DIY Magazine's Scores

  • Music
For 3,422 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Superbloom
Lowest review score: 20 Let It Reign
Score distribution:
3422 music reviews
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Odell may well sell a lot of records (though long term, he may not) but as far as art to engage and inspire goes, Long Way Down has precious little to recommend it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is boy band material dressed up in an indie band’s clothes.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lyrically it is definitely awful.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It’s the quarantine passion project created after too many days of 4pm drinking. It’s the existential crisis on Week 12 of drifting, structure-less furlough. It’s the desperate clutch at nostalgia that finds you trawling through your old school friends on Facebook at 2am, sobbing for A Simpler Time.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snapshot is more derivative than what is is supposed to be an alternative to.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ultimately, it turns out The Darkness are at their worst when doing an impression of themselves, which is exactly what Last Of Our Kind is.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Let It Reign’s abrasiveness does little to deflect from its disappointing lack of ambition.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Accordingly, he’s lent the whole affair an electronic flavour that doesn’t really work. In some cases, that’s because it’s crashingly outdated.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    They claim to be writing about politics, death and sex on this record, but Songs For Our Mothers offers so little that’s actually new. There’s no light to shine, no tales to be told and no ground to be broken. Nothing to see here.