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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Night Thoughts is far from easy listening, but it's further proof that Suede's renaissance shows no sign of losing momentum.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everyone will have their own favourites. It’s just a blessing that picking one will prove so difficult.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delivering what her fans would expect, it seems as though Flo Milli has found her feet and handed over a selection of fun-filled and ultrafeminine tracks before the summer comes to an end.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The diverging styles can at times be overbearing but there is a sense of freshness and bold shifts that is hard not to appreciate and it will be interesting to see how their style evolves.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What works on Woman truly does with aplomb, but it arguably stands as the group’s least unique effort, and with some of that old punk snarl now removed perhaps they’ve lost some of that addictive danger.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Paired down to their essence, this distilled Efterklang is premium strength stuff.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    By the time the more politically minded triptych of ‘Don’t Get Captured’, ‘Thieves!’ and ‘2100’ roll round you’ve almost forgotten just what El and Mike are capable of when they drag their eyes away from their own navels. Thankfully there’s enough gold at hand to excuse Run The Jewels for getting a little bit carried away with their own runaway success.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At best, it serves as a reminder that Wiley is one of the best to ever do it, but it often feels unfocussed, and uneven.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is a joyous, unique and tender album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Canadian boy-girl duo's debut is a whirl of delicate dream pop.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Framed by twin poles of classicism and experimentation, ‘Did you know…’ never truly succumbs to either. An often-unsettling river of song, it finds Lana Del Rey discussing uncomfortable truths, while denying the use of easy answers. What she chooses to reveal is profound, occasionally disquieting, and never dull.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Diving Board is an adult affair, but impressive enough to explore, and reinforces Elton’s continuing creative renaissance.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Punchy, peppy, and undeniably positive, ‘Keep On Smiling’ is an exuberant and life-affirming ambitious album that demonstrates that if in doubt, you have to choose happiness.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ‘Long White Dress’ and ‘Singles Bar’, subject matter made clear from the off, are highlights; the former is mellow and wistful, with a delightfully lilting chorus, while the latter radiates the fatigued disenchantment of somebody lacking motivation in the unfulfilled pursuit of love.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It’s difficult to judge the real comedic value of The Foregone Conclusion when so much of David Brent hilarity is in physical (not so) subtleties. But when you take it for what it is: an in-joke taken out of its context and out of its comfort zone, it feels pretty triumphant.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Even as the production’s impact dips in the midst of playtime, when the final note of ‘The Seed’ plays what’s left in one’s memory is only the good, and for that Aurora’s latest album succeeds.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The witty words about awkward relationships come straight from Art Brut but 'Fixin' The Charts' is also a response to classic American pop songs, with modern sequels to Motown, Dylan and, er, Kanye. The downside is that the songs are so melodic they make it sound like Argos is doing karaoke.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's palpable that the tracks are more at home on the stage, where you can feel the frenetic energy of the record itself, Georgia's boisterous on-stage persona coming through in abundance. On record, sometimes that energy gets lost in a noisy ether, her identity chopped and screwed into fragments.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For all of E’s melancholy brooding, ‘Earth to Dora’ still has a tender and vintage vibe. Although E seems to have adopted the role of a hapless romantic that is unlucky in love, this record is still strangely upbeat.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Undeniably there's little here that will surprise fans, but there is certainly plenty to be enchanted by.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whatever your feelings around the words, and they are certainly a little clunky at times, this is a musically rich collection that is partly a logical step on from the rattle of 2011’s beautiful ‘Let England Shake’ and also as melodic a rock record as Harvey has released in some time.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beady Eye are at the beginning of their own musical adventure - DG,SS, though hardly full of surprises, is a compelling way to start.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Towards is smart pop that keeps its charm.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The result is a solid summer rock album to play from your portable speaker on a day at the beach that sees the promising young band evolve and develop an already appealing sound.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As is often the case with such acts, the anarchic energy doesn’t quite translate to their debut, ‘Hot Shock’, but it nevertheless serves as a largely enjoyable opening statement. The most interesting moments arrive at the back end of the record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Things move from melodic ambience to galloping sci-fi workouts and back again, the highlight being the sublime 'Emerald And Stone'.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A great feel-good record for the summer months, this one is the perfect soundtrack for the car, park or beach. Just enjoy it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’ sees no severe changes from the Grammy award-winning 'A Deeper Understanding,' but does make for a more nimble listen, the track's shorter running time creating a tauter experience.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you love Kasabian you might think Velociraptor! is a 9/10 album, but for the rest of us it's a salt-seasoned, Spielberg-sponsored 7/10.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She exudes the beauty of an artist comfortable in the idea of taking risks, an asset she’d do well to keep hold of as, from what exists on this record, you feel that a classic is just around the corner.