Classic Rock Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,213 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
| Highest review score: | Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 | |
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| Lowest review score: | What About Now |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,863 out of 2213
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Mixed: 339 out of 2213
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Negative: 11 out of 2213
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Dream Nails are evolving with grace and wit, trading the splenetic feminist rants of their early career for more musically and emotionally nuanced terrain. [Mar 2026, p.81]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Twee and tuneful, self-consciously oddball and so indefatigably alt. [Jun 2022, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Musically, tracks like My Cleveland Heart achieve an effortless quintessence with the swing of a practised elbow. [Aug 2021, p.81]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Gravity Stairs is not an easy listen, but it is worth sticking with. [Jul 2024, p.76]- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted May 29, 2024
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It can't and shouldn't replace the original, but this is a fascinating insight into the band's creative process and latter-day regrets. [Dec 2025, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It finds him in a reflective mood. It's a smart musical move, because Storm Damage showcases what a good lyricist he is. [Mar 2020, p.86]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Each of its five segments finds nascent chaos metamorphosing into funk-fuelled crescendo as if by inspired osmosis. [Jul 2021, p.93]- Classic Rock Magazine
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The default setting of these thunderous doom lords from Sweden's far north remains the expansive, melodic, lavishly arranged anthem, layered densely with clobbering drums and shuddering riffs. [Apr 2022, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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These four coloured vinyls boast 18 unreleased gems. [Jan 2021, p.95]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Biley turns the controls a little more towards vintage soul on this eighth album. Her voice is still a formidable instrument. [Feb 2026, p.81]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Actually, You Can is business as usual, which translates into a 'gloriously unusual racket'. [Jan 2022, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Sure, there are no surprises here but then again, none are needed. [Dec 2025, p.77]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's clear that this form of musical self-help will have even the most mixed-up fan feeling slightly zen. [Mar 2020, p.89]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Continues to make some of the sweetest and most self-assured AOR-inflected power-pop going. [Aug 2021, p.82]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Dawson's heavily mannered delivery and maximalist verbosity requires patience at times, but Silene is one of the most straightforwardly beautiful songs he has ever recorded. [Jan 2022, p.83]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Following the metaverse music hall of Step Outside, however, normal bombastic synthrock service resumes. [Mar 2022, p.81]- Classic Rock Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2022 -
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Turn It On! is the rock'n'roll equivalent of a dazzling ray of sunshine. [May 2022, p.84]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Their seventh album is clever, arch and compelling. [Mar 2026, p.79]- Classic Rock Magazine
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From the woozy menace of No Air and the Killing Joke-tinged Shadows through to the doomy rampage of Living In Lye, this rocks harder and smarter.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Nov 23, 2016
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It finds them on classic BJM form--a warm, densely analogue journey through inner space punctuated by churchy keyboards and tambourines that rattle like bones. [Summer 2018, p.86]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Passwords is full of lustrous folk, as on My Greatest Invention and I Can't Love, with the odd innocuous AOR moment, though there's hidden bite. [Summer 2018, p.89]- Classic Rock Magazine
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It's highly agreeable background music for those who prefer to keep the curtains closed. [Nov 2014, p.91]- Classic Rock Magazine
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Eschewing Young’s work recorded with Promise Of The Real – or indeed anything written this side of 1995 – Noise & Flowers’ nine crowd pleasers offer exactly what that brilliant title suggests.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Aug 5, 2022
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- Posted Jun 6, 2017
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Their seventh album doesn’t stint on the Wagnerian bombast, from the Ritalin-powered kick drum assault of Astral Empire to the epic Guitar Hero duels of, well, pretty much everything on here. But there are pop smarts amid the silliness.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Jun 19, 2017
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It’s not all hits--there’s the borderline derivative glam-metal of Two Birds, and the wholly less arresting pop-punk of Side Effects--but this is loud, proficient punk rock which should leave even the most curmudgeonly listener fist-punching with glee.- Classic Rock Magazine
- Posted Sep 21, 2017
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