The Telegraph (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 1,234 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: | All Born Screaming | |
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Lowest review score: | Killer Sounds |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 880 out of 1234
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Mixed: 352 out of 1234
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Negative: 2 out of 1234
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This ranks with the very best of Gabriel’s work, which means it is very great indeed. Peter Gabriel is a genius. i/o is a masterpiece. That is all ye need know.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Dec 1, 2023
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Nine originals interspersed with the overfamiliar classics indicate a songwriter’s fascination with rock form, but only I Want You Back (sung with Steven Tyler) justifies its position nestled between so many inarguable classics.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Nov 17, 2023
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PinkPantheress’s pop gift is to make something airily attractive out of elements that could be brain melting, as if singing with the internal voice of a generation numbed by the everything goes-ness of the internet.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Nov 10, 2023
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Everybody sounds like they’re having fun, and listeners of a certain vintage probably will too. But it adds little of interest to Morrison’s incredible canon, which from Blowin’ Your Mind in 1967 to Irish Heartbeat in 1988 ranks with the greatest popular music ever made.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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There are lovely instrumental passages, lustrous strings, and it has all been crafted with love and care, but it doesn’t hit the heights we expect from a great Beatles ballad, ending up sounding like a poor imitation of genius, the kind of soft rock whimsy you’d find on thousands of second-rate Beatle influenced albums in the Seventies.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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Swift’s remake is astonishing in its exactitude, another reminder that she is a star of a different magnitude with a mastery of her own talents and a bold business acumen. .... All of the new songs are satisfyingly deft and clever, replete with sinuous melodies, burbling synths and agitated percussion that correspond with the updated eighties stylings of the original. .... The one new song that really punches its weight with Swift’s original 1989 singles is the razor sharp Is It Over Now?- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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She hits the mark with stripped-back Room Service, but the more mainstream, hook-laden numbers Antichrist and Into Your Room don’t measure up to her earlier anthems Scarlett and The Wall is Way Too Thin.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The new Rolling Stones album is the best thing they have made since their Seventies glory days. Which, it might reasonably be argued, de facto makes it the best rock’n’ roll album of the past four decades at least.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Oct 6, 2023
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This is an album that underlines the greatness of Dark Side, rather than challenges it.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Oct 5, 2023
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Sheeran sounds like a supercharged David Gray. Grown-up. Energised. Forget Autumn, this feels like an album of bright new dawns.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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- Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Relentless might just be one of the most thrilling things you’ll hear all year. It’s a slow-burning triumph, its 12 tracks oscillating between squalling and shimmering rockers and richly-realised ballads thanks in large part to Hynde’s masterly co-writer and guitarist James Walbourne.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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There are plenty of artists who make music occupying the same space as Mitski – reflective, weepy, introspective – but she stands alone in her lyricism and heart; on this album, she also seems less frightened by the potential fruits of her own talent.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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There are a few tracks that could be spicier (Envy the Leaves, At Your Worst), but overall, Silence Between Songs seems like the album Beer has been wanting – and waiting – to make for a long, long time.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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The album is peppered with playful uses of samples. It’s deeply sophisticated music – an astute melting pot of genres bound together by the latest production techniques.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 14, 2023
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Unfortunately, most of Guts sounds like a simple continuation of Sour – there is little musical growth or thematic change, with Making the Bed and Pretty Isn’t Pretty seeming like mere overhangs from her debut- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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Ten years ago, Icona Pop were electropop trailblazers: for the most part, this second album is a promising next step in their recording career.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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The kids might not understand, but rock fans should be delighted that Kerr and Thatcher are still in the ring, giving it everything they’ve got.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Hardcore fans should be satisfied, but Road recycles outdated myths of rock machismo from a pantomime villain determined to go out in a blaze of clichés.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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If sensuous, whip smart R’n’B rocks your boat, Victoria Monét’s debut album, Jaguar II, is a luxurious treat.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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The Endless Coloured Ways could have been just another exhibit on the exquisitely curated but ever growing pile of Drake nostalgia. Instead, it’s an essential manual on the art of songwriting.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 21, 2023
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Soft strings and Rapp’s silky vocals prevent it from being too jarringly TikTok-ready (though one imagines her record label will be hoping for just that). Overall, Snow Angel is a confident, accomplished debut.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Hozier sounds like what you might get if the late, lamented Jeff Buckley had thrown his lot in with Radiohead to conjure up folk music from the dark side of the moon.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 18, 2023
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It hasn’t exactly all been easy listening, but still definitely Lydon’s most approachable album ever. It sounds as though it was hard-earnt light relief for him, fun for its chief protagonist to make, and with repeat plays it only proves increasingly infectious.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Aug 11, 2023
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There is no real attempt to deliver definitive readings, with the vocal interplay between Mitchell, Carlile and Mumford on A Case of You shifting from the original’s romantic intensity to loose and cheerful celebration. Nonetheless, there are moments that cut to the core, particularly when guest vocalists back off to allow Mitchell space to possess the song in a voice that may be lower and grittier than of yore, but remains supple, powerful and resonant.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Here, in the company of his oldest colleagues, he [Damon Albarn] takes stock of his past in the most finely crafted songs of his later career. It is the sound of Britpop all grown up.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 21, 2023
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While You & I doesn’t break any new ground, it’s a spirited and smartly produced – if brief – album.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 17, 2023
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As a generation of UK rappers comes of age, Hus still leads the pack with his pitless charisma, linguistic inventiveness, and musical curiosity.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 14, 2023
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