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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music
reviews
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There's something about the sixth full-length from this Icelandic experimental electronic outfit that feels like exciting new territory--and something about it that feels like home. [No. 102, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Sep 19, 2013 -
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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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"It's not sad, but it's not OK," sings Emil Svanangen on Hall Music, neatly delineating the album's emotional landscape, a narrow isthmus of calm stretching into a sea of sorrow. [#81, p. 57]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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A surprisingly deep album that fleshes out the vaguely krautish electronica the band only touched on in previous efforts. [No.88 p.59]- Magnet
Posted Jun 19, 2012 -
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Occupied With the Unspoken plays as a chopped and staggered descendant of Fripp & Eno's Evening star, whose beauty is buried beneath a thicket of alien noises and reverb. [#89, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jul 27, 2012 -
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What it's missing is haunting songs--calamity songs, the kind of songs that used to proliferate on Decemberists albums like soot-smudged Victorian orphans. [No. 150, p.49]- Magnet
Posted Apr 17, 2018 -
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Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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Worship makes solid use of driving pop and new-wave inspirations straight out of the sort of black-lit club that doesn't open until 2 a.m. and practically serves absinthe on tap. [No.89, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Jul 24, 2012 -
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Often, there's a subtle, troubled uncercurrent that pulls the cheer back when it threatens to turn saccharine. [#52, p.103]- Magnet
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The Game Of Monogamy, was a real stinker, full of ham-fisted lyrics shoved into half-thought melodies. Adult film isn't nearly as inelegant as its predecessor. [No 105, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Dec 18, 2013 -
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Posted Apr 18, 2014 -
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Ease My Mind has some sharper edges and fewer lush arrangements than the last Shout Out Louds album, 2013's equally excellent Optica, but the changes are slight. [No. 146, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Sep 26, 2017 -
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You've got an odd, lovingly produced hybrid of old Nashville and new Americana, with a batch og forgettable songs surrounding a few that deserve a place in the canon. [No. 107, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2014 -
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The more he pushes these various personas, the less sense we expect him to make and the more rewarding he becomes. [Fall 2007, p.90]- Magnet
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Especially in today's digital context, the album feels torn between big-P pop a la La Roux or happy-mode Goldfrapp (or, at least, Annie circa 2004) and the darker, broodier likes of Ladytron.[#81, p. 55]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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The hooks fail to sink in, and Kinski is occasionally too clever for its own good. [#68, p.100]- Magnet
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Although the harmonies and pickin-skills are still top-notch, Carry Me Back falls short in songwriting. [No.90, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 23, 2012 -
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Posted Nov 5, 2014 -
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He [Emil Svanangen] has a high, expressive tenor that often slips into a keening falsetto that fights to be heard over the sound of the dark, frequently overwhelming synthesizer symphonies that fill the background. [No. 147, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Oct 17, 2017 -
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Their command of sonic mood is commendable, but without something more to grab hold of, Annabel Dream Reader is just a relentless gut-punch. [No. 112, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Aug 19, 2014 -
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Many of the songs meander, and the constant back-to-the-'60s vibe loses its charm. [#55, p.94]- Magnet
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Posted Jun 4, 2015 -
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The result is Animal Collective at its tightest, most coherent and poppiest, even as the band draws on '60s psych/pop, rudimentary techno and three-chord punk to build on its ever-evolving sound. [No. 128, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Feb 12, 2016 -
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They focus more on freeform jams than commercial song structure. Then, as now, it makes for indulgent and difficult listening. But, if the path of wisdom lies in such excesses, then the Larsons are certainly well on their way. [#81, p. 59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 11, 2011 -
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Fans of either Glass or the remixers won't be too disappointed, but they won't be blown away, either. [No. 93, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Dec 4, 2012 -
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Completists will be sated - as they invariably are - by this fun, beat-happy collection. As for the less fanatical fans, caveat emptor: This is a return to the primitive.[No. 85, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2012 -
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A neat, consistently solid 34-minute record unconcerned with peaking or hits. [No.99, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jun 17, 2013 -
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There is a surprising amount of vitriol pent up--ever so politely--in these songs, and when that vitriol squeaks out into the universe, it is very genteel, very well-mannered vitriol. [No. 125, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Oct 14, 2015 -
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Unpatterns is indeed mostly patterns, in fact - moody, bloopy instrumentals that don't really fit into one subgenre box because they barely muster the strength to be defined by a category. [No.87 p.59]- Magnet
Posted May 30, 2012 -
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What Is This Heart? certainly isn't done any favors by Krell's stock, dejection-by-the-numbers lyricism and the baring of his overextended falsetto against the array of muted synths, strings and drum machines that crop up from song to song, as the album cycles through every tired adult-contemporary R&B trope in the book. [No. 111, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jul 18, 2014