Tiny Mix Tapes' Scores
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For 2,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
Highest review score: | Lost Wisdom pt. 2 | |
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Lowest review score: | America's Sweetheart |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,804 out of 2889
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Mixed: 961 out of 2889
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Negative: 124 out of 2889
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Gate of Grief puts the band back on the map, and while it sometimes stumbles, it nevertheless continues to slink around in the shadows, cackling.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 27, 2018
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Love is Dead is formally earnest and it succumbs as a product of its (unearnest) production, an art of sincerity lost underneath. Love is Dead, damnably, is sincerity in place of irony, which is to say sincerity outside irony. It has no world to tease of tense.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 25, 2018
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A bit more laidback than its predecessors and encapsulated by exotic shades, Across the Meridian sits somewhere between Les Baxter’s lovable cheese, the playful ingenuity of Pierre Bastien, and the more twisted corners of a 1970s European TV station library music.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 24, 2018
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Soil is a crucial psalm; crucial for its queerness, crucial for its catholicism, its pagan roots protruding into sidewalks, crucial for its purity of heart, crucial for how it avoids imperative, softly chiming.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 23, 2018
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Rausch is a portrait of nature as the birthplace of modernity, and the birthplace of modernity is here.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Semblance’s rigorous and inventive improvisations attempt to bring synth music up to date, despite the unavoidable cultural allusions that threaten to render it an ironic pastiche.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 19, 2018
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Although disintegration’s reach is far, infinite abandonment, even imagined, can’t be contained, but it can be uttered in a cry. All vibrantly tactile, this realization that it took self to cry for a self with which you’re now commingled in song.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 17, 2018
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The live shows Body/Head have done in the interim, where much of the material comprising The Switch sprang from, seems to’ve helped them nail down a more cohesive approach. It’s still wide open, drifting music, but with a relative brevity that helps it lodge more with the listener as an album.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 17, 2018
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Lamp Lit Prose is a quiet retreat into the confines of basic rock and pop trappings--perhaps not an unpredictable stepping stone in the group’s career, but certainly not unwelcome either.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 13, 2018
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Kazuashita wants what psychedelics want of human brains: transcendence. But its fleetingness masks any sort of completion. Frantic impulses come from afar, a random sphere of floating values, frames of signification.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 9, 2018
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Drake offers little here that does not retread the sonic and narrative territory of his previous work.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jul 3, 2018
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After navigating complex matrices of identity under an indulgent, accessible veneer, Dirty Computer is ultimately--even “simply”--a cathartic assertion of self in a hostile system.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 27, 2018
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Tracks such as The Fragile’s “Ripe (With Decay)” are these kinds of delightful journeys. “World” and “Over and Out” only display longer extensions of single ideas, which make them still a few points shy of the band’s best.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 27, 2018
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Musically, the album’s apparent incompleteness--the always dissolving lack of coherence, the mosaic of multiple voices, the chance and chaos by which the songs were arranged--abides by the peripheral pull of curiosity. ... Curiosity perforates the veil and returns, yet remains ephemeral.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 20, 2018
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Everything about Everything is Love feels superficial, from the artists’ constant pronouncement of their love for each other to their engagement with topics like fashion, art, watches (this gets its own category), social issues, how great their friends are, sports, and, indeed, their own lives. The most boring aspect of the album is its centerpiece: the couple’s obsession with their wealth.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 18, 2018
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Fractured, inconsistent, broken, torn, OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES aims toward the stylistic grandness of High Pop, and in that inconsistence, it achieves it. ... It’s incredible.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 15, 2018
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Airs resists the cheap gratification of the indie genre’s tendency of plundering from rock & roll’s rich past with only a passing fancy. Rae’s commitment to serving the dignity and stateliness of those genres is the record’s greatest asset, and with it comes the authenticity of a younger artist who’s keenly aware of her modest place in Nashville’s wide musical tapestry, but nonetheless confident enough to prove her salt time and again.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 14, 2018
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Although there is no absence of noise on this record, what is quieter about it gives space to hear what was always there: a fully embodied voice that, through pain as through love, ceaselessly gives only herself, an angel whose message becomes indistinguishable in grace from the messenger.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 14, 2018
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While the songs here are not memorable in the buzzer-beating manner of a title shot, no one would prefer a world where all-star matches were missing.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 13, 2018
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ye really does what a self-titled album should do: it says “Hey, this is who I am.” Even at 23 minutes, it almost feels like two different albums: an aggressive, dissonant one, and an empathetic, soulful one. Yet, those aren’t the two sides of Kanye, because those things exist in him simultaneously, all the time.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 6, 2018
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Atonement is the name of the game on this record, and when paired with Tillman’s gorgeous baritone and humble melodies, the self-reflective end result is often heartening. Not every track here captures this doleful magic (“The Songwriter” and closer “We’re Only People” occasionally get lost in their own sorrow), but it’s commendable all the same.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 5, 2018
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Because the album can’t be one complete thing, Age Of is its own archenemy; its own princess stranded in a high castle; its own climb up the Holy Mountain. A radical incompleteness haunts it.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 4, 2018
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Puff doesn’t grab your attention directly. Rather, it occupies your subconscious, leaving vestiges of melodies and lyrics behind that lie dormant for stretches of time, resurfacing intermittently and maddeningly.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted Jun 1, 2018
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Even if The Long Sleep is (deep down or hiding in plain sight) a resigned, muted, end-of-the-line Kool-Aid party, the bug juice is delectable enough to call one back from the great unknown for seconds and so on.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 29, 2018
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Walker is still ultimately a troubadour at heart, a keeper of old languages retelling us stories from years past, and Deafman Glance shows that he’s continuing to sharpen his tongue.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 29, 2018
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- Posted May 21, 2018
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A tightly-controlled, affectively capacious accumulation of sound that communicates beyond speech. In its collection of styles, histories, and genres, it weaves a mesh for the listener to inhabit.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 21, 2018
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A return to/remaining within form where Carey’s freewheeling guitar and (thankfully) sandblasted and virtuosic voice beam at us from our speakers in triumphant denouement.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Panic Blooms is a long overdue sound from a project that sees the absurdity in holding onto feelings while desperately trying to feel. It’s borderline pop.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Wide Awake! is the album in which America’s most consistent punk band once again distill their myriad influences, this time with a whole new list of reasons why their minds never push the brakes.- Tiny Mix Tapes
- Posted May 18, 2018
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