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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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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She’s basically incapable of making a song that isn’t at least pretty, but this album shows that some songs are simply meant to have more meat on the bone, and others are meant to be left out of the conversation altogether.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 28, 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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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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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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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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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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As is, I Am Very Far is far from a lot of things, the biggest among these is the high bar that Okkervil River has never had a problem exceeding, until now.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 6, 2011
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Where There Existed an Addiction to Blood seemed to take the listener down a spiral of harsh violence and vaguely interconnected moments of supernatural terror, Visions of Bodies Being Burned just feels lost.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 26, 2020
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Unfortunately, after years of anticipation, the reveal is an overtly tedious shell of everything Parker has ever charmed into existence. In fact, tedious may be an understatement.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2020
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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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- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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After three albums about the same thing, Hinds haven’t shown any real progression by shedding their lo-fi trappings; instead they’ve just unearthed their shortcomings.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 4, 2020
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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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What works for Lambchop in the case of TRIP is the level of consistency in their sound that they were able to achieve through years of playing music together. However, it does not exactly bring the album together, because the tracks are thematically very different, and the band’s decision to apply the same approach to them contributes to the plainness of TRIP.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Nov 18, 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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Wrecking Ball is an album that will reinforce most everyone's preexisting opinion of The Boss, whether they be good or bad.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 12, 2012
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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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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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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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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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There’s some pleasure to be had here, but for all of those except those of us pawing the floor with anxious, somewhat embarrassed memories – and as the album cover even seems readily to acknowledge – this is perhaps a pill best left unswallowed.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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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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There are enough moments here to suggest that the band can find a comfortable middle ground between the two sounds that will suit both their aspirations and the desire of the listeners, let's just hope that next time around they find it.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 25, 2011
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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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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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Everything that made their self-titled debut forgettable has been brought back and laboriously run into the ground.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 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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Its biggest problem is that, from start of finish, it feels strangely reserved.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Oct 14, 2011
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We Must Become often hints at Joy Division's stylish brand of post-punk ennui, but by treating it as little more than a gimmick, Maus loses the urgency that makes Curtis's music so endurable.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2011
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