Dusted Magazine's Scores

  • Music
Select another publication »
For 3,270 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Ys
Lowest review score: 0 Rain In England
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,654 out of 3270
  2. Mixed: 581 out of 3270
  3. Negative: 35 out of 3270
3270 music reviews
view
per page
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Secret Migration
    Ultimately, nobody's likely to claim The Secret Migration as a great album, I'm afraid. But it possesses energy and inspiration that its predecessor greatly lacked, and even the weaker songs here have something to recommend.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    And Everything Else
    For the most part, it sounds like giddy, faux-innocent psychedelia filtered through a kaleidoscope, moody but never mopey.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Axes
    Axes works as an hour-long piece of tension, dread, and release, with little room for interpretation, demanding to be listened to as a whole.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kidnapped By Neptune
    It’s easily Niblett’s most challenging album to date, and also her most accomplished.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seadrum/House Of Sun
    Two compact chunks that could have made a gooier whole, one can certainly consider the potential excellence of “Seadrum”’s sprawling galaxy-march against some “House of Sun” morphed licks.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    13 & God
    This is an awkward pairing -- there are a number of nice moments, but many haven't been fully developed, and seams divide them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Milk Of Human Kindness
    Snaith rips the rarefied sounds of modern pop from their established context and forms nonlinear compositions constantly in flux.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oceans Apart
    Oceans Apart is the album that fans have been waiting for, the one that brings back the flawless production of their early releases and the cynical/idealistic tradeoff in Forster and McLennan’s songwriting.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Wedding
    Oneida have never sounded more ambitious, yet they’ve kept their proggy impulses on a short leash; the flourishes serve the music, not vice versa.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Celebration Castle
    They’ve attempted to tighten up where their debut hung slack – shorter, less songs, less room to drag. Yet dragging is all that Celebration Castle does, falling deeper into the garage-meets-new wave dichotomy that looks good on paper but would require considerably more talent to execute.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas
    The most astounding thing about Lord Quas is not Madlib going against the grain, but that it’s basically The Unseen 2005, completely devoid of hits, and still ultimately compelling.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sunset Tree
    Clearly, John Darnielle has a life story that’s inspiring as more than just the tale of an unconventional indie rock hero. Now that he’s making his best music, I think we can all be glad that he’s finally telling it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Awfully Deep
    Smith’s tracks are both banging and self-effacing, yet the two opposite impulses never seem fully at odds with each other.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Untilted
    Untilted’s sound is warmer and rounder, but at the expense of sonic and rhythmic scope, initially a disappointment. It’s nice to report, though, that repeated auditions expose a new tightness in composition.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ex Hex
    It’s particularly satisfying to hear confident music like this, played with the fiery purpose of those who pioneered it over the last two decades.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Case We Die
    Architecture in Helsinki delivers complex, dynamic composition and arrangement in a package that, while not universally digestible, is entertaining for all.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sunlandic Twins
    Occasionally masterful, frequently evocative, and consistently lovely.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alligator
    Alligator's biggest missteps are the moments when the music joins in the apprehension, rendering the coyness in Berninger's lyrics unreadable.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    D.U.M.E. [EP]
    Adult. doesn't make their music easy to swallow, and some of the tracks here don't feel fully developed. But this is a band in transition, exchanging the spacious rhythms of their electro for a suffocating spin on rock revivalism.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dimmer.
    A few promising moments aside, most of it hardly resounds at all.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lost And Safe
    Not entirely dissimilar to their previous efforts, but it features the duo tweaking their sound in subtle ways that make for an affecting, if not drastic, tangent.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On My Way To Absence
    Jurado’s ambition seems to have outpaced his execution this time out.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    So is Patton a charlatan or a genius? While Suspended Animation doesn’t exactly settle the question, it’s shitloads of fun trying to find out.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Horses In The Sky
    Horses... is Silver Mount Zion’s most musically satisfying disc to date because, while the well-worn formulae are present, sonic variance and compositional modification has brought a welcome diversity to an increasingly wearisome aesthetic.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Darkness At Noon
    Darkness at Noon thrives on pushing and pulling the listener from emotional peak to valley.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Black Sheep Boy
    Sheff’s delivery, however, is the Black Sheep Boy’s biggest flaw.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Guero
    The album’s biggest weakness lies in its arrangements.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beauty And The Beat
    The record is more about preserving hip-hop culture that about creating something fresh.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arular
    What's more remarkable than her fascinating biography is her bold music. Like her life story, there's hardly anything like it.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Picaresque
    Over rudimentary, skiffle-derived hooks, a kitchen-sink orchestra creates an aura of portent. Then in steps Meloy, doping up the whole affair with empty melancholy until it has to breathe through a tube, wailing big words in a forced accent that conveys despair but fails to signify its cause, fails to signify anything.
Page: