Resident Advisor's Scores
- Music
For 1,108 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: 962 out of 1108
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Mixed: 145 out of 1108
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Negative: 1 out of 1108
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Coming from a producer who habitually finds new ways to dazzle, Pearson Sound is uncharacteristically average.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 11, 2015
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Modern Streets may lack ingenuity, but it works as a sincere and relatable portrayal of the artist's experience.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 10, 2015
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Over its 20 minutes, the EP pushes dance music through violent twists and turns until it becomes disorienting and startling.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 9, 2015
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu and J. Cush have delivered a surprisingly solid record with a global outlook and more than a few surprises surprises up its sleeve.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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It's all meticulously crafted with a keen ear for mood and emotion, and yet Creatures has trouble moving beyond a pastiche of Castex's record collection.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Mar 2, 2015
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If The Mainframe is a film, then it's a Michael Bay blockbuster: slick and engaging but totally adolescent in worldview, its plot tortuous, its characters flimsily drawn, all of it an excuse for a string of eye-popping action set-pieces.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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Body Pill is thoroughly understated throughout. It's an odd little album that only shows us part of the Anthony Naples puzzle, which is probably appropriate for an artist whose work seems to come in small and unusual bursts of inspiration.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 20, 2015
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- Posted Feb 11, 2015
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James spends most of the EP in that exploratory mode, and though there's a certain pleasure in listening to an artist figure things out, a full 28 minutes feels like overkill. Regardless, it's comforting to know James isn't settling into a routine.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 5, 2015
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Some tracks, like "Mouth Mantra," simply feel overcrowded. The Haxan Cloak, who mixed the album, struggles to find clarity in busier moments. But the story, visceral and tragic, transcends these imperfections in the telling.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 29, 2015
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Ghost Culture is a good record from an artist who is probably capable of a great one.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 20, 2015
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It's a testament to Lennox's dexterity that these brief detours into soft introspection only enhance the wondrous breadth and vision of Panda Bear Versus The Grim Reaper.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 14, 2015
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Islands might not have the far-reaching social insights of Routes, but it shows that Idehen's personal world is almost as gripping.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 23, 2014
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The result is a set of tracks that, compared to the prickly, experimental music of Shaking The Habitual, are purposeful, propulsive and emotionally direct.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 16, 2014
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Visa finds Ripatti attuned to a very specific, focused energy, and the result is some of his best work.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 15, 2014
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For something as weighty as a debut album from a hotly-tipped artist, Parallel Memories feels a little too light for its own good.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 15, 2014
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Power Of Anonymity merely repeats the ideas first laid out on Yours & Mine, sometimes improved yet other times untouched.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 9, 2014
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It's another entry of his sublime wanderer's music as Torn Hawk, and includes some of his most arresting and sonically numbing creations to date.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 8, 2014
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Magazine 13 doesn't feel like a coherent album so much as a more open-ended platform for the same thing we get on his 12-inches.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 5, 2014
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Clearly, Stewart's future does not lie in crossover R&B--he should drill down into his musical imagination to open up ever weirder, deeper seams.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 4, 2014
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Where their first album felt like a definitive statement, Natural Selection sounds, as so many second albums do, like a diffuse bunch of half-realised ideas.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 1, 2014
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Even when Clark is firing sounds at bewildering speeds, it's never a chore--in other words, it's a lot more fun than Clark's reputation might suggest.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 1, 2014
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For an artist who has traditionally experimented with recording methods, Quixotism is another landmark, thanks largely to how natural it sounds in spite of its ambitious approach.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 1, 2014
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By injecting a self-serious genre with a sense of theatre, Bestial Burden makes Chardiet's music more engaging without dulling its edge.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 25, 2014
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- Posted Nov 25, 2014
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From its rumbling lows to its ethereal, resonant highs, Tomorrow Was The Golden Age is one of the simplest and most beguiling albums of its kind since Stars Of The Lid's landmark run on Kranky in the '00s.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 17, 2014
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- Posted Nov 17, 2014
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- Posted Nov 6, 2014
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Xen remains as singular--and often as brilliant--as the rest of the Arca catalogue.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 4, 2014
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Sure, the LP has its eccentric moments, and it takes a long time to really get to know. But, as The Redeemer hinted and Black Metal proves, beneath all the YouTube sampling, bizarre press and one-off Russian blog releases, Blunt is a talented singer-songwriter with a keen ear for odd sounds.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2014
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