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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Nada Surf took it to The Next Level with 2003's near-flawless "Let Go" and has followed it up with two amazing, richly rewarding efforts. [Winter 2008, p.110]- Magnet
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Here, the raw emotion in Grace's voice isn't diluted or smoothed out; her rage and vibrancy are front and center, and not just in song. [No. 124, p.53]- Magnet
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The songs on The Repulsion Box sound like they were banged out in the underlit kitchen of a crumbling Appalachian cabin. [#69, p.108]- Magnet
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Manages a graceful, humble, grounded timelessness without sacrificing the groove. [#58, p.82]- Magnet
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The band clicks perfectly, as if it had been playing these songs forever, and the album brings out another side of Auerbach, with different guitar textures and a different falsetto channeling his blues-rock instincts in a different direction. [No. 124, p.53]- Magnet
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Erasure avoids the obvious pitfalls with its usual combination of intelligence and good humor. [No. 104, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Dec 4, 2013 -
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Both sound retrospective but bound together, that introspection sounds loving and lovely. [No. 130, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Apr 15, 2016 -
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Quasi has finally crafted a studio work that exudes the same whiff of spontaneity that's always been evident in performance. [#61, p.105]- Magnet
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It's hard to imagine a better psychedelic-pop record this year than Satanic Panic In The Attic. [#64, p.102]- Magnet
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Her vocals throughout the album sound relaxed and carefree, with wordless bridges that convey a giddy exuberance beyond the power of any lyric to convey. [No. 115, p.55]- Magnet
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The Long Goodbye is no cutesy, navel-gazing crap; it's the neglected pop practice of C-A-R-E and reverence of form and forefathers. [#59, p.93]- Magnet
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A stellar first attempt at a concept album... [a] ghoulish delight. [No. 85, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2012 -
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Overseas hits all the soft spots of longtime fans, while cohering easily into a new and striking whole. [No. 100, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jul 17, 2013 -
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While there's certainly nothing on Poses so riveting as to signify a rock revolution, there's something to be said for the virtue of a simple crooner operating at the top of his game. [#51, p.122]- Magnet
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Slow Summits is full of carefully arranged autumnal tunes: thoughtful, intimate, unaffected and wistfully romantic. It's secret music worth sharing.[No.99, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jun 17, 2013 -
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[The] sly, artful brilliance should come as no real surprise. [No. 100, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jul 17, 2013 -
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If Bondy's been searching for a suitable solo identity, Believers may be his charmed third time.[#81, p. 54]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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The emotional gravitas only lends heft to the group's exhilarating, ever-present sugar high. [#74, p.104]- Magnet
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The Milwaukee-based post-rock sextet pretty much turns its back on proggish theatrics this time around, instead crafting tracks so organic, they could pass for natural phenomena.[#81, p. 54]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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A hungry batch of songs that finds Malin wandering the avenues and uncovering compelling stories wherever he goes. [#64, p.100]- Magnet
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Lanegan's stamp here is reverent-yet-indelible--think Mark Kozelek channeling AC/DC--and the organic sonic approach is an especially intriguing left turn following the electro buzz 'n' thrum of last year's resplendent Blues Funeral. [No. 102, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Sep 19, 2013 -
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Things never bog down in the spectral murk, even when the tempos slow to a bump in the night. [No. 115, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Nov 12, 2014 -
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Cronin learned how to pack garage/punk fuzzbombs with big hooks as the Moonhearts' frontman, and he hasn't lost the ragged-and-reckless urgency here.[#81, p. 55]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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What lends Bee its buzz--beyond the purring keyboards, the plump wah-wahs and sexy whistles--is its subtle edits: dreary snowdrifts in synthetic time that cautiously subvert the electro-charge like a savage nipple twist on the pale body of the vestal virgin that is Llama pop. [#48, p.93]- Magnet