Clash Music's Scores
- Music
For 4,423 reviews, this publication has graded:
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58% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
| Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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| Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
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Positive: 3,769 out of 4423
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Mixed: 623 out of 4423
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Negative: 31 out of 4423
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Although weaker tracks are covered up by pristine studio trickery, No Blues is consistently infectious and edges the band closer to mainstream territory.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 6, 2013
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Antiphon is going to divide opinion, but give it a chance--it might just be the best thing they’ve ever done.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 6, 2013
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M.I.A.’s most consistent work since her debut. ... Yes, her myriad ideas are still tumultuous, but there’s precious few other musicians out there attempting such an ambitious and impassioned collage of words, rhythms and concepts.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 5, 2013
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Richly textured and finely detailed, Invisible In Your City goes moreishly deep.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 4, 2013
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- Posted Oct 29, 2013
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The Betas were a formidable live band, and the radio session tracks here are as good as, and sometimes better than, their studio counterparts. There’s little in the way of actual rarities, though.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 22, 2013
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Some may find something deep and spiritual amongst the cuts on Outside, but it just makes this reviewer want to stay indoors.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 21, 2013
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- Posted Oct 18, 2013
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What the album lacks in genuine surprises--it features fewer floor-filling basslines than its makers’ previous LP ‘proper’, 2010’s dance-designed ‘We Were Exploding Anyway’--it more than makes up for in comprehensive consistency.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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A fine sound indeed, but one that could have been better with a shade more variety injected into proceedings.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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Drone Logic has peaks that dwarf its troughs, though, making Avery’s brave debut worth buying for its four best tracks alone.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 14, 2013
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Taking pleasure in the observations of daily life, ‘ilp’ comes bathed in highly saturated colours and rich textures.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 14, 2013
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This is written by someone who’s a kid right now, about what it is to be young right now. Consequently, this isn’t a “you” and “I” album. It’s a “we”, “us” and “them” album.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 11, 2013
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Most bands master a sound, but there’s the distinct feeling here that TOTS are merely vessels for a force operating somewhere beyond our comprehension of what can, and does, qualify as pop music.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 11, 2013
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- Posted Oct 11, 2013
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- Posted Oct 10, 2013
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Although Lousy With Sylvianbriar lacks the violent eclecticism of their 2007 classic ‘Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?’, it’s a genre-morphing triumph that reveals new surprises with each listen.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 10, 2013
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This range of styles on New could have been distracting if not for the material’s solid foundations, spontaneous energy, and frequent naked emotions.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 9, 2013
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This set is teeming with energy despite its down moments, and demands to be played again in its entirety as soon as it ends.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 9, 2013
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It’s a declaration that cocktail hour is officially over, having also ditched any collaborations for this knotted beat scene bow, while still able to rise up in glory like sun pouring through a stained glass window (‘Tiptoes’) and sport the luminosity of a screwball gent just when you think the batteries are fading.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 8, 2013
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- Posted Oct 7, 2013
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All dark atmospherics and empty space, Jaar’s spectral production for collaborative project Darkside creates the void where rhythm, and seemingly time, are allowed to infinitely float on.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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A far darker piece than her debut album, this is a downbeat yet profoundly affecting second act.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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Sleigh Bells might have got a little softer on us, but they haven’t lost their charm.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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As his flow goes off at a regular double time that his chart-scaling peers can only dislocate their jaws for, Dizzee’s personality shrinks into a tediously shallow pool of female ogling, obeying your thirst and his latest holiday snaps.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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It’s clear Danny is dealing with some demons, but his issues don’t dampen the mood.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 2, 2013
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‘It’s Never Over’ is this band’s best TV On The Radio impression, and ‘Porno’ almost goes G-funk: a pleasant surprise. But undercooked electronics, impotent rhetoric, too-familiar crescendo-ing structures and an overall feeling that this needs further post-production attention render Reflektor an entirely substandard album.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 30, 2013
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Bonkers in parts it may be, but Take Me proves hugely enjoyable.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 27, 2013
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As a whole, Breaks & Bone is a little samey, but as a showcase of one of Glasgow’s finest musicians, it’s a gem.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 27, 2013
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There’s no denying the worth of the latter sort, but the electrifying nature of the first cut comes as a bit of a tease, setting you up for a (albeit nicely ambient) fall.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 26, 2013
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