For 4,079 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [50th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Version] | |
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Lowest review score: | Songs From Black Mountain |
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Positive: 3,643 out of 4079
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Mixed: 400 out of 4079
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Negative: 36 out of 4079
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- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 23, 2014
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The whole thing is as immaculately crafted and endearingly overcast as the Scottish countryside.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 30, 2018
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Indie rock may not be dying, but it’ll be hard for people to make it sound as alive as Toledo does on Teens of Denial. This is the sort of record where you wish like hell you could hear it again for the first time and that’ll keep rewarding return visits for years to come.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 24, 2016
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It’s powerful in both delivery and in effect, without being heavy-handed or sacrificing form.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jul 2, 2013
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Though the album contains some of the most straightforward rock songs of Bowie’s career so far, their search for a savior still scales to grandiose heights.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
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The result is not only her most honest and personal album to date but also her most affecting.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 28, 2013
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On their debut, Friko have cemented themselves as one of the most distinguished up-and-coming voices in all of indie-rock.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Feb 26, 2024
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Sounds like a mostly live interpretation of... The Avalanches' intricate party collages doubling as three-minute music history lessons. [#13, p.118]- Paste Magazine
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Kidjo is faithfully following her muse in search of transcendence. Here she’s found a rich source of it, like water flowing underground.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jun 11, 2018
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The newest record from Alex Giannascoli at times improves on the inscrutable, circuitous experimentation of his Domino debut, Beach Music. At other times, it refines the accessible but still characteristically sauntering country-lite of Rocket, his masterful second album for the British indie label. In other words, House of Sugar sounds like a middle ground between the two albums that preceded it.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 11, 2019
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There’s a timeless quality to Promises, an inscrutable sense that the album could hail from 30 years in the past or 30 years into the future.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 26, 2021
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Deerhunter has graduated, by degrees, from conjuring moods to writing proper songs, and fourth album Halcyon Digest finds Bradford Cox and company strip-mining new aural territory and toeing the line between structure and abstraction.- Paste Magazine
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While the songs on to hell with it may read heavy in subject matter, rarely does PinkPantheress bask in the dour.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2021
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Fortunately, while the pairing produces a mawkish or awkward moment here and there, 'Sno Angel Like You ulitmately captures the unique mixture of ugliness and beauty Gelb has strived to achieve throughout his career. [Apr/May 2006, p.115]- Paste Magazine
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While she’s faced a number of setbacks to get where she is today, her talent beams golden bright on this album.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 29, 2016
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So no, you don’t get a remastered version of one of your favorite albums. But you definitely do get your money’s worth.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 15, 2013
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45:33 is as much gallery-crawl as beach-run; purpose-built in gliding tempos and warm-down synth shimmers for iPod-strapped runners, yet appropriate for a cruise through the Whitney, too. [Review of UK release]- Paste Magazine
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Alex G’s ability to widen the aperture of his work with each album, and not alienate his audience, speaks to just how much he’s able to pinpoint and define what stands out within his work. God Save the Animals is just the latest reminder that, as his tastes expand, so too does his sonic palate.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Dogrel is an album of tremendous ardor and vivid landscapes, and interspersed with an Irish underdog spirit, Fontaines D.C. are nearly untouchable.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Apr 18, 2019
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- Paste Magazine
- Posted Jul 21, 2015
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Emerging from California's punk/roots scene, championed by the Blasters and sharing stages with X, he kept it true, while mining the tempest of a formidable rejectionist movement. 3 Pears follows the same map.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2012
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- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 16, 2020
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On Cosmogramma, this never-ending stream of aural textures sounds effortless, and the enthralling swirl of jazz, drum 'n' bass, dubstep and hip-hop beckons you toward the edge of something damn near cosmic.- Paste Magazine
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Co-produced by Kim Buie and Jordan Lehning, the introspective work finds the great American songwriter, who has had hits on the country, pop, rock and Americana charts, settling into his place as an elder statesman by surveying the path that brought him here.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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So odd how Koi No Yokan could be both their most traditionally metal and their most melodic record to date.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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Though at time reaching heavenly heights, Shields is, as the name suggests, a heavy, protected album, stuffy with an ennui particular to the young and gifted. It's evidence that Grizzly Bear may be one of the great bands of their generation--if only they'd smile a little more.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Sep 18, 2012
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With both immediate appeal and density that demands long-term digestion, it’s one of those rare debuts that manifests a fully-grown, deeply engaging sound.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Aug 12, 2014
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On Diaspora Problems, Soul Glo have caused a clearing in the forest with an album so boundless in its creativity that it cannot be ignored. This is the shape of hardcore that we had been promised.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Mar 30, 2022
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Krystal may not be as charming or musically distinctive as its predecessor, but if a breakup has left you with nothing to do but “curl up and die,” then Matt Maltese’s second album is the calming, pillow-crying record you need.- Paste Magazine
- Posted Nov 18, 2019
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For now, A Light for Attracting Attention is a versatile beacon for Yorke and Greenwood’s groovier side, and a remarkably assured debut that—let’s be honest—doesn’t really feel like a debut at all.- Paste Magazine
- Posted May 12, 2022
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