Under The Radar's Scores
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For 5,868 reviews, this publication has graded:
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40% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.6 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: | Kid A Mnesia | |
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Lowest review score: | Burned Mind |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,061 out of 5868
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Mixed: 1,677 out of 5868
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Negative: 130 out of 5868
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For every part of I Got Heaven that feels new, what remains is just as potent. The record finds the band radiating both love and fury, at their most powerful and at their most vulnerable.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 29, 2024
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As per the band’s recent promise to deliver “only bangers,” they fully deliver. Led by instant fan-favorite lead single “Cold Reactor,” these tracks include some of their catchiest and most memorable hooks.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 28, 2024
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It’s lively and vibrant, and puts under a spotlight the best impulses of Shygirl and her collaborators. Most importantly, Club Shy succeeds in its key goal: it makes you want to dance.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Loss of Life is MGMT’s most cinematic record to date, allowing the duo to grapple with mortality through meaningful introspection which reveals that, at the end of all things, there’s always love.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Wall of Eyes is just as good an effort as any Radiohead album, and rivals the work its members have done in other projects. It’s a complete joy to watch these artists work, for their creative expression is a treasure.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 21, 2024
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On TANGK, IDLES have broadened their horizons while retaining the guts and soul that made them. With prudence, craft, and ambition they’ve created something that borders on the monumental. Divisions be damned.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 16, 2024
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Though there is nothing neutral to be said about what Ducks Ltd. bring to bear on Harm’s Way, there is no doubt that the music the partnership produces is what our bodies were programmed to receive.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 14, 2024
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I think this album is perhaps their very best, or if not, at least tied with Lifes Rich Pageant (my favorite of the incredible 1982-1987 I.R.S. era), though at the time it confused me a bit. .... The vinyl is lovingly remastered by Kevin Gray and like the original, it’s a double LP that doesn’t come with a gatefold. The two-CD version also has a bonus disc containing their live set from the set of the TV show Party of Five.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 12, 2024
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With Weird Faith Madi Diaz once again gives all that she’s got, crafting a stormy and searching chronicle of falling headfirst into new love.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 9, 2024
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Chubb’s delivery throughout is full of historic trauma, honesty and fiery perseverance.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 7, 2024
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Perhaps it doesn’t quite capture the magical energy of the band’s live performances, but again, that is a totally different experience that would be hard to replicate. Album of the year? Without a doubt, it will be a strong contender.- Under The Radar
- Posted Feb 2, 2024
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The band’s signature sound is obviously intact on Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, but the songs are rendered with such immediacy and melodic intensity that the new wrinkles are amplified and any sameness rendered meaningless.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 26, 2024
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It shows that Herring and company know exactly who they are and what they’re capable of, and that makes it a quietly exciting and gratifying chapter of a band who are clearly in this for the long haul.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 26, 2024
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In spite of its pondering otherwise, Blue Raspberry is as real as it gets and in its most composed moments a confident step forward.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 25, 2024
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Los Angeles is a rollercoaster of twisting and churning tempos that frequently plunge headlong into a frothy mix of paranoid drums, bass, keyboards, and guitars with intriguing vocals at every turn. But sometimes it’s dreamier, slower, and more melodic, and it’s always done with a tuneful ear and is highly entertaining. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 22, 2024
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With the 10 tracks on the album, Sleater-Kinney have successfully captured the complex emotions of both our fraught present times and the delicate process of mourning, with taut songwriting coupled with energetic guitar textures, earnest vocals, and pop nuances. Some might even call it a return to form.- Under The Radar
- Posted Jan 19, 2024
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A record that can sit proudly at the top table of The Pretenders’ work to date.- Under The Radar
- Posted Dec 14, 2023
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This is a document of one man’s mission to highlight the imperfections, inadequacies, and injustices of right-wing policies, tell the stories of ordinary folk, and give voice to the voiceless; it’s a volume of solidarity, both political and personal—something Billy Bragg will always be the standard bearer for.- Under The Radar
- Posted Dec 5, 2023
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Cartwheel is a big, bright, beautiful album. It uses familiarity to bring you in, scratch those indie rock itches, then fires up the pleasure centers with its dedication to sonic satisfaction.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 29, 2023
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And the Wind (Live and Loose!) is not the on-stage retread of the familiar we’ve come to expect from countless, thoughtless live releases. It’s an expansion of Lenderman’s expression, an organic outgrowing of ideas from imperfect but beautiful seeds, come to beautiful bloom.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 27, 2023
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From a 1972 Carnegie Hall show to a spring ’74 performance with Tom Scott & The L.A. Express and an appearance the following September at Wembley Stadium, Mitchell reveals herself here during each period as a fascinating artist who was well worth returning to year after year, as she continues to be.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 20, 2023
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Superchunk remind us so often why they remain one of the greatest guitar bands of a generation with their insanely melodic, rapturously supercharged, endlessly loveable punk rock and this expansive set is testament to their continued majesty and mirth.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 17, 2023
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Overall, it’s another great record from a peerless band that, year after year, reinvent themselves. And, each time, they deliver the goods.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 15, 2023
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Live in Brooklyn 2011 is a great swansong with the bandmembers dragging all their pent up feelings of frustration, loathing, and distrust with each other onto the stage and playfully tearing it all to shreds.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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For a record titled Action Adventure, it’s surprisingly short on excitement.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 8, 2023
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Medford’s willingness to reach into her most intimate moments and allow them to bloom within the context of gorgeous, memorable music and melodies make SUCKER a real experience.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 8, 2023
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The results are compelling, though a few cuts are more sound collage than song.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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It’s a ray of sunlight which, even when it doesn’t totally stick the landing, is a plainly lovely listen. It mostly manages to avoid that saccharine positivity that a lot of grandiose indie-pop can succumb to, probably because the band have such a trustworthy history of making peppy, danceable music that it feels genuine, and the fact that plenty of the tracks are just irresistibly sweet.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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Aside from the disappointingly ghoulish “Paint it Black” (The Rolling Stones) and “Ghost Town” (The Specials), on the whole, the other covers are strong interpretations.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 7, 2023
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It’s a Christmas morning of an album, each track a new gift to treasure. It’s a set of songs that bring you deep into them, a mist of musical vapor in which snapshot reminiscences can be made out as the fog wavers.- Under The Radar
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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