Magnet's Scores
- Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
| Highest review score: | Comicopera | |
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| Lowest review score: | Sound-Dust |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,874 out of 2325
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Mixed: 380 out of 2325
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Negative: 71 out of 2325
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Segall makes quite a cacophonous rock 'n' roll racket with infectious pop stompers like rousing, four-on-the-floor rocker "You're The Doctor" and the menacing, rolling riffage of "They Told Me To." Yet, the headroom in the mix makes so the oceans of pulverizing reverb don't swallow the hooks. [No. 92, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Oct 10, 2012 -
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There's a noisy undercurrent on Breaks in the Armor, which may become even more prevalent with the return of and cross-pollination with Archers Of Loaf, but the album's stripped-back, still powerful songs might be indicating Crooked Finger's path from here.[#82, p. 54]- Magnet
Posted Nov 15, 2011 -
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Though Calvi hardly ever breaks from her aesthetic on One Breath, she owns it so well that you'd be hard-pressed to complain. [No. 105, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Dec 18, 2013 -
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Townshend-ian windmills are all over... but it's greatest when Lucas makes his politics explicit on this record on the stomping "woo-ooh" hooked "They Saved Reagan's Brain" or breaks musical script for the intense metal-with-horns of "Here Comes Ol' Laptop." [No.92 p.55]- Magnet
Posted Oct 22, 2012 -
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At the core are lyrics abstract enough to keep you coming back and digging for meaning until the next moles record, however many decades off that might be. [No. 135, p.56]- Magnet
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The melodies are strong, but they have a moody, hopeless character that perfectly fits these tales of missed connections and love gone terribly wrong. [No. 110, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jun 18, 2014 -
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White's aesthetic, as always, is grounded in the immediate and the visceral, and Lazaretto rocks. [No. 111, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2014 -
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Though it reveals apparent influences ranging from Eyeless in Gaza to Simple Minds, the Baltimore trio's third album finds the band updating rather than simply recreating. [#82, p. 55]- Magnet
Posted Nov 15, 2011 -
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Ascent is an album that manages to find the perfect harmony between the normal and the weird, the dirty and the clean, the psychedelic and the straight. Put it in your psych-rock emergency kit. [No.90, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Aug 23, 2012 -
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Swing Lo Magellen sounds forced and cluttered... highlights a dearth of skill when it comes to self-editing. [No.89 p.54]- Magnet
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This record's controls are set for the heart of the drone, and the crew knows precisely where they're going. [No. 100, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jul 17, 2013 -
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Whether juxtaposed with string sections, dark electronics or thumping beats, Moyet's deeply sonorous voice is still the dramatic center. [No. 143, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 28, 2017 -
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The record's two pieces are fields of rhythm that seem to pull away from your reach like a curtain blowing in a breeze, yet swing back to knock you on your ass. [No. 208, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Apr 25, 2014 -
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Slow Focus finds them instituting a newfound affinity for broken, off-kilter beats, alongside their now-signature knack for teasing irresistible melodies out of chaotic, discordant noise. [No. 101, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Aug 16, 2013 -
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Enjoying Furr, then, depends entirely on your ability (or willingness) to ignore the heavy footprints of familiar musicians.- Magnet
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Works For Tomorrow maybe doesn't sound quite as fiery as 1988's Prairie School Freakout, 1989's Beet or, even, 2011's Riot Now! But it gets awfully close. [No. 123, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Aug 12, 2015 -
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The arrangements turn more delicate and acoustic as the songs grow more hopeful. [No. 131, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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He calls this collection of tunes "California noir," and the album delivers on that promise with songs that explore the deteriorating American dream in all its faded glory. [No. 139, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Feb 14, 2017 -
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"The Lost You" is a breathless, if unfortunate, peak. What follows are four miserable, mostly tuneless dirges that bring a slow death to [the] album. [#67, p.97]- Magnet
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To hear them here, in nascent form, performed by a band that had only played 10 shows in its lifetime, is to hear the nervous current that flowed through Fugazi when it had everything yet to prove, and a lifetime of excellent work ahead of it. Highly recommended. [No. 116, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Dec 10, 2014 -
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His voice wafting in as it from across some great, wide divide, he drapes heavy-lidded seductions and portending cautionary tales over several decades of occultish folk, ritualistic rhythm and acoustic blues, from Bron-Y-Aur stomps to paralyzed lullabies. [No. 101, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Aug 16, 2013 -
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A thoroughly enjoyable and loving tribute. [No. 142, p.57]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2017 -
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They plunge once more into a spontaneously generated maelstrom of corroded noise and spasmodic rock action, letting the music flow like lava oozing destructively through the streets of your town. [No. 134, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Sep 7, 2016 -
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Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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The album's greatest treasures are sadder and subtler, finding their place within the Willie trifecta of love, loss and loneliness. [No. 142, p.59]- Magnet
Posted May 18, 2017 -
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The more writerly approach hasn't dulled the duo's riffage one iota, even if this is their most musically expansive and easily their most musically expansive and easily their cleanest-sounding outing yet. [No. 139, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Feb 14, 2017 -
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Spades is a grower, as they say, only revealing its charms to patient listeners over repeated listens. [No. 143, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Jun 27, 2017 -
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More of the same, yes, but riding what sounds like an autumnal rebirth. [#58, p.86]- Magnet