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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Patten is clearly willing to toy with his numerous ideas in lieu of easy hooks, and he concedes remarkably little here.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Stately though Dedication was, its serious mien and careful composition made it an introduction to Zomby that made his work seem less appealingly messy than it oftentimes is. This seven-song, 23-minute EP remedies that.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Even though we get Cox at his most nakedly audible on Parallax, however, it still feels like he's putting on a show, or imitating someone else.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 23, 2011
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While the record is certainly appreciable on purely musical terms--this is evocative, heart-tugging stuff--when knowledge of Kirby's intent lurks underneath the damaged acetate grooves, it becomes something else entirely: A poignant interrogation of memory loss and aging.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Schlungs does nothing to diminish Mungolian Jet Set's reputation as one of the most genuinely entertaining acts around.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Drone lives and dies by its inviolability and rigidity, but Lopatin throws that away in favor of something madder, weirder and altogether more enticing.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Much like its musical parent, Without You effortlessly inhales and exhales strands of musical influence past, present and future.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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We can imagine these 32 tracks stretched out in three hours, and we can enjoy the way they squeeze into 76 minutes equally well.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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Sadly, tracks like "Years Ago, Days Pass" or "Wired"--even with their intricate array of digital ornaments--remain badly in need of a proper tune; album closer "Nights," on the other hand, simply comes across as an anemic piano-led ballad: clocking in at seven minutes, it easily outstays its welcome and ends the album on a lukewarm note.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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Despite its burnt album art and sandy surfaces, it's an album not of barbecues but of bottles of wine and quiet fires.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 15, 2011
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It's just Jamie Teasdale, an already accomplished producer, freely chasing his inspiration and coming out the other end with near genius in the process.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 14, 2011
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It's an unadventurous but pleasant effort from a talented artist who used to make everyone else look boring.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 8, 2011
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Perhaps most frustratingly, Scintilli doesn't have as much of a sense of continuum as the aforementioned trilogy--which is something that any good album should have.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Nov 3, 2011
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Ghost People is the sound of Martyn cozying up to house music and mastering it, as close to focused and standing still as a restless artist like him could ever get.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 31, 2011
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Gonzalez outdoes himself on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: a double album in tribute to the hefty documents of pre-digital, pre-iTunes yesteryear.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 28, 2011
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Audio, Video, Disco may not be as clever and as original as Justice think it is, but it definitely isn't as terrible as everyone else would want you to believe.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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ey clearly understand the value of the direct appeal, but on Coracle, the duo has rounded out the pre-manufactured pleasantries of their debut into headier, more substantive approaches to IDM, Chicago house, and nu-kosmische.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Glass Swords is a place where pleasure is the only constant: it doesn't matter that he's playing with self-consciously "cheesy" sounds or untouchable genres when the songs are this good.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 19, 2011
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The inherent structural flaws of any given remix album also plague TKOL RMX--a lack of consistency, flow or narrative.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 18, 2011
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- Posted Oct 17, 2011
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- Posted Oct 17, 2011
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As expected, the Norwich-based producer's first full-length culls together another mass of genres, this time with the fresh additions of footwork and UK funky flavours.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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This sounds like a coherent album rather than a string of collaborations, with his creamy tones-and occasionally clichéd lyrics-providing a common identity throughout.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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In Dust seems solely an accompaniment for alps and plains. Some space for the bedroom and lounge would have been nice too.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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The album is quite possibly his most stirring and accomplished work to date.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 7, 2011
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- Posted Oct 6, 2011
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Not only is Looping State of Mind Willner's most diverse and satisfying statement to date, it's an album that establishes him as one of electronic music's more subtly lateral thinkers.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Bronsert and Szary rarely break the mould here but it's instead one of the most accessible and effortlessly enjoyable dance music albums of the year.- Resident Advisor
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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- Posted Oct 3, 2011
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