Glide Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 857 reviews, this publication has graded:
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68% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: | We Will Always Love You | |
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Lowest review score: | Weezer (Teal Album) |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 820 out of 857
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Mixed: 37 out of 857
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Negative: 0 out of 857
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Though controversial at the time, this music, experimental in nature, still resonates with intensity, spirituality, and unbridled power, a clear steppingstone to Trane’s Classic Quartet, and a ‘must have’ for Trane collectors.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 18, 2023
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Ochoa’s music will inevitably have you smiling and perhaps reaching back to the Buena Vista Social Club recording and its various offshoots.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 18, 2023
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“Alice in Bluegrass” highlights the skills of her fine band while the haunting “Stranger Things” is both a vocal tour de force and a stunning dobro turn from Douglas. Tuttle is at her playful best, promoting marijuana legalization in the brief, upbeat “Down Home Dispensary.”- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 18, 2023
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The combination of Wall’s vivid imagery and his sense of tone gives these songs a cinematic feeling, Little Songs is just as much a novel-turned-movie as it is an LP. Colter Wall has another terrific record to add to his discography, one that cements him as Country’s next legend.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 17, 2023
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“The View” is another near-solo track that legitimizes Lukas Nelson’s songwriting skills, as well as the understated savvy of Promise of the Real. Would that such numbers be the rule rather than the exception on the album? Or that the band quintet stretched out longer and more often than they do over the course of the twelve selections.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 14, 2023
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While Gabriels wear their influences on their sleeves, they are able to melt them down to form their own forward-thinking take that is as free and courageous as the genre has sounded in a long time.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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The album finds a comfortable middle ground between the warmth of your own bed after a long vacation and the anxiety of entering a new era in your life. She deploys just enough ambiance to keep us listening without distracting from her overall message, allowing the hushed melodies and simplistic arrangements to thrive under the all-encompassing creativity of its creator.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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We have one of the best in their series, one that sounds like one infectiously grooving continuous track.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jul 6, 2023
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There’s no better modern bluesman on the scene today than Birchwood. He consistently delivers the goods and Exorcist is his latest adventurous chapter..- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Stinson and Robert have turned down the raucousness and deliver more contemplative efforts, while still experimenting with sound and instrumentation. The stakes feel lower by design as if two musicians are just having a good time with each other as Cowboys in the Campfire allow Wronger to chill along.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2023
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The long closer of “The Real Thing” is drawn out as the group goes for a big and cathartic finale, yet never fully breaks on through. That said, there is a lot to like on Emotional Contracts, as Deer Tick returns to the indie rocking fold, proving that they will travel wherever the song takes them.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2023
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This is indeed as animated as we’ve heard Lucinda in some time. Her articulation and her songs are strong, while buoyed by excellent backing musicians, vocalists, and superb production values.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2023
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These songs touch on solitude, fading love, trying to grow up and some bleak topics, but their sweet sound together makes listening to them a joy.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 23, 2023
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The Beggar is a challenging listen over its two-hour run time, but the sonic soundscapes SWANS create throughout deliver what the band set out to do; juxtapose the beautiful and grotesque while stretching out their droning sound to the breaking point.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 23, 2023
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In the end, Lloyd Cole makes the title of On Pain sound ironic. It’s as if the eight tracks and thirty-seven minutes are intended as an antidote to the psychic turbulence pervading the world at large in 2023.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 23, 2023
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It is revelatory that on such cuts–like the rest, ranging from five to eight minutes in duration–Metheny employs his instincts as much as his technique. The delicate balance of those two elements is nothing less than remarkable on Dream Box.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Cable Ties use their intriguing mix of punk, rock, and post-punk dance vibes with an assured delivery throughout the powerful All Her Plans, breaking out to a larger audience with committed songwriting, driven playing, and compelling vocal styles.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Gov’t Mule’s willingness to step outside its collective comfort zone here is clearly not without its shortfalls. Still, that very courage augurs well for the celebration of their thirtieth anniversary next year.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 21, 2023
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The album opens with the tone-shifting, unsettling, pessimistic “Obscenery” which sees modern love as unsentimental and everything doomed around grunge-laden guitars, random classical violin breaks and crashing drums; interesting ideas which never fully lock-in. Better is the driving, straight-ahead rock of “Paper Machete” complete with an excellent distorted solo, the angular “Emotion Sickness” that deploys a catchy FM radio-friendly hook, and “Negative Space” which juxtaposes sexy grooving bass during the verses and big clanging noise breaks for the choruses.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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The album is eminently funky. That sound works well for a while but begins to wear thin, rescued in the latter half by tracks such as “Concrete Mind,” “Not Gonna Waste My Love” and the superb closer “It’s Alright,” which do the best job of depicting LaVette’s endearing, pour-it-all-out and leave-nothing-on-the-floor-vocals. Of course, there’s a side benefit too – Randall Bramblett is likely to expand his number of followers as a result.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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While the album boasts numerous contemporary jazz and innovative artists, it’s a mashup of many Black music styles. This writer gives the edge to R&B and African-tinged tunes but there’s so much to digest here that we may hear it a bit differently each time it plays.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Heaven Is A Junkyard marks the most powerful and personal album from Powers yet.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 12, 2023
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Trying on outfits/styles, genres/sounds is all second nature for Lewis and while there are clear country touches throughout Joy’All, Lewis manages to make them her own, evolving, writing, and singing with a sense of palpable happiness and freedom.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 9, 2023
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Ambient yet dense, Space Heavy is an album that requires multiple listens to fully grasp, with each listen revealing a new layer of abstract rock that makes the album such a bold and enticing sonic step for Archy Marshall.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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The band found the perfect balance of what they know and what they hope to become, making O Monolith a considered sophomore effort that proves Squid’s placement as one of the most exciting bands in years.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 7, 2023
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Lyrically, this is mixed but has its strong points. Few write with his kind of insight. Yet, musically it fails to generate enough sparks with most of the songs stuck in similar mid-tempo modes. The true ballads are strong.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 6, 2023
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Despite coming in at 16 tracks – normally a bloated affair for an album – the band’s tendency to careen from one song to the next at breakneck speed, keeping most tracks to about two-and-a-half minutes allows Rancid to hold the listener’s attention until the very last distorted chord rings out.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2023
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Bunny deserves credit, like each Beach Fossils album, for challenging an aspect of Payseur’s process, even if it was less effective this time around.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2023
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This man long ago taught himself to recognize the lasting value in a good song and here, over the course of some fifty minutes, he deftly applies those lessons to an unusual range of his very own.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2023
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Her artistic identity is on full display with each individual talent reaching a height we haven’t seen from Bully, and it appears there is no ceiling to hold her back.- Glide Magazine
- Posted Jun 1, 2023
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