Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,706 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? |
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Positive: 1,558 out of 1706
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Mixed: 130 out of 1706
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Negative: 18 out of 1706
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Believer’s songs push and pull against each other, and the end result leaves one feeling like not much ground has been covered. It’s bolder than most new albums in recent memory, especially coming from a label as big as XL, but too often their sound comes off as a bizarre experiment. They are capable of more.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 26, 2021
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Caravan Château is undoubtedly a sonically interesting album to partake in. But Izenberg’s compositions don’t always lend him any favours. They are considered, and everything feels deliberate (despite how sporadic it may be presented to be), but sometimes they don’t wander in any direction that makes for engaging listening.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 13, 2020
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On Gimme Some, Peter Bjorn and John abandon the experimental sound they'd been developing over the course of the last few years in favor of flavorless alt-rock that falls short of the bar set by Falling Out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2011
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By itself, Mountaintops is a big, dry album that doesn't move you anywhere.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 14, 2011
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If anything, A Very She & Him Christmas can feel like a wet blanket at times, like a party that just can't get off the ground.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 2, 2011
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Poster Girl is a step forward in a somewhat more concise direction for Larsson, but it could have used some fine-tuning to fully commit to its vision. She has created an album that is unapologetically romantic and fun but lacking in consistency production-wise.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 10, 2021
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- Posted Apr 16, 2012
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To put it simply, Is This Hyperreal? suffers not because the band made a bad album, but because this is the fourth time they've repeated the formula.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 27, 2011
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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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Judging from these recordings, it’s unclear where Secret Machines are heading. Their strength lies in dynamic live shows, and those are postponed until further notice. Awake in the Brain Chamber possesses the clean-cut sound of a mainstream rock album that can sell large quantities, but it lacks the wild abandon and unique inspiration that leads to fervent adoration – the qualities that made their debut album into an underdog classic of the era. But the potential remains.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 24, 2020
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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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God Forgives is consistently, pleasantly underwhelming: the plodding R&B-rooted efforts aside, there's nothing much to complain about.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 1, 2012
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It gets bogged down in the doldrums somewhere between the personal and universal, and ends without truly having reached either shore.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 11, 2020
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The record sounds tired, dreamy, and wasted in the daylight at five in the afternoon– it tries to be breezy, but instead still feels like 99 degrees of heat.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 21, 2012
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For those who regard May Our Chambers Be Full as a contemporary gem, The Helm of Sorrow will occur as one of rock’s anticlimaxes. One shouldn’t ignore the winning elements of this release and how the contributing artists’ gifts are alternately put on center stage, but if Chambers is the benchmark for this combo, then one has to point out that what rendered it near-perfect; namely, the seamless synthesis of styles and energies, is on the whole absent here.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jan 15, 2021
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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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The most frustrating thing about these eleven songs is that it sounds as if Lidell is shackled by the aesthetic, and it’s totally self-imposed. He’s capable of more.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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While Major has a good solid handful of inspired moments, none of this material comes close to approaching the plane as that Fang Island were operating on before.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 31, 2012
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They start off well, though, with a trio of solid tracks.... The remaining tracks on the album are equally inoffensive, but they don't have the same half-minded unassuming appeal to help them glide along, and too often there's one too many head-in-your-hands cheesy lines thrown in.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 3, 2012
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Surprising title be damned, High Off Life can’t seem to help feeling like a rerun – albeit an enjoyable one.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 20, 2020
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What hurts The Don Of Diamond Dreams is how they get ahead of themselves with minimal regard to where they’re going.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 27, 2020
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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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Sticking to a playbook can be a great approach, but Diet Cig seem to be always aiming for “proficient”, while the “exemplary” boxes languish unchecked.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 6, 2020
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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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Like Silica Gel, Sushi isn't a bad album; it's just disappointingly mediocre, and I expect better than that from the psychedelic underground's clown prince of Cool Runnings and backseat-of-grandma's-Oldsmobile Top-40 jams.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Dec 6, 2012
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Toward the Low Sun staggers to get that momentum, though it does achieve atonement through progression.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 1, 2012
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Local Business isn't a bad album, but it doesn't completely pull itself off either.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Nocturnes rates better as an album that sounds better with time, as opposed to Hands’ sugar rush appeal. However, it also retains an uneven quality that can make getting through Nocturnes feel like someone trying to drag the party on a little too long.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 30, 2013
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As an album, it's ultimately too bogged down by its professionalism and erraticism to come together very well.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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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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