Neumu.net's Scores
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For 474 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 72
Highest review score: | Twin Cinema | |
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Lowest review score: | Liz Phair |
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Positive: 362 out of 474
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Mixed: 100 out of 474
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Negative: 12 out of 474
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While not as dark, muscular or streamlined as the band's excellent, eponymously titled 2003 album, Flat-Pack Philosophy grows better and better with each listen.- Neumu.net
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It is hard to say which side of Mogwai is more moving, the quietly beautiful or the transcendently loud, but the great thing about Mr. Beast is that you don't have to decide.- Neumu.net
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Like previous albums, this one is full of sharp, sudden observations, rueful admissions of failure and surprising sweetness.- Neumu.net
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Despite dozens of listens, much of Whatever People Say congeals together like so much spent gravy, with only the clever couplets sticking out.- Neumu.net
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This is the defining Destroyer work because of its size and scope, because of its melodicism ("Painter in Your Pocket" the hottest pop song Bejar's authored yet), because of the caliber of its musical chops, and because of the shots Bejar continues to fire.- Neumu.net
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The tracks fail to hang together in a convincing way -- often giving the impression that they were more or less strung together on a whim.- Neumu.net
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The Life Pursuit is an immaculate album; Belle & Sebastian craft pure pop perfection better than just about anybody.- Neumu.net
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It is quite possibly Stoltz's best work ever, and certainly one of the landmark releases of 2006.- Neumu.net
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Lyrically Black Cadillac is exquisite. Musically it's far more than a country record, expanding into those mighty rooms of roots music and pop-rock where Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind and Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road shine and burn against their own dark palettes.- Neumu.net
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At their best... Pearls & Brass churn out hard-rocking sculptures of distorted sounds at buffeting volume, but with a meditative, trance-inducing core.- Neumu.net
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I don't expect people outside the shadow of the Rockies to understand this music.- Neumu.net
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Up Above Is, in such, a gentle enough jam to work/non-work in an incidentalist sense; but compare it to folk that do this sort of gear with a fearsome seriousness -- like, most obviously, the Vibracathedral Orchestra -- and T&C come up as pale as a Midwestern mid-winter tan.- Neumu.net
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The earthy tones, accomplished songwriting and passion within Full of Light give Mendoza Line newcomers good reason not only to hear their new album, but also to dig into their back catalog.- Neumu.net
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Their record runs through a range of instrumentalist archetypes and quietly surprising turns-for-the-worse, from electrified screech to tape-op minimalism, through pastoralism and soundscapery, to numbers where they knock out all manner of feigned sturm und drang.- Neumu.net
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A rare, perfect instance of collaboration, where two distinct sets of talents merge into something larger than its parts.- Neumu.net
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What's impressive is the way they bring all these elements together, the natural world leading seamlessly into a brighter landscape of surreal otherness.- Neumu.net
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My feeling is that Rehearsing My Choir is an odd, initially indigestible album that is far more interesting than most people are willing to admit.- Neumu.net
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Although surprisingly self-conscious at moments, Feels remains rife with a triumphant beauty, a bucolic sound that stirs and entrances the listener like a happy secret.- Neumu.net
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The spell is broken, however, by pieces like "Tears From the Compound" and "Oscar See Through Red Eye," which get lost in the marshes of their own hypnotic rhythms, sugar-sweet synths and lo-fi, breathy drones.- Neumu.net
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Listening to Hypermagic Mountain is like picking up the live end of a downed power line.- Neumu.net
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Their third full-length is their best ever, a passionate yet cohesive vault into outsized rock sound.- Neumu.net
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This album more than any other swiftly dispels the notion that the trio are condemned to register wary introspection through brooding atmospheres.- Neumu.net
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An exhilarating take on rock-'n'-roll caught, torn, between striving for the light and reveling in the dark.- Neumu.net
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