Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,876 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,246 out of 3876
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Mixed: 601 out of 3876
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Negative: 29 out of 3876
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It’s not that Nihilistic Glamour Shots is some objectively terrible record, but it’s certainly not a great one. The music isn’t minimal, it’s mundane, a songwriting stodge that seems content to play in its own filth.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 4, 2018
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The first half of the album is particularly monotonous, with the one-man band fervently spewing similar hooks that show very little dynamism and only serve a purpose to maintain a foot tapping rhythm.- Clash Music
- Posted May 5, 2020
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Her history and significance is rooted in rebellion--but that’s easy to overlook with a record this diluted.- Clash Music
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Unfocused, inconsistent and underwhelming, The Heavy Entertainment Show is homogenised pop at its most stupefying.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 28, 2016
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Candy’s uncompromising approach has been a breath of fresh air when providing guest verses in the past, but a whole album of pornographic paeans will leave you feeling limp.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 29, 2019
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Moments of the Jacknife Lee-produced album are assured--Gary Lightbody over-emotes particularly well on the maudlin "Life-ning" and "The Symphony" is rightfully pompous--but the uneasy truth is that Snow Patrol are merely background dinner party music for accountants.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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It’s clear that Coldplay retain their thirst, their passion for making music--it’s merely a shame that it results in such polite noises.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 11, 2015
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Some may find something deep and spiritual amongst the cuts on Outside, but it just makes this reviewer want to stay indoors.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 21, 2013
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It's not completely unfair to say that Déjà Vu won't be joining the pantheon of great albums any time soon.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 16, 2015
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Pharrell isn’t raising the game on G I R L--it’s a thoughtful, imaginative unit-shifter with some sincere themes running through it. But “different”? Not quite.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 3, 2014
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Unlike the release of his second studio album, KIRK released last year, a major fraction of 'Blame It On Baby' lacks effort and even originality.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2020
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Tracks like ‘Feeling Good, Feeling Great’, ‘High’ and ‘Guillotine’ feel soulless and lack the gusto that DZ Deathrays have shown through their live shows and previous releases. Albeit brief, there are glimmers in which the duo capture the visceral and angsty essence of their past through the tribal ‘Back _ Forth’ and closer ‘Witchcraft Pt. II’.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 6, 2018
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Despite these few fleeting moments of greatness, Everything Now feels like the band's first missfire record of their career, with its lack of a focused concept, cohesiveness and heart.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 1, 2017
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So many of the risks taken are either unevocative or plain annoying, particularly when the tracks are structured with so little sense of development.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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Tracing the lush synth lines running through this album shows Epworth’s love affair with the retro electronics of the 1980s. But their pairing with the sensibilities of modern pop ends up feeling less like the 80s, and more like last decade’s 80s nostalgia.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 21, 2020
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For all its best intentions, Man of the Woods often feels rushed, occasionally underproduced and at times, unfinished. Lacking the effortless polish of previous releases, it troughs more than peaks and ends up floundering in its own ambition.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 8, 2018
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- Posted Nov 12, 2010
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It feels staid, played out, and more than a little boring; despite Ashcroft’s pleas for energy, it feels absolutely zonked out, the wire-thin production helmed by the songwriter himself.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 19, 2018
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- Posted Oct 31, 2017
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A blunt genre deserves a blunt assessment so, for what it's worth: in reflecting his mixtape interests, Brodinksi is well on his way to mastering one of the year's most disposable albums.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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Anna is full of uninspired and recycled riffs starkly illuminated by the God awful woe-is-me-I’m-northern lyrics.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Of course groups should look to change and evolve, but this is solipsism at its worst.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 12, 2013
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The misstep is in the execution, resulting in sound that bears little resemblance to their previous efforts. At best, Limitless is an overly ambitious re-invention. At worst, it’s a terribly misjudged collection.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 3, 2016
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As a self-styled pop record then, Stay Together is something of a failure, distinctly lacking in hooks, entertainment value and any sort of real ingenuity.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 18, 2016
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This time, reckless abandon is replaced by forced jollity and the vibe turns from head trip to school trip.- Clash Music
- Posted May 24, 2017
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Part of the problem is that Diplo has never done subtlety. He’s in his element when blasting vuvuzelas onstage, working with cliff-edge drops and acres of bass frequencies. Out on the open plains of songwriting he often feels lost, resulting in some startling lyrical simplicity.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2020
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- Posted Nov 15, 2013
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the way Technology compromises on solid songwriting in favour of material that’ll evoke carnage in a live setting is detrimental to the album as a whole.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 12, 2018
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The classical elements are independently pleasing--as you’d expect when elements of Shostakovich, Mozart and so on are used--but by drenching it all in commercial dance production, the supposed ‘fusion’ becomes a bastardisation.- Clash Music
- Posted May 28, 2014
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Plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying.- Clash Music
- Posted May 21, 2012
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As his flow goes off at a regular double time that his chart-scaling peers can only dislocate their jaws for, Dizzee’s personality shrinks into a tediously shallow pool of female ogling, obeying your thirst and his latest holiday snaps.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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Moby’s attempts to paper over a demonstrable lack of songwriting inspiration with grand string arrangements and a sequence of guest collaborators only emphasises the tedium here.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 25, 2013
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The Past, The Present, The Future has rebooted more of the bad tropes from that era than the good.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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It's a real shame that out of 18 songs whittled down from a reported 462, the album has just three consistently good songs.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 10, 2015
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It’s all very pretty sounding on paper, but in reality lazily produced and poorly written.- Clash Music
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Whilst it is undeniably their most experimental work, the record listens like an audio representation of Theresa May’s awkward robot-like dancing--confused, cringingly uncomfortable and desperately out of touch.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 28, 2019
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Green is never going to be a gritty rapper--but even taken as a straight-up pop-rap record, Growing Up In Public is disappointingly tame.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 25, 2014
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- Posted Aug 28, 2020
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Derulo has stripped away all of those oddities to focus purely on the music and, in the process, has lost much of what sets him apart from the pack.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 1, 2015
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- Posted Sep 2, 2014
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As an album in its own right it is terrifically tedious, 40-something minutes of mindless, meandering muso-muscle flexing with a never-more-limp ineffectiveness.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 21, 2014
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This album might satiate the seasoned Kasabian fan, but for anyone else it just comes across as the dated output of false prophets.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 19, 2014
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Any trace of the identity that once set Foxes apart from other pop acts has been wiped clean. The album resembles a generic template, fashioned by several verified hit-makers, which could feature just about any old pop artist.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 17, 2016
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The main problem with this is that her voice is too wispy to hold its own versus the maximalist rave-pop of the day.... On top of this, Delirium just hasn't got the songs.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 4, 2015
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The songs are forgettable odes to familiar topics--home, heartbreak, dusting yourself off and picking yourself back up--that wouldn’t get a second glance if they’d been penned by someone less famous. Add to that some horrifically hackneyed clichés.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 29, 2017
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This latest offering is meandering chirpy slobber that sounds more boy band than ever.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 1, 2010
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To account for the offensively retrospective nature of this trawl of commonplace dance-floor garbage (we're talking Coldplay, Candi Staton and Justice), I must assume, first, that they spent the last two years in a timewarp somewhere between 1993 and 2006. And secondly, that they spent this time in trashy commercial nightclubs, where glowsticks never die, dancefloors rotate and there's a price reduction for hen parties.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 30, 2010
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Partly because it's so painfully eager to please. Sonorous sermons that really should hit home--delivered in an unseasoned multilingual mishmash of tongues (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English)--are unflattered by the ersatz backdrop of cheesy latin pop, dire orchestral muzak and (heavens preserve us) Meat Loaf-esque '70s prog.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 1, 2015
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'Electra heart' is an ingloriously languid statement of Marina's demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career.- Clash Music
- Posted May 1, 2012
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