Junkmedia's Scores
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For 403 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: | La Foret | |
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Lowest review score: | Underwater Cinematographer |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 287 out of 403
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Mixed: 104 out of 403
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Negative: 12 out of 403
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A beguiling blend of astute social commentary and first-rate music that rocks, weeps and testifies.- Junkmedia
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A timely twinkle of apple crisp bells, hearth-warming handclaps and belly-rubbing brass.- Junkmedia
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An invigorating mix of spacey dub, seventies funk, eighties big-beat electro, old school hip-hop and even early Prince, Father Divine is Ladd's most lyrically accessible and sonically enjoyable album to date.- Junkmedia
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In recasting these wilfully off-kilter tunes and investing them with his trademark warm and inviting melancholia, Mark Kozelek need not be modest: Tiny Cities is a big success.- Junkmedia
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Lookaftering sees her trading the overly twee vibe of her debut for a darker, more mysterious and mature sound.- Junkmedia
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Unlike Rogue Wave's timid debut, Vultures blazes forward with the kind of assured bravado not usually seen this side of U2.- Junkmedia
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It's on the sonic departures, though, that Feels strikes its most resonant chord.- Junkmedia
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Boards of Canada seems to be able to release albums pre-aged, so that all the things that might have bugged you a couple years ago now sounds like another part of why it's a classic.- Junkmedia
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Better than anything they've recorded to date, Hypermagic Mountain approximates the swelling energy of Lightning Bolt's live havoc.- Junkmedia
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Tanglewood Numbers, musically at least, is Berman's most fully realized album.- Junkmedia
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It might not be the underground hip-hop record of the year, but it is easily on the short list.- Junkmedia
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All told, it's another triumph for a band whose creative peak seems to defy gravity with each passing year.- Junkmedia
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With Shamelessly Exciting he's starting to get good. In other words, on this record, once you get the idea, you're still going to want to listen.- Junkmedia
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The record... is able to maintain a thrilling tension between bright, dream-like songs and an encroaching darkness.- Junkmedia
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The record may have a little less electronic slink than prior efforts, but it has a propulsive energy, even in the mid-tempo tracks, that makes the record easy to like.- Junkmedia
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Zilla delivers a cleverly orchestrated junket of joyful raucousness and synth whirls.- Junkmedia
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Their sturdy, inventive debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, draws further, fresh blood from the indie rock stone.- Junkmedia
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Hypnotic and dreamlike, the album presents a vision of pop music's future glimpsed through the lens of its past.- Junkmedia
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If you're an Old 97's fan you've been waiting for this. If you're not, you just might be when it's all said and done.- Junkmedia
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If gripes were to be made, one could argue with Crow's length, which at 74 minutes may be a little more whimsy than one can handle.- Junkmedia
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The music is as soothing as a lullaby and as challenging as a modern art exhibit.- Junkmedia
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While In The Reins bears the unmistakable imprint of both Calexico and Iron and Wine, these collaborators donâ??t seem to be interested in playing it all that safe.- Junkmedia
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Not Them, You is one of those rare records that rewards on both repeated listens and initial forays.- Junkmedia
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A loose, engaging collection of songs that won’t knock your socks off the first time you hear it, but begins to work its way under your skin on subsequent spins.- Junkmedia
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