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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Standout moments exist but the apparent slap across the face of preparedness results in meandering transitions, misplaced sax bleating that's part downtown jazz, part "Careless Whisper," and the feeling that there was a fair amount of sleepwalking through the process. [No. 119, p.55]- Magnet
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It's a bit mad, but what else would you expect from the Melvins, which in-and-of -itself is a shame. [No. 132, p.55]- Magnet
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It's never going to set the charts alight, but Weller obsessives should take it to heart. [No. 141, p.61]- Magnet
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[It] sounds like the album Whiteman has been waiting to make his whole life. [#75, p.99]- Magnet
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There’s True Sadness, whose songs touch lyrically upon all things sad but with various shades of unsubtle sound to guide them. [No. 133, p.54]- Magnet
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Bon Iver seems to be taking great joy in simply playing with musicians he admires. There's something really beautiful in that, and it shines throughout the whole album. [No. 103, p.52]- Magnet
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It's Canning's guitar work that makes Chill hum, and the embellishments are enough to separate it from the growing crop of Fahey followers. [No. 104, p.53]- Magnet
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There's an easy likeability to Great Lake Swimmer's latest release. [Yet] many songs don't hold up on repeated listens. [#86, p.54]- Magnet
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Comedown Machine may not quite hit the heights of the band's masterpiece-to-date, but it continues the band's healthy trend of finding curious new ways to twist and complicate its by-now instinctively recognizable sound. [No. 98, p.60]- Magnet
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Royksopp's shift to the fun side is exactly what its music needed. [#68, p.110]- Magnet
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Flute and saxophone abound on this record, employed with a degree of schmaltz that works against the songs more often then not. [No. 95, p.57]- Magnet
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This may be the bleak and heavy masterpiece that BIH has been hovering around for the past decade. [No. 112, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Aug 6, 2014 -
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It merits a mild sigh, but no great surprise, that ... [here is] the Magnetic Fields' first out-and-out novelty record. Fortunately, there are some decent jokes. [No. 85, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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Things start strong, with some of Barnes' tightest tunes in ages. [No. 134, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Aug 11, 2016 -
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Guitars meander before slicing, the rhythm section is taut, and Gedge hits all of his favorite topics-love, lust and spite-often in the same three or four minutes. Gedge may never get this relationship stuff figured out, but at least the rest of us benefit. [No.85, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Mar 20, 2012 -
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On Dark Light Daybreak... Now It's Overhead cuts back on its former haze to graze in cleaner pastures. [#73, p.103]- Magnet
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Since it's art, the more you listen, the more you'll find here. [No. 112, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Aug 6, 2014 -
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It's pretty much instantly likable if you're not otherwise predisposed. [No. 98, p.58]- Magnet
Posted May 10, 2013 -
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A few more tracks like ["Chicks, Man"] would have made Elvis Club great, rather than good. [No.99, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jun 26, 2013 -
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Among the filler that drags down the LP's second half, fulfills contractual obligations and pushes the Gwar story forward. [No. 149, p.57]- Magnet
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Adviatic Songs shows the band musically reaching for extremely mystical heights. [No.89, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Jul 20, 2012 -
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A half-hearted attempt to outshine 2001's A Better Version Of Me, but lacks all the "Spit And Fire" that made that album so human. [#58, p.105]- Magnet
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She's a ghost in the machine; unfortunately, the machine is an Atari 2600. [#57, p.80]- Magnet
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Too much of Everybody's Coming Down limps along on wounded extremities, with quirky cleverness displaced in favor of sloppy indie-rock tropes that answer the eternal question about what Ween would sound like minus a sense of adventure. [No. 123, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Aug 12, 2015 -
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Hold/Still tries so hard to be ominous that it almost always forgets to be interesting. [No. 130, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Apr 21, 2016 -
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Williams pits his angst-y tendencies against grunge's proven, angst-coddling backdrop. [#82, p. 62]- Magnet
Posted Nov 22, 2011