Resident Advisor's Scores
- Music
For 1,096 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 1.8 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: 950 out of 1096
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Mixed: 145 out of 1096
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Negative: 1 out of 1096
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Mood-wise, the three tracks are more in line with his debut, Hazyville, than any of his more recent output via Honest Jon's, although the techno that pulsed and glimmered through his older material is largely absent here.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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[A] formidable, baffling, often delightful behemoth of an album.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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The appeal of this LP lies in the adroit splicing of this aesthetic with that of dance floor techno, a combination which has the potential to be horrifically stale, sterile, smug—but ends up being anything but.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 14, 2013
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Wraetlic has the lingering feeling of prematurity, offering snatches of brilliance too easily snuffed out by its own tendency to hide its features in the dark.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Like all good pop, News From Nowhere is brief, never falling victim to the temptation to get lost in soundscaping. Instead, it builds those immersive realms in just a few minutes with each track.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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It's unclear if Elements of Light represents an evolutionary mark for the producer or a one-off exercise inspired by a summer's day in Oslo, but as an effort at minimalism, it's a modest success at best.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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Stones and Woods is a frustrating body of work, with good ideas poorly realised and arresting moments interrupted by annoying ones.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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Rhythmically, Ben UFO is giddy, ebullient even. Which is why, even at his most corrosive, he is not just a very smart "crate-digger," but also a phenomenal party starter.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 23, 2013
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It's not often one comes across an album that is somehow both more evolved and primitive than its predecessor, yet it's a trick Container has pulled-off with LP.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Jan 8, 2013
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Movement, then, is more a proof of concept than a fully fleshed-out thought, though Herndon brings enough passion to her sound to suggest one is coming.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 20, 2012
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While Orbits is a tighter record, its joints are still too weak to hold it all up.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 12, 2012
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Some of Orbiting still sounds a little sketchy, like a bunch of good ideas that have yet to coagulate into fully-rounded, purposeful bangers, but clearly Jeremy Guindo is a real maverick talent.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 11, 2012
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If there's one major criticism of this record it's that its excessive length--13 tracks totalling 58 minutes--means that standout tracks can be missed through sheer volume of material.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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The sound of Pangaea doing his thang, then? Yep. Ahead of the game? On this evidence, most certainly.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Dec 3, 2012
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It's a more expansive, more ambitious and more accomplished Raime than we've heard before.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 27, 2012
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As you unspool slowly into Aimlessness, you can't help but wish for a more mediating human touch.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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The truly ambient moments of Living With Ghosts are easily its most arresting, providing brief periods of respite amid the album's unrelenting greyscale grasp.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 20, 2012
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And while there's no percussion in any conventional sense, the likes of "Uptown Psychedelia" jerk manically to their own spasmodic rhythms. Yet where those tracks are marked by an almost feverish nervous tension, from "Racist Drone" onwards Hecker and Lopatin seem to drift into an almost tranquilised state-one which strays closer to ambient clichés.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 19, 2012
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There are no new tricks at hand here, no experimental forays into the goonier psych-prog ends of the space disco genre. And you know what? Thank f*** for that.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 16, 2012
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His third album is easily the tightest record yet. Jumping from sound to sound, Ital Tek has covered a startling amount of ground in a short time.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 16, 2012
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Though he's had plenty of strong releases in the past, this one has the inspired feeling of an artist truly finding his footing--a breakthrough, in other words.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 2, 2012
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With By Your Side, Ed Banger and Breakbot seem more and more lost in a Tumblr-tinged display of self-referencing: very now but just not very new.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 31, 2012
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Dusk & Blackdown have an idiosyncratic grip on texture and structure, which Dasaflex wholeheartedly emphasizes.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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It feels like a miniaturized epic, and it sees Mendez touch on all the established hallmarks of his already renowned sound, embellishing it here and there with grandiose flourishes.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 25, 2012
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Atonal but definitely not without its charms, it's the producer's most distinctive statement yet.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 23, 2012
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For the most part, Mantasy is a serious record that confidently takes its own sweet time.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 23, 2012
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With its intrepid nonconformity, masterfully undercooked programming and swagger, it's hard not to view Transsektoral as anything other than a resounding success.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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Fleshed out with flecks of African-style guitar and tumbling bass...there's still the trademarked bedrock: that motor-fueled, machine-grind churn.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 16, 2012
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Pink sits in between: not sonically and melodically rich enough to be digested with the bedroom fervour of, say, Rounds, but somehow not fully metamorphosed into whatever new form Hebden is pushing towards. Nobody's doubting the man's incredible skill as a producer, and the delicacy, intelligence and maturity of his ideas. But here, alchemy isn't quite achieved.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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JIAOLONG is one of the year's most consistently compelling LPs, whether as home listening evening fuel or out and about in the sweaty rooms for which it was designed.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2012
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