Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,700 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,553 out of 1700
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Mixed: 129 out of 1700
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Negative: 18 out of 1700
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The Libertines, with their second comeback, have chosen the other, “safe” direction, and sacrificed their integrity for it. Doherty sounds tired, abandoning nostalgia for kitschy gestures. Barât has fun, putting on his old jacket and playing rockstar, but he’s not rethinking his role as musician, or portraying growth as a songwriter.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 10, 2024
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If Wilson and crew are trying to invoke a riot, then Easy Eighth isn’t the best manifesto – but it does at least fill the time fine enough until they figure out their cause.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 28, 2024
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Considering this is her first album since 2014, it’s unfortunate that it can feel a little one-note. A Romeo and Juliet-esque yearning wasn’t necessarily expected or desired, and it doesn’t always serve her best across this effort.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 20, 2024
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To his credit, he once again proves why he’s esteemed at the former via the blunt insights of “TMVTL”, but the “run that verse back” Benny is all but absent on Everybody Can’t Go. Once more, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but he doesn’t seem sure how to replace that energy with conviction. Even The Alchemist gets dragged down by the pursuit of safe material.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 30, 2024
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Based loosely around a theme of karma and betrayal, it’s possible that the attempt to tie everything together lyrically came at expense elsewhere. The sequencing doesn’t help: following the Lykke Li-ish opener “Love And Other Drugs” and nuclear trap of “WUACV” (which stands for “woke up and chose violence”) comes a Barbie pink, seven-song sampler of other peoples’ sounds. We don’t get to see Maidza again until the three bangers crammed into the back half, which is very late.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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It’s a shame nothing about it screams new pop culture staple the way the movie does. There are fine moments, but the highs don’t rise enough to offset the lows.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 31, 2023
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With Feed The Beast she has neither progressed past that nor become a lost cause.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 26, 2023
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This collection of radiant jangle pop songs, burdened by nostalgic love and depressive yearning for something real, ultimately loses its luster. Everything else blends into one garbled, hazy murmur that ensues without much variance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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ATUM is the most controversial and strangest of all Smashing Pumpkins albums: a record that defies expectations but often disappoints in how prosaic and calculated it is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 11, 2023
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Ákadóttir has made her own museum here, and each of the songs on the album are monochrome statues that we the listener get to walk around and view, but we leave the building indifferent to any real history and experience they represent. It’s like Night at the Museum, but without any of the magic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 4, 2023
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Cracker Island’s forgettable, milquetoast assembly line of tracks – though crisply and professionally engineered – proves that having it all shouldn’t always mean using it all.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 2, 2023
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It would seem then that Let Her Burn is Rebecca Black just flying overhead instead of victoriously soaring above the ashes.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
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It remains a frustrating record, though, since it does show Tegan and Sara attempting to pull away, ever so slightly, from the sickeningly shiny days of “Closer”, but they get in their own way in their efforts to be edgy or forward-thinking.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 2, 2022
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Junior Boys’ track record shows that change is good, but here it feels like the tiptoe before a more significant step.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 31, 2022
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What remains is a record that feels all too groomed, all polished execution and often not well thought out. Music to nod and tap your foot along to, then turn it off and move on.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 7, 2022
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Detractors have long said that Harris’ music is tailor made for background summer playlists you can ignore – listening to this project, it’s hard to disagree.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 11, 2022
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At heart, it’s all too modest, too fatigued, too lacking in ambition and attitude.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 31, 2022
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There’s so much talent and story hidden behind the mask, but this album isn’t Orville Peck at his truest.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 11, 2022
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It’s far from a miserable affair, it certainly passes the time, it’s just hard to imagine how so much talent in a room didn’t arrive with something that didn’t feel so staid.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 6, 2022
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The tracks are still unmistakably Sonic Youth, but in a period where each album had a particular feel and tone, these tracks feel too disjointed to sit together too well.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 23, 2022
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There’s nothing on this third round that shocks or surprises, it’s all standard formula Barnett except for her witticisms being down-played slightly, and maybe her watered-down mope-rock influences are a little brighter on her sleeve.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 15, 2021
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On paper, Horizons / East sounds like a return to form, but in the end, this is all miles from what Thrice were doing a decade ago. ... Thrice are going to have to try a little bit harder next time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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It’s a modest debut, and that’s the highest praise as O’Connell could ask for with an album this timid.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Despite the label hopping, the independent releases, the decade of time spent away, Wavves still hasn’t changed much.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 22, 2021
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The textures are jagged and distorted, the lyrics are mostly nonsensical and feel spontaneously captured, and the whole thing sounds like an awkward genre-fusing experiment that doesn’t feel like it warrants its own noted release. That’s not to say there aren’t moments with elements to enjoy, if not just moments with potential.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 25, 2021
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Pedestrian may have similar mechanics to Yuck’s highlights underneath, but it’s stripped that fuzzy distortion and slathered in a thick layer of schmaltz as a replacement. The end result is a struggle, one that’s scattershot due to it’s need to include now-ancient methods to survive.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2021
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Songs like “Carpenter” and “Set the Fairlight” have some of that old-school Islands mentality, displaying Thorburn’s ability to write infectious grooves. But these moments are few and far between and easily overshadowed by the homogenous tones of “Natural Law Party” and the flighty “Marble”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 16, 2021
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It’s not bad music per se, but lacking Weiss’ sharp drumming and the virtuoso guitar work the two are so good at, there’s not much left of what made Sleater-Kinney exciting.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2021
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Monthly Friend is serviceable indie rock at best, but it’s hard to meet it with anything greater than apathy and indifference.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 2, 2021
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- Posted Apr 13, 2021
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