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 endless Anglophilia gets boring, especially when Pulp, Blur and the Auteurs have all done it better. [#61, p.86]- 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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All in all, the best return to original form a stadium band can risk these days. [No. 103, p.57]- Magnet
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The incense hangs thick and hazy, dancing wispily through guitar pickups, keyboards keys and effects processor motherboards. [No. 118, p.55]- Magnet
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A stellar first attempt at a concept album... [a] ghoulish delight. [No. 85, p.59]- Magnet
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This is an honest and harmless record that isn't trying to be anything but the summer 2017 soundtrack for middle-aged males operating, patronizing or loitering within tattoo/piercing emporiums everywhere. [No. 144, p.59]- Magnet
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It boasts Wembley-sized sound and a few huge singles that aspire to confuse Stockholm for a UK colony. [No. 96, p.59]- Magnet
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Lasting impressions: Unlike sophomore clunker Room On Fire, you'll still be listening to First Impressions in two years and probably digging it even more. [#71, p.113]- Magnet
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Seems a transitional work connecting As Above to the future. [#56, p.78]- Magnet
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The 13-song set gurgles and gloops with the surreal intensity of a Morricone score revisted by a Bollywood auteur/mixmaster. [#54, p.91]- Magnet
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The blend of old and new Ra Ra Riot feels more organic and less forced. [No. 128, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Feb 17, 2016 -
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It's a sandbox of a record, less interested in establishing a specific musical identity than a general sense of (renewed) creative potential. [No. 132, p.61]- Magnet
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This somnambulant slice of dreamy, low-key synth rock is a logical follow-up to Weekends. [No.99, p.58]- Magnet
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Dramatic tension exists throughout, but in ways Explosions fans aren't used to hearing from the band. [No. 102, p.54]- Magnet
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Overall, Going Way Out is much like Heavy Trash’s self-titled 2005 debut, as the duo continues to find ample inspiration from the past.- Magnet
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Brightblack Morning Light has always been a druggie band; this time, however, the drug of choice is Dramamine.- Magnet
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Mouseman is essentially another 17 tracks for completists hankering to mine the singer's ceaseless compendium of songs in search of new nuggets. [#85, p.58]- Magnet
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The misfires pale in comparison to the stomp and swagger of the record's best songs. [#58, p.91]- Magnet
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All but gone is the glitzy, retro-leaning synthpop maximalism that dominated her first record, replaced here by a remarkably expansive sonic palette and a newfound poise that hardly falters from start to finish. [No. 98, p.57]- Magnet
Posted May 10, 2013 -
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The band has simply folded its past into a bigger, richer whole. [No. 93, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Dec 4, 2012 -
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It's all very appealing and completely listenable, if sometimes overreliant on mid-tempo rhythms with occasional surges in passion and pacing. [#82, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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Like any record geeks, they deftly reshape their heritage into their own original catalog. [No. 135, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Sep 20, 2016 -
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Unforgettable choruses and custom Yorn finger-strum pattern are abundant. [No. 130, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Apr 21, 2016 -
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Tense and dramatic from the get-go, Seraph hardly changes tack over its next 11 songs. [No. 123, p.61]- Magnet
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The group's self-titled debut smoothly splits the difference between the glassy, grime-inflected production that Nguzunguzu typically trades in and a whole host of contemporary club sounds from around the world. [No. 118, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2015