XLR8r's Scores
- Music
For 387 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Awake | |
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Lowest review score: | Audio, Video, Disco |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 354 out of 387
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Mixed: 31 out of 387
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Negative: 2 out of 387
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Tycho's new album only has eight songs on it, but each one is like its own laid-back journey through time, with probably the coolest dude ever as your spirit guide. That's like super classic album status right there.- XLR8r
- Posted Apr 1, 2014
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Pink is a triumph and the new high-water mark for one of this generation's finest producers.- XLR8r
- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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For all of its turbulence and dislocations, R Plus Seven is an astounding thing to behold, a perfectly imperfect and downright breathtaking masterpiece.- XLR8r
- Posted Sep 30, 2013
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the Norwegian superproducer has been intermittently working with Christabelle since 2001 and all the years of back-and-forth were clearly worth it, as Real Life is simply stellar.- XLR8r
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The third full-length from Hendrick Weber maintains the high quality of previous efforts while pushing certain elements of his shoegaze-y, minimal-inspired techno sound further.- XLR8r
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In short, it is rare to find a producer who can craft many types of tracks so consistently well, but with You Stand Uncertain, FaltyDL has cemented himself as such.- XLR8r
- Posted Mar 31, 2011
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It's a fantastical story of aliens, spirits, and children told by one breathtakingly gifted artist, and it's utterly remarkable.- XLR8r
- Posted Oct 13, 2011
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Half of Where You Live is a considerably more rewarding album, one that creates lush, sophisticated, and disarmingly inviting music using the simple building blocks of sample-based beats and deeply personal musical storytelling.- XLR8r
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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Space Is Only Noise might be one of the most ear-opening techno records in recent memory.- XLR8r
- Posted Feb 28, 2011
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- Posted Feb 17, 2012
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An ambitious and eclectic album that packs tons of ideas into its runtime and manages to pull them all off with a great deal of style.- XLR8r
- Posted Sep 30, 2016
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As Seplacure takes form, a consistent emotional ground that exists somewhere between stoney reminisce and melancholic introspection is reached.- XLR8r
- Posted Nov 29, 2011
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Whether you're an old fan of Drexciya or you've just arrived late to the party, Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I is about as close to an essential compilation as you're going to get.- XLR8r
- Posted Jan 18, 2012
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More so than any of his other releases, Burial seems to have something to say throughout Rival Dealer, and that message helps tie together the record's diverse 28 minutes and give its three tracks the impact of a full-length album.- XLR8r
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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What they discovered lies beyond DJ mixes and radio rotations; it's their magnum opus.- XLR8r
- Posted May 14, 2012
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Glass Swords feels and sounds like a cohesive statement, and a strong one at that.- XLR8r
- Posted Oct 19, 2011
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Thanks to his savvy techniques and careful placement, his penchant for the far-out fringes of dance music doesn't seem weird at all, but delightfully intriguing.- XLR8r
- Posted Jan 23, 2013
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It's an undefinable musical culmination of our collective conscious-reminding us that the more we've changed, the more we've stayed the same.- XLR8r
- Posted Oct 21, 2010
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While the songs are still complex and full of countless moving parts, each melody and note plays a specific role, leaving There Is Love with a real clarity of vision.- XLR8r
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A brand-new EP on Smalltown Supersound that picks up where his last left off.- XLR8r
- Posted Feb 1, 2012
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Looping State of Mind might just be the finest document of his craft yet.- XLR8r
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Jones' voice is an instrument shaped by age, not youth, and Hard Way proves she's just hitting her stride.- XLR8r
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Everything from the album’s sharp, shimmering opulence (its cover could be a still from Annihilation) to its thematic interactions between machine and being align it with Garland’s apocalyptic work. Objekt--whether artist, producer or mad professor--is on top of his game, and his latest creation is as beautiful as it is powerful.- XLR8r
- Posted Nov 8, 2018
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Adventurous but not selfish, intelligent but not difficult, a victory lap of sorts but hardly congratulatory, Terje's first album is astoundingly balanced and astonishingly broad, a wider serving of the man's artistic vision that ultimately proves just as satisfying as his single servings have in the past.- XLR8r
- Posted Apr 7, 2014
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Regardless of whether they're successful or not isn't quite the point; what makes Shaking the Habitual so important is that The Knife used an important moment in their own history to truly subvert the hierarchy that both the band and the album exist in. Thankfully, they also wrote some near-perfect music in the process.- XLR8r
- Posted Apr 11, 2013
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With Dedication, Zomby's first release for the legendary indie label 4AD, he's turned increasingly inward-and it's an entirely welcome trajectory.- XLR8r
- Posted Jul 13, 2011
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It's a little bit of everything, which is perhaps why ƒIN is such a rich, fulfilling listen.- XLR8r
- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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A record notable not only for its considerable length (16 tracks) but its sense of cohesion and staggering brilliance.- XLR8r
- Posted May 10, 2018
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Despite (or maybe because of) the absence of Braxton, Battles has soldiered on into new musical territory, and discovered a place that is simultaneously confrontational and inviting, esoteric and playful, technical and infectious-and very, very good.- XLR8r
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Whether it's the muffled, unsettling synths that peer out from underneath the groove, the mannered and highly potent collision of seemingly incongruous drum patterns, or simply the masterful arrangement, it all adds up to make a record that's difficult to second-guess and lots of fun to unpack.- XLR8r
- Posted Sep 9, 2013
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