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 real pleasure is the instigation to sit through and hear JPSE go through the good, the bad and the near misses of a career that took the band from a light-hearted party outfit with an ingratiating delicate side in Christchurch, New Zealand, to game, but stressed-out grunts trying to flog big, catchy hooks that should have caught on with the Yo La Tengo and My Bloody Valentine crowds (yet never did). [No. 122, p.56]- Magnet
- Posted Aug 28, 2015
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The distorted, shimmering sound world proposed by My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and perfected on Fennesz's Endless Summer is used here as a gorgeous facade behind which endless layers of processed guitars recede like ocean waves reaching for the horizon. [No. 133, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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Wild Things does its darndest to plug the electro-dance ice-pop void left by La Roux's sophomore let-down and the absence of new Robyn, Annie And Dragonette albums. [No. 133, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Aug 9, 2016 -
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These 15 instrumental tracks come across as half exorcism, half jam session, but the result fits pretty well in line with everything they've done in their other bands. [No. 107, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2014 -
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Rogue Wave's fifth album features a handful of its best tunes yet. [No.99, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 17, 2013 -
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A neat, consistently solid 34-minute record unconcerned with peaking or hits. [No.99, p.61]- Magnet
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The Rezillos have lost little in terms of sweaty, cranky boogie-rock fervor that they and the Cramps helped put on the map. [No. 118, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2015 -
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For all the aesthetic hopscotching, Ripe 4 Luv never falls off its sharp, catchy axis. [No. 118, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2015 -
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There is much to admire in the trademark plaintiveness and honesty on his seventh album. [No. 96, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Mar 15, 2013 -
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Death Song isn't a wild step in any new direction but instead a grindstone-polished showcase of what the group does best. [No.142, p.52]- Magnet
Posted May 18, 2017 -
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On A Raw Youth, Le Butcherettes find the perfect balance of oddball ideas and actual hooks, creating a heavy, sweaty avant-rock hybrid that's as catchy as it is bewitching. [No. 124, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Sep 22, 2015 -
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Anxiety is the rare electro-pop album that's wholly synthetic, but plays without a hint of icy artificiality. [No. 96, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 15, 2013 -
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Very clearly the work of art-school kids who use their skills for creating alluring visuals to craft equally enticing music. [No. 85, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Mar 19, 2012 -
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Karlsson and Winnberg's focus on gentle, warm sonic tones and catchy hooks should reassure fans of tracks like "Animal" and "Burial" that everything is under control. [No. 85, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Mar 19, 2012 -
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It's all such lovely, elegantly refined stuff that it's easy to sink under the spell of its warm, somnolent glow. [No. 142, p.61]- Magnet
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This compelling album is dominated by a spirit of grace and hope. [#81, p. 53]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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Let's Cry is at its best when it steps outside of this project's prescribed comfort zones. [No. 115, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Nov 12, 2014 -
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If you want to hear him reconciling the roots of his music with a future he hasn't found yet, this is the next fearless step into the future. [No. 159, p.61]- Magnet
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Feedback is the duct tape that holds it all together. There might be a little dirt on it, but it's still good. [No. 124, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Sep 22, 2015 -
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The real draws here are the stunning fresh takes on some of the finest works to be found in the Antony & The Johnsons catalog. [No.90, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Dec 14, 2012 -
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Wolfroy goes to Town is a meditative and sparse collection, and much of it continues the same train thought at work in the "There is no God" b/w "God is Love" single. [#82, p. 52]- Magnet
Posted Nov 15, 2011 -
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The accomplishment is immaculate, but what's harder to sort out is where the real Kelley Stoltz stands. [No. 147, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Oct 17, 2017 -
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With Anything Could Happen, Stinson not only shows that Bash & Pop 2.0 has potential staying power but also that he's worthy of comparisons to his mentor. [No. 139, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Feb 14, 2017 -
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Body Pill nods briefly to vintage Detroit techno and no-holds-barred house in between stiffly edging out its own ground on the very crowded floor that is contemporary dance music, often on the same track. [No. 117, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Feb 20, 2015 -
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Minus interludes and meandering artsy filler, many of the 11 tracks take fine-grain sandpaper to noise rock's jagged edges. [No. 146, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Sep 18, 2017 -
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While things get a touch unfocused in the final stretch, the Hot Chip chaps are always god for a grandly uplifting closing statement. [No. 115, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Nov 12, 2014 -
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They've abandoned songs entirely in favor of pulsing, predominately electronic pieces that radiate a warmth that contrasts dramatically with Labradford's chilly austerity. [No. 141, p53]- Magnet
Posted May 23, 2017