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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On The End, So Far, the nihilistic furnace still glows hot, but amongst the fuming metal riffs, Slipknot also fume in a more creative way.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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This certainly isn’t an indie-sleaze revivalist album, nor is it an effort to prove their relevance. Cool It Down puts words and music to fears and concerns while shaking you into feelings of some radical hope.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Technically Gibbs is a flawless emcee and it’s great to see more of his melodic range on SSS, something that will deservedly bring in new fans. But for his next album, it would be interesting to see Gibbs explore the roots of his “hustler mentality” even further, and start to subvert some of gangster rap’s more impish clichés.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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If I may make up a word of my own, it is utterly bjorkers, and all you can do is dig it.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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With soulful vocals, delicate stories and vulnerable lyrics, Moss makes for a delightful listen.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 23, 2022
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Orton digs so deeply into her own personal spaces and memories that what she finds there is unique. Middle-aged discontent has rarely sounded so lovely.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 23, 2022
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Nothing you’re hearing here is particularly cutting-edge, but it’s delivered with such ebullience and pomposity that you almost forget that this isn’t the first time you’ve heard an 808 beat.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 20, 2022
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The 12 tracks that make up Expert in a Dying Field are lean and propulsive, with hooks that get under the skin.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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This is an album in which Mumford embraces and forgives his own, to deeply moving effect.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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The more conventional songs radiate power too, from straightforward pop-rock anthem Hurricanes to the electronic thud of Holy — her It’s A Sin moment. The album’s final three tracks feel superfluous, but Sawayama ultimately succeeds where Dr Frankenstein failed: her creation greater than the sum of its parts.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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The Hardest Part doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It knows what it is: undisguised, accessible songwriting pulsing with country lifeblood which manages to avoid being swallowed by its own ennui.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Spirituals is tonally consistent despite its range of distinctive influences and talents. Just when Santigold threatens to lean into the corny, as on the SBTRKT-produced Shake, she pulls back, adding a whimsical, purposefully on-the-nose rattle sound at the end of each wedding disco-like “shake, shake, shake it” hook. It’s a joy to hear her back in her creative swing.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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Hideous Creature doesn’t possess the same pop immediacy of Sim’s day job, but it does feel like a record that needed to be made: vital and beautiful.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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A defiantly bravura set of melodic metal on which the 73-year-old genuinely sounds as though he’s having the time of his life.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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Scintillating and confident. ... This is music to bop to on the streets, to listen to in church with a big congregation, or to soak up alone in a room.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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While this album invigorates and intrigues, in future I would hope to hear her expand lyrically, while exploring the hauntingly melancholic sounds her violin can produce. For now, at least, the defiant joy her work evokes is a stimulating jolt to the senses.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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Ellery and Skye have managed cohesion amid the cacophony. I Love You Jennifer B is a dramatic outing that combines the modern, the classical and everything else in between.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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They capture Reed’s early processes, fragments of ideas that would morph into his definitive work. ... We sense that all that remained for Reed to do was to become Lou.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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The Painter harks back to the producer’s woozy, worldly chill out beginnings. It even features Orton on two tracks. This is ambient music for grown-ups.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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This is Jacklin’s most personal offering yet and while the pain of mining her soul for such material is clear, through these diary-like confessionals, so too is her catharsis.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Muse are a blockbuster band, and this is another box-office-demolishing spectacular – it would feel like self-denial not to surrender. Honestly, the end of the world has rarely sounded like so much fun.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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There are duds, mostly when Aitch is chasing LA acclaim and aping US trap rappers on tracks like Cheque or Fuego. But when he leans into the silky, bumpy ’90s-era smooth-licking RnB that he raised himself on – see Sunshine or R Kid – he’s hard to beat.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 19, 2022
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The great joy of this late period album is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Lifetime Achievement is not so much a last will and testament as a bravura insistence on Wainwright’s intention to carry on living and loving for as long as he can.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 19, 2022
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It’s surely fair to deduce that the intended ‘reset’ is all about returning pop to its early years’ sense of wonder, both sonically and emotionally. On that level, its nine tracks resoundingly succeed.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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What Kasabian have lost in aggression they have gained in depth and sensitivity, and the result is a vivid, adventurous album set at the outer limits of rock and techno.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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This is highly advanced rap filtered through easily digestible hooks and musical choices. The beat variety on display is exquisite. Almost every shade of Megan Thee Stallion is here.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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In all it’s a fascinating mix, which should attract new recruits to Kokoroko’s ever-growing legion of fans.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 5, 2022
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To listen to Hold On Baby is to feel like you are really inside someone else’s world, their voice urgently delivering their most intimate feelings in your ear, transmuting them into pop gold.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 29, 2022
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