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.
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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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With two exceptions (Desiigner and, uh, Damon Albarn), the [guest artists] completely fail to elevate the tracks in any way, an unfortunate consequence of needing to feature Charli XCX on your album because she’s good and popular as hell rather than because you and Charli XCX have made any particularly interesting music together.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 31, 2017
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A change in demeanor accompanies this change in style, however, and it's a turn for the worse: Phoenix now gesture at being a Serious Group with Something to Say.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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The only thing Arcade Fire’s Everything Now is about is Arcade Fire, which is its most pernicious and pathetic quality. Arcade Fire are no longer Orpheus and Eurydice, lovers doomed to tragedy; now they are Narcissus, the Greek hunter who lost the will to live after staring at his own reflection in a pond for too long. They ask their listeners to participate in this cynicism as they grasp so falsely at explanations for why “we” are like this.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Aug 4, 2017
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Lily’s nonchalant declarations of self-esteem leave me cold. And as soon as she traded generically upbeat ska/reggae samples for a bunch of ho-hum electropop beats, she became indistinguishable from her imitators.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Frustrated fanboy headscratching aside, the point is simple: All Day is a misstep of the worst kind, wherein Gillis' craft devolves from transformative to parasitic.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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This game of literal musical chairs completely cripples The Most Serene Republic’s musical aims to the point that the album’s 40-minute runtime feels 20 minutes too long.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Audio, Video, Disco is simply too unfocused, too half-baked, and too busy hiding its inadequacies with superficially interesting window-dressing to fit in either of those settings--or any other.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Oct 24, 2011
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If The Raconteurs were any other group (that is, if The Raconteurs didn't have Jack White), the press/Blogosphere would slam it.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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And the mixing problems extend far beyond Corgan’s voice. The Band of a Hundred Murderous Guitars has turned into a modern-radio-rock band.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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In some ways, it is as an exercise in stripping away everything that makes The Flaming Lips such a truly special group, leaving only that which serves as decorative tinsel to their music, hanging limp and lifelessly in the air.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jan 18, 2017
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Musically, there are too many things going on and too few things going on. Every track sounds more or less the same, and every track sounds like a poor heyday tribute.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Oct 19, 2016
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What Will We Be is a better, more realized album, but it’s still a dud, filled with mediocre, half-composed songs and tediously unfocused songwriting.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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While the tension and confusion have passed, we are unfortunately left with a pretty disappointing piece of work.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Mar 28, 2013
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Imperial Teen sound here like they're trying to squeeze some new flavor out of a chewed-up piece of gum.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 16, 2012
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The shallow cynicism and apathy that animates so many of its songs are under-interrogated by its writers, instead finding form as a pessimist’s non-committal, inconclusive pouting.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Sep 25, 2017
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What was once shambling and humble and fun has turned into another anonymous, swaggering, guitar-driven indie rock act.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Wildlife is nothing more than an album that sounds fine in the background--even at a volume you couldn’t help but pay attention to--yet ultimately fails to make any kind of memorable impression.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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It’s “Lost Boys and Girls Club,” “Cult of Love,” and “Trouble Is My Name” (“Trouble is my name/ Is it your name too?”), endless clichés in songwriting, narrative, subject, and sound.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Feb 13, 2014
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LaValle’s been trading in spitshined tonal conventions and vacuum-sealed beauty for quite some time now, and this might well be his best effort at putting it to record. But there are already three Album Leaf LPs that do this exact same thing, and the prospect of him doing that thing slightly better simply fails to excite.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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There’s potential for a good album from the group, but they have yet to find a unique voice and passion with which to write.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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The sound of Stigmata is grayed and stale--reaching, perhaps, for 18th-century Baroque, but instead winding up stuck in a rusty soundcard from 1998.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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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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Sure, Nine Black Alps may be a more "genuine" concoction of Nirvana's formula, but how can this be considered revelatory or of interest when it comes across as so faceless?- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Menos el Oso takes the act of melodizing the banal to dizzyingly silly new heights.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Maybe we're supposed to love this album because it's the musical equivalent of a KFC Double-Down, filled with fancy co-stars and production, deep-fried, and devoid of any intellectual or nutritional value.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Aug 29, 2012
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Its songs are mostly amalgams of tired pop music tropes/techniques and trite realizations- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Sep 5, 2012
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In the end, Ribot’s considerable talents are sadly lost among 12 disjointed tracks that range from out-of-place cacophony to irritating cliché.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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Our Love To Admire isn’t even a contractual obligation to push off without care. But boy does it sound like one; a band phoning it in, out of steam, and running on a few lingering fumes and smoldering coals.- Tiny Mix Tapes
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