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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The entire thing was tracked in just four days, and the pent-up, wind-tunnel sound and throat-shredding vocal runs that drive its 11 tracks reflect a renewed sense of urgency. [No. 133, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Pushing his backing band (featuring Willie Nelson’s kids Lukas and Micah Nelson on guitars and vocals) into a stomping Crazy Horse vibe, Young provides the album’s frills with his keening voice and bracing guitar. [No. 133, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Gone are the moments of meditative brooding that made up much of Quarter, replaced here by a bold, tenacious resolve across eight taut, meticulously detailed tracks. [No. 133, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Plaid's sweet spot is halfway between cross-eared sonic doodling and IDM convention, the midpoint where you can hear both ends. [No. 133, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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The combination here of light electronic production, show-stopping African vocals, Mumford harmonies and heart-on-your-sleeve pop is hard not to love. [No. 133, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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The result is a modern dream-pop classic, a victory more major than minor. [No. 133, p.59]- Magnet
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Helter Seltzer offers a master class in grandiose indie-pop and how to maximize the potential of the simplest of sounds. [No. 133, p.58]- Magnet
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It's a record best described as 13ghosts' illegitimate lovechild with Captain beefheart. [No. 133, p.57]- Magnet
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Wild Things does its darndest to plug the electro-dance ice-pop void left by La Roux's sophomore let-down and the absence of new Robyn, Annie And Dragonette albums. [No. 133, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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As with his main gig Ex-Cult, Shaw’s detuned, smoke-trailing vocals are the runaway engine to which this crazy train is hitched. [No. 133, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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The result is another set that perfectly captures the scruffy energy of its live shows. [No. 133, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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The distorted, shimmering sound world proposed by My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and perfected on Fennesz's Endless Summer is used here as a gorgeous facade behind which endless layers of processed guitars recede like ocean waves reaching for the horizon. [No. 133, p.55]- Magnet
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Much of Cistern feels deliberately nebulous, washed-out and distended. [No. 133, p.55]- Magnet
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Like Bazan's best work, Blanco is simultaneously uplifting and melancholic, hopelessly hopeful and beautifully dented. [No. 133, p.55]- Magnet
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There’s True Sadness, whose songs touch lyrically upon all things sad but with various shades of unsubtle sound to guide them. [No. 133, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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The vocals are on point in Ashcroft's non-plussed yet quintessentially pop-edged delivery, but these arrangements lean more toward boredom and self-servitude. [No. 133, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Blame current remastering techniques or the prescience of its makers, each of these collections sound future-forward (then) and very now (wow). [No. 133, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Just like one's real family, Arthur's Family will lift you up, tear you down, make you face your despair and allow you a glimmer of hope. [No. 133, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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This is Radiohead's deepest, darkest pool of devotion and doubt in a career marked by almost nothing but. [No. 133, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Numsuwankijkul recruited a new group of players for Over There That Way, and the decision pays off handsomely; this is a much more introspective, vulnerable album that benefits from a lighter touch. [No. 132, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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He's back again, doing what he's always done--speak his shattered mind while some band choogles in the background. Mostly they supply adequately sweaty R&B and P-Funk-meets-AC/DC riffing. [No. 132, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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Tyler has crafted eight instrumentals that augment his lilting fingerpicking with stately keyboards and brisk beats. Aside from a few minutes of white-line numbness, it’s a salutary combination. [No. 132, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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Down In Heaven is the third full-length from Twin Peaks, and it’s undoubtedly their most solid collection. [No. 132, p.61]- Magnet
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It's a sandbox of a record, less interested in establishing a specific musical identity than a general sense of (renewed) creative potential. [No. 132, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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There's so much good music here, performed affectionately but not reverently, that it's a keeper. [No. 132, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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[The songs] are luminous and affecting enough to outlast much of the bullshit shock therapy that silences that same fickle chattering class. [No. 132, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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The Quins bring pathos and depth to sleek Katy Perry/Lady Gaga-esque electropop, true, but reaching for the golden ring too often dilutes the inventiveness and creative abandon that once made a new T&S record such an exhilarating proposition. [No. 132, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016 -
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Haden can find that sweet, glacial pace that makes a song seem both inevitable and important. But his deliberate delivery of lines such as "Oh the Depression, it ruined us, it ruined us, it ruined us" can be distracting and turn songs into history lessons. [No. 132, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 2, 2016