Dusted Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 3,080 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Ys | |
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Lowest review score: | Rain In England |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,472 out of 3080
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Mixed: 574 out of 3080
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Negative: 34 out of 3080
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Succinct. ... While Madness begins in a state of chaos, it reaches an uneasy resolution over its half-hour runtime, exploring some emotionally resonant territory along the way.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jun 8, 2022
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The result is an intriguing set of tracks which sound, one hand, very much in line with Matmos’ percolating, abstract grooves, but also very different. ... With “Flight to Sodom / Lot do Salo,” the album moves into even more riveting abstractions, a sampled voice pulsing like a drum as rich textures of synth swirl around it. Here too, denatured vocals surge and fade in a not-quite-human choir sound. The second side turns more ominous and atmospheric.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 23, 2022
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Whatever a given listener’s quibbles or preferences around the two versions of the album, there’s another thing that points to a core truth about Terror Twilight: both versions still ultimately sound pretty damn good.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Ultimately, whether The Smile spells the end of Radiohead feels beside the point when the music that Yorke and Greenwood are making at this stage in their career is this damned good.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted May 18, 2022
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Listen to the second album next to the first, and it’s like when the eye doctor finds the right lens strength and all the letters become legible.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 27, 2022
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You could spend a lot of time thinking about why these songs and what Terry and McGhee meant in their own time and what they mean now, but the songs are pure visceral experiences that you feel in your gut and your heart.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2022
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The atmosphere is lovely—it refracts the light like the last traces of fog in sunlight—but there are songs here underneath, good ones, and that makes all the difference.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 25, 2022
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- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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Raum shows that they can still make it happen, vast swatches of sound, space and symbol coalescing along paths toward those points in time when Tangerine Dream sounds like no one else.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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The recording’s sessions were done in a few days, and the final product retains a fetching immediacy and intimacy. A fundamental lightness of affect pervades the recording, even when it delves into heavy or sad topics.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Given DePlume’s voice is such a strong flavor, Gold’s appeal will no doubt hinge on whether it’s to your taste. I find it fine in small doses, but domineering over the course of a double album. There’s some great music here if you have the patience to cherry-pick the best bits.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Minor quibble aside, Warm Chris is a fantastic record full of color, humor and wonder.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 28, 2022
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Bodega have extended their musical palette and tightened their songwriting to produce an album that bristles with energy and intelligence.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 24, 2022
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Aware of the vastness but alive to the myriad small beauties that flit in and out of view, seemingly oblivious but alert to the potential threat of your presence. Carmen Villain captures these delicate balances in her music and invites the listener to ponder their passivity and question their gaze.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 22, 2022
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Wild Loneliness is the perfect album for this moment, in which darkness isn’t denied but is repudiated to within an inch of its life.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 22, 2022
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It all reminds you of how great a band Sonic Youth was, even at play, even at home trying out tunings and motifs, tossing one idea out into the amplifiers and hearing it echoed, altered, elaborated by tuned-in others.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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Salvant shows off a sharp wit in the talk-sung, “Obligation,” a fluid sophistication on “If I Lost My Mind,” and a little bit of swagger on the brief, piano-pounding “Trail Mix.” Her original songs are as varied as the covers.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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With his debut album on Shady Records, Conway the Machine shows that he remains a gifted lyricist and a good storyteller, yet hardly offers anything original.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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Havasu is raw with current and remembered emotion, but there’s love at the center of it – for the girls at school, for the places he went and even for the family that misunderstood him— and that warm forgiveness makes it all the more powerful.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 4, 2022
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Still Life seems mostly solid, presenting evidence of talent, taste and potential, but not quite pushing things over the top.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Mar 2, 2022
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- Posted Feb 22, 2022
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If you like jagged, body-moving beats and clever kids slinging dissatisfaction, try Silverbacks.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 18, 2022
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Overall, its more up-tempo songs aside, Lucifer on the Sofa is a disappointment, offering regrettable evidence that Britt Daniel’s laudable song writing mojo may have gone off the boil.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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The songs’ stoner shoegaze impact can be appreciated even if you miss the line that tells you our narrator is an asteroid miner. But if you do lean into meditating on its themes, the phantasmagorical desolation that is Dissolution Wave’s intended setting makes the songs hit even harder.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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As good as its individual songs and moments are, Summer at Land’s End is even better experienced as a whole, where it takes on a world-of-its-own feel, thanks, in part, to a pair of hypnotic instrumentals.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 14, 2022
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The most surprising aspect of DNWMIBIY is that for a double album, the quality control is high and the sequencing is especially effective. ... In the meantime, DNWMIBIY is the first album to join my best of 2022 list.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 7, 2022
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The album sounds a little warmer and less rustic than might be expected. The sound’s not inherently better or worse, but it suits Fussell’s movement toward more expansive orchestration and a more contemporary feel.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Feb 2, 2022
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The longest track on the recording, at 7’21”, is “Sadder than Water,” where the stasis of basslines found elsewhere are broken into an angular melody overlaid with oscillating chordal material. This, along with the outer two tracks, points to a promising way forward for Shenfeld, in which her skill at creating textures is matched by her ability to develop them.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 28, 2022
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Most of the record is engaging stuff, noisier than pretty, stranger than it is studied.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 25, 2022
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An album about finding meaning in the quiet, and even people who will never take psychedelic drugs or visit remote Ecuadorian caves, can get something out of that.- Dusted Magazine
- Posted Jan 12, 2022
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