BBC collective's Scores

  • Music
For 150 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Panic Prevention
Lowest review score: 40 The Brave And The Bold
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 150
150 music reviews
    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Essential listening.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is one of those rare albums that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burial has concocted a noir-ish sound that’s as powerful as it is atmospheric.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In Rainbows really does present Radiohead at their most full-blooded and confident.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An album as rich as it is strange.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An ambitious, filler-free, modernist-sounding beast which laughs in the face of underachievement.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are missteps... and the production is sometimes frustratingly muddy, but Neon Bible very nearly delivers on impossible expectations.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    M.I.A. and co-producers, including Switch, straddle more styles than you’d find in most music collections, let alone on the same disc.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is music that hits the head, heart and hips all at once.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The songs on Comicopera rate amongst his very best--emotionally complex, politically charged but never short of beautiful.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While their sound might have progressed in an even more bizarre – if sadly less atmospheric – direction, it's still surprising, full of invention and totally unique.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bewildered newcomers will soon be entranced, old fans won't be disappointed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Upon starting Soft Bulletin--you’re instantly whisked off into the universe the Flaming Lips have created. The musical journey that ensues is nothing short of imaginary genius--simple as.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At 77 minutes it’s no sprint, but YLT’s mellifluous serpentines are never less than involving.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Finn's] smart, poetic, unashamedly adult lyrics... almost guarantee this is the best arena band that’ll never play an arena.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ys
    It’s to her great credit that Newsom (literally) plucks artistic triumph from the jaws of cloying whimsy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga sees Britt Daniels channelling his persecution complex into more piano-driven 60s pop songs, screaming "Don't make me a target!" at the heavens as his girlfriend walks out. His band prove surprisingly versatile.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is a folk album so rich and intricate that, in scope, it's comparable to Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks."
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a winning combination, with the Prince’s shambolic charm still intact but lent clarity by the new additions that make this infinitely preferable to previous efforts.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's perfect for passing down the crown of Malian desert blues.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is not a bunch of old blokes looking to recapture their youth; rather, Grinderman sounds like a freshly hewn and rudely vigorous chunk of leftfield rock.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It’s exciting stuff, simple yet deadly effective.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turner’s sharp narrative ear is still tuned to the revealing banalities of everyday life, the whole band admirably responsive to emotional nuance.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The lyrics are often sublime, of course, but there are big, stupid choruses too.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s a step backwards for sure, but a worthwhile one.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love Travels At Illegal Speeds is good stuff that doesn’t drive you round the bend. It doesn’t pack any surprises either.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warm and quirky. Pleasantly bizarre. Sophisticated and daft. Herbert at his best.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ward’s band kick back with a looser, rockier feel than previously, yet his dusty, wistful voice still inhabits an age all of its own.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While still lush in its own grimy way, Ruff Draft represents the harsher, more experimental end of Dilla’s palette.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Has some moribund slumps.