Magnet's Scores
- Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
| Highest review score: | Comicopera | |
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| Lowest review score: | Sound-Dust |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,874 out of 2325
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Mixed: 380 out of 2325
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Negative: 71 out of 2325
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Smith is least persuasive on the latter [unexpectedly aggressive, blues-based power ballads] - her delicate voices sounds strident when fronting heavy electric guitars, and those scattered tracks break the spell that her more restrained songs cast easily. [No.89, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jul 24, 2012 -
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Admittedly, it's hard not to respect Patton's creative adventurousness, but sweet Jesus, the gulf between admiration and enjoyment of one of his projects has never been so wide. [No.89, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jul 23, 2012 -
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Home Again is an album with a powerful voice, but little to say. [No.89, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jul 20, 2012 -
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Friends lose themselves when they try too hard to sound like the Ting Tings, Cults or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which they do too often here. [No.89 p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Its performances over the past year have generated much anticipation for DIIV's debut full-length, but Oshin doesn't connect the same way. [No.89, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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While the beats set SpaceGhostPurrp apart, his microphone skills are lacking; his flow, always sleepily riding behind the bass, doesn't fluctuate... But his apocalyptic perspective is refreshing. [No.88 p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 19, 2012 -
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Two albums in, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros sound just as phony as Ima Robot did. [No.88 p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 19, 2012 -
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May piles up cresting false falsettos, disco pulses and Beach Boys wall-of-sound swells and, with the exceptionally sappy "Tell Her," offers a serviceable "So Happy Together" homage. [No.88 p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 13, 2012 -
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If you're a fan of heavy psychedelic bands, but wish they'd spend less time writing songs and more time blazing on the fretboard, this is your record. [No 88 p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jun 13, 2012 -
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Posted Jun 13, 2012 -
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You wonder if he's forgotten how to have, you know, fun. Approach with caution. [No.87 p.61]- Magnet
Posted May 30, 2012 -
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Posted May 30, 2012 -
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Unpatterns is indeed mostly patterns, in fact - moody, bloopy instrumentals that don't really fit into one subgenre box because they barely muster the strength to be defined by a category. [No.87 p.59]- Magnet
Posted May 30, 2012 -
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Posted May 30, 2012 -
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The Ghost in the Daylight is a thing of great beauty... [yet] sounds dull - perfect, of course, with every note in the right place, but perfectly predictable too, with 10 songs that blend into one long, brooding whole. [No.87 p.55]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2012 -
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The songwriting is flat-footed, with few moments that break from the homogeneous stupor. [No.87 p.54]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2012 -
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The Baltimore four-piece has the fuzzy guitar, the screamo vocals, the charging bass lines and an overwhelming sense of doom for stomping, post-Seattle noise punk. But the parts don't fit together. [No.87, p.54]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2012 -
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A record that plays like just the sort of effort we've come to expect from the Dandy Warhols: an uninspired, over-referential half-nod to the group's heroes. [No.87, p.54]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2012 -
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Unlike a deadmau5 or Skrillex, Van Dyk can only do his one style, and by the time the album is two-thirds over, you're already ready for him to mix out. [#86, p.59]- Magnet
Posted May 4, 2012 -
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[It sounds] little more than controlled and reserved stabs at Lower East Side new/no-wave of early talking Heads, Social Climbers and Blondie driven by some uppity Britpop rhythms. [#86, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Apr 24, 2012 -
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Van Dyk can only do one style, and by the time the album is two=thirds over, you're already ready for him to mix out. [#86, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Apr 19, 2012 -
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Posted Apr 19, 2012 -
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Even album highlights "The Malkin Jewel" and the almost serene "Vedamalady" aren't likely to do much more than appease the group's most ardent fans. [No.86, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Apr 12, 2012 -
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At his best, Ward's always walked a fine line between eloquence and vagueness, hope and disappointment. It's been a great source of tension, and he does that about half the time here. [No.86, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Apr 12, 2012 -
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The LP works, but just barely... [Roberts] doesn't always mesh well with Morrison's cheerful singing. [No.86, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Apr 12, 2012 -
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There's an easy likeability to Great Lake Swimmer's latest release. [Yet] many songs don't hold up on repeated listens. [#86, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Apr 6, 2012 -
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Sharp and well-recorded, but although Rebennack's distinctive voice is featured front and center, there's a sacrifice of his artistry. [#86, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Apr 6, 2012 -
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It's a set of slow, deliberate vamps that oh-so-gradually gather tension; they smolder, but ... rarely burst into flame. [No. 85, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2012 -
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The synths are crisp and warm, and the beats are motivational in that '80's coming-of-age soundtrack way. [No. 85, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Mar 19, 2012 -
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Asleep and a Forgetting is [mellifluous], only crankier and somehow more personal than anything previous, soaked in the moody nuances of laughter and forgetting, memory and momentary lapses of such. [No. 85, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012