The Independent (UK)'s Scores
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For 2,191 reviews, this publication has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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49% 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: | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | |
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Lowest review score: | Donda |
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Positive: 1,174 out of 2191
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Mixed: 988 out of 2191
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Negative: 29 out of 2191
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The result is a mixed bag. “La Fuerte” (“The Strong”) would be a forgettable club banger were it not for Shakira’s lyrics, still raw with grief. “Tiempo Sin Verte” and “Como Donde Y Cuando” are more interesting thanks to their minor chord acoustic strums and angsty one-two punch of electric guitar.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Beyond these introductory tracks and a couple of others (“Give It Up for Love” struts to a Nile Rogers beat), the album chugs along at a pleasant mid-tempo pace.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 21, 2024
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The record’s sprawling R&B slow jams are more likely to inspire snoozing than shagging. Weighing in at a bloated 18 tracks, it’s got the soggy dead weight and wonky springs of a fly-tipped mattress.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 15, 2024
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While there’s a moreish quality to the off-key guitar of “Imperfect for You” and an unexpectedly golden flush of brass on “Ordinary Things”, Grande’s delicately conversational tone is often left having to compensate for her lack of strong melodic snags.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 8, 2024
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Bleachers occasionally lets Antonoff’s genius shine through, but more often it feels like an experiment gone awry.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 7, 2024
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You’ll hear the recycled riff from the Beatles’ Paperback Writer (“Rain”’s original A side) on their new song “I’m So Bored”; the hook of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” smoking its way through “Love You Forever”; and the brooding melody from the Stones’ “Paint it Black” on “One Day at A Time”. The pair poke fun at their own slapdash songwriting process on “Make it Up as You Go Along”. But still, there’s fun to be had with the way Gallagher tows teenage ‘tude into middle age.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 29, 2024
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She’s still in her prime, as you can tell when she delivers a knockout vocal on the guitar-backed ballad “Broken Like Me”. .... But for all her promises to show us the “real her”, it’s a struggle to see it in the slick and sexy production of tracks such as “Mad in Love” or “Rebound”.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 15, 2024
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How you feel about that will depend on your threshold for Coming Home’s smooth-bossing seduction style. What Usher lacks by way of foreplay (“I wanna be inside ya/ I’ll be coming” is the album’s second line) he compensates for with stamina: smooching his way through 20 tracks of mostly silky-solid grooves. Coming Home is enlivened by a cool cast of collaborators sharing the mic.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 9, 2024
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- Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Pink Friday 2 shows flashes of the inventive brilliance that made Nicki such an undeniable superstar, but like so many legacy sequels, it mostly just makes you wish you were listening to the original.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Dec 8, 2023
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- Posted Nov 16, 2023
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This revamp does at least serve as a reminder of the album’s untouchable greatness.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 27, 2023
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The album could have been shorter and catchier but fans will feel their cockles warmed and their pulses raised.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 20, 2023
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Although she’s got the makings of a great songwriter, she needs to push the sounds into sharper corners to give her narratives more distinctive definition. Because this album delivers many shades of grey but never the promised punch of black.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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On tracks such as “Daylight” and “Fear of Heights”, he strains to fit over the futuristic “rage” sound popularised by Playboi Carti. For better or worse, the album is at its best when Drake’s not there.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 6, 2023
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There’s no standout tune on here to match Elgar’s “Nimrod”, of course, but there’s enough soupy seasonal sentimentality to fill the Royal Albert Hall.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Warmth rises consistently from I Told Them, with its easygoing mix of Afro pop, rap and R&B. You inhale it – soft, nourishing and moreish as if it’s steaming off freshly baked bread. There are moments of nutty chewiness, but mostly it’s stretches of pleasant, if airily bland, doughiness.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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He goes straight for the pop-rock formulae. This would have worked better over a shorter span, but yawning as it does on the same mid-tempo pacing means that tracks blur to filler and some good lines get lost in the sludge. The lack of guest vocalists doesn’t help either.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 3, 2023
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A soundtrack that is always fun, if undeniably erratic – Ronson can’t decide on a consistent tone or approach, instead ping-ponging between satire and celebration, sincerity and spoof.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 21, 2023
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You’re bound to find yourself dancing to it at some point over the summer. It’s safe. Still polished. Nothing special.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 17, 2023
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There’s some filler. But melody-lite tracks such as “Sicily” and “Negative Space” bob by on their bass line grooves.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Paranoia, Angels, True Love is too long and rambling to bring Christine and the Queens any new fans, or much action on the singles chart. Its self-indulgence may even tire some existing fans. But if you give it time to grow its wings, it can really lift you up.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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His is the sort of personable charm that even the slickest PR machine can’t drum up. It is also, unfortunately, something that’s too often missing from this album. That and variety.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 18, 2023
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At no point does The Album push for edge or originality. But you’d have to be the barbecue grinch to deny its lovingly crafted, feel-good vibes. Pure, safe sonic ketchup.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 12, 2023
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Lyrically, the album does fall short, but then Sheeran has spent over a decade trading in vague yet universal issues. ... For the most part, Subtract is testament to the old adage that less is, often, much more.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 4, 2023
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Ultimately this is an album of shadow versions that leave you yearning for originals.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 16, 2023
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[“Valentine” is] the most endearing entry in an album that has its moments but doesn’t quite leave a mark.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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- Posted Feb 16, 2023
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Smith’s vocals are, of course, beautiful. Creamy and curvaceous; liquid with emotion. But I often feel their voice is searching for tangier tunes to wrap that molten wax around. Without any sharpness to offset it, listening to the repeated wobbly rise of Smith’s lovely, dollopy notes can feel like the aural equivalent of watching a lava lamp.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Måneskin are a band who know what they are and what they’re good at – because while it’s true that Rush! starts to feel amorphous, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single moment in its 50-minute runtime where you’re not enjoying yourself just a little.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Ultimately, Dry Cleaning start to sound like a one-song idea dragged out over two albums. A slog.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The narratives are dependably punchy through this record, and they’re carried by solidly danceable Eighties and Nineties club beats. Not an original sound, then. But one that allows her more challenging or subversive thoughts to slide slyly into a night out on the town.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 13, 2022
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The eight tracks of Cool It Down (a real mission statement of a title) make for a quasi-gothic synth record that beefs up the Eighties revivalism of the past decade... even as it leaves behind the yelping dynamism of their youth for a more considered and placid middle-age.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 29, 2022
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It feels uncomfortable for me to point out that there aren’t a lot of tunes on this record. This stuff has to come out the way it wants. It’s hardly singalong material. It is – necessarily – heavy. But it also fulfils Mumford’s intention, learnt from Beyoncé, he says, to leave us with hope.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Emotional echoes of this complicated public history reverberate through Jude’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads. ... Lennon’s production is clean, steely and a little claustrophobic.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 8, 2022
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The record is more fun than the lyrics suggest. Watt’s production flirts with Muse’s epic grandeur and the anthemic metal of a Red Rocks Oasis. ... But by the time he’s rhyming “asphyxiation, masturbation, degradation” on the Hawkins co-write “Degradation Rules” – the second Iommi appearance – things are getting a little ridiculous, and at over an hour the record drags.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 8, 2022
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Three of the record’s 11 – eleven – incongruous covers, seemingly selected by lobbing darts at a Spotify genre cloud, involve Beck showcasing his sub-Dave Gilmour, cruise ship guitar work by playing the vocal lines on instrumental takes of Davy Spillane’s “Midnight Walker” and a couple of Beach Boys tunes. When Depp gets involved things often, somehow, get worse.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 19, 2022
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The synth-pop duo were hardly upbeat to begin with, but this is downright miserable. ... Still, it’s not all hopeless – at least the music is good.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 6, 2022
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- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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Chlöe and the Next 20th Century is another shocking left-turn from indie-rock’s chief provocateur: a charming (huh?!), innocuous (gasp!) sojourn into lovely baroque-pop.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Apr 7, 2022
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Jack White’s new solo album Fear of the Dawn is basically one long jam session. Which is fine, if that’s what makes him happy. For the rest of us, it’s a bit of a slog.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Apr 4, 2022
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It’s safely on-brand. It’s just smoother, and slower, and sloppier than before.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Apr 1, 2022
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The riffs throughout this album are catchy enough to keep the beanie heads nodding along. But producer Travis Barker (Blink 182) repeatedly fills out the sound to the extent that the exposing angularity required to express true anxiety is lost.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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Sweet and frothy. Probably still a little coffee shop. But not Starbucks, more the soundtrack to your local quirky independent caffeinator.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 11, 2022
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- Posted Feb 24, 2022
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It’s crafted to slot neatly into the 6 Music playlist. Smart and friendly. Tasteful and tuneful. Just a little unsurprising.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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MØ crafts consistently cool grooves but nothing that makes her stand out from the crowd.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2022
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If Scenic Drive sets out to be an easy-listening accompaniment to a late-night ride, it’s successful. But if you’re looking for something with more clarity and oomph, your car horn may be the better option.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 3, 2022
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While there are high points – many of them, surprisingly, found in their Unlocked iteration – the album fails to leave an impression in the same way as the singer’s previous releases. You’ll like it, for sure. But you may not remember it.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Dec 10, 2021
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This isn’t so much a barnstormer of an album as a reassuringly earthy rock-out among the hay bales.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Dec 9, 2021
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This is by no means an easy record to fathom, but it does show – even after so many years – you’ll never catch Albarn resting on his laurels.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Nov 11, 2021
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He avoids turning the songs on this album into as much of a box-ticking exercise as they felt on earlier records, managing to weave influences in with a little more flair.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 28, 2021
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There are a couple of stunning vocal performances. Rina Sawayama sings like a galleon in full sail on the big, bold ballad “Chosen Family”. ... Grim moments include Young Thug’s sleazy sex rap on “I Will Always Love You.” ... In the middle ground are a few hummable collaborations (“Learn to Fly” with Surfaces, “Finish Line” with Stevie Wonder).- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 21, 2021
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Music of The Spheres isn't Coldplay at their Viva la Vida finest, even if their undeniably upbeat attitude remains hard to resist. The Pythagoreans believed that music purified the soul. This album offers a more superficial spiritual shower. A fleeting invigoration.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 14, 2021
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At times this [spent two years sitting with these songs] makes for a more considered output; other songs run the risk of overthinking themselves.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 7, 2021
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Drum machine led “Swan Song” is the album’s most inventive and surprising song, proving that the creator of “Tusk” has still got his knack for innovation and creating a daring pop hook. While the weakest tracks here tend to veer into self-pity.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2021
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This record doesn’t find the often-brilliant Musgraves on her sharpest, Dolly Parton-est form. She delivers more platitudes than usual; her melodic shifts often lack their tangier twists. But the sadness and everydayness of her breakup does breathe slowly and honestly through the songs.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2021
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Certified Lover Boy’s greatest crime is just how bland and boring it is. There’s very little here that Drake has not done better or more emphatically elsewhere; his album is deprived of any kind of experimentation or insight. He rose to the top baring his soul. Now it feels like there’s no soul to bare.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 4, 2021
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It’s an album that sounds very little like their last, and in that sense – despite its myriad reference points – The Ultra Vivid Lament is a Manic Street Preachers record, through and through.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 2, 2021
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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is a cohesive enough follow-up, but Bugg still seems conflicted about the sound that first propelled him into the spotlight. ... It rankles when this album was put together by a team best known for the music he claims to despise.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 20, 2021
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Solar Power finds Lorde swapping her trademark directness for tuneless detachment.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 19, 2021
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A little more campfire crackle to his delivery would have helped lift these good short stories from the prettily glowing embers of forgettable and occasionally recycled melodies.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 13, 2021
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Between the piano-led dreamscape of “Red Snakes”, the shimmering electronica of “Bloom at Night” and the pop-leaning “We Cannot Resist”, Animal feels restless right up until its six-and-a-half-minute closer “Phantom Limb”, which concludes with Marling’s autotuned voice reading out the album’s credits.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 29, 2021
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For three tracks of low-slung ambient funk (the title track), lounge jazz (“Running Game [Son of a Slave Master]”) and tired orchestral soul (“Born 2 Die”), every low expectation of the funk-pop legend’s late-career cast-offs is lived down to. ... Then he rediscovers his imaginative peak-era verve and Welcome 2 America becomes an unexpected blast.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 29, 2021
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KSI does well to allow his collaborators to come in and do what they do best in their respective styles. ... At times, though, All Over The Place flails in the absence of a singular distinct voice.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 21, 2021
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It’s genuinely enjoyable. Fairly forgettable. A pleasant enough middle-lane trip down what Mayer – with knowing cliché – calls “the highway of dreams”.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 16, 2021
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Hewson’s songwriting is definitely up to snuff, although occasionally lapses into cliches.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jul 8, 2021
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Peace or Love, their first album in 12 years, is perfectly pleasant and familiar, the tracks tracing the well-trodden vicissitudes of love in tones so subdued that they’d seem hushed even when played at maximum volume.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jun 17, 2021
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The album doles out small doses of riot grrrl nostalgia but for the most part, on No Gods No Masters, Garbage stretch beyond the gilded cage of their Nineties icon status to reach for something new – often, but not always, to effective ends.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Many of these songs are hip hop-lite, incorporating bland trap beats as Levine delivers lyrics in the kind of stutter pioneered by early Soundcloud rappers.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jun 11, 2021
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On Cavalcade, black midi feast on a smorgasbord of influences but the result at times can leave their sound meandering aimlessly.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 27, 2021
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At times, it feels as though the polite, considered Rodrigo could push ideas, emotions and melodies a little further than she does. ... But this is an incredibly impressive debut from a singer who’s only just learning to stretch her wings.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 21, 2021
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His tendency to hurl the same emotional intensity into every syllable (loud, soft, high, low, new idea or repetition) gets wearing. It doesn’t help that the melodies are often simplistic to the point of forgettable and the production seldom leaves a space unfilled.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 6, 2021
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Latest Record Project Volume 1 might be a grievance-heavy sprawl, but if you’re a Morrison die-hard it’ll be a worthy, timely addition to his catalogue.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted May 6, 2021
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“Windows”, with its eerie synths and squawking delivery, recalls the dark psychedelia of Cypress Hills’ 2018 record, Elephants on Acid. But that then jumps to skittery R&B with “I’ll Take You On”. Nothing joins together. Brockhampton don’t sound self-aware as much as self-conscious.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Apr 9, 2021
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There’s still a nagging sense that the band are resting on their laurels. The record is still good – DFA are too talented for it to be otherwise – but it’s a little deflating for a band whose history is built on boundary-pushing.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 25, 2021
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This album is more Pringles than caviar. But it’s comfortingly moreish. When it comes to the Jonas boys, it seems that once you pop, you can’t stop.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 12, 2021
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I wonder if Larsson boxed herself in with her theme (“I’m obsessed with love”, she told NME in a recent interview), then struggled to find new ways to explore it. Overall, though, Poster Girl has more than enough bops to keep fans happy.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 4, 2021
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It’s pleasantly – if forgettably – soporific. The sort of family motorway album that tired parents can hum along to without waking the kids in the back.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Mar 4, 2021
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His 2017 debut Reaper was built around tender guitar motifs that would mesh with stuttery trap beats. There is some of this on Trauma Factory, but it’s been mostly sidelined in favour of vocal melodies that frequently sound like playground rhymes.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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Despite the album’s slick production and radio-ready melodies, one wishes Pale Waves could find a more sophisticated language to express youthful enlightenment.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 12, 2021
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The record is divided into two sets. The first half is a jagged-edged electro backed spleen-splurge with all seven tracks titled with the CAPS LOCK ON. The smoother, more soulful second half finds him in more reflective, lower-case mood.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 12, 2021
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There is something admirable about the fact they stay so firmly planted in their lane. Medicine at Midnight is unlikely to win over many new fans, but it will make the existing ones happy.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 4, 2021
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It just feels tedious and predictable. Portentous twangs of guitar? Tick. Shivery percussion? Tick. Screeches of feedback? Tick. A frontman who delivers lyrics (rambling prose) in a croaky, squawking gasp that recalls Mark E Smith? Tick.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Feb 4, 2021
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Spare Ribs certainly reflects the personal and political overload of 2021, but half an hour in you’d be forgiven for scanning the horizon for your stop.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 15, 2021
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It offers no narrative to speak of and only brief glimpses of personality. It is a blancmange of watered-down R&B, each song sliding listlessly into the next.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 15, 2021
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Each artist is joined at some point by Gibb’s distinctive high, breathy voice. It’s wobblier now, but sounds a little more searching and humble.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Jan 7, 2021
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Weird!’s eclecticism frequently threatens to overwhelm. ... Where Yungblud is consistent is his lyrics.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Dec 4, 2020
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Despite the dearth of original melodies and ideas, there’s an obvious nod to the Everly Brothers’ 1958 “All I Have To Do Is Dream”. And throughout this record, Mendes’s savvy songwriting team are harking back to retro influences to suit the vintage ice cream parlour shades of the singer’s shirts.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Dec 3, 2020
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- Posted Nov 30, 2020
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Night Network isn’t a bad album, but it's not a particularly memorable one, either.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Nov 20, 2020
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Despite never being freer as an artist, there is a safety to Positions that means it only occasionally takes off.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 30, 2020
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Under normal circumstances, another solipsistic Eels album celebrating the joy of simple pleasures and allowing for some gruff introspection would grate – and Earth to Dora really isn’t much better than the last six Eels records – but right now it feels pretty much perfect. Have a listen before the moment passes.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 29, 2020
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For the most part, the mood here is pensive, the ballads plentiful and the pace glacial, with little evidence of the wild abandon that the singer supposedly longs for. It’s to Smith’s credit, but also their undoing, that they are just too damned nice.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 29, 2020
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If I’m honest, it’s as hard to tell this Future Islands album from the last one as it is to tell one seagull from another. But that’s not to say they don’t all soar and swoop in a way that’s guaranteed to lift the heart.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 8, 2020
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Chisholm lacks both the originality and super-wattage of a solo megastar. But her ability to sing to us with the gutsy warmth of a good mate on a karaoke night continues to make her enjoyable audio company.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Oct 2, 2020
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Tea for the Tillerman has been updated with the aim of drawing attention and fans from a new generation. Whether these fuller versions will attract new listeners is debatable. However, there are certainly surprises here.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 17, 2020
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There are lots of glam stompers-by-numbers. He teamed up with country singer Shooter Jennings to make the album, and the organic simplicity of country chord progressions lies beneath much of the industrial post-punk chrome shell.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Sep 10, 2020
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There’s nothing on this record to equal the giddy delight of Perry’s greatest hits. No fireworks to light up the dance floor, but enough to raise a smile.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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It may be a slightly face-flattening wind tunnel of love The Killers offer. But they still have the gale force sincerity required to blow your socks off.- The Independent (UK)
- Posted Aug 20, 2020
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