Mixmag's Scores
- Music
For 450 reviews, this publication has graded:
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77% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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20% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: | Xen | |
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Lowest review score: | The Mountain Will Fall |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 396 out of 450
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Mixed: 54 out of 450
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Negative: 0 out of 450
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Posted Jul 11, 2018 -
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[A] Collection of gorgeous, gossamer-light vignettes. [Jun 2018, p.114]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 10, 2018 -
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Fiskal takes bold, divisive ideas and makes us wonder why we’d ever question them in the first place--and that’s the highest compliment we can pay him. [Jun 2018, p.120]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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Textures plough and pound throughout the album, revealing yet another new, unclassifiable side of OPN's musical brain as he brings more disparate sounds to the fore. [Jun 2018, p.115]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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There are only nine tracks in all, with pieces such as the mesmerising ‘Boids’ and the blissful ‘Glider’ less focused on the floor. It ensures you never feel like the same tricks are being repeated, and the power of those mellifluous voices never wanes. [Jun 2018, p.114]- Mixmag
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Here, psychedelically hypnotic robot incantations weave through ambient soundscapes and piercing synths to brain-frying effect. [Jun 2018, p.113]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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It veers between intimate and expansive: the chugging rhythms replicate the hum of America’s love affair with the automobile, while majestic, sweeping strings evoke its grand, widescreen vistas. [Jun 2018, p.112]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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Hopkins uses his dancefloor nous, classical background and meditative training to beguile us. It's a beautiful bastard of a record. [May 2018, p.117]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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As you might guess, it’s not all fun and games, but there’s bone-dry lyrical wit and absolute clarity of voice (no guest spots!)--and its understanding of bleep and bass tonality gives it instant appeal. [May 2018, p.116]- Mixmag
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These 12 pieces of crackling, thrumming electro, dub, techno and other less-definable rhythms are held together by a certain warmth, a love of the crisp sounds that make them up, and by adherence to the groove. [Apr 2018, p.92]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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The emotional impact is concentrated in each and every tune, and the whole album manages to achieve a genuinely epic scope in under 40 minutes. [Apr 2018, p.92]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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A pretty heady blend of neo-soul, funk, jazz, boom bap and house, but overall things veer a little too close to the vanilla here. [Apr 2018, p.91]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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Occasionally it's awkward, but for the most part it shows there's still plenty of life in the old Head yet. [Apr 2018, p.91]- Mixmag
Posted Jul 6, 2018 -
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This is a strong, sometimes truly beautiful, maturation of Avery’s work as a producer.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 20, 2018
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Who Are You? shuttles between Honolulu and Jamaica as he splices lap steel guitar and rim shots, before spinning off into Chris Brann-style deep house on ‘Endless Sundays’. Things get even more somnambulant on the dubby ‘Gravity Waves’, which threatens to keel over at any minute.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 14, 2018
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The dark, incendiary electronica of Mr Dynamite harking back to the anything-goes post-punk aesthetic of the late 70s. The work of Benge, Tuung’s Phil Winter, Cabaret Voltaire frontman Stephen Mallinder and everyone’s favourite mellifluous alt-crooner, John Grant, they ensure the record never stands still.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 2, 2018
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The music is more emotive, the confidence sharper, the production bolder. ... All That Must Be is going to be lodged into key craniums for the rest of 2018.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 1, 2018
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- Posted Mar 1, 2018
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Too often--as on ‘The Last Of Goodbyes’, with its limp rap and doleful Burialisms--it sounds like Moby pastiching his old self. On the flip side, ‘Welcome To Hard Times’, a sunny Balearic soul shuffle, is lovely, and the ghostly piano haunting ‘The Tired And The Hurt’ contains the muscle memory of his masterpiece ‘Porcelain’, but they’re isolated sparkles.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 1, 2018
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Millennial inertia is a target--see ‘It’s All Good’ and ‘Nobody Cares’--but their bite is balanced with blear and bounce in equal measure.- Mixmag
- Posted Mar 1, 2018
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Steffi appears totally in control on an album that’s an important milestone in her career: mature, emotive and imbued with a hint of futurism, it’s a delight.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 9, 2018
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- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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Prins Thomas 5, however, feels like a soft launch for Prins Thomas 2.0. You can hear it from the off on the glam-tastic ‘Here Comes The Band’, said to be influenced by the veteran Glasgow melodic indie band, Teenage Fanclub.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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Brighton six-piece The Go Team! imbue Semicircle with the high-octane vibes of a marching band taking on block party jams, Northern Soul and cutesy indie pop. It might sound crazy, but it works beautifully.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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Zombie Zombie are clearly aiming for the lysergic head as well as the ecstatic feet and the end result is an organic concoction that doesn’t disappoint.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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Peder Mannerfelt, Paula Temple and NÍDIA are among the producers who worked on ‘Plunge’, bringing 150bpm batida rhythms and searing rave stabs to one of 2017’s most thrilling LPs.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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The LP examines the traps of routine and the possibilities that dreaming and music offer to escape from them--and however distanced Iqbal might seem in her performance, as a listener you’ll quickly find both real connections to the album’s themes, and the variety of gorgeous sounds that she uses to express them.- Mixmag
- Posted Jan 5, 2018
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