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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The trio continues mixing and mismatching, with both elements of Skulls' sound [Black Keys' rock and Radiohead's honey-eyed longing] feeling even more pronounced. [No. 85, p. 52]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2012 -
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Schott's new material retains some of the music-box delicacy of yore, and her breathy singing is as slender as a reed. [No. 119, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Apr 15, 2015 -
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Amos delivers another set of stirring songs tempered and emboldened by years of experience. [No. 110, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jun 18, 2014 -
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More than ever, Magic Potion hears the duo transitioning from blues to blues-based. [#73, p.87]- Magnet
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Their combined voices are just so unfathomably, incorrigibly all-devouring. [No. 120, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 4, 2015 -
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Nothing here will supplant Smith's own definitive versions, but fans of the Avett Brothers, of Mayfield, and, indeed, of Smith will find plenty to love in this affectionate and unassuming album. [No. 118, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2015 -
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Wire needs more of the barbed wit and brute anger that has enabled the band's best post-2000 work stand up to its iconic '70s recordings. [No. 120, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Jun 4, 2015 -
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During its most commercial moments, Frances ventures dangerously close to System Of A Down, without the nu-metal grandstanding or fake volatility. [#67, p.106]- Magnet
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It's a warped ride overall, though not without some solid moments hidden beneath the surface. [No. 96, p.54]- Magnet
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Ward's far-ranging sound transcends the room.... If only his lyrics were as fresh. [#58, p.106]- Magnet
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Perhacs' light touch contrasts with the often heavy-handed lyrics. [No. 108, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Apr 18, 2014 -
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Only the rambunctious can appreciate the tinny, relentlessly inventive hybridization herein. [#64, p.92]- Magnet
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Led by mercurial crooner Stuart Staples, the current lineup’s grand balladry is more stately and slow-boiled than ever.- Magnet
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Posted May 25, 2017 -
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Sure, anyone who has ever listened to 14 minutes of classic-rock radio has heard a good chunk of this ... but the energy remains undeniable and infectious. [No.88 p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jun 13, 2012 -
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A few demerits are warrented for pointless and distracting tempo changes in two of the album's most satisfying songs, but otherwise, the off-kilter, kichen-sink production works. [Fall 2007, p.101]- Magnet
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Too stylistically diverse, willfully weird and lyrically cryptic to be anything more than an acquired taste. [#68, p.101]- Magnet
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There's some filler in the form of ambient doodling, but JT's pop sensibilities peek through frequently enough that it's a fair trade. [No.88, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Dec 6, 2012 -
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This sounds like grim stuff, but Gordon and Co. come off less dour than agitated, and even on its slower tracks, Beauty Already Beautiful has a lot of current running through it. [No. 131, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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La Maison offers a glimpse into the Casadys' strange, spooky world; Noah's Ark shows them taking tentative, often intriguing steps outside of it. [#69, p.91]- Magnet
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While the current incarnation knows its strengths and weaknesses; Nocturnal Koreans is the latest in a late-career winning streak the band has been on since 2008’s Object 47. [No. 131, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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It makes music that tips its hat to the past without sounding derivative. [No. 144, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2017 -
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On their fifth album, the ’Hangers burrow deep into the world of post-garage pop that feels not too far afield from Georgia indie-rock kin Pylon covering Suzi Quatro. [No. 131, p.55]- Magnet
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It's a transformative, fluidly orchestrated moodscape of dappled piano figures, synthesizer washes and swelling strings, horn and bell tones. [No. 106, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Feb 21, 2014 -
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The Dandys haven’t sounded this simultaneously energized and devil-may-care since the Duran Duran-polished synthpop of 2003’s Welcome To The Monkey House. [No. 131, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Jun 1, 2016 -
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[The album is] somewhere between his recent acid house work as Speed Dealer Moms and his dramatic collaborations with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Wu-Tang acolytes Black Knights--and pretty much everything he's done to date. [No. 110, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jun 18, 2014 -
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A collection of sandblasted songs that redefines its sound and pegs Ladybug as something other than '60s pop purists. [#61, p.101]- Magnet
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Through the first three songs, Confessions sounds for all the world like the masterpiece John Wesley Harding has seemed unwilling to make throughout the detours and bypasses his career has taken since his magnificent 1990 debut.... Unfortunately, he has a difficult time reaching those heights again. [#47, p.97]- Magnet