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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Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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The opposition between sonic abstraction and more familiar pop elements like beats, riffs and grooves creates a welcome tension. [#58, p.83]- Magnet
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Luckily for us, low points are few and less about quality control than redundancy. [No. 104, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Dec 4, 2013 -
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An organic expression of the beauty that can be found in the fragile, arbitrary nature of communication. [No. 92, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Oct 17, 2012 -
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On Dilate, Bardo Pond does the trick by adding a bit of restraint and space to its familiar blend of Iommi-grade riffing, volume-induced overtones and Isobel SOllenberger's inimitably blasted moan. [#49, p.69]- Magnet
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Choir Of The Mind is more often introspective and engrossing. [No. 146, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Sep 18, 2017 -
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Their playful mutability keeps them from being genre exercises and makes I Had A Dream a delight. [No. 137, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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Passage has all the elements of a classic, from undeniable hooks to head-spinning shards of noise. [No.87 p.55]- Magnet
Posted May 24, 2012 -
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The songs are vibrant enough to convince you to forgive their derivative nature. [#67, p.87]- Magnet
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Holdin' The Bag pleases the punks and suppresses the alt-country garage rockers alike. [No. 125, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Oct 16, 2015 -
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Few of Creed's peers pursue songs and sounds this blazingly epic and weirdly experimental. [No. 112, p.53]- Magnet
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Posted Aug 23, 2012 -
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It's not difficult to hear everyone from John Cate to Ryan Adams in the soundtrack. And yet, it's always distinctly Margot. [No. 108, p.57]- Magnet
Posted May 19, 2014 -
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It's as good a collection as Saint Etienne has ever released. [#71, p.111]- Magnet
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Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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The Broken String easily takes its place alongside those classics [Wilco’s Being There and Ben Folds Five’s self-titled debut].- Magnet
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We find a band tapping into a distinctly American heart of darkness, capturing this nation's descent into partisan chaos and random, endless violence the way only the foreign-born can. [No. 97, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Apr 16, 2013 -
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[David] Gedge's fragile, understated vocals and keyboardist Sally Murrell's soaring, wordless harmonies only add to the sense of desolation.... [#48, p.79]- Magnet
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Glass Swords is a testament to the importance of cutting right the chase, boiling house music down to climaxes the way Lightening Bolt compresses wild metal soloing into hard, gnarly blasts of attitude. [#81, p. 59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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Ultimately, only a churlish, dead-eyed cynic would refuse to be moved by this inspired mix of riotous noise and feel-good vibetasticness. [Fall 2007, p.93]- Magnet
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The Pilgrimage is a much busier, more dynamic effort than its predecessor; one that never flails in its considerable ambition, but, rather, simply continues driving forward, all menace and swagger. [No.86, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Apr 30, 2012 -
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The songs are quiet and emotionally intense, and they unfold like a collection of short stories in which characters and themes recur and play off each other. [No. 137, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Nov 16, 2016 -
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The brevity gives the tunes space to present themselves without a needless bridge here or a prideful coda there. [#71, p.102]- Magnet
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This is the most blistering set the duo have put out in a long time. [No. 81, p. 56]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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Newman has pushed his voice to a human place, upon a mantle, as if finally proud of the boys. Good show. [No.97, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Apr 16, 2013 -
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The band manages to harness the immediacy of being a three-piece without sacrificing sonic depth or complexity.- Magnet
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The Bunnymen haven't sounded this vital since 1987's "Lips Like Sugar," and some of Flowers' standout cuts rank among the band's best. [#50, p.87]- Magnet
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One-third of VII has the quintet living up to the folk/country billing with upbeat, chaw-spittin', porch-sittin' classics-in-waiting and depressive ballads presented in Eric Earley's stark, storytelling style. The other two-thirds have skittering keyboards and soulful backing vocals. [No. 103, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Oct 18, 2013