DIY Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,075 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Not to Disappear | |
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Lowest review score: | Let It Reign |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,171 out of 3075
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Mixed: 891 out of 3075
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Negative: 13 out of 3075
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This is thoughtful, nuanced R&B that demonstrates Jorja’s kaleidoscopic feel for her genre, incorporating everything from neo-soul on the brooding title track, to flirting with dancehall on ‘Feelings’.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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His voice is stunning, a far-reaching, emotive vibrato evoking Roy Orbison that keeps the often surface-level nature of his lyrics from reaching full saccharine.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 25, 2023
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yeule’s willingness to play with sonic landscape and sci-fi dystopia means their version of emo is more infectiously haunting than the blueprint.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2023
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There’s enough originality pumped throughout each track that ‘Tension’ will undoubtedly stand as one of the most favoured contemporary Kylie eras. There’s no pretension to its greatness, just our Kylie, once again, humbly proving how easily she can forge gold and transform into pop culture phenomenon.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2023
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- Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Taken individually these songs are all gorgeous, but as a whole they create an effect of being hemmed in by absence, that inhospitable land overwhelming in its minimalism. No other record today sounds so beautiful and full while being quite so sparse.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 13, 2023
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- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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The album could stand to bear more of the inventiveness that was so rife on her debut, but Laufey’s crystalline voice and effortless charisma make this album into a gorgeous display of a unique talent.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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Despite – and seemingly deliberately - not carrying the widespread immediacy of more recent releases, it presents James as he currently stands; at once nostalgic and forward-thinking, and firmly back behind the decks.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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The collaborative spirit of producer Fred and long-time friend Haai flows throughout ‘Mid Air’’s eleven-strong homage to an unforgettable era, but it’s Romy’s autobiographical candour that adds a depth beyond the record’s inarguable ecstasy.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2023
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‘End of the Day’ feels like a long, slow goodbye to her old life; elegant and, given the context, elegaic.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2023
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Yes, ‘Club Romantech’ is fun, albeit superficially - supercharged by pulsating house that would perhaps be irresistible only under very specific, very inebriated conditions in 2012.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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An album that works to intertwine large scale issues with some deeply personal admissions from frontwoman Sadie Dupuis - all via her intoxicating and bewildering brand of lyricism - the record, instead, grapples with the anger at its core and transforms. it into something more worthwhile.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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If there’s evidence of musical progression, meanwhile, it comes via an apparently new-found fixation Neil has with modular synths; he deploys them tastefully here, perhaps to most striking effect on ‘Chained to a Cloud’. In general, though, ‘everything is alive’ very much gives off the sense that the slower gestations lead to the richest rewards.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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Punctuated by Simon’s misanthropic frustrations at a post-pandemic world, it’s a bold and brilliant but bileful record that may alienate even the most diehard of those ‘early-albums-are-the-best’ fans.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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It may not be entirely reinventing the rock wheel, but it’s certainly a more successful attempt at broadening their horizons.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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‘Bunny’, for the most part, justifies why Healey’s little black book is quite so heaving.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Undeniably ‘WEEDKILLER’ is a funneling of rage - a quest to rediscover autonomy and cement identity - but despite the darkness is ridiculously fun, too. It’s a triumphant debut - one that changes the game like a live wire in water.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Be Your Own Pet have retained the vitality of their youth while leaving behind the baggage.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 23, 2023
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This is a fully realised version of who and what they have always been.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 18, 2023
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There’s a little less edge than on debut ‘Smiling With No Teeth’, but a softer lens offers more variety, and Genesis Owusu sails the spectrum of human experience with ease to make something just as weighty as the literature that inspired it.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 17, 2023
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On the surface it may appear comparably safe in tone; a softer and arguably less frustrated sound runs throughout. Yet it never shies away from the unmistakable fact that Shamir has something to say, and that it’s always worth listening to.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Jungle’s latest is more breezy bops than all-out summer smashes, but nevertheless extremely rich and warm in sound.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2023
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‘The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons’ feels like a return to their roots; there’s a pleasing lack of polish to the production on what is a succession of punk rock blasts, from quick-fire bursts like ‘Trapdoor Solution’ and closer ‘Step Out of the Way’ to sustained salvos, with the bass-driven ‘Countdown To Shutdown’ a case in point. There’s playful evidence of new ideas being worked in, too.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2023
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Although the British summer is a mixed bag of rain and more rain, ‘Alchemy’ could convince anyone there’s sun outside.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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The only dud is GAYLE’s ‘butterflies’, which does nothing more than showcase the record’s corporate origins. Sampling a Y2K hit would have surely looked good on paper at some point; in reality it’s a confused mish-mash of sounds, the sample appearing as an add-on, the newcomer without the star power of her peers here to hint lyrically at anything of note. That aside, life in plastic does indeed sound fantastic.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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This isn’t necessarily an album that contains multitudes, but therein lies its pure escapist charm.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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There’s a solid background of obviously skilled musicianship on fifth LP ‘One Man Band’, but even on the snarl of ‘Never Taking Me Alive’, it all feels very safe.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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- Posted Aug 7, 2023
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