DIY Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,087 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 0.1 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: 2,183 out of 3087
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Mixed: 891 out of 3087
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Negative: 13 out of 3087
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A beautiful new offering, ‘Pony’ is equal parts heart wrenching and hopeful, and shows Rex back at his very finest.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2019
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Delicate duets, bluegrass string strumming and some of the most genuinely emotive lyrics you'll hear all year combine to produce an album of rare and beautiful quality.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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The band’s most concise sound yet whilst never taking itself too seriously, as Mannequin Pussy continue to dominate a world of their own creation.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2024
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‘Mercy’ provides another delicious example of an esteemed old-timer triumphantly pushing his creative frontiers into a much-shifted modern age.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 18, 2023
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The leap has definitely paid off - her inimitable voice thrives in the woozy dancehall and afrobeat-inspired ‘First’ and the big pop confidence of ‘Womxn’, but also knows when to take a step back, peppering the record with spoken word segments and heartfelt mantras that tie the whole thing together.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 20, 2020
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As twelve equally matched moments of varied tone but consistent brilliance, it's nothing short of exactly what was expected--the start of something even bigger.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 17, 2013
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While The National don't progress or indeed offer anything new to outstanding cynics, they instead rejoice in their strengths of detailing life and all its sorry baggage in the most beautiful of ways.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 16, 2013
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The real masterstroke of ‘30’, however, comes with how these lyrics - the pain, the self-flagellation (sometimes cruel, often mocking), the hope, the acceptance - are expertly matched musically.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Nov 16, 2021
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Lime Garden offer a reassuring hand to warm shoulders and a candied melody or ten to sweeten ears. Not only this, but as an album indebted as much to Charli XCX or Bon Iver as it is to The Strokes, as equally comfortable with cello-bowing ballads or auto-tuned pop anthemia as it is with the guitar-chugging banger, it confirms Lime Garden as a band with potential to achieve even higher artistic greatness.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 14, 2024
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While the off-kilter rhythms and cowbells of ‘This Love’ give way to a central chorus line that’s almost Bowie-esque. They’re big reference points but ‘Turn The Car Around’ uses them masterfully to drive down its own sonic motorway.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jan 11, 2023
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‘Tough Baby’ gives us a distinctly moving experience of serious artistic intent. It’s like watching a wound open, flowers growing out of it.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Both what you’d want and expect from a Chemical Brothers album, as well as a whole lot more on top, it pushes the duo firmly back to relevance.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 12, 2019
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A modern-folk masterpiece which finds her moving from her previous pop bangers into stunningly simple yet sharp melodies, ‘folklore’ will be going down in Swiftie history as one of her most unexpected, and undoubtedly one of her best.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Aug 7, 2020
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Overall, it’s a testament to the world-class songwriting of The Lemon Twigs that at no point does the record fall into the realms of ‘too much’. For most, it would be hard to strike that balance, but The Lemon Twigs absolutely master the art of crooning sugary pop-rock in the best of ways.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2024
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Squid always seemed destined to have an epic album in them, and they’ve delivered just that.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 6, 2021
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Broadening the creative scope, Half Waif is given the space to breathe both lyrically and musically. ‘Mythopoetics’ glides from the stripped back piano and layered vocals of opener ‘Fabric’ and the intimate closer ‘Powder’ to the electronic flourishes that have elevated Nandi’s sound across four prior records.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jul 8, 2021
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This record is a playful, daring and capricious listen, and one of the first truly remarkable records of 2012.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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Often Gorillaz records fall victim to feeling a little disjointed but with many moods and gargantuan guests here, Damon somehow manages to make ‘Strange Timez’ feel like a cohesive whole. Gorillaz can often be a hard band to define, and their records haven’t always fared well in the context they’re released in - in 2020 though, it all makes perfect sense.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 22, 2020
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Whether it matches up to its self-proclaimed sister record or not, 2020 has seen Taylor Swift deliver over two hours of the most relatable stories in contemporary pop. There are lyricists and there are storytellers, and in a year of uncertainty and inconsistency, Taylor Swift has emerged as the most assured songwriter of her generation.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Dec 14, 2020
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Few albums carry the raw emotion of ‘Every Bad’, and carry it with such musical confidence.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 12, 2020
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It's entirely possible that by proving they can make anything their own, they've become one of Britain's best bands.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 11, 2012
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An album that exudes charm and euphoria, while still very much being Fall Out Boy’s DNA, ‘So Much (For) Stardust’ is a real joy.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
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‘10,000 gecs’ is a thrilling ride from start to finish, catapulting through genres across 10 unrelenting and imaginative bangers.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Mar 15, 2023
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It sounds fantastic throughout; there's just the right mix of intense dance floor dynamics and reverential sounds.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2013
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‘songs’ feels like unearthing an old puzzle a piece at a time. ‘instrumentals’, while texturally the same, focuses on pure ambience – the unspecific title is far more deserving. If anything, this feels more like a companion piece, a window into that cabin rather than its own separate record. If you wish you had been there, this is the best way to feel like you were.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Oct 22, 2020
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Perhaps a less confident artist would be tempted to finish on a grand crescendo, but Angel Olsen has made a masterful record that both requires and earns a little patience.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
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‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’ is not the soothing salve for a country tearing itself apart. Instead, it is the molotov cocktail and lighter threatening to ignite the people into taking action.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2024
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That ‘Laurel Hell’ exists only because it almost didn’t gives it its power. It provides the space for her mastery of songwriting, and Patrick Hyland’s understated yet orchestral production places Mitski in a realm all her own.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Feb 3, 2022
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What’s remarkable about ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’, though, is that the gravitas of this weightier material isn’t cheapened by the sudden contrast, just as the LP’s initial buoyancy somehow doesn’t become retrospectively flippant. Instead, the album honours that life’s lightness isn’t contradicted by the dark moments, but rather co-exists alongside them; a reminder that everything – and everyone – contains multitudes.- DIY Magazine
- Posted May 13, 2024
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As the record builds to a final cathartic hushed scream, ‘Punisher’ marks a clear step forward, but one that remains as fundamentally graceful as all that has come before.- DIY Magazine
- Posted Jun 18, 2020
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