Clash Music's Scores

  • Music
For 4,424 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Dead Man's Pop [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Wake Up!
Score distribution:
4424 music reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may lack the pop-accented immediacy of ‘EUSEXUA’ tracks like ‘Perfect Stranger’ and ‘Room of Fools’, but there’s a surfeit of transcendent dance music on offer here, deftly undercut with a sensual, inventive, hi-definition approach that is always gesturing towards the future.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This, their second has already topped the charts over in the US. Why? Well, it's exuberant, bratty and crushingly relentless.er been so fun.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Joyous, pensive, cathartic and hymnal in equal measure, this is the human condition set to music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Definitely for the faint-hearted.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His words are stirring without ever being hyper-specific, and can apply to any trying situation that he or the listener has experienced. There is a connection with him through his delivery, which maintains the modesty and gratitude of a person just genuinely trying to figure his way through life.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As a collected body of work At.Long.Last.A$AP is far from dreadful, but taken as a whole it lacks the elements of depth and star quality that--having set the bar incredibly high with his debut--many expect from A$AP Rocky.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fifth effort Depression Cherry is no different, and whilst haters could accuse the duo of being a one trick pony, you must ask yourself if you truly care when the pony is so damn gorgeous.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It all adds up to a set of hallucinogenic songs that sound like they were spat out of another dimension. A truly special record from a band you need to keep your eye on.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ed’s voice is at its finest--effortless and addictive. It makes you want to listen to this gem all over again.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Curved Line is a robust collection that finds McKeown going from strength to strength.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Radwan Ghazi Mounmeh and his cohorts have managed to make a record which communicates across the bounds of culture and time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is an album that continually surprises. Rarely has the bleak mid-Winter been so inviting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blessed with wisdom and a rare sense of poetry, Weem finds De Rosa revelling in glorious dis-connection from their roots.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It wraps you up like a sunny day in the middle of no where. But Lynch is never far from a party, and every moment of this record is glazed with fun and pop and excitement.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The impact of his earlier existence as a jazz player also noticeably infuses tracks ‘Betelgeuse’s Endless Bamboo Oceans’ and ‘Ode to The Pleiades’, attaching another rich dimension to this record.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This feels like an important record, one that opens up a conversation that has largely been excluded from the mainstream for much too long. Above all this, though, is the sheer marvel of the musicianship, the endless innovation, the continual improvisation that makes My East Is Your West such a surprising, and truly enjoyable listen.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The three piece are as creative and alluring than ever before, and it solidifies the band’s place at the top of their game. Through wide-eyed vulnerability and reflective song writing, False Alarm is a game-changing record for the future of indie-rock.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There’s a spirit of continuity that makes ‘Harmony Avenue’ feel like a cohesive collection rather than a joined-up sonic pathway; a sense of purpose that somehow makes these disparate sounds all work together.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her self-imposed solitude during its gestation period (she apparently spent 10 days in complete silence at a Vipassana retreat while writing) has led to a very introspective work that somehow still feels relatable.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Johnny Flynn’s consistently simple melodies and simply, his sheer musicality, are evidence of an artist in his prime.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A strong project from Fredo who shows how to be successful by sticking to your own sound. The production of this album is perfect with the choice of beats getting better as the album progresses.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cinematic splashes with honest lyricism feature in the twelve-track production and there is one thing this writer can tell about ‘A Fistful Of Peaches. It’s all about escaping the war in the mind, something that helps make Black Honey a band to admire.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Packing so much in comes at the risk of a more diluted sound and an album which lacks a strong sense of cohesive unity. This is most apparent in the first two ‘planets’, where the result is a little muddled. When not biting off more than they can chew by integrating three entirely different featured artists within a five track part (see ‘Off Planet Part 1’), the album is a fresh and interesting take on experimental electronica.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ‘The Good Witch’ is a dazzling little record that is as entertaining to listen to as it sounds like it was for Peters to make.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On ‘Sunburn’, the American songwriter sounds the most comfortable he ever has, and as a result this sophomore record carves out his own space in the music world.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s an album to get lost in and to find the pockets of light that punctuate the sublime melodies and dank instrumentation.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This album is fantastic and – as CLASH noted up top – you can easily compare this album to releases from the successful groups around the 1990’s/2000’s in this genre..
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This timeless and fascinating collection takes you on an unparalleled sonic journey that represents the brilliance, emotional connection and enduring legacy of the band that can be found in abundance both on record and the live stage.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Foregrounding mental health, love, and the transformative experiences of the rail replacement bus, ‘Hers’ is a beautiful glimpse of his creative essence.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emotive and delicately intertwined with lush vocals and slices of upbeat moments (‘The Answer’), not for lack of trying, is a sensational project from dodie.