Prefix Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Modern Times
Lowest review score: 10 Eat Me, Drink Me
Score distribution:
2132 music reviews
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    How does this sucker sound? Not very good.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    What makes BAYTL really frustrating is the fact that besides V-Nasty's appearances, the album has a chance to be excellent.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The Dreamer, The Believer reestablishes Common's place in the upper echelon of hip hop.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Lioness may not be the perfect Amy Winehouse album, it's all we have, which seems to be enough.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Not to give the Belles short shrift (they play with skilled abandon), but the record sounds like White... straight-ahead crunching blues-based guitar hooks that sound as if they were ripped from Zeppelin II, staccato bursts of noise, oceans of feedback, driving back beats and howled vocals.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bestival offers the opportunity to take a tour of the band's long, fruitful career, stopping at each stylistic turn in their journey to take in the sonic scenery, but it also adds the freshness that only a live performance can bring.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The bulk of El Camino keeps that approach fresh by twisting their rock sound into a pop sensibility that may feel nostalgic, but here--in this concentrated, potent dose--reveals itself to be just as eager to move forward as it is to revel in the past.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Office Of Future Plans reveals itself as quite possibly one of the most brilliantly sequenced albums of 2011.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    There's still plenty to like about the insular production and engaging melodies of Wild One, but I can't help but think North Highlands have a lot more to offer that doesn't always show up here.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Carrion Crawler/The Dream captures the band in psychedelic bulldozer mode instead, delivering ten blistering cuts at a furious pace.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Out of Boris' three albums released this year] New Album remains the victory lap, a cap to yet another year of successful experimentation.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    It's hard to view Radioactive in any context that doesn't label as it a total artistic failure, to see the totality of Yelawolf's rolling over to commercial demands as anything but truly disheartening.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    This is a carefree release that is meant for our "reptilian" brain.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    The fact that this debut hews closer to the Noel we know certainly shouldn't be a disappointment.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He uses his angelic croon to beckon us to listen to him, sounding so damn desperate. Combine that with the rest of the band's driving, yet ambient build-ups and we have one of our most lovely and earnest records of 2011.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    There's no doubt of Sproule's ability on I Love You, Go Easy, both as a songwriter and musician, and her reservoir of talent is far from dry.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fuck Death, compelling as it is, never quite finds the same charged feeling of purpose [as Skin of Evil].
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    We have an airy, understated collage that acts more as a stopgap teaser to keep the spotlight on the young lad from London, before something more cohesive and fully-realized can be recorded.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mostly though, Pusha seems lost.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Not necessarily a mix for ages, but a mix that's pretty easy to come back to, be it road-trips, background music, or a personal headphones-odyssey.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Thankfully, their lovable debut has more of the former than the latter. They know the importance of consistency and pacing and are only left with the task of fine-tuning their band on the road.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hello Sadness offers the lumbering and deflated version of Los Campesinos!, hiding away their most alluring energy in favor of glum inactivity.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    CAMP is an imperfect album, to be sure, one that both succeeds on its incongruities and occasionally stumbles on them.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Like many of the instrumentals on this record, a New Age gauze covers most of these productions. It may not be every listener's particular cup of tea, but An Album is a dazzling song suite for an autumnal release.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glowing Mouth isn't the ultimate revelation it sets out to be, but Milagres put on a charming show.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though he's still in the spotlight, only time will tell if these more brutal, free-jazz brass tendencies will alienate Stetson from the melody-seeking set.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Throughout it all, it still feels like essential, singular Waits, like moody and manic are two sides of one very marked coin.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tycho is worth any self-respecting electronic fan's time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As a series of a mood pieces detailing the luxury lifestyle of hip-hop's one-percenters, Take Care is fairly captivating. As a portrait of the artist at the top of the mountain, however, it's pretty frustrating.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Vision shows that thus far Joker works better pushing out erratic singles than within the format of a full-length.