Clash Music's Scores

  • Music
For 4,420 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:
4420 music reviews
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Anna is full of uninspired and recycled riffs starkly illuminated by the God awful woe-is-me-I’m-northern lyrics.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twilight techno at its most haunted.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The brazen flows of Dagenham spitter, Devlin, shown on this outing don’t quite translate to the forced templates they lay on, meaning that the formula needs working.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    We Will Not Harm You operates much like a London Sunday market in its vibrant, assorted survey of the electronic melting pot
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Catchy melodies abound in an eclectic, engaging effort.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their newest newscast is a record that simultaneously could take you anywhere, yet doesn’t really go anywhere at all; its strength is just being there.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    II
    The Portland-based psych-rock outfit’s second album is an absolute triumph.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The production may be a little smoother but Pedestrian Verse just seems to prove how lasting, how devastating Frightened Rabbit can be.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everett has fought his well-documented trails and tribulations tooth and nail, and this gritty but ultimately joyous album stands as testament to that.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are echoes of Duran Duran, ABC and more here, but thankfully without the horribly cheap and nasty production values.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Neither offensive nor inventive this album is a bit like a bag of Rainbow Drops; thrillingly pretty but ultimately full of air.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An interesting experiment.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [An] offensively dull record.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While not breaking new sonic ground, the broad brush strokes of nostalgia rarely wilt.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album wears a multitude of influences on its sleeve, containing elements of hip-hop, house, disco and funk, but ultimately there is a distinct lack of variation amongst the thirteen tracks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    {Awayland} is just brilliant.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything about this album is bigger than what has gone before and reveals an energised band with a real belief in what they're doing. Quite right too.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This isn't a record to dip into, but an absorbing, cerebral and often funky trip.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arc
    It is the sound of a band working out what they are good at and turning the quality control up to eleven.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fade finds YLT at their most wistfully contemplative; a thought only softened by the paradox that this might just be one of their best yet.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A beautiful diversion then, rather than an eye-opening reboot or soul-stirring call to arms.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PJ Geissinger boosts his refinement, despite not being a slave to technicality, with no surrendering of dancefloor rawness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The music on 'Wax And Glue' shows potential, but the overall idea of the record is just too cluttered.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times the effects are superb.... However, there are wobbles with the quality control.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grace/Confusion sees Hawk get back on track, by remembering what worked in the first place.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The spaces in-between are almost as important as the notes themselves on a headphone album with which to brave the winter.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An exhausting and thoroughly absorbing set.... It is a record that everybody should own. Meticulous, majestic, momentous.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cells brings a sense of immediacy and creativity to a genre long neglected by the mainstream dubstep epidemic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whilst openly influenced by the past, an album that bears the capacity to pioneer into the future--eloquent and elegant.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may be a tried and tested formula but inspiration as beautifully realised as this is hard to ignore.