Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,869 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: 3,239 out of 3869
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Mixed: 601 out of 3869
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Negative: 29 out of 3869
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The band’s approach to music-making has always been as eclectic as their references, but generally they’ve stuck to one approach per album. Unfortunately this is where Home Counties comes a bit unstuck. There’s quite a lot going on.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 30, 2017
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- Posted Jun 30, 2017
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The dirges are ditched, yet the previous elements they made their name with are overdone.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 12, 2017
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I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone sees the Seattle group recede deeper into their comfort zone with a batch of tracks that are lukewarm at best.- Clash Music
- Posted May 30, 2017
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As a musique concrète or experimental electronica album, Burials In Several Earths is an above average attempt that contains myriad intricacies and points of interest. As something to carry on a peerless lineage, however, it feels like an unnecessary move.- Clash Music
- Posted May 26, 2017
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It seems to fall between two stools, not supplying enough arena-filling arrogance while never truly indulging the more surprising elements of their record collections.- Clash Music
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Most of the tracks’ narratives are undecipherable and consistently scatterbrained. Not to mention that the panoramic mixing of the guitars, while being a band trademark, make it difficult to focus on more than one aspect of a song at a time.- Clash Music
- Posted May 3, 2017
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Season High is a pleasant ride--a breezy escapade through dreamlands and ultraviolet meadows. It’s a sometimes sickly-sweet concoction that’ll leave you once or twice with the feeling of overindulgence.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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Booming walls of sound are favoured at the expense of nuance, leaving Belong too regularly thirsting for a banner hit, and ultimately, offering a perfect example of why bigger isn’t always better.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 11, 2017
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Longevity is often characterised by reinvention in music, yet The Ride stalls in its attempted inventiveness, instead finding success in its most pared down and familiar moments.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 10, 2017
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On Automaton, the band falters under the weight of its previous singles, leaving any possibility for chart success mired in a sound that comes across as tired and unoriginal, and the album listening experience as a monotonous ordeal.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 31, 2017
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Despite the two opposing moods of the album, the candid and dark lyricism is the only consistent effort in the album. It’s a massive shame, considering how much headway the band made with ‘Asymmetry’, but Mallory Knox have found themselves half a step behind their peers once again.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2017
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Whilst production and rhythms are excellent, the hooks (barring the album’s final lyric: “There’s so much bullshit comin’ out of your mouth”) often fall short.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 28, 2017
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Its straightforward, no bells and whistles approach is at once its greatest appeal and its most obvious shortcoming. Doris & The Daggers is deliciously satisfying beer rock--nothing more, nothing less.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 27, 2017
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The Incessant has a wealth of great ideas baked into the sediment of a wholly unremarkable collection of songs but boasts enough personality to still be worth giving the benefit of your doubt.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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There’s nothing that lifts it from being middle of the road Einaudi. Then again, standing on a cliff listening to middle of the road Einaudi is never a bad place to be.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 7, 2017
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While there’s certainly more emphasis on melody this time around, it’s brought about through noticeably more mature, more refined compositions.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 6, 2017
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Little Fictions, in the end, though a welcome sign of elbow gently progressing with their formula, is a step forward feels too hesitant.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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It’s overwhelming in its grandiosity, and though it has its virtues, Foxygen’s latest LP is best enjoyed as a bite-size hors d'oeuvre instead of a main course.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 23, 2017
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Following the trend set on previous effort ‘Olympia’, the beats continue to become crunchier, direct and undoubtedly more contemporary--but unfortunately less interesting also.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 19, 2017
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Ultimately, Graveyard Of Good Times is too much of a mixed bag to be considered a great record.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 12, 2017
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There’s barely a convincing lyric in the album and by the end you’re wondering whether the title itself has been chosen based on the sheer novelty.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 9, 2017
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This won’t run as smoothly as her DJ-Kicks bow of 2015, and it’s not a mix you’re allowed to get comfortable with, the Siberian’s non-conformist stance playing fast and loose with the ideals of cohesion, and letting the faders lead punters astray.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 4, 2017
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Though the record as a whole is weaker than its predecessor, there’s enough flashes of career-high brilliance to keep The Wharves on the right path of progression.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 19, 2016
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There are enough hair-raising moments here to anchor your skin and stop it crawling quite so much.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 19, 2016
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While there’s nothing really here to ignite a flame of revolution, or indeed get fists in the air to be honest, Peace Trail sees Young doing what comes naturally, soundtracking tumultuous times with some confident and easy songwriting.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 19, 2016
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The problem, however, is that the record suffers from a lack of variety and an overkill of nostalgia, while of a raft of identikit, if solid, guest vocalists it’s only Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor who really stands out.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 14, 2016
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At times Letherette overreach and their ambition to contort every trend of the last decade into a singular structure feels forced. The album flourishes where the beats are fortified by accompanying charisma.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 13, 2016
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‘Broke Me In Two’, which you can already find online, is a good place to start if you’re looking for a sampler. Overall though, it’s a case of ‘good to have you back Joan’, and ‘next time, let’s have a bit more you and little less Lazar Davis’.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 29, 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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