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
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Valtari is glistening, subliminal and sounds as if it's balanced on a falling raindrop.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A synth heavy, angst ridden, paranoia-fuelled musical monolith filled with catchy hooks, heavy drums and nods of the cap towards Dubstep.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Here shows] a true progression without losing any of the magic that made their first album such a breath of fresh air. Simply superb.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An album of huge promise rather than an instant classic - 2:54's time will come.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Young, yet somehow void of naivety. Vibrant, yet artistically matured.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The only maturity in their sound is towards a more ambient quarter. Elevator music not quite, but rising out of the background might be an issue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Come The Bombs' is fresh and stylish and marks Coombes' finest work in over a decade. A triumph.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The hallmarks of Simian Mobile Disco are present - huge beats and house loops take centre-stage - but many of the tracks just feel like they're missing a vital component.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Most of these tunes are neither dog turd nor diamond. They're decent-ish disco-punk stompers sold by the vocal.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bloom oozes simplicity, honesty and contentness. It will be a welcome sound of summer for 'Teen Dream' fans, but don't expect anything too radical.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    [Loveless] not only stands the test of time, but transcends it. Songs like 'When You Sleep' sound as inventive now and would outshine much of the crop of young pretenders... Remains an archetypal classic.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The maker and breaker of neon daisy chains, 'Galaxy Garden' is a fantasia that's as lush as a chain of soap shops.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An unconventional masterpiece.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It all feels a little weary and, whilst there's clear commitment and execution, the material suddenly sounds oh so dated.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Overblown yet elegant and intimate, this is a bold undertaking; arcane, abstract, absolutely remarkable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's about as modern an electronic record as you can get. It's pretty much safe to say that 'Memory' won't be fading for a while.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His best work since 'Black Holes In The Sand'.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    'Electra heart' is an ingloriously languid statement of Marina's demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simply a superb collection of beautifully captured moments and suggests that Mystery Jets are going to be making great music for a very long time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This record is an exploration into the synergy of reengineering technology and humanity. Let yourself be taken on the journey.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ways To Forget is a bar-raiser--an album of intelligent synth-pop bubbling with humanity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Undeniably beautiful. Aloof, abstract and elegant, it melds ambient expanse with pop form to idyllic, if unassuming effect.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good, but for completists.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A surprisingly effective 21st century take on the Seventies singer-songwriter album, with tight band performances from the likes of the Dap-Kings and sympathetic production from the king of the trumpets.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    'R.I.P.' is both an update on the bass explorations of restless Britain and perhaps a timeless thesaurus of blistered tones and ideas that younger producers will beg, borrow and steal from for years to come.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Driven by demons and fired by fury, 'Blunderbuss' is a turbulent insight into one man's wrath - but it rocks. Hard.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's hyper real hip-hop made just in time for the end of the world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its relentless energy is utterly addictive.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Complex, thought provoking and undeniably engaging.