from his pain, his production team has saved his voice from Justin. It makes for a series of unbeatable mainstream and crossover singles, and a desensitized, unnerving album.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Nov 19, 2015
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