The Telegraph (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 1,238 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: | Hit Me Hard and Soft | |
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Lowest review score: | Killer Sounds |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 882 out of 1238
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Mixed: 354 out of 1238
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Negative: 2 out of 1238
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Unsurprisingly, loss and grief lie at the core of the Foo Fighters’ most succinct and intense album.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 26, 2023
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It feels remarkably intimate: a half-shuttered window into the world of the man behind some of the world’s most famous songs. If only Simon were to pry open said window slightly wider, one would feel more fulfilled – but there’s always future albums for that.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 19, 2023
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It's a journey in which you don't need to know the words: this music is a licence to feel without prejudice. Like prayers or poetry, the potency is in the cadence, the rhythms, and the stirring of memory and imagination.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 16, 2023
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- Posted May 12, 2023
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Subtract still sounds like an Ed Sheeran album, just one that is not trying so hard to be everything to everyone all at once. Sometimes less really is more.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 4, 2023
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By the time Roderick closes out with a fully orchestrated baroque dismissal of a former associate (“I’d like nothing more than you darken my doorstep nevermore,” Vanian politely croons), there can be no doubt that Darkadelia lives up to its foreboding title. It also represents one of Britain’s most idiosyncratic and enduringly excellent rock bands, in thrilling form.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 2, 2023
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First Two Pages of Frankenstein is up there with Boxer, the band’s 2007 album on which they thrillingly found their musical feet. This is the sound of a band who’ve honed their sound to such an extent that they’re now towing a whole new generation in their wake.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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As a follow-up to What’s Your Pleasure?, it’s inevitably a little doomed, lacking that record’s magical conditions: the unexpectedly fresh energy amid the lethargy of lockdown. Still, after Pleasure’s anticipatory teasing, That! Feels Good! offers a perfectly competent climax.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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These are songs rich in detail, soul deep, often burdened with worry and a lifetime’s baggage, yet it’s the hazy sense of a drifter’s freedom in New Magic II which wins through, lifting your spirits time and again.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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The 60-year-old producer has clearly been keeping an aficionado’s ear on developments in digital electronica, and there is nothing particularly retro or dated about this comeback. Thorn’s voice has a timelessness that will always sound contemporary. She never strains or overemotes but lets her instinct for elegant melody and the understated intelligence of her lyrics carry the dramatic weight.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
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You can get lost in the whole EP, which possesses all the quality and thought of a full-formed album, but flickers by like the yellow windows of a train in the dark, travelling on to somewhere new.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
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The timeless appeal of Carnival is echoed in Keep Your Courage, which speaks volumes for the cohesive, eternal quality of Merchant's ability to weave romantic, folk-rock ballads rich with organ, brass, and tidal waves of strings all anchored to simple piano melodies.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Multitudes is a perfect assertion of that power, by turns reflective and commanding.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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As a 40-minute listening experience, it’s equal parts eccentric and impassioned, thought-provoking and out-there – if not exactly fun, given the mental-health issues, then certainly liberating, nourishing and thoroughly memorable.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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Goulding’s spectacularly tremulous vibrato, raw mid-range and fluttery high notes imprint unique character on everything she sings. It’s a voice that can make even her “least personal” record sound very personal indeed.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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This is stand-up-and-listen music, commanding attention in surprising ways. Being suggests that far from mellowing with age, Maal – who turns 70 in June – remains as eager and excited to explore new frontiers as he ever was.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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More than half a century later, those youthful ambitions are herein fulfilled, in 10 tracks of maturity and majesty.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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The album sounds like something knocked out almost live in a spirit of excitement, rather than with objective vision or commercial muscle. I’d be hard pressed to assert that this (unlike CS&N) amounts to more than the sum of its parts, rather than a celebration of great parts. But it is impossible to argue that as a group, Boygenius are pretty super.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
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They have conjured a collection of really strong songs about big subjects, delivered with sensitivity and conviction. Memento Mori stands with the best of their career.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
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The crooning, woozy indie-pop of So Hard To Tell is reassurance Friday has a full spectrum of emotional arrows in her quiver and she’s going to hit all her targets.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
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Erasing the muscular power of an amplified rock combo, Edge explores ways to let other elements shine. In particular, the focus is on Bono’s older yet still powerful voice, devoid of posturing and mannerisms, really digging into meaning and melody. The subtle rumble of Adam Clayton’s bass and tastefully executed percussion from Larry Mullen Jr make themselves felt in all the right places, with full band arrangements breathing new life into a smattering of undernourished songs.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Sleaford Mods have lost none of their political bite, humour, and astute observational skill. UK Grim will cement their place as one of Britain’s most influential – and successful – UK bands.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Indeed, for all the slick but formulaic pleasures of the album’s mainstream pop push, it is arguably that Cyrus is at her most compelling when she dances like no one is watching.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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From the opening chimes and birdsong to her sultry vocals, the album cocoons you entirely in its plush, sensuous world.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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Ugly makes for difficult listening in places, but that’s not to say it isn’t often brilliant. Experimental, disarmingly honest and conceptually tight, blending rap, alt-rock and electronica, there’s no denying that Frampton is putting in the work.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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Brimming with both spiritual depth and astonishing musical dexterity, Shook feels contemporary and important, reflecting America’s present-day diversity and letting the disenfranchised speak.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Food for Worms is all the more exciting for its contrasts in brutality and beauty. It’s challenging, consummately constructed, and thrilling throughout.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Thirty years on, Albarn sounds just as dissatisfied with the state of the modern world, yet he still appears to have at least a cartoon finger on its pulse.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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