Resident Advisor's Scores
- Music
For 1,110 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Biokinetics [Reissue] | |
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Lowest review score: | Déjà -Vu |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 964 out of 1110
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Mixed: 145 out of 1110
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Negative: 1 out of 1110
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Cherry's latest references the refugee crisis, gun violence, fascism, racism and a collective sense of despair. But Cherry knows how to wrap these subjects in something sweeter. The scope of Broken Politics takes in both our outward political moment as well as its effects on our interior life. The music that accompanies her has an equally wide scope.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 7, 2018
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Keszler has been able to turn the overwhelming nature of urban life into something beautiful, and it's one of his best records as a result.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 5, 2018
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Throughout Honey, the pure, raw emotion that has always defined Robyn's music is still there. Now, she's just dancing to a different beat.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 1, 2018
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Like Seeds Of Destiny, Life After Death is an unsettling work with glimmers of positivity.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Holter has always taken pop and presented her own masterful version of it. But her desire to break through the distressing clatter of the present is what makes Aviary her most captivating album yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 30, 2018
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- Posted Oct 29, 2018
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Working Class Woman is special because it looks beyond the personal highs and lows of touring to the cracks in the foundation of a lucrative club culture that requires constant, exhausting effort to achieve some semblance of stability.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 17, 2018
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Throughout the record, there are gestures toward what has already passed and what will eventually come. With its constant shifts in energy, Ecce Homo succeeds in opening up new temporal and textural dimensions.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 16, 2018
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Though Autobiography may seem like a departure from Jlin's past work, many of its themes have been present throughout her catalogue. The LP succeeds in challenging expectations for a ballet score while expanding the possibilities for the artist's post-footwork sound.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 9, 2018
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With Born Again In The Voltage, Barbieri goes deeper into undressing familiar timbres, this time with human voice and string instruments. With them, she's able to guide us on an introspective trek through the expanse of our own brains and the cosmos alike.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 3, 2018
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Fabriclive 100 is without a doubt an inspired effort, an ambitious and highly creative attempt at capturing its selectors' musical lineage. But it's also a bit of a mess. It feels like the wild second-to-last draft of a creative project.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 3, 2018
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[Blood Rain is] the track on Bodied that best reflects the influence of soundtrack work on Myson, music that feels powerful without being obvious or obtrusive. The rest of Bodied feels like a film score made for a blockbuster that isn't there. The LP's sculpted sound, dreamy sketches and haughty melodrama rarely feels like more than the sum of its often stunning parts.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 2, 2018
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Burn Slow isn't the most original or exciting work. But it's a thoughtful and personal album that allows Liebing to move beyond his techno reputation with grace.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 28, 2018
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Like staring at a laptop screen for so long the glut of information makes you feel sick, Another Life is a complete sensory overload you can't turn away from. It's the duo's most triumphant release yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 26, 2018
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You might also hear the elegiac rise and fall of Stars Of The Lid, an emotional Hollywood score or William Basinski's sound of decay. However, as Konoyo unspools, you may look back and realize that this all combines to sound like no one other than Hecker.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 26, 2018
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In losing sight of the dance floor, Battle Lines does away with Bob Moses' greatest strength, and the quality that made them stand out from countless other pop and rock acts.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 25, 2018
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The slow-motion throbs of Davachi's warm, uncluttered electronic pieces achieve something intensely serene. On her new album, Gave In Rest, the music occupies the peaceful spaces she found lying between religious and secular realms.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 25, 2018
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Scattered brilliance makes Shelly's On Zenn-La a compelling listen. At its best, the LP showcases a composer with an uncompromising will to experiment, even if it yields mixed results.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 13, 2018
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On his Warp Records debut, Safe In The Hands Of Love, Yves Tumor joins the ranks of Arca and SOPHIE at the millennial generation's pop vanguard, a group whose fluid approach to music and imagery is eradicating the gap between underground and mainstream.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 11, 2018
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The endorphin-rush techno of "Forgive Me," meanwhile, is sure to ignite one of his main stage festival sets. That's the setting in which Boratto shows his energy and confidence as an artist. Too much of Pentagram, by contrast, feels tired or confused.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 10, 2018
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Overall, little of This Behavior has the mystery or subtlety of touch suggested by the gloved magician's hands on the cover. Rather, this is ADULT. showing their iron fist, and not every punch lands.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Sep 10, 2018
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Darby has always had a good grasp on what makes this music so addictive. EPHEM:ERA just looks at it from a different perspective, highlighting the curvatures of grime's fundamentals.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 28, 2018
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F for all its lofty intentions and complex construction, it is a remarkably easy listen.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 28, 2018
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Hauschildt's minimal electronica here works its way into those ambient soundscapes and offers a singularly calm fusion of both genres. No longer caught between oppositional impulses, Hauschildt seamlessly channels freeform ambient and regimented synth tones into the same space, and produces some of his most cohesive, conceptually sound work to date.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 20, 2018
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- Posted Aug 15, 2018
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It's striking how simple and affecting Devotion is as a whole. At a time when so much music is political and intellectualized, Tirzah's sincerity and candor is a breath of fresh air.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 14, 2018
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Something about its bleary-eyed shuffle, smooth jazz accents and chipmunk vocals is ineffably familiar and intimate. By drawing on memories and relationships for inspiration, Weatherall conveys emotion more convincingly than ever before.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 9, 2018
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On Filo Loves The Acid, Dozzy has held back his more radical approach, as well as his typically subtle use of the 303, to deliver an exemplary acid toolkit.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 7, 2018
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The sheer number of different tools and skills they bring to the job is staggering. That's a big reason why, nearly a decade after the scene's initial explosion, they're still propelling the sound forward.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 6, 2018
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Sometimes producers catch a wave, sometimes they wipe out. But this theory is quickly rubbished by Hauff's own back catalogue. She's released consistent albums and EPs that said a lot with a little. Qualm achieves the same, but only in moments.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Aug 2, 2018
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