Ink Blot Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 85 reviews, this publication has graded:
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80% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 83
Highest review score: | XTRMNTR | |
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Lowest review score: | First of the Microbe Hunters |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 82 out of 85
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Mixed: 3 out of 85
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Negative: 0 out of 85
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Buy this album and hold it dear, because you won't hear a better one any time soon.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Once in a while, a record will come out that's simply perfect... their finest record to date - pure, gleeful pop virtuosity.- Ink Blot Magazine
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A coming-out party for one of the most important artists of our time.- Ink Blot Magazine
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If, 18 minutes into this album, you are not ready to proclaim these two London-via-Leeds hedonists the most exciting thing in dance music, you need your feet examined.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's one of the best albums of 1999 in any genre... [and] one of the finest house LPs ever recorded.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Chiming, richly textured and potently rhythmic, this is starkly, explicitly rock n' roll, and the back-to-basics approach beautifully frames Polly's tales of fear, love, sex, sadness, ugliness, and beauty.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Wonderland is a modern pop classic that combines all the best things about this band, spikes the mix with ace tunes, and keeps the concoction coming.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The Electric Circus turns out to be a place that exists in Hip-hopolis and Rawk City and Bacharachville and DixieLand and Heaven, all at the same time. Holy crap, people, Com did it: he broke on through to the other side.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The most exciting album in years....as punishing and urgent as any music you've ever heard.- Ink Blot Magazine
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She has conjured the dirty rawness of funk and the smooth, hyper-articulation and commanding, ass-shakin' beats of hip hop and coated them with her own strange, space-age gloss. It is brilliant.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's everything we say we want in music: gutsy, introspective, innovative, bold, real in a way that few other albums even try to be...- Ink Blot Magazine
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Every song contains four or five things that will just whip your head around in disbelief.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's not quite as immediate as, say, the Champion Versions EP, but 10 plays bear out the truth: this is the best Beta Band record yet, which means you should waste no time getting your hands on it.- Ink Blot Magazine
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The measured use of electronics recalls nothing so much as OK Computer, and in some ways Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots sounds like that album might have if Thom Yorke believed in God.- Ink Blot Magazine
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What SFA have done here is beautifully sublime, and they've done it without ploy or pretension.- Ink Blot Magazine
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While Homogenic, Post, and Debut were emotionally frenetic and often musically confrontational, Vespertine is rich in its tranquillity and spiritual divinity, full of astute observation and patient acceptance.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It is a strange album for Sunny Day in that it lingers in an abstract realm that the band previously only hinted at.... album is SDRE's most mature work to date. It is so musically dense and complex.- Ink Blot Magazine
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This album is truly affecting -- it is an instant, irresistible, bounce-in-your-step morning cup of coffee of an album.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Standards is disarmingly stunning and instantaneously consuming. Tortoise are unquestionably skilled artisans, electrocuting the framework for the typical rock song and reconstructing the fragments into a wonderfully surrealist space mission soundtrack.- Ink Blot Magazine
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A dreamy, layered work that merely ups the rock ante of his perfectly balanced 1998 release, XO -- an exquisite union of wistful acoustic stylings and polished pop.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Groove Armada have a knack for producing fantastic underground dance tracks, in a variety of tempos, and packing them full of hooks.- Ink Blot Magazine
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It's the sound of a man finding a new place for himself, liking it, and reveling in it.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Perhaps the secret they're trying to keep here is that Built To Spill quite frankly write some of the most original, interesting and catchy pop songs you'll ever hear.- Ink Blot Magazine
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A completely out-of-control garage-folk-psych-pop record that is always in control and is neither garagey nor folky nor psychedelic nor pop.- Ink Blot Magazine
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Beaucoup Fish is a steady step above second LP Second Toughest in the Infants, and while it never scales the more spectacular heights of Underworld's debut, this album sounds like a grower.- Ink Blot Magazine
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"The Wheel and the Maypole" might be the greatest song the band has ever recorded...- Ink Blot Magazine
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Rings Around the World flows extraordinarily well, making it all the more powerful.- Ink Blot Magazine
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