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 |
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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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The band rarely strays from the album versions of songs (sometimes to a frustrating degree; would it have killed B&S to record a version of 'Sleep The Clock Around' without the annoyingly long fade-in?), but such faithful rendering doesn’t make the material predictable; rather, it shows the band at the top of its delicate game.- Magnet
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Though not without the psychedelics that informed the Verve's early records, Ashcroft spends most of Alone elaborating on the same elegance he initially allowed to die with the Verve's 1998 disbanding. [#46, p.67]- Magnet
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The band has finally become more than the sum of its friends. [#54, p.106]- Magnet
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Rub still happily rubs listeners the wrong-right way with crass, curt tunes. [No. 125, p.61]- Magnet
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Engaging and alluring as this fresh coat of cool on an easily recognizable sonic vehicle maybe, Better Nature nonetheless remains an album destined to placate--not trip out--fans. [No. 125, p.61]- Magnet
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The Midnight Organ Fight's bloodied-but-unbowed lyrics stand up to repeated listening even on the fastest cutes. [Summer 2008, p.106]- Magnet
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Throughout the album, Wedren knows when to go from maximalist to minimalist. And his multi-octave vocal range still delivers accessible melodies. [No. 81, p. 59]- Magnet
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Rest easy, the group that makes you wish you’d gone to film school so you could’ve built a movie around its expansive instrumentals--works that seem to come rumbling from the molten core of the earth itself--hasn’t changed much from the glory days of early albums such as 1997’s "Young Team."- Magnet
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A formidable, spooky album you can lose--or perhaps find--yourself in. [#61, p.97]- Magnet
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Even in its most somber moments, Birds is all catchy, all the time. [#69, p.108]- Magnet
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His guitar solos are more electrified than usual, and they sound like burning juke-joint riffs... a true American original. [No. 82, p. 53]- Magnet
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It's heady.... Wand delivers dynamic, lysergic rock 'n' roll. [No. 125, p.61]- Magnet
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If Dunger is trying to shed the [Van Morrison] comparison, Here's My Song won't help matters. [#71, p.94]- Magnet
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Throughout, McCombs hits a brilliantly unpredictable songwriting stride. [No. 103, p.57]- Magnet
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The emotional tenor on Lambchop’s 10th LP is hard to miss. Not that there’s anything wrong with being touchy and tender, but the calm, spare arrangements on OH (ohio) can only be described as pretty.- Magnet
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On par, quality-wise, with the triumph that was last year's Stereo/Mono. [#61, p.110]- Magnet
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Vega rarely got the opportunity to be heard beyond the underground, so clarity--in passing--was essential. And all the more piercing for it. [No. 146, p.61]- Magnet
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Shape Shift With Me has catchy anthems, heavy rock songs and speed rants; it's yet another excellent, and complicated, Against Me! album. [No. 135, p.52]- Magnet
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In some ways, shedding the epic storytelling has given Vanderslice a more universal appeal. [#69, p.111]- Magnet
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Posted Oct 18, 2013 -
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Chelsea Light Moving finds Moore in renaissance mode. And it's pretty goddamn great, even if one might occasionally yearn for a Lee Ranaldo squall or Gordon vocal coo-roar up around the next bend. [No. 97, p.54]- Magnet
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Third World Pyramid, like its recent predecessors, is yet another gorgeous, quasi-psychedelic slice of the band's kaleidoscope-eyes popcraft. [No. 138, p.53]- Magnet
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Like their English ancestors, the Girls deal almost exclusively in exuberance and wonderment, making found squalls and rattles sound like their own. But that might have more to do with the copious amounts of reverb echoing through the album’s best songs.- Magnet
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The songs sound fresh and spontaneous, gull of a delicate passion. [No. 137, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Nov 16, 2016